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BBC News |
11:57pm PST |
Iraq set for final poll results |
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Summary: The final results of Iraq's December elections are set to be announced with Shia parties likely to dominate. |
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Crosswalk |
11:40pm PST |
China Trip--Day 4 |
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Summary: We visit Mao's tomb, the pearl market and the Temple of Heaven. Along the way we experience three radically different sides of China in just a couple of hours. |
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BBC News |
11:34pm PST |
Two in court over lawyer's death |
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Summary: Two teenagers are charged with the murder of lawyer Thomas ap Rhys Pryce who was fatally stabbed. |
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BBC News |
11:32pm PST |
Japan bill to let women on throne |
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Summary: Japan's leader Junichiro Koizumi pledges to submit a bill to parliament to let women ascend the Imperial throne. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PST |
Death toll 42 in crash of military plane in Hungary (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Forty-two Slovak soldiers died when the military plane they were traveling in crashed in northeastern Hungary, Hungary's interior ministry said, revising its previous death toll. |
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Yahoo News |
11:18pm PST |
Syria promises cooperation with UN probe: Annan (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Syrian officials have agreed to fully cooperate with the United Nations probe in to the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said. |
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Crosswalk |
11:10pm PST |
The Controversy Over "The End of the Spear" |
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Summary: The controversy over the casting of actor Chad Allen in the lead role of the movie "The End of the Spear" continues to grow -- and rightfully so. Chad Allen is known for his very public homosexual activism. As a matter of fact, he has been on the cover of |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PST |
Father urges release of kidnapped US reporter (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Arabic television stations broadcast an
appeal on Friday from the father of American journalist Jill
Carroll as a deadline set by kidnappers who have threatened to
kill her approached. |
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BBC News |
11:08pm PST |
Inquest due on theme park death |
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Summary: An inquest on the 2004 death of a teenager at a theme park may take place in six to eight weeks a coroner says. |
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Yahoo News |
11:07pm PST |
US, South Korea urge North Korea to return to nuclear talks (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The United States and South Korea called for North Korea to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons drive as China made a new push to break the impasse over the three-year-old crisis. |
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BBC News |
10:51pm PST |
Search will resume for fishermen |
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Summary: A search is due to resume for two fishermen missing after their trawler sank near an NI fishing port. |
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BBC News |
10:51pm PST |
Assembly to fight opencast rebuff |
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Summary: The Welsh assembly is appealing against a High Court decision to quash planning permission granted for an opencast mine. |
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Yahoo News |
10:49pm PST |
Curfew in Nepal's capital, political leaders under house arrest (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Police and soldiers were out in force on the streets of Kathmandu after the government imposed a daytime curfew and rounded up political activists in a bid to foil planned anti-king protests. |
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BBC News |
10:44pm PST |
Festive boom for online shopping |
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Summary: Internet shopping among UK consumers soars almost 50% in the 10 weeks before Christmas, a report finds. |
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BBC News |
10:43pm PST |
Slovak plane crash leaves 42 dead |
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Summary: At least 42 people die when a Slovak military transport plane crashes on the border with Hungary. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27pm PST |
Slovak Military Plane Crash Kills 42 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A Slovak military plane carrying troops back from Kosovo crashed into a mountainside in northeastern Hungary, killing at least 42 people, officials said Friday. |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PST |
Unsolved NI crimes probe to begin |
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Summary: A specialist team is to begin a review of unsolved crimes committed during the Troubles in NI. |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PST |
N Ireland unsolved deaths probe |
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Summary: A specialist team is to begin a review of unsolved murders committed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PST |
Unsolved NI crimes probe begins |
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Summary: A specialist team is to begin a review of unsolved crimes committed during the Troubles in NI. |
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BBC News |
9:59pm PST |
Teaching ban applies to teenagers |
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Summary: Teenagers who have sex with underage girls would be covered by a life ban on work in education. |
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BBC News |
9:59pm PST |
Teaching ban covers teenagers |
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Summary: Anyone convicted or cautioned for a sex offence against a child will be banned from teaching in schools. |
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Yahoo News |
9:50pm PST |
Razr Phones Keep Motorola's Sales High (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Motorola Inc. is banking on new Razrs to do in 2006 what the first models did last year: reap huge sales gains and reverse the company's image from laggard to leader in handset design. Wall Street already is showing it will be disappointed with |
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ChristianPost |
9:39pm PST |
Hopegivers Looks to Hold World's Largest Seminary Graduation in India |
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Summary: A record-breaking graduating class of over 10,137 students is expected to take place in Kota, India, next month.
Hopegivers International - with some 92 Bible institutes and one seminary - could produce the world's largest seminary graduation in February |
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BBC News |
8:47pm PST |
Slovak plane crash leaves 44 dead |
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Summary: Forty-four people die when a Slovak military transport plane crashes on the border with Hungary. |
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Cnn.com |
8:44pm PST |
Kidnapper: If ill U.S. hostage dies, 3 others will be slain |
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Summary: The family and company of an American oil worker in captivity in Nigeria have said they are worried about his health, following reports from his kidnappers that he is gravely ill and could die. |
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Yahoo News |
8:35pm PST |
Soul singer 'Wicked' Wilson Pickett dead at 64 (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Veteran soul singer Wilson Pickett,
known for such hits as "Mustang Sally" and "In the Midnight
Hour," died on Thursday of a heart attack in Virginia, his
manager said. He was 64. |
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Yahoo News |
7:52pm PST |
Fire Erupts in W.Va. Mine; Two Missing (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A fire erupted in an underground coal mine in southern West Virginia late Thursday and two workers were unaccounted for, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:40pm PST |
Gonzales makes legal case for domestic spying (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department, facing
lawsuits and congressional hearings on President George W.
Bush's domestic eavesdropping program, sought on Thursday to
persuade congressional leaders the surveillance was lawful and
did not violate c |
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Theophiles |
7:40pm PST |
Some Abortion Foes Forgo Politics for Quiet Talk |
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Summary: " 'They think they're helping these women,' said Mendy Mason, 34, who described being suicidal and depressed after her abortion. For women like her, she said, the demonstrators only inflict more pain." |
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Cnn.com |
6:49pm PST |
'Mustang Sally' singer Wilson Pickett dies |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
