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Yahoo News |
11:56pm PDT |
Fed Delivers 10th Interest Rate Increase (AP) |
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Summary: AP - It is now 10 and counting. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates 10 consecutive times over the past 14 months, and more rate hikes appear to be on the way. |
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BBC News |
11:54pm PDT |
Hopes fading for Chinese miners |
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Summary: The first body is recovered from a flooded Chinese mine, as officials express little hope of finding survivors. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Test wicket 'will not help Warne' |
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Summary: Officials insist the Old Trafford pitch will not play into Shane Warne's hands at the third Test. |
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Yahoo News |
11:26pm PDT |
Four US soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Iraq attack (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and
six were wounded in an attack on their patrol near the northern
Iraqi oil refining town of Baiji overnight, the U.S. military
said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
11:18pm PDT |
Spectator killed in glider crash |
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Summary: A man is killed when one of the light aircraft he is watching at a display hits him. |
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BBC News |
11:16pm PDT |
US warns king after Nepal clash |
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Summary: The US says Nepal should return to democracy or face chaos after a bloody attack leaves 40 soldiers dead. |
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BBC News |
11:13pm PDT |
Labour accuses Plaid of 'U-turns' |
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Summary: Labour accuses Plaid Cymru of preparing U-turns in key policy areas ahead of the Welsh assembly elections in 2007. |
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BBC News |
11:09pm PDT |
SA lion murder pair face sentence |
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Summary: Two South Africans who beat up a man and threw him into a lion enclosure face sentencing for murder. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55pm PDT |
US identifies remains of 12 MIAs from Vietnam War (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The remains of 12 U.S. servicemen
who were killed together in battle in the Vietnam War 37 years
ago have been identified and are being returned to their
families for burial, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
10:54pm PDT |
Army makes safe explosive device |
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Summary: Army bomb experts make safe an explosive device after a car is hijacked in Lurgan in County Armagh. |
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BBC News |
10:54pm PDT |
'Viable bomb' made safe by Army |
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Summary: Seven police officers are injured in rioting as the Army makes safe a bomb at Lurgan in County Armagh. |
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BBC News |
10:50pm PDT |
Triple murder police arrest man |
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Summary: A man is being questioned by police after two sisters and their mother's partner were shot dead in a flat. |
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Cnn.com |
10:44pm PDT |
Explosion sets Detroit-area plant ablaze |
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Summary: An explosion at a hazardous waste plant rocked suburban Detroit late Tuesday, sending fireballs and billowing smoke hundreds of feet in the air. There was no immediate word on injuries or fatalities. |
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BBC News |
10:27pm PDT |
IAEA to resume Iran nuclear talks |
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Summary: The UN's nuclear agency is due to hold further talks on Iran, after its resumption of uranium conversion work. |
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BBC News |
10:27pm PDT |
IAEA to resume Iran nuclear crisis talks |
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Summary: The UN's nuclear agency is due to hold further talks on Iran, after its resumption of uranium conversion work. |
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BBC News |
10:26pm PDT |
Climber rescued from major peak |
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Summary: Pakistani rescuers reach a Slovenian climber stuck on a notorious peak. |
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Cnn.com |
10:20pm PDT |
Baseball fan jumps into net from upper deck |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
10:12pm PDT |
Premiership clubs boost security |
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Summary: Extra security measures are being taken at Premiership clubs, in the wake of the London terror attacks. |
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Yahoo News |
10:12pm PDT |
Red Sox Beat Rangers 8-7 in 10 Innings (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Edgar Renteria lined a sharp single down the third-base line to score Bill Mueller in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 8-7 on Tuesday night for their 10th consecutive victory at Fenway Park. |
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Cnn.com |
10:09pm PDT |
Inmate, wife hunted after bullet-riddled escape |
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Summary: A manhunt is under way for an escaped prisoner and his wife, a former prison nurse who Tennessee officials say sprang him by opening fire on the guards who were escorting the convict from a courthouse in Kingston. "She opened fire on the officers, hitting |
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BBC News |
10:09pm PDT |
Howard calls for terror support |
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Summary: The Tory leader warns judges could risk Britain's security by opposing measures to prevent terrorist attacks. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
4-Star General Relieved Of Duty (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - In a rare move, the Army relieved a four-star general of his command amid allegations that he had an extramarital affair with a civilian, Army officials said yesterday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Disney Executive's Severance Ruled Legal (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - NEW YORK, Aug. 9 -- Hollywood super-agent Michael S. Ovitz spent 14 disastrous months as the No. 2 executive at Walt Disney Co., taking $140 million in severance when he was forced out, or $10 million for each month on the job. On Tue |
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Yahoo News |
9:44pm PDT |
Defiant Iran to proceed with more atomic work (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Iran will get access on Wednesday to
sealed parts of an uranium conversion plant, allowing Tehran to
move closer to resuming production of enriched uranium that
Washington and the EU fears may be used to make an atomic bomb. |
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Crosswalk |
9:25pm PDT |
Expository Preaching and the Recovery of Worship (Part Two) |
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Summary: If preaching is central to Christian worship, what kind of preaching are we talking about? The sheer weightlessness of much contemporary preaching is a severe indictment of our superficial Christianity. When the pulpit ministry lacks substance, the church |
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BBC News |
9:21pm PDT |
Water crash teen awaits sentence |
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Summary: A schoolboy who admitted killing his girlfriend in a water-bike accident in Cyprus is due to be sentenced. |
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BBC News |
9:16pm PDT |
Wife kills guard in US jailbreak |
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Summary: An inmate escapes after his wife shoots a guard escorting him outside a Tennessee courthouse. |
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Crosswalk |
9:10pm PDT |
Sad to be Gay? |
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Summary: British documentary, Sad to be Gay, profiles a man who places his journey right out there for all to see... |
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Yahoo News |
8:20pm PDT |
Britain May Create Secretive Terror Courts (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Britain is considering setting up secretive courts to make it easier to prosecute terror suspects — and to hold them without charge for longer than the current 14 days — as part of the crackdown following the deadly London bombings, officia |
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Cnn.com |
8:19pm PDT |
'Choking game' a killer stalking the young |
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Summary: Looking back, Sarah Pacatte realizes she missed the warning signs. But at the time, the mother of four thought maybe her 13-year-old son, Gabriel Mordecai, was smoking marijuana. She never imagined he was putting a rope around his neck and choking himself |
