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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Tories aim to end forced marriage |
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Summary: The Conservatives outline proposals aimed at making it more difficult to carry out forced marriages. |
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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Islamists urge caliphate revival |
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Summary: Some 80,000 Islamists gather in Indonesia to push for the establishment of a single state across the Muslim world. |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PDT |
New Orleans politician faces graft charges: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A prominent New Orleans city councilman
who had said he would run for mayor in 2010 is expected to
plead guilty on Monday to federal corruption charges, a
newspaper reported on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28pm PDT |
Computer glitch causes delays at LAX
(AP)
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Summary: AP - About 6,000 international passengers were stranded for as long as six hours Saturday at Los Angeles International Airport because a computer failure prevented them from passing through customs, authorities said. |
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BBC News |
10:17pm PDT |
Ancient forest found in Hungary |
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Summary: An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, is discovered in Hungary. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13pm PDT |
US slipping in life expectancy rankings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
All Korean hostages still in Taliban hand: spokesman
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two seriously ill South
Korean hostages are still in Taliban hands, a spokesman for the
rebel group said on Sunday, but would be freed soon. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
5-hour delays for some LA airport planes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - About 6,000 international passengers were stranded for as long as six hours Saturday at Los Angeles International Airport because a computer failure prevented them from passing through customs, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:53pm PDT |
Aretha Franklin cancels hometown show
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Queen of Soul is cooling her heels. Aretha Franklin announced she has canceled her hometown concert Sunday night at an outdoor amphitheater in suburban Detroit, citing heat exhaustion. With temperatures forecast to climb above the 90 degrees, Fra |
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Yahoo News |
9:52pm PDT |
Taliban: 2 Korean hostages to be freed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Taliban spokesman said Saturday that two sick, female South Korean hostages would be released "soon" for the sake of good relations between the Taliban and South Korea. Neither the international Red Cross or the Afghan government could immediately |
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Yahoo News |
9:51pm PDT |
Hurricane Flossie upgraded to Category 4
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 4 storm Saturday as it spun more than 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. |
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Yahoo News |
9:34pm PDT |
Space shuttle damage appears minor: NASA
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A small gouge in space shuttle
Endeavour's heat shield appears to be a minor problem and is
unlikely to require repair, NASA said on Saturday after
studying the three-inch gash on the ship's belly. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Musharraf 'to join Afghan jirga' |
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Summary: Pakistan's president is expected to attend the final day of a key peace forum in neighbouring Afghanistan. |
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Yahoo News |
9:27pm PDT |
Taliban says not releasing SKorean hostages
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Afghanistan's Taliban has decided not to free any of 21 South Korean hostages despite earlier saying two women could go, the Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday citing an insurgents' spokesman. |
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BBC News |
9:11pm PDT |
Japanese film wins Locarno prize |
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Summary: Japanese film Ai No Yokan wins the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. |
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BBC News |
9:02pm PDT |
Tory plan for business 'tax cut' |
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Summary: Conservative proposals to save British business £14bn in red tape and regulation are to be published this week. |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PDT |
Islamists attend Jakarta meeting |
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Summary: About 60,000 people gather at a stadium in Indonesia for a meeting of the radical Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
S.Korea says "no comment" on Afghan hostage release
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The South Korean government on Sunday
declined to comment on a claim Afghanistan's Taliban had freed
two South Korean hostages. |
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Cnn.com |
8:08pm PDT |
4 grandmothers attacked with hammer at salon |
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Cnn.com |
8:08pm PDT |
Man held after hammer attack at beauty salon |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
Counting underway after Sierra Leone vote
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Ballot counting was underway Sunday across Sierra Leone after the west African country voted in presidential and parliamentary elections seen as a test of whether it has fully emerged from its decade-long civil war. |
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BBC News |
7:55pm PDT |
Romney wins Iowa informal poll |
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Summary: Mitt Romney wins an Iowa straw poll of Republican US presidential hopefuls, though his main rivals did not attend. |
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Cnn.com |
7:42pm PDT |
Mine images raise hopes, but silence disheartening |
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Summary: A camera lowered into a cavity in Utah's Crandall Canyon mine where six men are thought to be trapped has shown "survivable space," a federal official said. However, efforts to signal the miners were once again met with silence, said federal mine official |
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Yahoo News |
7:37pm PDT |
Romney wins Iowa straw poll as expected
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won an easy and expected victory in a high-profile Iowa Republican Party Straw Poll on Saturday, claiming nearly twice as many votes as his nearest rival. |
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Yahoo News |
6:48pm PDT |
Romney wins Iowa Republican straw poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican Mitt Romney won the first
test of the 2008 White House race on Saturday, using a big
wallet and broad organization to muscle aside a field of
lesser-known rivals in an informal Iowa straw poll. |
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BBC News |
6:31pm PDT |
McCanns 'not suspects' in probe |
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Summary: The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are "heartened" that police do not think they are suspects. |
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BBC News |
6:31pm PDT |
Police remarks 'hearten' McCanns |
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Summary: The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are "heartened" that police do not think they are suspects. |
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Theophiles |
6:27pm PDT |
Lutherans to allow pastors in gay relationships |
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Summary: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America passed a resolution at its annual assembly urging bishops to refrain from disciplining pastors who are in "faithful committed same-gender relationships." |
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Cnn.com |
5:53pm PDT |
Coalition base fends off string of Taliban attacks |
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Summary: For the third time this week, Taliban militants attacked a coalition military base in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said. It warned the ambushes could be "a rehearsal for a much bigger attack, possibly an attempt to completely overrun the p |
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Yahoo News |
5:31pm PDT |
Space-walking astronauts install space station beam
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two spacewalking astronauts bolted a
new beam on to the International Space Station on Saturday as
NASA wrestled with a balky computer and worried about a gash in
the heat shield of space shuttle Endeavour. |
