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Yahoo News |
11:58pm PDT |
Poll: Clinton has large lead in N.H.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a commanding lead over Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in New Hampshire, a poll released Sunday found. |
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BBC News |
11:56pm PDT |
Ashton salutes 'bulldog' England |
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Summary: England's rugby union coach says the team's "bulldog spirit" saw them through their World Cup semi-final against France. |
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Yahoo News |
11:41pm PDT |
NKorean, Japanese officials arrive in China for talks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - North Korean and Japanese officials arrived in northeast China for talks seen as aimed at normalising diplomatic ties, a diplomat and reports said Sunday. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Teenager dies crossing motorway |
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Summary: A 16-year-old dies when he is struck by a vehicle as he tried to cross the M60 near Manchester. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Teenager killed crossing motorway |
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Summary: A 16-year-old dies when he is struck by a vehicle as he tried to cross the M60 near Manchester. |
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Yahoo News |
11:19pm PDT |
Nixon nails old mates, Indians tie ALCS
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Trot Nixon was back at Fenway Park in the playoffs. This time, though, he came through for Cleveland. The longtime Red Sox outfielder snapped an 11th-inning tie with a pinch-hit single, and the Indians broke loose for six more runs in a record-settin |
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Yahoo News |
10:53pm PDT |
Six foreign tourists drown in Thai cave flood
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least eight people, six of them
foreign tourists and including a 10-year-old German boy,
drowned when a flash flood trapped them in a cave in southern
Thailand, police said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31pm PDT |
California tunnel crash kills 3
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Three people were killed and at
least 10 injured in a multi-vehicle crash that caused a fire
inside a tunnel and forced the closure of a major freeway in
the Los Angeles area, authorities said on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
10:22pm PDT |
Rice to press Mid-East conference |
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Summary: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns to the Mid-East to push forward a key peace conference. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18pm PDT |
UN envoy heads to Asia as Myanmar junta rounds up activists
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari was due in Bangkok on Sunday for an Asian tour aimed at building pressure on Myanmar's generals, who have shrugged off international concerns and arrested more protesters. |
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Yahoo News |
10:06pm PDT |
Jailed T.I., West, Common win 2 awards
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Despite rapper T.I.'s absence, the show went on at the second-annual BET Hip-Hop Awards — even when he was scheduled to perform. |
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BBC News |
9:35pm PDT |
Obesity likened to climate change |
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Summary: Obesity poses a potential crisis on the same scale as climate change, the health secretary says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:32pm PDT |
Gordon widens lead with win at Charlotte
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jeff Gordon staked his claim to the Nextel Cup title Saturday night, winning his second straight race to widen his lead in the Chase for the championship standings. |
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Yahoo News |
9:29pm PDT |
Clinton has 21-point lead in New Hampshire poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton has a 21-point lead
over fellow Democrat Barack Obama in New Hampshire, one of the
first states to vote in the nominating process for the 2008
U.S. presidential election, a poll showed on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:19pm PDT |
Gordon wins at Charlotte; widens lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jeff Gordon staked his claim to the Nextel Cup title Saturday night, winning his second straight race to widen his lead in the Chase for the championship standings. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57pm PDT |
Embattled Sen. Craig honored in Idaho
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Larry Craig was named Saturday night to the Idaho Hall of Fame, marking the Republican lawmaker's first ceremonial appearance back in his home state since his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting became public in August. |
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Cnn.com |
8:27pm PDT |
Rapper T.I. arrested on machine gun charge |
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Summary: Rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday as he allegedly tried to add three machine guns and two silencers to what authorities said was an "arsenal" of weapons that, as a convicted felon, he was not allowed to own.
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Cnn.com |
8:14pm PDT |
War ally Australia names election date |
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Summary: Australia's next federal election will be held November 24, Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday at a news conference in Canberra.
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BBC News |
8:10pm PDT |
Talks aim at Kosovo breakthrough |
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Summary: New talks are to take place in Brussels to try to break the deadlock over the future of Kosovo. |
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BBC News |
7:44pm PDT |
Australian PM announces election |
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Summary: Australian Prime Minister John Howard calls an election for 24 November as he seeks a fifth term in office. |
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BBC News |
7:33pm PDT |
Show 'vision for UK', Brown urged |
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Summary: Gordon Brown risks offering drift not leadership unless he outlines his future vision, the ex-Lord Chancellor warns. |
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Cnn.com |
7:26pm PDT |
Firefighters move into tunnel after inferno |
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Summary: Firefighters have managed to get about 50 feet inside the interstate tunnel north of Los Angeles where two people died in a massive fire that erupted from an apparent big-rig collision Friday night, California officials said Saturday. Debris is hampering |
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Yahoo News |
7:20pm PDT |
No. 1 LSU falls to Kentucky 43-37
(AP)
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Summary: AP - As a blue stream of Kentucky fans poured from the stands to celebrate the Wildcats' biggest victory in decades, Andre Woodson was in the middle of the party calmly talking about taking down No. 1 LSU. |
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Yahoo News |
7:10pm PDT |
Rapper T.I. arrested before awards show
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday — just hours before he was to take the stage at the BET Hip-Hop Awards — after federal officials said he had paid his bodyguard to buy machine guns and silencers for him. |
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Yahoo News |
6:42pm PDT |
Putin, Merkel to meet in the shadow of missile dispute
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin was due in Germany on Sunday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel expected to focus on the stand-off between Moscow and Washington over US plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe. |
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Yahoo News |
6:30pm PDT |
California tunnel crash kills 2
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two people were killed and at least
10 injured in a multi-vehicle crash that caused a fire inside a
tunnel and forced the closure of a major freeway in the Los
Angeles area, authorities said on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
6:28pm PDT |
Australian PM 'to call election' |
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Summary: Australian Prime Minister John Howard is set to announce an election and seek a fifth term in office. |
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Yahoo News |
6:00pm PDT |
Banks to set up $80 bln fund to limit credit crunch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Major banks including
Citigroup Inc are looking at setting up a roughly $80 billion
fund to buy ailing mortgage securities and other assets, in a
bid to prevent the credit crunch from further hurting the
global economy, sources familiar with |
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Theophiles |
5:55pm PDT |
Brides' fathers banned from giving away daughters |
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Summary: From The Local (Sweden's News in English):
A priest in Stockholm has come under fire for not allowing a bride to be walked down the aisle by her father. But church authorities have defended the decision, saying that the tradition is foreign and sexist.
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Yahoo News |
5:52pm PDT |
21 dead, 16 missing in Colombia mine disaster
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Twenty-one Colombian miners died and 16
were missing in a landslide at an open pit gold mine in the
southwest part of the country on Saturday, the local chapter of
the Red Cross said. |
