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Yahoo News |
11:59pm PDT |
Va. tourism pitch mimics gang's sign
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Virginia is still for lovers, but the state's tourism agency will eliminate images of people making heart symbols with their hands in its upcoming advertising campaign because the gesture is also used by a violent street gang. |
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Yahoo News |
11:56pm PDT |
Koreas put off rare summit to October due to floods
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The two Koreas agreed on Saturday to
postpone until Oct 2-4 the rare summit they were due to hold
this month due to the flooding that has killed hundreds of
people and made more than 300,000 homeless in the North. |
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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
Snow to leave White House early |
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Summary: White House press secretary Tony Snow announces that he will leave the job before President Bush's end of term. |
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BBC News |
11:32pm PDT |
'Hijacked plane' lands in Turkey |
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Summary: A plane flying from Cyprus to Istanbul is hijacked and lands in the Turkish city of Antalya, local TV reports say. |
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Yahoo News |
11:26pm PDT |
Suicide raid on U.S. security firm kills 15 Afghans
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suicide car bomb attack
outside a base of a U.S. security firm on Saturday killed 15
people in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar,
witnesses and police said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:15pm PDT |
North Korea asks to postpone summit with South
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea has asked for a summit with
the South to be postponed because of flooding that has ravaged
the impoverished country, South Korea's YTN TV said on
Saturday. |
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BBC News |
11:11pm PDT |
Rugby U: Wales face Argentina |
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Summary: Gareth Jenkins' under-pressure Wales side take on Argentina at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08pm PDT |
Stars fondly remember Griffin at funeral
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hollywood stars fondly remembered Merv Griffin at his funeral Friday, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who credited the creator of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" with jump starting his own acting career. |
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Yahoo News |
10:32pm PDT |
Error in Ark. law allows children to wed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A law passed this year allows Arkansans of any age — even infants — to marry if their parents agree, and the governor may have to call a special session to fix the mistake, lawmakers said Friday. |
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BBC News |
10:28pm PDT |
Scores trapped in China mine |
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Summary: Rescue teams are battling to reach 172 workers trapped after a Chinese coal mine is flooded. |
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ChristianToday |
10:05pm PDT |
Major Hotel Fire in Cornwall Kills One Six Missing |
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Summary: One man died and six people were unaccounted for after a serious fire swept through a hotel in Cornwall early on Saturday police said |
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BBC News |
9:58pm PDT |
No pressure on Mugabe from summit |
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Summary: Southern African leaders put no public pressure on President Mugabe to solve Zimbabwe's problems. |
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Yahoo News |
9:54pm PDT |
Flood in Chinese coal mine traps 172
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Water from a rain-swollen river poured into a coal mine in eastern China, leaving 172 miners trapped and feared dead, government officials and a state news agency reported Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:34pm PDT |
Error in Ark. law allows toddlers to wed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A law passed this year allows Arkansans of any age — even infants — to marry if their parents agree, and the governor may have to call a special session to fix the mistake, lawmakers said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22pm PDT |
NASA considering ending mission early
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Worried Hurricane Dean might blow its way, Mission Control considered scaling back Saturday's spacewalk at the orbiting shuttle and station complex to allow for a possibly early end to Endeavour's mission. |
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BBC News |
9:11pm PDT |
Campaigners 'draw up target list' |
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Summary: Climate campaigners protesting at Heathrow Airport say they have drawn up a list of targets for "direct action". |
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BBC News |
8:59pm PDT |
Calm urged for Peru victims |
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Summary: Peru's president calls for calm amid reports of looting and shortages after Wednesday's deadly earthquake. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50pm PDT |
Texas closely watching Hurricane Dean
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rescuers searched Friday for people swept away in flash floods caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin, as wary residents across the Gulf Coast watched Hurricane Dean charging through the Caribbean. |
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8:47pm PDT |
Hurricane Dean seen becoming deadly Category 5
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Dean is expected to grow into a
ferocious Category 5 storm as it passes Jamaica and nears
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the oil and gas rigs of the Gulf
of Mexico after it smashed into several Caribbean islands, the
U.S. Natio |
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Cnn.com |
8:05pm PDT |
Dean strengthens, threatens islands |
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Summary: Hurricane Dean strengthened into a Category 4 storm Friday evening, with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is on a track expected to take it just south of the Dominican Republic and Haiti before it threatens |
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Cnn.com |
7:52pm PDT |
Report: Rains trap 172 Chinese miners |
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Summary: Heavy rains poured into a coal mine in east China's Shandong province Friday, trapping 172 miners beneath the surface, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
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Yahoo News |
7:46pm PDT |
Vick accused of gambling, executing dogs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It's up to Michael Vick now. His last two co-defendants pleaded guilty Friday and implicated Vick in bankrolling gambling on dogfights. One of them said the Atlanta Falcons quarterback helped drown or hang dogs that didn't do well. |
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BBC News |
7:38pm PDT |
One dies in fire at resort hotel |
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Summary: One person has died in a fire at a Cornwall hotel as the emergency services try to locate all the guests. |
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Cnn.com |
7:12pm PDT |
Rescuers search rubble for quake survivors |
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Summary: Rescuers dug through rubble in Peruvian towns Friday, searching for signs of life following Wednesday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake. The quake killed more than 500 people and the death toll is likely to rise further.
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BBC News |
7:00pm PDT |
Foot-and-mouth restrictions eased |
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Summary: Restrictions on animal movements brought in after the Surrey outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease are eased. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39pm PDT |
NASA eyes hurricane, may bring shuttle back early
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - NASA kept a close eye on Hurricane Dean
as it churned through the Caribbean Sea on Friday and said it
may cut short space shuttle Endeavour's flight if the storm
threatens Mission Control in Houston. |
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Yahoo News |
6:36pm PDT |
Anxious Peru quake survivors loot market
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hungry earthquake survivors ransacked a public market Friday, while other mobs looted a refrigerated trailer and blocked aid trucks, prompting Peru's president to appeal for calm. Aid finally arrived to the disaster zone after about 36 hours without |
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Cnn.com |
6:33pm PDT |
Dean strengthens, eyes islands |
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Summary: Hurricane Dean strengthened into a Category 4 storm Friday evening, with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is on a track expected to take it just south of the Dominican Republic and Haiti before it threatens |
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Yahoo News |
6:21pm PDT |
McNabb shines in return to Eagles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Donovan McNabb did everything but scramble. Playing his first game since tearing a knee ligament last November, McNabb put on an aerial display in the first quarter of the Philadelphia Eagles' preseason game against the Carolina Panthers on Friday ni |
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Yahoo News |
6:19pm PDT |
Giuliani: I'll discuss my family my way
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A day after urging people to "leave my family alone," Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Friday said he'll talk about his family — on his terms. |
