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BBC News |
11:47pm PDT |
BA fights to clear strike backlog |
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Summary: British Airways flights resume, but passengers remain stranded as the airline recovers from a wildcat strike. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42pm PDT |
Dodgers Rally in OT to Beat Mets 7-6 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Dioner Navarro hit his first major league home run with two outs in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to beat the injury-hampered New York Mets 7-6 Friday night. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PDT |
Gunmen attack village in Kashmir |
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Summary: Suspected Islamists kill five Hindus and injure nine in an attack on a remote village in Indian Kashmir, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
11:23pm PDT |
Federalism Emerges as Deal-Breaker in Iraq (AP) |
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Summary: AP - As the deadline neared to approve an Iraqi constitution, Shiite and Kurdish leaders agreed on the name of the country, Islam as the state religion and what to do about Kurds displaced from the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk, a Kurdish legislator sai |
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Yahoo News |
11:14pm PDT |
Approval of Bush's Handling of Economy Low (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The war in Iraq and the soaring price of gasoline are drowning out a succession of positive reports on the economy, putting President Bush on the defensive at a time when he could be basking in good economic news. |
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Yahoo News |
10:46pm PDT |
Chicago Skyscraper Plans to Pierce the Sky (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The architect's concept is breathtaking: a spiraling, 115-story tower that would pierce the sky along Chicago's lakefront and grab the title of the nation's tallest building. Off the drawing board, though, history shows that such plans often fail to |
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Cnn.com |
10:34pm PDT |
Irene poised to become hurricane |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Irene -- the ninth named storm of the 2005 hurricane season -- was packing winds just below hurricane strength late Friday, and was expected to become a hurricane Saturday, forecasters said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27pm PDT |
Guerrero, Angels Dominate Mariners 9-4 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Vladimir Guerrero hit two solo home runs and Bengie Molina also connected — each finished with three hits and two RBIs — as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Seattle Mariners 9-4 on Friday night. |
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BBC News |
10:23pm PDT |
Schroeder kicks off poll campaign |
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Summary: Germany's Gerhard Schroeder is officially to start the Social Democrats' election campaign at a rally in Hanover. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Struggle Against a Shifting Shore (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - LHOK BUBON, Indonesia -- The massive tsunami that crashed into Sumatra island in December ripped Ibu Yusniar's home from its concrete foundation. But while the stout woman survived, wrapping her arms around a column in a nearby mosque |
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Cnn.com |
9:59pm PDT |
State of emergency declared in Sri Lanka |
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Summary: Sri Lanka's government has declared a state of emergency hours after Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was killed outside his home by sniper fire that struck him in his head and chest. |
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BBC News |
9:53pm PDT |
Sri Lanka imposes emergency rule |
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Summary: A state of emergency is declared after Sri Lanka's foreign minister is killed in an attack blamed on Tamil rebels. |
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BBC News |
9:37pm PDT |
Bush warns Iran on nuclear plans |
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Summary: The US president says force is still an option, if Iran does not halt work on its nuclear programme. |
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Crosswalk |
9:25pm PDT |
Ken Trainor's Theology Lesson |
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Summary: Ken Trainor has spent two weeks explaining his religious philosophy, which is based on a distinction between Apocalyptics and Evolutionaries. In his first installment, he tells us that he's been thinking about what he believes. This is generally a noble e |
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BBC News |
9:18pm PDT |
Campbells urge Bluebird rethink |
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Summary: The man who wants to restore Donald Campbell's Bluebird suffers a second funding setback. |
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Yahoo News |
8:44pm PDT |
9/11 Commissioners Defend Intel Omission (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The leaders of the 9/11 commission late Friday disputed a congressman's criticism that the panel did not adequately investigate a claim that four hijackers were identified as al-Qaida members more than a year before the attacks. |
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Crosswalk |
7:40pm PDT |
On the Road to China |
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Summary: It's been a "China summer" in the Pritchard household. In late June Nick, our youngest son, left for a month in China. A week later Josh, our oldest son, came home after a year in China. And early this morning Mark, our middle son, left for a year in Chin |
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Yahoo News |
7:25pm PDT |
Red Sox Rally to Beat White Sox 9-8 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - David Ortiz hit two homers and drove in a career-high six runs to lead the Boston Red Sox from an early four-run deficit to a 9-8 win over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night in a meeting of the AL's two best teams. |
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BBC News |
7:21pm PDT |
BA strike talks resume amid chaos |
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Summary: BA resumes flights out of Heathrow, as staff battle to clear a massive backlog after wildcat strikes. |
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Cnn.com |
7:10pm PDT |
Tiger squeaks past PGA cut |
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Summary: Tiger Woods had every right to be pleased after he walked up the hill fronting the 18th green at Baltusrol on Friday afternoon and spied his ball resting 13 feet from the hole. |
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DJ Chuang |
7:07pm PDT |
cell phone internet disconnected temporarily |
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Summary: This might be the work of a cell phone virus, a mobile virus. It not only disabled Internet access on my phone, it also disabled one of my colleages.
At 8/11/05, 7:50am, I received an SMS text message on my PalmOne Treo 650 smartphone from “907R |
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DJ Chuang |
7:07pm PDT |
infected by cell phone virus? |
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Summary: This might be the work of a cell phone virus, a mobile virus. It not only disabled Internet access on my phone, it also disabled one of my colleages.
At 8/11/05, 7:50am, I received an SMS text message on my PalmOne Treo 650 smartphone from “907R |
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Yahoo News |
6:59pm PDT |
Settlers Observe Bittersweet Last Sabbath (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Across Gaza, Jewish settlers were observing a bittersweet last Sabbath, before their forcible removal by Israeli troops next week. There was the dread of being uprooted, the rush of making a last stand and the desperate hope for a miracle. |
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Yahoo News |
6:40pm PDT |
Sri Lanka foreign minister killed, Tigers blamed (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency
on Saturday after Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was shot
and killed in the garden of his home by a sniper, an attack
police blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels. |
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BBC News |
6:39pm PDT |
Breakaway FC United in first game |
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Summary: FC United, the club set up by disgruntled Man United fans plays its first league game later. |
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BBC News |
6:39pm PDT |
Breakaway FC Utd in first game |
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Summary: FC United, the club set up by disgruntled Man United fans plays its first league game later. |
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Yahoo News |
6:32pm PDT |
FDA Puts New Restrictions on Accutane (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The thousands of Americans who take the acne drug Accutane — and people who prescribe and dispense it — must enroll in a national registry, part of a major government program to tighten access to the medicine that causes birth defec |
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Cnn.com |
6:29pm PDT |
Soldier of vigil known for life of quiet service |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
6:29pm PDT |
Vigil soldier's life of quiet service |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
6:05pm PDT |
Household bill costs 'rise by 5%' |
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Summary: The cost of running a home has surged by 5% as a result of surging council tax bills, research claims. |