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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
Hunt for 11-year-old boy's killer |
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Summary: Police are hunting for the killer of a boy who was shot dead as he walked home from playing football. |
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Cnn.com |
11:26pm PDT |
U.N.: Diseases spreading faster than ever |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
11:14pm PDT |
Mother Nature 'really cruel' with Midwest floods |
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Summary: Colliding storm systems set off a spate of weather warnings from Colorado to Ohio. Twenty-five people are reported killed, mostly from flooding. Three of them died when lightning knocked power lines onto the street where they were standing in water.
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Cnn.com |
11:14pm PDT |
Mother Nature 'really cruel' to Midwest |
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Summary: Colliding storm systems set off a spate of weather warnings from Colorado to Ohio. Twenty-five people are reported killed, mostly from flooding. Three of them died when lightning knocked power lines onto the street where they were standing in water.
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
Myanmar protesters defy junta with new rally
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - About 40 pro-democracy supporters defied Myanmar's ruling junta again Thursday and staged the third protest this week against a massive hike in fuel prices. |
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BBC News |
11:03pm PDT |
'Ransom paid' to free Danish ship |
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Summary: The crew of a Danish cargo ship held by Somali pirates were freed after a ransom was paid, Danish officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
10:58pm PDT |
Puffer fish sold as salmon kills 15
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PDT |
Students waiting for GCSE results |
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Summary: After two years of coursework and exams, teenagers across Wales wait for the results of their GCSEs |
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BBC News |
10:41pm PDT |
NIO has no record of legal bills |
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Summary: Poor record keeping means the NIO does not know how much it spent fighting legal challenges in recent years. |
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Yahoo News |
10:11pm PDT |
U.S. to screen aid groups for terror links: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States plans to screen
thousands of people employed by aid organizations that receive
funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development
looking for possible links to terror organizations, The
Washington Post reported on Thu |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
Infectious diseases spreading faster than ever: U.N.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Infectious diseases are emerging more
quickly around the globe, spreading faster and becoming
increasingly difficult to treat, the World Health Organisation
(WHO) said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05pm PDT |
Armored vehicles slow to reach US troops
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Pentagon will fall far short of its goal of sending 3,500 lifesaving armored vehicles to Iraq by the end of the year. Instead, officials expect to send about 1,500. |
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BBC News |
9:44pm PDT |
Democrats condemn Bush on Iraq |
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Summary: Leading Democrats criticise the US president's speech in which he compared the Iraq war to Vietnam. |
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BBC News |
9:44pm PDT |
Democrats condemn Bush over Iraq |
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Summary: Leading Democrats criticise the US president's speech in which he compared the Iraq war to Vietnam. |
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Yahoo News |
9:37pm PDT |
Rangers rout Orioles 30-3 in sweep
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Five runs in the fourth inning. |
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Yahoo News |
9:31pm PDT |
Myanmar protesters stage new rally
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - About 40 pro-democracy protesters launched a new rally Thursday against Myanmar's military government, in the third protest this week against a massive hike in fuel prices. |
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Yahoo News |
9:05pm PDT |
MySpace, MTV to host presidential chat
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - News Corp's Internet social network,
MySpace, and Viacom Inc's MTV will unveil a plan on Thursday to
host a series of discussions between U.S. presidential
candidates and Internet viewers simultaneously. |
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BBC News |
8:47pm PDT |
Security tight for Italy funerals |
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Summary: Police are on alert ahead of the funerals of five Italians killed in Germany in an alleged Mafia attack. |
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Yahoo News |
8:45pm PDT |
Texas executes 400th inmate since 1982
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man convicted in the shooting death of a convenience store clerk became the 400th person on Wednesday to be executed in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
MySpace, MTV to offer candidate chats
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lecterns are so 2004. In the latest chapter of new Web-empowered debates and interaction with presidential candidates, social networking site MySpace and MTV will bring together 2008 hopefuls and young voters for real-time online conversations. |
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Yahoo News |
8:12pm PDT |
Utah mine boss vows to keep searching
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lashing out at criticism he was abandoning six trapped coal miners, the mine chief promised Wednesday to keep searching through the weekend and punch yet another hole into "this evil mountain." |
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Yahoo News |
8:05pm PDT |
Televangelist Bynum assaulted in Atlanta
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police said Juanita Bynum, a televangelist who has won a national following with sermons about women's empowerment, was assaulted by her preacher husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel early Wednesday. |
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Cnn.com |
8:00pm PDT |
30-3 thrashing sets baseball record |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
7:24pm PDT |
Va. Tech shootings panel seeks reforms
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Virginia Tech recommended monitoring troubled students and increasing security Wednesday in an internal report that didn't address one of the most troubling questions about the massacre: Should administrators have locked down the campus after the fir |
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Theophiles |
7:12pm PDT |
Makoto Fujimura |
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Summary: From Forbes:
"I am a Christian," says Fujimura, 46, who founded the nonprofit International Arts Movement to help bridge the gap between the religious and art communities. "I am also an artist and creative, and what I do is driven by my faith experience. |
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Yahoo News |
7:08pm PDT |
Hurricane Dean slams Mexico's Gulf coast, weakens
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Dean ripped into
Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and
torrential rain that flooded towns and forced thousands into
shelters, but then weakened rapidly after moving onshore. |
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BBC News |
7:08pm PDT |
Texas carries out 400th execution |
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Summary: The US state of Texas executes its 400th prisoner since the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1976. |
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Yahoo News |
6:57pm PDT |
CORRECTION: U.S. Army major indicted on Iraq bribery charges
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - (Corrects to clarify charges, make clear only John
Cockerham charged with bribery) |
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Yahoo News |
6:25pm PDT |
Paris Hilton defamation lawsuit settled
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Paris Hilton can scratch her next court date from her calendar. A settlement in a $10 million defamation lawsuit was reached Wednesday between the hotel heiress-reality TV star and diamond heiress-actress Zeta Graff. |
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Cnn.com |
6:21pm PDT |
Thrashing sets baseball record |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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