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11:55pm PDT |
EU to address Turkey 'obstacles' |
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Summary: EU foreign ministers meeting in Wales are expected to ask Turkey to do more to normalise ties with Cyprus. |
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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
CCTV probe in family train deaths |
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Summary: Footage from a station where a mother and her two children died after apparently jumping in front of a train is being examined. |
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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
Briton 'kidnapped' in Afghanistan |
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Summary: A British engineer has been kidnapped in Afghanistan, reports quote Afghan officials as saying. |
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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
Beslan grieves a year after siege |
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Summary: Beslan mourns, on the anniversary of the school siege in which 331 hostages, many of them children, died. |
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BBC News |
11:38pm PDT |
House prices fall in August |
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Summary: House prices fell 0.2% in August, say figures from the Nationwide, leaving annual growth at a nine-year low. |
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BBC News |
11:22pm PDT |
Security clampdown for ministers |
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Summary: Foreign ministers from all 25 EU nations meet amid a security operation involving 1,500 officers. |
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BBC News |
11:22pm PDT |
Security stepped up after attacks |
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Summary: A major security operation gets under way in County Antrim to protect property from sectarian attacks. |
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BBC News |
11:22pm PDT |
Katrina threatens petrol prices |
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Summary: Crude oil prices fall from record levels after the US said it will release crude from emergency stocks, but gasoline jumps. |
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10:55pm PDT |
Farmers protest over milk prices |
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Summary: Scottish dairy farmers are stopping milk supplies leaving two distribution depots in Lanarkshire. |
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BBC News |
10:55pm PDT |
NI teachers 'disadvantaged again' |
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Summary: Teachers in NI are worse off than colleagues in England and Wales, the Ulster Teachers' Union claims. |
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BBC News |
10:55pm PDT |
Gate Gourmet may reinstate 400 |
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Summary: The head of Gate Gourmet says he is willing to reinstate up to 400 of the firm's 670 sacked workers. |
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BBC News |
10:55pm PDT |
Iraq head defiant after stampede |
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Summary: Iraqi leader Ibrahim Jaafari dismisses calls for ministers to quit after nearly 1,000 die in a stampede in Baghdad. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55pm PDT |
Destiny's Child Among Winners at WMAs (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Destiny's Child, The Game and Gwen Stefani each nabbed honors on the strength of their worldwide sales figures at the 2005 World Music Awards. |
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Yahoo News |
10:50pm PDT |
Baghdad Stampede Kills 950 Shiite Pilgrims (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, thousands of Shiite pilgrims broke into a stampede on a bridge during a religious procession Wednesday, crushing one another or plunging 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. About 950 died, mostly women and chi |
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BBC News |
10:09pm PDT |
UK may opt out of EU asylum rules |
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Summary: Britain may opt out of an EU directive banning deportation of people to countries where they face torture. |
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10:09pm PDT |
Family killed after railway leap |
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Summary: A mother and her two children die after apparently jumping in front of a 100mph Heathrow Express train. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07pm PDT |
Destiny's Child Wins World Music Award (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Destiny's Child nabbed the award for world's best pop group Wednesday night to kick off the 2005 World Music Awards, which selects winners based on worldwide sales figures. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Critical U.S. Supply Line Is Disrupted (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - The effects of the monster storm that devastated the Gulf Coast spread through the nation's economy yesterday, disrupting shipping and rail networks and sending prices for lumber, coffee and other commodities soaring. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Obstacles on the Way to Drier Ground (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 -- Battered New Orleans disgorged thousands of thirsty and bedraggled residents who escaped by overstuffed car, bus and military truck. The luckiest had cars to drive and a stash of gasoline. The weakest were help |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
New inspections 'will be tougher' |
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Summary: Ofsted inspections will be 'shorter but more focused' from September, the chief inspector of schools says. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Top India-Pakistan officials meet |
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Summary: Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are to meet for talks to energise their countries' peace process. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
US remodels Guantanamo hearings |
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Summary: The US military authorities say hearings for Guantanamo detainees will be more like a traditional court. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Ex-Master of Rolls Donaldson dies |
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Summary: Lord Donaldson, former Master of the Rolls, dies at home, aged 84. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22pm PDT |
Oil Prices Dip as Bush Taps Into Reserves (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Crude oil prices dipped Thursday after the Bush administration's decision to tap U.S. strategic reserves to help companies hurt by Hurricane Katrina, but gasoline futures jumped 3 percent because of worries about storm damage to refineries in th |
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Cnn.com |
9:02pm PDT |
New Orleans evacuating survivors |
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Summary: Health emergency declared amid cholera, typhoid fearsFirst evacuee buses leave New OrleansBush: "One of the worst natural disasters"Extra 10,000 National Guard troops called upNew Orleans mayor: Thousands likely dead |
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Cnn.com |
8:30pm PDT |
Huge sandbags planned to fix levees |
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Summary: Authorities were desperately trying to stop floodwaters from drowning New Orleans on Wednesday as more federal disaster officials arrived along the storm-slammed Gulf Coast. |
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BBC News |
8:25pm PDT |
Typhoon Talim blows over Taiwan |
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Summary: Typhoon Talim blows through the island of Taiwan, leaving one dead and causing material damage. |
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BBC News |
8:25pm PDT |
Brady objects to murders drama |
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Summary: Moors murderer Ian Brady complains to ITV about a factual drama about his crimes to be screened on ITV. |
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Yahoo News |
8:17pm PDT |
Cards Survive Slam by Marlins Rookie (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Florida's Jeremy Hermida became the first player in more than a century and only second ever to hit a grand slam in his first major league at-bat, connecting in the seventh inning off the St. Louis Cardinals' Al Reyes in the Marlins' 1 |
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Yahoo News |
8:11pm PDT |
Airlines May Face Possible Fuel Shortages (AP) |
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Summary: AP - With the airports in New Orleans and Gulfport, Miss., closed to commercial traffic, airlines that serve the popular destinations face a loss of business while dealing with potential fuel shortages. |
