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BBC News |
11:41pm PST |
S Lanka navy ambush kills many |
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Summary: At least five sailors die and 10 are missing after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attack a Sri Lankan navy boat. |
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BBC News |
11:41pm PST |
Sri Lanka navy ambush kills '15' |
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Summary: At least five sailors die and 10 are missing after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attack a Sri Lankan navy boat. |
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BBC News |
11:41pm PST |
Sri Lanka navy ambush kills many |
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Summary: At least five sailors die and 10 are missing after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attack a Sri Lankan navy boat. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PST |
Navy Agrees to Hand Over American Sailor (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The United States has agreed to hand over an American sailor suspected of killing a Japanese woman to local authorities, a Foreign Ministry official said Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:06pm PST |
US officials in talks with Iraqi insurgents: NYT (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. officials have been talking with
local Iraqi insurgent leaders to exploit a rift between
homegrown insurgents and radical groups such as Al Qaeda, The
New York Times reported on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:49pm PST |
Arrest Warrant Issued for U.S. Sailor (AP) |
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Summary: AP - An arrest warrant was issued for a U.S. sailor being held by the American military in the killing of a Japanese woman, police said Saturday. |
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BBC News |
10:42pm PST |
Iron Age 'bog bodies' unveiled |
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Summary: Archaeologists unveil two Iron Age "bog bodies" which were unearthed by workmen in Ireland. |
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Cnn.com |
10:34pm PST |
'Truthiness' is word of the year |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
10:12pm PST |
Kobe Scores 48 in Return From Suspension (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Kobe Bryant returned from a two-game suspension to hit all seven of his 3-point shots and score 48 points Friday night, and the Los Angeles Lakers ended a five-game losing streak with a 119-93 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55pm PST |
Most Marines killed in Iraq could have been saved by body armor (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - A secret Pentagon study found that as many as 80 percent of Marines killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor, The New York Times reports. |
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BBC News |
9:39pm PST |
Chinese farmer in suicide attack |
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Summary: A farmer explodes a bomb in a court in northwest China, killing himself and four others, including two senior officials. |
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BBC News |
9:14pm PST |
Football: Bolton unveil keeper |
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Summary: Bolton complete the signing of Oman international goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi from Norwegian club SFK Lyn. |
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Yahoo News |
9:02pm PST |
My Lai Hero Hugh Thompson Jr. Dies at 62 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50pm PST |
Putin to meet Yushchenko in Astana after Russia-Ukraine gas drama (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The Russian and Ukrainian presidents, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yushchenko, will meet January 11 in Astana on the sidelines of ceremonies to inaugurate Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Putin's spokesman said. |
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BBC News |
8:50pm PST |
Attack on Sri Lanka navy kills 13 |
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Summary: At least 13 sailors are killed after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attack a Sri Lankan navy boat, officials say. |
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BBC News |
8:30pm PST |
Bath abduction police probe death |
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Summary: Investigations continue after the body of a man is found in an area close to where a six-year-old girl was abducted. |
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Cnn.com |
8:20pm PST |
Report: 5 dead at China courthouse |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
8:19pm PST |
Pentagon study faults US body armor in Iraq deaths (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Better body armor could have
prevented or limited about 80 percent of fatal torso wounds
suffered by Marines killed in Iraq, a report by U.S. military
medical experts obtained on Friday said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:01pm PST |
Sharon's stroke prompts questions for Israel |
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Summary: Unconscious and clinging to life, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in stable condition early Saturday after a third round of brain surgery to treat a major stroke suffered on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:49pm PST |
Witnesses Say Newlyweds Argued on Cruise (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A man who disappeared from his honeymoon cruise last summer argued in the ship's bar with his wife, who kicked him in the groin hours before he vanished, two witnesses said Friday. |
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BBC News |
7:45pm PST |
UN suspends Pakistan aid flights |
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Summary: The UN stops aid flights to some Pakistan earthquake victims after two of its helicopters are attacked. |
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Cnn.com |
7:26pm PST |
Deadly attack on Sri Lanka navy |
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Summary: A nearly 4-year-old cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels is coming under pressure after at least 13 sailors were killed when an explosives-laden boat rammed into a Sri Lankan navy vessel early Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:24pm PST |
British leader faces calls to go from grassroots: poll (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The majority of members of Britain's second opposition Liberal Democrat party want their leader to stand down following his admission of alcoholism, preliminary results of a poll suggest. |
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BBC News |
7:20pm PST |
Straw presses Iraqi politicians |
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Summary: UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw holds talks in Baghdad with a range of senior politicians. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15pm PST |
Vet Sues Michael Jackson for Unpaid Bills (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Michael Jackson is being sued for unpaid bills by the veterinarian who tends to his menagerie of exotic animals at the Neverland Valley Ranch, the estate Jackson has not occupied since he was acquitted of child molestation charges last June. |
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Yahoo News |
7:07pm PST |
Sharon critical after third brain surgery (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Israel is braced for the end of an era as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains critically ill after undergoing more surgery to stop bleeding in his brain two days after a massive stroke. |
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BBC News |
6:56pm PST |
Google opens online video store |
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Summary: Web giant Google is to start selling video online, its co-founder Larry Page announces. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50pm PST |
Suicide attack sinks Sri Lankan navy gunboat, 15 sailors aboard (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels have blown up a Sri Lankan navy gunboat with 15 sailors aboard in a suicide attack that inflicted the single biggest loss on the military since a truce was declared in 2002, the defence ministry said. |
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Theophiles |
6:40pm PST |
How the Other Half Worships |
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Summary: "Camilo Jose Vergara has spent the last three decades taking his camera to some of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, documenting places few outsiders ever visit.
Over the years, he noticed that urban areas emptied by blight were filling up with st |
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Yahoo News |
6:19pm PST |
Doctors Wait to Assess Sharon's Condition (AP) |
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Summary: AP - With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon recovering from emergency brain surgery early Saturday, his doctors said it was still too early to assess how much damage the Israeli leader has suffered from a massive stroke. Independent experts said the prognosis r |
