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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Safety work at fire-ravaged hotel |
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Summary: Builders are making safe a seaside hotel destroyed in a fatal fire as fears grow for four people still missing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:17pm PDT |
Caribbean islanders flee ahead of roaring hurricane
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Summary: AFP - Hurricane Dean bore down on Jamaica early Sunday amid concerns it could become "a potentially catastrophic" category five storm capable of causing death and widespread destruction. |
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BBC News |
10:38pm PDT |
Football: Beckham 'fit for England' |
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Summary: David Beckham hands England a fitness boost as he plays his first full 90 minutes since joining LA Galaxy. |
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BBC News |
10:31pm PDT |
Jamaica alert as Dean threatens |
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Summary: Curfews are imposed and airports closed as Jamaica prepares for a battering from the season's first major storm. |
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Yahoo News |
10:22pm PDT |
Navy pulls YouTube video made by airman
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Summary: AP - The Navy has removed a video from YouTube shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan because it shows sailors using safety equipment inappropriately, a Navy spokesman said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:57pm PDT |
Mariners rally for victory over Chicago
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kenji Johjima hit a tiebreaking RBI single in Seattle's four-run sixth and the Mariners rallied to beat Chicago 7-5 Saturday night, handing the White Sox their season-high seventh straight loss. |
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BBC News |
9:57pm PDT |
UK troops 'stretched but winning' |
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Summary: British troops are "stretched" but are winning the tactical battle in Afghanistan, army head General Sir Richard Dannatt says. |
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BBC News |
9:41pm PDT |
Search continues at blaze hotel |
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Summary: Builders are making safe a hotel destroyed in a fatal fire as rescuers continue their hunt for four missing guests. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21pm PDT |
Rescuers try to reach 181 Chinese miners
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Summary: AP - Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a collapsed dike in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09pm PDT |
Navy pulls YouTube video made by sailors
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Navy has removed a video from YouTube shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan because it shows sailors using safety equipment inappropriately, a Navy spokesman said. |
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BBC News |
8:46pm PDT |
Airport demo 'action day' begins |
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Summary: Climate change campaigners at Heathrow Airport say their protest will climax with 24 hours of direct action. |
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Yahoo News |
8:42pm PDT |
NASA orders shuttle home 1 day early
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Summary: AP - NASA on Saturday ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear that Hurricane Dean might disrupt flight operations. |
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BBC News |
8:38pm PDT |
Eastern China lashed by typhoon |
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Summary: High winds and torrential rains are reported as typhoon Sepat hits China's east coast. |
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Yahoo News |
8:36pm PDT |
Official says no sign of trapped Utah miners
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Rescuers punched through a
fourth drill hole into a collapsed Utah coal mine but heard no
signs of life from six miners trapped for almost two weeks, a
U.S. mine safety official said on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
Fourth hole shows no sign of Utah miners
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rescuers found no signs of life Saturday after drilling a fourth hole into a collapsed mine where six workers have been trapped nearly two weeks, a disheartening blow in a rescue effort that has killed three other people. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24pm PDT |
Caribbean islanders flee roaring hurricane
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Tens of thousands fled homes and hotels in the Caribbean Saturday as hurricane Dean turned deadly, killing a boy in the Dominican Republic as it roared head-on towards Haiti and Jamaica. |
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Yahoo News |
8:13pm PDT |
Hurricane Dean moves toward Jamaica
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Alarmed tourists jammed Caribbean airports for flights out of Hurricane Dean's path Saturday as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. |
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Yahoo News |
7:12pm PDT |
Democrats preach virtue of labor unions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidates argued Saturday night that organized labor is an essential part of the nation's economy whose troubles mirror the deterioration of the middle class way of life. |
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Yahoo News |
6:51pm PDT |
Bonds' homer lifts Giants past Marlins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds extended baseball's home run record to 760 with a two-run shot that lifted the San Francisco Giants to a 4-3 win over the Florida Marlins on Saturday night. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39pm PDT |
Firefighters die in blaze by ground zero
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Summary: AP - A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in Lower Manhattan Saturday, killing two firefighters who were responding to the blaze. |
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Cnn.com |
6:14pm PDT |
Firefighters die at building hit on 9/11 |
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Summary: Two firefighters died Saturday from injuries sustained battling a blaze at an office building just south of Ground Zero, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. The building was damaged in the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, by fallin |
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Yahoo News |
6:13pm PDT |
Jamaicans and tourists scramble as Dean bears down
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Residents snapped up emergency
supplies and tourists crowded Caribbean airports on Saturday as
Hurricane Dean bore down on Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and
threatened to pound Mexico's Yucatan as a rare Category 5
storm. |
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BBC News |
6:06pm PDT |
Browne denies 'failing' UK troops |
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Summary: Defence Secretary Des Browne denies claims the government is failing in its duty to UK troops. |
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Cnn.com |
6:05pm PDT |
Mine rescue operation reaches critical moment |
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Summary: Authorities have released the names of the three rescue workers who died Thursday while trying to find six men trapped for more than a week in Utah's Crandall Canyon mine.
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Yahoo News |
6:02pm PDT |
Evangelist Billy Graham hospitalized
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Evangelist Billy Graham was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
5:58pm PDT |
Report: J.K. Rowling writing crime novel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - J.K. Rowling has been spotted at cafes in Scotland working on a detective novel, a British newspaper reported Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:55pm PDT |
Looting, infection spread in quake-hit Peru
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - President Alan Garcia Saturday threatened a curfew to stop looting in earthquake-stricken areas of southern Peru, where health authorities are battling the spread of infectious diseases. |
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Yahoo News |
5:41pm PDT |
Skyscraper burns near ground zero
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An abandoned skyscraper was in danger of collapse after a seven-alarm fire ripped through the building near ground zero and critically injured at least two firefighters, police said. |
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BBC News |
5:37pm PDT |
Florida student mauled by shark |
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Summary: A US student is left needing more than 100 stitches after being attacked by a shark off Florida. |
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BBC News |
5:19pm PDT |
Thailand holds first referendum |
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Summary: The people of Thailand are voting on a new constitution, in what is in effect a plebiscite on last year's coup. |
