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BBC News |
11:59pm PDT |
Baby heart swap woman celebrates |
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Summary: The UK's first baby heart transplant survivor celebrates the 20th anniversary of her operation. |
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Football: Campbell set to come in |
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Summary: Sol Campbell is set to come in for injured England captain John Terry in the Euro 2008 qualifier against Estonia. |
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Campbell poised to replace Terry |
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Summary: Sol Campbell is set to come in for injured England captain John Terry in the Euro 2008 qualifier against Estonia. |
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Yahoo News |
11:48pm PDT |
IRS says rich getting richer: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The richest one percent of Americans
earned a postwar record of 21.2 percent of all income in 2005,
up from 19 percent a year earlier, reflecting a widening income
disparity among different classes in the nation, the Wall
Street Journal repo |
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11:34pm PDT |
Turkey threatens repercussions for US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Turkey, which is a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks a century ago as genocide. |
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11:14pm PDT |
Water charges plan to be released |
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Summary: Details of a review into water charging in Northern Ireland are to be released later on Friday. |
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11:04pm PDT |
Football: Scotland 'will qualify' |
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Summary: Former Scotland boss Craig Brown tells BBC Sport he is "supremely optimistic" they will qualify for Euro 2008. |
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10:40pm PDT |
Food waste recycling given boost |
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Summary: Schemes to turn food waste into fuel and compost are among those to benefit from a £14m grant package. |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PDT |
9 children killed in US raid in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A U.S. attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, northwest of the capital Thursday — one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an American operation in recent months. The military said it was targeting senior leade |
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BBC News |
10:38pm PDT |
Football: 2018 boost for England |
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Summary: Fifa president Sepp Blatter tells Football Focus he wants to ditch its World Cup rotation policy, paving the way for a possible England 2018 bid. |
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10:37pm PDT |
Oil price hovers near record high |
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Summary: Oil prices surge past the $83-a-barrel level after a US inventory report shows lower-than-expected stockpiles. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23pm PDT |
Rowdy fans don't stop Rockies at NLCS
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Make it 18 out of 19 for the remarkable Rockies. Neither a ruckus by the Arizona crowd nor a four-day layoff could slow them down. Jeff Francis outpitched Brandon Webb, Brad Hawpe got the big hit and Colorado won the NL championship series opener 5-1 |
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10:07pm PDT |
New Orleans unveils rebuilding plan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After struggling for months to come up with $1.1 billion for stage one of New Orleans' hurricane rebuilding plan, city officials faced with growing public frustration intend to move ahead with a drastically scaled-back first step of $216 million. |
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9:53pm PDT |
Live Nation's $120M deal lures Madonna
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Madonna's $120 million recording and touring contract with Live Nation Inc. gives the concert promoter the opportunity to tap into concert, recording, merchandising and other lucrative revenue streams. But don't discount the role that lowly ticket fe |
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9:50pm PDT |
Bali bombing victims remembered |
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Summary: Ceremonies are held in Bali and Australia to mark five years since the deadly nightclub bombings. |
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Cnn.com |
9:38pm PDT |
Rice, Gates in Moscow to meet with Putin |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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9:37pm PDT |
Queen dedicates forces memorial |
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Summary: A monument in Staffordshire commemorates those who have died since World War II. |
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Yahoo News |
9:33pm PDT |
View of candidates' marriages sways some voters
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A third of U.S. women say their vote
for president is influenced by the happiness of a candidate's
marriage, and Democrat John Edwards is most widely seen as
having a happy marriage, said a survey released on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22pm PDT |
Rowdy fans don't stop Rockies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jeff Francis and the Colorado Rockies rolled right past the Arizona Diamondbacks — and their rowdy fans. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17pm PDT |
Scientists explain chocolate cravings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that's because maybe it is. |
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Cnn.com |
9:13pm PDT |
U.S. military: 15 civilians killed in Iraq battle |
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Summary: Fifteen Iraqi civilians -- all women and children -- were killed by coalition forces during an operation targeting senior leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, according to the U.S. military, which claimed the victims were put in harm's way through the actions of |
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Cnn.com |
8:53pm PDT |
D'backs lose opener, homefield edge |
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Cnn.com |
8:53pm PDT |
Rockies keep rolling in NLCS opener |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:51pm PDT |
Mail dispute talks set to resume |
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Summary: The Royal Mail and the postal union are seeking to avoid further strikes as wildcat strikes disrupt mail deliveries. |
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BBC News |
8:39pm PDT |
Concert ban for 'Chavez critic' |
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Summary: Venezuela bans a Spanish singer's concert at a Caracas stadium over remarks about President Hugo Chavez. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
UN slams Myanmar crackdown, urges prisoner release
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The UN Security Council Thursday slammed the military crackdown in Myanmar, called for the release of political prisoners and urged dialogue with the opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi. |
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BBC News |
8:14pm PDT |
EU meat import ban partly lifted |
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Summary: The EU allows exports from Scotland, Wales and parts of England to resume, but farmers compain of curbs. |
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Yahoo News |
7:55pm PDT |
Mexican arrested in dismemberment case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An aspiring horror novelist was arrested after police discovered his girlfriend's torso in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box, the city prosecutor's spokesman said Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:55pm PDT |
Rockies lead D'backs 5-1 after 6 1/2
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brad Hawpe hit a two-run single off Brandon Webb, and the Colorado Rockies took a 5-1 lead after six innings in the opener of the NL championship series on Thursday night. |
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Cnn.com |
7:48pm PDT |
Mychal Bell of 'Jena 6' ordered back to jail |
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Summary: A black Louisiana teenager at the center of the racially charged "Jena 6" case was ordered Thursday to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a judge ruled he had violated his probation for earlier juvenile convictions, a source with knowledge of t |
