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BBC News |
11:43pm PDT |
IMF warning over slowing growth |
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Summary: The global economy may face a marked slowdown next year because of financial market turmoil, the IMF warns. |
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BBC News |
11:24pm PDT |
New missing Ben picture released |
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Summary: An artist's impression of how a missing Sheffield boy would look 16 years after he disappeared is released. |
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Yahoo News |
11:17pm PDT |
Priest gets life sentence over Argentina junta killings
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A Roman Catholic priest who compared himself to Jesus Christ was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for collaborating in murders, kidnappings and torture during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01pm PDT |
Myanmar opposition says no move on talks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The party of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday it had not yet heard from the junta despite the appointment of a moderate general to hold talks with her. |
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Cnn.com |
10:59pm PDT |
Families mourn as skydivers' bodies are found |
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Summary: Searchers found the remains of the last three of 10 people killed in a plane crash in Washington state. Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin said evidence suggests the plane carrying nine skydivers hit the ground at roughly 70 mph going "about straight down." |
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10:48pm PDT |
Timetable for '21st century life' |
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Summary: Relationships, health and finance are subjects pupils will be studying from September, it is announced. |
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10:41pm PDT |
Teenage death crash jury returns |
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Summary: A jury returns to court to decide if an 18-year-old is guilty of killing four girls by dangerous driving. |
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10:35pm PDT |
Aer Lingus suspends four pilots |
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Summary: Aer Lingus begins suspending pilots refusing to train new recruits for the airline's planned new hub at Belfast. |
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Yahoo News |
10:11pm PDT |
New chief renews World Bank focus
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - In his first 100 days as head of the
World Bank, Robert Zoellick has worked quickly to give the
poverty-fighting institution a sense of direction after the
storm surrounding his predecessor Paul Wolfowitz. |
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BBC News |
10:08pm PDT |
Missing Ben new picture released |
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Summary: An artist's impression of how a missing Sheffield boy would look 16 years after he disappeared is released. |
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Yahoo News |
9:47pm PDT |
Chrysler, UAW talks go past contract expiration
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chrysler and the United Auto Workers
union continued labor negotiations into Wednesday despite the
expiration of the extension of their current contract, a source
close to the talks told Reuters. |
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Yahoo News |
9:36pm PDT |
Economists cut 2008 forecasts for U.S. growth
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. economists have chopped their
forecasts for 2008 economic growth for a third straight month,
saying the housing slump will be deeper and last longer than
earlier expected, a survey released on Wednesday showed. |
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9:31pm PDT |
Charity footballers 'slow to pay' |
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Summary: Footballers who agreed to give a day's wages to a nurses have donated less than a third of the money. |
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8:58pm PDT |
Iraq provinces 'limit refugees' |
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Summary: The UN says the options for Iraqi internal refugees are narrowed by several Iraqi provinces refusing them entry. |
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8:58pm PDT |
Doors closing on Iraqi displaced |
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Summary: The UN says the options for Iraqi internal refugees are narrowed by several Iraqi provinces refusing them entry. |
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Cnn.com |
8:52pm PDT |
Romney-Giuliani feud steals Thompson show |
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Summary: While all eyes were on Fred Thompson, the most heated exchanges during Tuesday's GOP presidential debate occurred between Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, as they attacked each other's fiscal records.
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Yahoo News |
8:48pm PDT |
Clinton sole top Democrat in Michigan primary race
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Front-runner Hillary Clinton will be
the only top tier Democrat in the Michigan presidential primary
on January 15 because her main rivals dropped out on Tuesday in
a dispute over the early timing of the state's nominating
contest. |
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BBC News |
8:44pm PDT |
Palestinian takes on UK in court |
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Summary: A 60-year-old Palestinian man is to begin a case against the UK government in the High Court over sales of arms to Israel. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23pm PDT |
US experts leave for NKorea to begin disabling nuclear arsenal
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A team of US experts left Tuesday for North Korea to disable the hardline communist state's nuclear weapons arsenal in a crucial phase of a six-nation disarmament pact. |
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8:16pm PDT |
Accusations vs. son shock Oral Roberts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oral Roberts was blind-sided by allegations that the university he founded was being exploited by his son and daughter-in-law, the aging televangelist said Tuesday in his first public comments on the case. |
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8:03pm PDT |
Boy, 6, tries to drive to Applebees
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 6-year-old boy was hungry and decided he'd go to Applebees. So he grabbed the car keys, took his booster seat from the back seat of his grandmother's car and placed it in the driver's seat, then made a go of driving himself to the restaurant Tuesda |
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7:37pm PDT |
Sutherland pleads no contest in DUI case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest Tuesday in his drunken driving case and will begin serving a 48-day jail sentence while his Fox TV drama "24" begins its winter production break in December. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25pm PDT |
Bush pushes Congress on 'No Child' law
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Tuesday that he's open to new ideas for changing the "No Child Left Behind" education law but will not accept watered-down standards or rollbacks in accountability. |
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Yahoo News |
7:06pm PDT |
Agent hints A-Rod likely to opt out
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Alex Rodriguez is ready to cash in. Again. Agent Scott Boras hinted Tuesday that A-Rod will opt out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees and seek a new deal in the free-agent market that will lock him up through his pu |
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Cnn.com |
7:05pm PDT |
Families mourn as none survive skydivers' crash |
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Summary: Searchers found the remains of the last three of 10 people killed in a plane crash in Washington state. Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin said evidence suggests the plane carrying nine skydivers hit the ground at roughly 70 mph going "about straight down." |
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Cnn.com |
7:05pm PDT |
None survive skydive accident |
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Summary: Searchers found the remains of the last three of 10 people killed in a plane crash in Washington state, officials said Tuesday. Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin said evidence suggests the plane hit the ground at about 70 mph.
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Cnn.com |
7:05pm PDT |
None survive skydiving plane crash |
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Summary: Searchers found the remains of the last three of 10 people killed in a plane crash in Washington state, officials said Tuesday. Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin said evidence suggests the plane hit the ground at about 70 mph.
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BBC News |
7:04pm PDT |
More postal strikes threatened |
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Summary: Postal staff are returning to work but a fresh set of 24 hour walkouts is threatened for next week. |
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Yahoo News |
6:20pm PDT |
Romney, Giuliani spar on taxes, spending
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani quarreled over tax and spending cuts Tuesday, each claiming greater commitment than the other in a debate in the nation's struggling manufacturing heartland. |
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Yahoo News |
6:13pm PDT |
Woman jailed for 50 days over cat urine
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cynthia Hunter spent almost two months in jail over a vial of cat urine. Hunter, 38, was arrested Aug. 15 on a charge of petty theft after she was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store. |
