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Yahoo News |
11:57pm PST |
Spain arrests 17 Islamist suspects: radio (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Spanish police arrested 17 people on
Tuesday suspected of helping recruit Islamist militants to
carry out attacks in Iraq, Spanish state radio reported. |
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Yahoo News |
11:50pm PST |
Senators Begin Questioning Alito (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The battle lines are clear for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito: Moderates and liberals want him to repudiate his work for the Reagan administration while conservatives urge him to hold his ground — or his tongue — on issues that |
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BBC News |
11:38pm PST |
Oaten set to join Lib Dem contest |
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Summary: Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten is expected to confirm he will join the party leader contest. |
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Yahoo News |
11:37pm PST |
Asian car makers wave US flag (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Their names may be Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai, but Asian auto producers are using an emphatic "Made In America" sales pitch to muscle into the competitive US car and truck market. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PST |
Football: Injury hits Van Persie |
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Summary: Arsenal striker Robin van Persie will miss the Carling Cup semi-final against Wigan because of a broken toe. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PST |
Arsenal hit by Van Persie injury |
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Summary: Arsenal striker Robin van Persie will miss the Carling Cup semi-final against Wigan because of a broken toe. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PST |
Football: Van Persie hit by injury |
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Summary: Arsenal striker Robin van Persie will miss the Carling Cup semi-final against Wigan because of a broken toe. |
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BBC News |
11:17pm PST |
M&S welcomes 'strong Christmas' |
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Summary: Marks and Spencer hails a good Christmas performance with like-for-like sales up 2.9% over the festive period. |
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Yahoo News |
11:05pm PST |
Bush to outline expectations for Iraq in 2006 (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush,
facing a mounting U.S. death toll in Iraq, will outline his
hopes on Tuesday for building democracy and strengthening Iraqi
security forces this year. |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PST |
Post mortem due on woman's body |
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Summary: A post mortem is due on the body of an elderly woman which may have lain undiscovered over Christmas. |
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Yahoo News |
10:52pm PST |
Spain holds 10 suspects over Iraq attacks: radio (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Spain on Tuesday arrested 10 people
suspected of helping to recruit Islamist militants to carry out
attacks in Iraq, Spanish state radio reported. |
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BBC News |
10:35pm PST |
Rugby: Henson awaits ruling |
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Summary: Gavin Henson will attempt to challenge his 10-week ban before an ERC panel in Dublin on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31pm PST |
Sharon still critical: hospital (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
remained in a critical but stable condition on Tuesday, a
hospital official said, as doctors pressed ahead with efforts
to bring him out of an induced coma after a stroke. |
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Crosswalk |
10:25pm PST |
Christian Worldview and the Challenge of the Aged, Part Two |
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Summary: In the January 2006 edition of "Commentary," bioethicists Eric Cohen and Leon R. Kass offer a compelling essay on the challenge represented by millions of the aged among us. In "Cast Me Not Off in Old Age," they warn that we are now witnessing the develop |
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Yahoo News |
10:22pm PST |
S. Korean scientists faked two papers (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A team led by a once-heralded and now
disgraced South Korean scientist faked two landmark papers on
embryonic stem cells but did produce the world's first cloned
dog, an investigation panel said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:22pm PST |
Alcoa Profit Falls 16 Percent in 4Q (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Energy costs and impaired refinery activity from Gulf Coast hurricanes trimmed Alcoa Inc.'s quarterly income by 16 percent and caused the aluminum giant to miss analyst forecasts, despite robust product prices. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20pm PST |
Sharon still in critical condition (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
remained in a critical but stable condition on Tuesday, a
hospital official said, as doctors pressed ahead with efforts
to bring him out of an induced coma after a stroke. |
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BBC News |
10:10pm PST |
Hopes fade for ferry link revival |
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Summary: Hopes fade for the revival of a service between Campbeltown in Scotland and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland. |
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BBC News |
9:53pm PST |
Ukraine's PM to defend gas deal |
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Summary: The Ukrainian prime minister will appear before parliament to defend the country's recent gas deal with Russia. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49pm PST |
Sharon doctors buoyed by signs of brain function (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Doctors treating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon were monitoring his body's responses as they continued to ease him out of a coma buoyed by initial signs he had retained at least some brain function after last week's massive stroke. |
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Yahoo News |
9:47pm PST |
Sharon remains critical but stable (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
remained in critical but stable condition on Tuesday as doctors
pressed ahead with efforts to bring him out of an induced coma,
a hospital official said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:46pm PST |
US to send team to try to resolve Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The United States is sending a high-level team to Eritrea and Ethiopia to try to resolve a festering border dispute that threatens to degenerate into a new war between the Horn of Africa arch-rivals, the US envoy to the United Nations said. |
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Cnn.com |
9:37pm PST |
No change overnight in Sharon's condition |
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Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remained in "critical but stable" condition Tuesday, a day after doctors said there was a "slight movement" in his right arm and right leg during pain stimuli tests. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17pm PST |
Sharon remains critical, stable as sedation reduced (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
remained in critical but stable condition on Tuesday as doctors
pressed ahead with efforts to bring him out of an induced coma,
a hospital official said. |
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BBC News |
9:10pm PST |
Tennis: Mauresmo crashes out |
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Summary: Amelie Mauresmo is knocked out of the Sydney International by rising Serb Ana Ivanovic. |
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BBC News |
8:51pm PST |
Phantom musical beats record |
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Summary: Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Phantom of the Opera becomes Broadway's longest running musical ever. |
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BBC News |
8:51pm PST |
Phantom musical surpasses record |
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Summary: Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Phantom of the Opera becomes Broadway's longest running musical ever. |
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Cnn.com |
8:42pm PST |
Probe finds reseacher faked human stem cell work |
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Summary: Scientist Hwang Woo-suk's pioneering 2004 claim to have cloned human embryonic stem cells was faked, but his claim last year to have created the world's first cloned dog was genuine, a probe by Seoul National University reveals. The faked work could repre |
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Cnn.com |
8:42pm PST |
University probe finds human stem cell work faked |
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Summary: Scientist Hwang Woo-suk's pioneering 2004 claim to have cloned human embryonic stem cells was faked, but his claim last year to have created the world's first cloned dog was genuine, a probe by Seoul National University reveals. The faked work could repre |
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Yahoo News |
8:20pm PST |
S.Korean scientists faked two papers (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A team led by a once-heralded and now
disgraced South Korean scientist faked two landmark papers on
embryonic stem cells but did produce the world's first cloned
dog, an investigation panel said on Tuesday. |
