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BBC News |
3:24am PDT |
More delays on Tube after strike |
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Summary: London commuters are braced for more delays despite unions ending a walkout which crippled Tube services. |
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BBC News |
3:22am PDT |
Crocs cause nurse safety concern |
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Summary: A hospital is considering a ban on nurses wearing popular 'Crocs' shoes - suggesting they might be dangerous. |
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BBC News |
3:20am PDT |
Man admits fatal college stabbing |
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Summary: A teenager admits murdering a 16-year-old boy outside a college in Birmingham city centre. |
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Yahoo News |
3:14am PDT |
Fears of floods after Felix kills 3
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical depression Felix is forecast to dump up to 25 inches of rain on parts of Nicaragua and Honduras, officials said early Wednesday, triggering fears of flooding and mudslides in areas where shantytowns cling precariously to hillsides. |
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Cnn.com |
3:12am PDT |
3 held in plot to bomb U.S. base |
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Summary: German authorities have arrested three men on suspicion of planning attacks on Frankfurt's International Airport and Ramstein Air Base, according to a statement from the German Attorney General's office issued Wednesday.
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BBC News |
3:05am PDT |
Germany foils 'massive' bomb plot |
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Summary: Germany detains three men suspected of planning a "massive" terrorist attack on US facilities, officials say. |
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BBC News |
3:01am PDT |
PM's bid for global health care |
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Summary: Gordon Brown kick-starts a campaign to build national health systems in some of the world's poorest countries. |
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Yahoo News |
2:59am PDT |
Germany arrests 3 in alleged airport, U.S. base plot
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Germany has arrested three men it
suspects of belonging to an Islamist terrorist group and
planning attacks on Frankfurt international airport and a major
U.S. military base, German officials said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
2:57am PDT |
Search for Fossett is to resume |
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Summary: A search for missing US adventurer Steve Fossett is to resume in the Nevada desert shortly, officials say. |
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BBC News |
2:57am PDT |
Search for Fossett set to resume |
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Summary: A search for missing US adventurer Steve Fossett is to resume in the Nevada desert shortly, officials say. |
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ChristianToday |
2:55am PDT |
Hong Kong Christians Urge Support for Strikers |
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Summary: A Christian group in Hong Kong has appealed to churches to show solidarity with hundreds of ironworkers who have been on strike for more than three weeks in what is reported to be the territorys longestrunning industrial dispute for 30 years |
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BBC News |
2:53am PDT |
UK education productivity 'flat' |
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Summary: Productivity in the education system has increased slightly but not as much as it might have, a watchdog says. |
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ChristianToday |
2:50am PDT |
Pakistani Christian Girls Kidnapped Converted and Forcibly Married |
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Summary: Two Christian girls kidnapped from their families in Faisalabad Pakistan have been forcibly converted to Islam and married to strangers |
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Cnn.com |
2:47am PDT |
Mattel recalling 844,000 toys |
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Summary: The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Mattel, announced a recall of 844,000 toys that contain excessive levels of lead paint Tuesday night - the third such recall of Chinese-manufactured toys by Mattel this summer.
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BBC News |
2:40am PDT |
US detains 'Iran-linked militant' |
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Summary: US forces in Karbala detain an Iraqi man they allege has links with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. |
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Yahoo News |
2:38am PDT |
20 insurgents killed in Afghan violence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Afghan and U.S.-led coalition soldiers battled Taliban militants in Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 20 insurgents, officials said Wednesday. |
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ChristianToday |
2:30am PDT |
Gay Bishop says Opponents Use Language of Slavery |
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Summary: The openly gay Bishop V Gene Robinson has accused African critics who describe homosexuals as worse than beasts of using the kind of language once employed in the United States to justify slavery |
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ChristianToday |
2:22am PDT |
Polish Bishop Tells Farmers Dont Sell Land to Foreigners |
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Summary: A Polish bishop is urging the countrys farmers not to sell land to foreigners in order to prevent the European Union imposing injustices upon those who till the soil for a living |
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Yahoo News |
2:18am PDT |
Howard backs Bush on Iraq at APEC
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Australian Prime Minister John Howard
promised President George W. Bush he would keep troops in Iraq
despite mounting pressure at home to withdraw, as annual
Asia-Pacific meetings began in Sydney. |
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BBC News |
2:12am PDT |
Man dies after two-car collision |
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Summary: One man is killed and three people are injured in a two-car collision near Portrush on the north coast. |
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ChristianToday |
2:11am PDT |
Bishops Campaign to Identify Why People Stop Attending Church |
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Summary: The new Bishop of Oxford has launched a new campaign in the Thames Valley area to bring people back to church |
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Yahoo News |
2:10am PDT |
Honduran capital braces for deluge from Felix
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Heavy rains from
Hurricane Felix soaked the hill country of Honduras on
Wednesday, threatening dangerous flooding and mudslides as it
approached the capital Tegucigalpa after killing four people in
neighboring Nicaragua. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:10am PDT |
Samaritan's Purse airlifts $8M in emergency aid to No. Korea in wake of massive flooding |
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Summary: Samaritan's Purse has airlifted 90 tons of emergency supplies to North Korea for victims of recent flooding.... |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:10am PDT |
Attorney rips Illinois school district for requiring students to read 'smut' |
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Summary: A pro-family attorney says an Illinois public school district is guilty of educational malpractice for requiring young students to read a book containing harsh profanity and references to teen sex, which he says is indicative of what's happening in the... |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:10am PDT |
'Under God' constitutionally acceptable for Texas pledge, says Christian attorney |
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Summary: The president of Liberty Legal Institute says a federal judge was correct when he denied a request by an atheist couple to remove the phrase "one state under God" from the Texas pledge.... |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:10am PDT |
Researcher says more illegal aliens in US = more poverty |
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Summary: A researcher at a prominent conservative think tank says immigration -- legal and otherwise -- has a massive effect on the poverty rate in the U.S. Dr. Robert Rector adds that politicians who support legislation that would grant amnesty to... |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:10am PDT |
Former presidential candidate pleased Fred Thompson entering race |
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Summary: A pro-family activist and former presidential candidate says he's glad that former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is officially throwing his hat in the ring for the GOP presidential nomination.... |
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BBC News |
2:06am PDT |
Polish author jailed for murder |
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Summary: A Polish author is jailed for murdering a businessman, four years after publishing a novel detailing a similar crime. |
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BBC News |
2:02am PDT |
Pupils' applause tribute for Rhys |
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Summary: Schoolfriends of murdered Rhys Jones mark the new term at his old school with a minute's applause. |
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ChristianToday |
1:47am PDT |
China Catering for Olympic Religious Guests Not Citizens |
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Summary: A temporary church will be set up in the Olympic Village during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing a statebacked church official has reported |
