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ChristianToday |
11:57pm PDT |
Is it Wrong to Call the Christian God Allah |
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Summary: One of Americas preeminent evangelicals is challenging the advice of a retiring Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands who has raised eyebrows worldwide by suggesting Dutch Christians pray to Allah |
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Yahoo News |
11:52pm PDT |
Ten die in Baghdad clash between U.S. and militants
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ten people died and 20 were wounded in
clashes between U.S. forces and gunmen overnight in the Shula
district in western Baghdad, police said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
11:48pm PDT |
Football: Beckham travel fears |
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Summary: LA Galaxy will consider pulling David Beckham from some England friendlies if he is unable to keep up his punishing schedule. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PDT |
M5 shut after police car shot at |
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Summary: Shots are fired at a police car from a BMW which then sped off southbound along the M5 in Gloucestershire. |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Bangladesh moves to quell clashes |
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Summary: The Bangladeshi authorities arrest two senior academics in Dhaka after disturbances on campuses across the country. |
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BBC News |
11:02pm PDT |
Attacks on rail staff increasing |
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Summary: Figures show an increase in attacks on rail staff but a drop in overall crime on Wales railways. |
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Yahoo News |
10:59pm PDT |
2 firefighters hurt at Ground Zero site
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A heavy piece of construction equipment plummeted 23 stories Thursday from the site of last week's deadly fire at ground zero, crashing through a shed and hitting two firefighters in another accident at the plagued building, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:56pm PDT |
Ex-PM vows Pakistan return to challenge Musharraf
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf faced mounting political pressure Friday after two-time former premier Nawaz Sharif, the man he ousted in a coup, vowed to return to contest elections. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37pm PDT |
Order settles Md. abuse suit for $1.2M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A former altar boy who accused a Roman Catholic priest of molesting him more than five years ago has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the priest's religious order, according to the man's parents and attorneys. |
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Cnn.com |
10:31pm PDT |
Tempers flare for globetrotting Beckham |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
10:29pm PDT |
Marine charged with abusing recruits
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24pm PDT |
U.S. routs U.S. Virgin Islands 123-59
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kobe Bryant spent the first part of his 30th birthday on the bench. No matter. Thanks to Michael Redd, Bryant wasn't missed. Redd came off the bench with a flurry of 3-pointers to turn the game into an early rout, and the United States beat the U.S. |
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BBC News |
10:23pm PDT |
Bangladesh bids to quell clashes |
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Summary: The Bangladeshi authorities arrest two senior academics in Dhaka after disturbances on campuses across the country. |
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BBC News |
10:11pm PDT |
Seoul increases N Korea flood aid |
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Summary: South Korea promises almost $40m more aid to North Korea to help it recover from devastating floods. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07pm PDT |
Astronomers puzzled by cosmic blank spot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It i |
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ChristianToday |
10:07pm PDT |
Premier Calls for Prayer Action in Response to Shocking Youth Shooting |
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Summary: A call for prayer and action across the UK has been made on Thursday by Christian media group Premier following another deadly youth shooting |
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Yahoo News |
10:06pm PDT |
Romney: Mass. health plan can be copied
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Gov. Mitt Romney says other states can replicate Massachusetts' program of universal health care if the federal government creates an environment in which private health insurance can expand. |
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BBC News |
10:00pm PDT |
Farm disease zones to be lifted |
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Summary: Protection zones in place at two farms infected with foot-and-mouth are to be lifted, the government says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:52pm PDT |
Reports: Vick urged end to dogfighting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michael Vick's father said he asked his son to give up dogfighting, or to at least put property used in the venture in the names of others to avoid being implicated, according to a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. |
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Yahoo News |
9:39pm PDT |
Shaken by product safety woes, China declares "war"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China has launched a four-month "war"
on tainted food, drugs and exports, state media reported on
Friday, as beleaguered officials embraced time-tested campaign
tactics to clean up the country's battered image. |
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ChristianToday |
9:32pm PDT |
Kenyas Ecumenical Family Honours WCC Head |
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Summary: Christians in Kenya have paid tribute to the enormous contribution of the head of the World Council of Reformed Churches WCC to ecumenism in Kenya and worldwide
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BBC News |
9:24pm PDT |
Rhys police hunt teenage killer |
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Summary: Police release more details about the killer of an 11-year-old boy shot dead in Liverpool. |
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BBC News |
9:13pm PDT |
Actress Lohan jailed for one day |
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Summary: Actress Lindsay Lohan is sentenced to 24 hours in jail after pleading guilty to drunk driving and drug charges. |
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BBC News |
8:45pm PDT |
Israelis deny killing Hamas man |
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Summary: Israel says it was not responsible for the death of a Palestinian militant in a reported strike on Gaza. |
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DJ Chuang |
8:35pm PDT |
does ethnicity matter in church? |
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Summary: As summer draws to an end, people will be getting back into a more normal routine without scattered vacations getting mostly everyone out of sync. One conversation that’ll be picking back up is the Next Gener.Asian Church Skypecast Conference call, |
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Yahoo News |
8:33pm PDT |
Marine charged with 225 counts of abuse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:05pm PDT |
Police: Witnesses ignored cries for help
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman's cries for help for more than an hour as a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:03pm PDT |
David Wells agrees to deal with Dodgers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - David Wells is back in the pennant race with a new team: the Los Angeles Dodgers. Wells and the Dodgers agreed to a contract Thursday and the big lefty plans to make his first start for Los Angeles on Sunday night against the Mets in New York. |
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BBC News |
7:49pm PDT |
Child removal complaints soaring |
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Summary: The number of parents claiming their children have been removed wrongly are at record levels, the BBC learns. |
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BBC News |
7:49pm PDT |
Fears over 'unjust adoption rise' |
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Summary: The number of parents saying children have been unjustly taken for adoption is on the rise, campaigners claim. |
