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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
Body recovered in harbour search |
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Summary: Police divers searching for a missing teenager in the waters of Minehead harbour find the body of a boy. |
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BBC News |
11:23pm PDT |
Royal Bank of Scotland profits up |
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Summary: RBS, which is seeking to buy Dutch bank ABN Amro, sees profits for the first half of the year soar 11%. |
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BBC News |
11:23pm PDT |
High Street boost for RBS profits |
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Summary: RBS, which is seeking to buy Dutch bank ABN Amro, sees profits for the first half of the year soar 11%. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PDT |
BA profits better than expected |
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Summary: British Airways reports better- than-expected three month profits despite flat revenues but warns of rising fuel costs. |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Bollywood star moved to new jail |
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Summary: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is moved to a prison in the western Indian city of Pune to serve his six-year sentence. |
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Yahoo News |
11:15pm PDT |
Bonds still 2 away from Aaron's record
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds' bid to dent Dodger Stadium ended with a slow walk, rather than a historic trot. After three more homerless games, the slugger heads south to San Diego where Greg Maddux will try to keep Bonds from hitting the single home run he needs to |
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Yahoo News |
10:50pm PDT |
Bonds takes home run show to San Diego
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds' bid to dent Dodger Stadium ended with a slow walk, rather than a historic trot. After three more homerless games, the slugger heads south to San Diego where Greg Maddux will try to keep Bonds from hitting the single home run he needs to |
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BBC News |
10:42pm PDT |
Fflam rock festival is cancelled |
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Summary: A Swansea rock festival is called off, weeks after promoters blamed bad weather for postponing it. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PDT |
Fatal rail collision clues sought |
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Summary: Investigations continue into what caused a collision between a train and tractor which killed an elderly farmer. |
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BBC News |
10:36pm PDT |
Women over 40 'at risk' drinkers |
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Summary: Women in their 40s are more likely to drink harmful amounts of alcohol than younger people, Cardiff researchers find. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13pm PDT |
Rough river stymies recovery of those lost in bridge collapse
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The murky, swirling waters of the Mississippi river hampered the work of divers Thursday searching for 20 to 30 people still missing a day after a huge bridge collapsed, killing at least five. |
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Yahoo News |
9:46pm PDT |
Court secretly struck down Bush spying: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. intelligence court earlier
this year secretly struck down a key element of President
George W. Bush's warrantless spying program, The Washington
Post reported in its Friday edition. |
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BBC News |
9:35pm PDT |
South Asia floods strand millions |
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Summary: Millions of people are displaced as South Asia battles against some of its worst floods in recent years. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22pm PDT |
Willis performs at Kennedy Space Center
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An estimated 7,000 people showed up to watch Bruce Willis and his blues band perform at the Kennedy Space Center's rocket garden Thursday night. |
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Yahoo News |
9:16pm PDT |
Talks in sight to free SKoreans held by Taliban
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - South Korean officials scrambled Friday to free 21 aid workers held by Afghanistan's Taliban, who said they had been told their key demand for a release of captured fighters would be met. |
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Yahoo News |
9:12pm PDT |
Angry men get ahead; angry women penalized: study
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A man who gets angry at work may well
be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace
is liable to be seen as "out of control" and incompetent,
according to a new study presented on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:05pm PDT |
Sony recalls 350,000 digital cameras
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sony is recalling 350,000 digital cameras because the case may warp, creating an edge that can cut or scratch the user's hands, the company said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:01pm PDT |
Divers halt bridge bodies search |
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Summary: US rescue divers suspend a search for bodies overnight after the collapse of a bridge into the Mississippi river. |
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Yahoo News |
8:56pm PDT |
Business as usual for Mattel in dusty south China
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Thousands of young Chinese
toymakers dressed in pink and blue Mattel T-shirts spill from
the U.S. toy goliath's factories in Guanyao after an 11-hour
overnight shift, as the dawn shift took their place. |
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Yahoo News |
8:41pm PDT |
Outspoken Calif. editor shot to death
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit. |
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Yahoo News |
8:28pm PDT |
More than 70,000 bridges rated deficient
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion. |
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Yahoo News |
8:26pm PDT |
House OKs prescription drug imports
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The House passed legislation Thursday effectively permitting the importation of lower-cost prescription drugs from places such as Canada, Australia and Europe. |
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BBC News |
8:25pm PDT |
Gazprom hope for Belarus gas deal |
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Summary: Russia's Gazprom says it hopes to keep full gas supplies to Belarus, as a deadline nears for a deal to be made. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22pm PDT |
Recall concerns parents, toy companies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wendy Schneider-Fisher is nervous about what toys to buy her children. "I'm less inclined to buy anything from China," said Schneider-Fisher, of New Albany, Ohio, who was heading into a local Toys "R" Us Thursday. "And I'm upset our government doesn' |
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Cnn.com |
8:22pm PDT |
Parties defy veto threat on kids' insurance |
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Cnn.com |
8:22pm PDT |
Senate votes to expand kids' health insurance |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
7:32pm PDT |
Senate approves children's health bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Thursday agreed
to legislation that would raise tobacco taxes to pay for
expanding a children's health program, shrugging off a veto
threat from President George W. Bush who wants a more limited
program. |
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Yahoo News |
7:30pm PDT |
At least four dead, 30 missing in US bridge collapse
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The murky, swirling waters of the Mississippi river hampered the work of divers Thursday searching for up to 30 people still missing one day after a huge bridge collapsed, killing at least four. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25pm PDT |
Cardinals, No. 5 pick Brown reach deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - First-round draft pick Levi Brown agreed to terms with the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday, six days after the team reported for training camp. |
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Cnn.com |
7:21pm PDT |
U.S. bridges overused and under stress |
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Summary: Federal data show that nearly a quarter of the nation's bridges longer than 20 feet are categorized as "structurally deficient" or worse, including the Minnesota bridge now crumbled in the Mississippi River. Experts say a lack of money and leadership has |
