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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PST |
GM, Delphi and UAW Agree to Buyouts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - General Motors Corp. is suddenly much closer to its goal of cutting 30,000 U.S. hourly jobs by 2008. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PST |
Morrisons posts first annual loss |
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Summary: Supermarket group Morrisons reports a loss of £313m after taking into account the cost of integrating Safeway stores. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PST |
Athletes 'go missing from Games' |
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Summary: Nine athletes from Africa and Asia have gone missing at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, police say. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PST |
'All saved' as Canada ferry sinks |
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Summary: All 100 passengers and crew are rescued as a ferry sinks off Canada's Pacific Coast, officials say. |
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BBC News |
11:11pm PST |
Parking rise for cup final fans |
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Summary: Swans fans forced to drive to a football final in Cardiff due to a lack of trains face a 100% rise in parking charges. |
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BBC News |
10:57pm PST |
EU leaders set for reform summit |
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Summary: The EU is to open its annual summit on economic reform, amid claims that it is failing to achieve its goals. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55pm PST |
Brown seen as Britain's prime minister in waiting
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Gordon Brown was widely hailed as Britain's prime minister in waiting by the British press after delivering his 10th annual budget, with the incumbent Tony Blair looking increasingly stale. |
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BBC News |
10:43pm PST |
Department criticised over waste |
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Summary: The Department of the Environment has performed "poorly" over waste management in NI. |
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Yahoo News |
9:41pm PST |
Fifth day of protests against Belarus leader
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - About 300 opposition supporters danced
and sang folk songs to overcome freezing weather overnight,
keeping up protests against Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko's re-election for a fifth day on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:30pm PST |
Japan delays China loans decision |
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Summary: Japan postpones a decision on whether to pay further yen loans to China, as relations between them worsen. |
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BBC News |
9:30pm PST |
Brown 'silence' on NHS criticised |
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Summary: Chancellor Gordon Brown is criticised for not saying enough about the NHS in his Budget amid hospital job cuts. |
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Cnn.com |
9:15pm PST |
Bouncer charged in grad student's slaying |
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Summary: Charges have been filed against the bouncer at a Manhattan bar where a graduate student was last seen alive, CNN has learned. An indictment accusing Darryl Littlejohn of the murder of Imette St. Guillen is expected to be unsealed on Thursday, when he will |
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BBC News |
9:15pm PST |
Political loans guidance drawn up |
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Summary: The Electoral Commission is due to finalise new guidelines on political loans amid the row over Labour's funding. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54pm PST |
ETA calls on Basques to get involved in peace process after ceasefire statement
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Summary: AFP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA followed up a ceasefire announcement by calling on all sectors of Basque society to "move from words to action" by getting involved in the peace process. |
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BBC News |
8:24pm PST |
Terror trial evidence continues |
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Summary: More evidence will be heard in the trial of seven UK men with alleged al-Qaeda links who are accused of bomb plots. |
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Theophiles |
7:55pm PST |
Crunchy Conservatives: Right meets Left |
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Summary: Spengler reviews Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher:
One gets the feeling that many of Dreher's crunchy cons choose only those hoary traditions that make them feel good right now. If that were the basis of tradition, not one would last a century. Each generation |
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Crosswalk |
7:55pm PST |
Resignation Fever |
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Summary: Within the last week an earnest, godly young man shared with me his displeasure over the church politics he had observed first hand. "Why would anyone want to go into the ministry when you see how churches treat people?"
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BBC News |
7:54pm PST |
Chile bus crash kills US tourists |
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Summary: A bus carrying tourists from a US cruise ship plunges down a ravine in Chile, killing 12 passengers, officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
7:45pm PST |
Another 'Idol' Contestant Gets Booted
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The "American Idol" sing-off is down to 10. |
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Cnn.com |
7:42pm PST |
Gonzales: Largest-ever narcotics-trafficking indictment |
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Summary: The rebel leaders are accused of flooding U.S. streets with cocaine to fund their guerrilla warfare in Colombia. The indictments against dozens of top FARC members also detail vicious tactics they allegedly used to keep coca farmers in line -- including |
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Cnn.com |
7:08pm PST |
Tour bus falls into Chile canyon, killing 12 Americans |
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Summary: A bus carrying cruise ship tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged off a cliff, killing 12 people, all of them U.S. citizens, authorities said. The bus was returning to the ship from a national park near the Bolivian border |
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Cnn.com |
7:08pm PST |
12 Americans killed when tour bus falls into canyon |
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Summary: A bus carrying cruise ship tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged off a cliff, killing 12 people, all of them U.S. citizens, authorities said. The bus was returning to the ship from a national park near the Bolivian border |
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Yahoo News |
6:54pm PST |
Sovereign, Investor Agree to Settle Fight
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sovereign Bancorp Inc. and its largest shareholder, Relational Investors LLC, reached a settlement Wednesday to resolve a prolonged legal and proxy battle. |
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Cnn.com |
6:54pm PST |
FAA's missed chances to stop 9/11 hijackers detailed |
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Summary: Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial were expected to hear more on Wednesday about how some of the September 11, 2001, hijackers got flight training in the United States. |
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Yahoo News |
6:40pm PST |
Book: Bonds Wanted Out of BALCO Scandal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds tried to keep his name out of the BALCO scandal, sending his lawyer into meetings with company representatives to ask for protection, according to a new book. |
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Cnn.com |
6:34pm PST |
Tour bus plummets into canyon, killing 12 people |
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Summary: A bus carrying cruise ship tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged off a cliff, killing 12 people, all of them U.S. citizens, authorities said. The bus was returning to the ship from a national park near the Bolivian border |
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Yahoo News |
6:34pm PST |
Chile Bus Crash Kills 12 American Tourists
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A bus carrying cruise ship tourists plunged 300 feet down a mountainside in northern Chile Wednesday, killing 12 Americans, U.S. and Chilean officials said. |
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Cnn.com |
6:31pm PST |
Roaring big win for family of sleeping lion songwriter |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
6:31pm PST |
Daughters of 'Lion Sleeps' writer win royalties case |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
6:29pm PST |
Mental Health Bill 'to be axed' |
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Summary: The government is expected to abandon its Mental Health Bill - despite spending millions of pounds preparing it. |
