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11:54pm PST |
Singer Spears' libel case delayed |
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Summary: A US judge rules that more evidence is needed before dismissing a libel case launched by Britney Spears. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PST |
Two killed in five car collision |
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Summary: Two men are killed and a number of others are injured in a five-car road collision in County Londonderry. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PST |
Body Shop in L'Oreal takeover |
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Summary: Retailer Body Shop agrees to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L'Oreal in a £652m deal. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PST |
Body Shop agrees L'Oreal takeover |
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Summary: Retailer Body Shop agrees to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L'Oreal in a £652m deal. |
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Yahoo News |
11:15pm PST |
Moussaoui's Fate May Hinge on Next Ruling
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors and defense attorneys agree the fate of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui could hinge on whether a federal judge sticks to her ruling that the government contaminated half its case by coaching witnesses and lying to the defense. |
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BBC News |
11:12pm PST |
Drug trials defended as six still ill |
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Summary: A leading scientist defends Britain's system of drugs trials as six men who fell ill during tests remain in intensive care. |
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10:50pm PST |
Hitman case 'wasted money' claim |
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Summary: A man complains about the decision to prosecute his girlfriend cleared of soliciting her wealthy husband's murder. |
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Yahoo News |
10:46pm PST |
Riots in France as job protests heat up
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Summary: AFP - Demonstrators overturned cars and threw petrol bombs at police who repelled them with tear gas and water cannon as a show of force by hundreds of thousands of French students against the government over job reforms turned increasingly violent. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42pm PST |
Rice says China, Iraq will top security talks
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Summary: AFP - China's growing international role and the war in Iraq will be the focus of this weekend's security talks between the US, Australia and Japan, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. |
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BBC News |
10:36pm PST |
Government rapped over drink laws |
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Summary: MPs accuse the government of mishandling last year's introduction of 24-hour drinking. |
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BBC News |
10:36pm PST |
Government rapped on drink laws |
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Summary: MPs accuse the government of mishandling last year's introduction of 24-hour drinking. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27pm PST |
Toxicology report on Milosevic expected as family due in Serbia
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Summary: AFP - An eagerly awaited report into whether any poisons were present in the body of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic when he died was expected to be released as the former strongman's family was due to arrive in Serbia ahead of his funer |
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BBC News |
10:27pm PST |
Pension costs push GM loss higher |
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Summary: GM makes a $2bn higher loss last year than previously thought due to redundancy and pension costs. |
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10:25pm PST |
E Timor sacks hundreds of troops |
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Summary: East Timor dismisses more than a third of its army after a month-long strike over poor conditions. |
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10:16pm PST |
Call for calm after Papua protest |
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Summary: Armed police patrol Indonesia's Papua province after bloody protests against a US-run gold mine. |
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10:15pm PST |
Google to Complete AOL Investment in 2Q
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. said Thursday it expects to complete its $1 billion investment in America Online during the second quarter, slightly later than the two popular Web sites originally anticipated. |
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Yahoo News |
10:06pm PST |
Study Links Atkins, Possible Health Risk
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The popular Atkins diet could be linked to a life-threatening complication which one woman who claimed to be following it developed, according to doctors who published a case report on it Friday in a British medical journal. |
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Yahoo News |
10:04pm PST |
VaxGen again delays anthrax vaccine delivery: WPost
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - California pharmaceutical company
VaxGen Inc. has further delayed shipment to the U.S government
a new version of its anthrax vaccine after failure in a key
human trial and falling at least a year behind schedule, The
Washington Post reporte |
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9:45pm PST |
Patron Who Distracted Gunman Saved Others
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Summary: AP - As a homeless man opened fire in a Denny's restaurant, a patron's decision to try to stop the gunman cost him his life, but allowed others to flee to safety, authorities said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:38pm PST |
India and Russia in fuel talks |
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Summary: Russian PM Mikhail Fradkov begins a visit to India, during which a nuclear fuel deal is expected to be signed. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38pm PST |
No More McNamara Magic for Syracuse
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Summary: AP - Maybe the Big East was overrated. It would be hard to argue against that after the opening day of the NCAA tournament. |
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9:28pm PST |
Witness Tampering Cited in Moussaoui Case
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Summary: AP - Lawyers for two airlines being sued for damages by 9/11 victims prompted a federal lawyer to coach witnesses in the trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui so the government's death penalty case would not undercut their defense, victims |
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Cnn.com |
9:13pm PST |
No federal charges in 1955 slaying of Emmett Till |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PST |
Tories planning party cash reform |
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Summary: The Tories prepare to announce new proposals on political party funding after a row over Labour loans. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09pm PST |
Iraq-US forces launch high-profile joint assault
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Summary: AFP - US and Iraqi forces entered the second day of a vast military operation aimed at rooting out rebels loyal to Al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a hilly area north of Baghdad. |
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BBC News |
9:06pm PST |
Fear for jobs in NHS cash crisis |
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Summary: The Royal College of Nursing fears a financial crisis in parts of the NHS may lead to further job losses. |
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9:06pm PST |
Fear for nursing jobs in NHS crisis |
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Summary: The Royal College of Nursing fears further job losses, after hundreds of posts were cut at a hospital battling debt. |
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Cnn.com |
9:02pm PST |
The lowdown on Carla Martin and why she's in trouble |
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Summary: Until this week, Carla Jean Martin was a mid-career attorney working in relative obscurity at the Transportation Security Administration. But then a federal judge ruled that Martin's actions led to the barring of witnesses crucial to the sentencing of the |
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Cnn.com |
8:43pm PST |
Selling shamrocks a seedy business |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
8:40pm PST |
China and Iraq to top three-nation security talks: Rice
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China's growing international role and the war in Iraq will be the focus of unprecedented security talks between the US, Australia and Japan, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. |
