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BBC News |
11:50pm PST |
China's military budget jumps 14% |
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Summary: China announces another double-digit rise in military spending - up by 14.7% to $35.3bn in 2006. |
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Cnn.com |
11:21pm PST |
Blast kills 7 in suburban Baghdad |
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Summary: A mortar round landed in a busy market in a southeastern Baghdad suburb early Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 15 others, an emergency police official said. |
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BBC News |
9:01pm PST |
Doctors attack online recruitment |
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Summary: Over 80 doctors warn that a new recruitment system is harming the job prospects of top medical students. |
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Yahoo News |
8:01pm PST |
Ex-US lawmaker sentenced to prison for corruption
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Summary: AFP - A disgraced former Republican US congressman has been sentenced to more than eight years in jail for taking 2.4 million dollars in bribes in return for influencing defence contracts. |
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Yahoo News |
7:59pm PST |
Pentagon releases documents naming Guantanamo detainees
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Bowing to a court order, the Pentagon has released thousands of documents, identifying for the first time some but not all of the 490 detainees held at a war-on-terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
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Cnn.com |
7:58pm PST |
Navy to ground all aircraft for safety review |
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Cnn.com |
7:27pm PST |
Oscars risk mixing glitz and politics |
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Summary: The Academy Awards strive to be the ultimate showbiz show but this year politics threatens to raise its divisive head in many forms. Hoping for Oscar glory are movies looking at gay relationships, race and the nature of terrorism while presenting will be |
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Yahoo News |
6:58pm PST |
US releases partial list of Guantanamo detainees
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Pentagon released under court
order on Friday a partial listing of names and nationalities of
the nearly 500 foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay,
but withheld data on the rest. |
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Yahoo News |
6:42pm PST |
Blair believes God will judge him on Iraq war
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Summary: AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said believes God will judge him on his decision to go to war with Iraq. |
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BBC News |
6:26pm PST |
Yemen frees 600 Shia insurgents |
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Summary: More than 600 followers of a rebel Yemeni Shia cleric are freed under an amnesty, the government says. |
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BBC News |
6:12pm PST |
Missing-boy police get more time |
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Summary: Police investigating an 11-year-old boy's disappearance have until Sunday to question a 14-year-old. |
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Cnn.com |
6:10pm PST |
Crooked congressman gets prison |
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Summary: Former California Republican Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham was sentenced Friday to eight years and four months in federal prison for taking $2.4 million in bribes from at least three defense contractors. The bribes enabled the congressman -- whose s |
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BBC News |
5:51pm PST |
Death of the comprehensive school |
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Summary: The BBC's Mike Baker explains why the education bill is designed to end the era of the "bog-standard comp". |
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Cnn.com |
4:53pm PST |
Journalist jailed for outing alleged gays |
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BBC News |
4:35pm PST |
Prostate cancer op delay 'safe' |
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Summary: Delaying surgery on some prostate tumours does not increase the risk of incurable cancer, research suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
4:29pm PST |
$612m payout ends threat to BlackBerry |
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Summary: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has agreed to pay $612.5 million to patent holding company NTP to settle a long-running dispute that threatened to shut down the popular wireless e-mail service. Canada-based Research in Motion announced the settlement |
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BBC News |
2:53pm PST |
Settlement ends Blackberry case |
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Summary: The maker of the Blackberry reaches a $612.5m settlement to end a legal case that could have closed its US service. |
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CTI News |
1:30pm PST |
Weblog: Firecrackers at Basilica of the Annunciation Spark Riot |
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Summary: Plus: Missouri's "majority religion" declaration, fighting over North Carolina's "Last Suppers," and other stories from online sources around the world. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:26pm PST |
Focus, Exodus Respond to 'Gay Task Force' Criticism of Reparative Therapies |
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Summary: Two conservative, faith-based organizations are responding to charges by a homosexual group that they are hurting teens who are struggling with same-sex attraction by offering parents therapies to turn their children away from homosexuality. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:26pm PST |
Attorney Hopes Illinois Will Pass Measure Protecting Pro-Life Pharmacists |
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Summary: Pro-family forces are urging concerned Christians in Illinois to encourage their lawmakers to approve a law that would protect the state's pharmacists who, for faith or conscience reasons, refuse to dispense emergency contraceptives. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:25pm PST |
Students' Free-Speech Rights at Issue in Two Penn. Lawsuits |
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Summary: Two public universities in Pennsylvania -- Temple University and Penn State -- are simultaneously facing federal civil rights lawsuits filed by a Christian group. |
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Leadership |
12:20pm PST |
The Art of Self Leadership |
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Summary: Your toughest management challenge is always yourself. |
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Yahoo News |
12:20pm PST |
US battle brews as S. Dakota abortion law nears
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. abortion-rights
defenders and opponents are preparing for battle as South
Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds considers whether to sign a state
abortion ban that advocates hope will lead to a national
Supreme Court showdown. |
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BBC News |
12:05pm PST |
Ecuador judge frees ex-president |
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Summary: Former Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez is released from prison after a judge dismisses charges.against him. |
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BBC News |
12:03pm PST |
Boy's body 'concealed' in gulley |
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Summary: Police say a number of items were used to try to conceal a body found in a park near to the home of a missing boy. |
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BBC News |
12:03pm PST |
Altruism 'in-built' in humans |
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Summary: Infants as young as 18 months show helping behaviour, as do young chimps, say scientists. |
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BBC News |
11:59am PST |
Sir Menzies in first leader test |
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Summary: Sir Menzies Campbell urges activists to back controversial plan to part privatizatise the Royal Mail. |
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Yahoo News |
11:55am PST |
Bush Visits Pakistan Amid Protests
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Summary: AP - Traveling under heavy security, President Bush showed solidarity with Pakistan in the global war on terror Friday as anti-American protests flared across this Islamic nation. The visit probably put Bush closer than he's ever been to Osama bin La |
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BBC News |
11:48am PST |
Blair 'prayed to God' over Iraq |
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Summary: Prime Minister Tony Blair says he prayed to God when deciding whether or not to send UK troops to Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39am PST |
Iran fails to win reprieve in EU nuclear talks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iran failed to convince major EU powers in last-gasp talks that its nuclear program is not concealing a grab for the atom bomb, leaving open the path to possible UN Security Council action. |
