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BBC News |
11:54pm PDT |
Arrests over M40 biker murder |
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Summary: Arrests are made by police investigating the killing of a biker shot dead on the M40 in Warwickshire. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PDT |
River body found is missing boy |
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Summary: A body found by teams searching a Snowdonia river is that of a missing nine-year-old boy, police confirm. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Rich 'can pay poor to cut carbon' |
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Summary: Rich nations should not have to cut emissions if they pay poor countries to do it on their behalf, a UN chief says. |
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BBC News |
11:37pm PDT |
Asian stocks edge up on rate hope |
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Summary: Asian stock markets edge higher, spurred by hopes of an interest rate cut in the US. |
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Yahoo News |
11:33pm PDT |
Dean races through Mexico's Gulf
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Dean raced through
Mexico's southern Gulf on Wednesday, whipping up wild winds and
roaring seas around oil platforms that produce crude for export
to the United States. |
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BBC News |
11:18pm PDT |
Inquest to open after hotel fire |
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Summary: An inquest into the death of a man who fell from a window of a burning hotel is due to be opened in Cornwall. |
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Cnn.com |
11:08pm PDT |
Bush will invoke Vietnam in support of Iraq plans |
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Summary: President Bush will will invoke lessons from the Vietnam war on Wednesday to argue against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, according to the White House. "The price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens," he will say in a speec |
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BBC News |
11:01pm PDT |
Bin body murder inquiry continues |
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Summary: Police continue to question a man after a dismembered body was found in a bin behind a block of flats. |
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BBC News |
10:39pm PDT |
AM 'staggered' over tax arrears |
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Summary: Uncollected council tax arrears are causing a "mountain of debt" a senior AM warns. |
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BBC News |
10:27pm PDT |
Athletics: Coe gets IAAF post |
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Summary: Lord Sebastian Coe has been elected a vice president of the International Association of Athletics Federations. |
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BBC News |
10:26pm PDT |
Japan seeks new ties with India |
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Summary: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe stresses the need for a broader strategic relationship with India, in a visit to Delhi. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13pm PDT |
Dean races through Mexico's oil-rich Gulf
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Dean raced through
Mexico's southern Gulf on Wednesday, whipping up wild winds and
roaring seas around oil platforms that produce crude for export
to the United States. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48pm PDT |
Russia accuses Georgia of fabricating missile saga
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia says its investigation
showed it could not have dropped a missile in Georgia and
accused the former Soviet republic of deliberately inventing a
"political tsunami." |
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Yahoo News |
9:23pm PDT |
Now dirty chopsticks picked up in China scare
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Beijing factory recycled used
chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form
of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is a
string of food and product safety scares. |
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Yahoo News |
9:15pm PDT |
Bush draws Vietnam parallel in warning over Iraq withdrawal
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush in a speech on Wednesday will warn that a US withdrawal from Iraq could produce a catastrophe similar to what occurred in Southeast Asia after US forces left Vietnam. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PDT |
Brown and Merkel set for meeting |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is to discuss international development during a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel. |
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BBC News |
8:44pm PDT |
Burma activists held over protest |
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Summary: Pro-democracy activists are arrested in Burma, after a protest over a sharp rise in the price of fuel. |
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BBC News |
8:30pm PDT |
Brazil denies Amazon logging link |
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Summary: Brazil says it will investigate claims that loggers are exploiting its policy of settling the poor in the Amazon. |
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Yahoo News |
8:27pm PDT |
Pit bulls break into home, maul woman
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two pit bull terriers broke into a house through a pet door Tuesday and attacked a woman in her bed, mauling her badly, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11pm PDT |
Hurricane Dean heads for Mexican oilfields
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Dean took aim at
Mexico's offshore oil platforms on Tuesday after sweeping
through the Yucatan Peninsula where it toppled trees, roughed
up tourist resorts and blew the roofs off homes. |
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Cnn.com |
7:59pm PDT |
Ex-NBA player killed in SUV-train crash |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:33pm PDT |
Protest march in Argentina south |
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Summary: Thousands march in the southern Argentine city of Rio Gallegos, as opposition to the president grows. |
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Yahoo News |
7:18pm PDT |
Ball for Bonds's 756th homer going to auction
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The fan who caught Barry Bonds's
record-breaking home run ball earlier this month has decided to
let it go. |
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Yahoo News |
7:09pm PDT |
Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's fr |
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Cnn.com |
7:04pm PDT |
Bush will invoke Vietnam to defend Iraq plans |
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Summary: President Bush will will invoke the lessons of the Vietnam war on Wednesday to argue against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, according to the White House. "The price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens," he will say in a spe |
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Cnn.com |
7:04pm PDT |
Bush will invoke Vietnam to support Iraq plans |
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Summary: President Bush will will invoke the lessons of the Vietnam war on Wednesday to argue against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, according to the White House. "The price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens," he will say in a spe |
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Yahoo News |
6:30pm PDT |
Hurricane Dean swirls over Gulf of Mexico
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hurricane Dean Tuesday swirled over the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico where it could regain some of the punch it lost after slamming onto Mexico's Caribbean coast as a monstrous category five storm. |
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BBC News |
6:21pm PDT |
Accused girls due in Ghana court |
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Summary: Two British girls accused of attempting to smuggle cocaine to Britain from Ghana are due to appear in court. |
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Cnn.com |
6:18pm PDT |
China toy factory conditions 'brutal,' says group |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PDT |
Venezuela Congress OKs Chavez's reforms
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Venezuela's congress, dominated by allies of President Hugo Chavez, gave initial approval Tuesday to constitutional reforms that would allow him to run for re-election and possibly govern for decades to come. |
