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Theophiles |
11:56pm PDT |
Two Daddies = Bad Parenting? |
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Summary: Spotted at Guardian Unlimited:Andrew McClintock stood down from a family panel in Sheffield after he was denied permission to opt out of same-sex adoption hearings.
He lost an employment tribunal earlier this year and appealed against the decision today. |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Nike agrees £285m Umbro takeover |
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Summary: Nike agrees to buy UK sportswear firm Umbro in a deal that values the company at £285m. |
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BBC News |
11:15pm PDT |
Repossessions rise 'set to go on' |
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Summary: A BBC Wales investigation finds repossession figures are the highest for eight years and are set to go on rising. |
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BBC News |
11:13pm PDT |
Vote fiasco experts due to report |
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Summary: A team looking into the problems encountered at the Scottish Parliament election in May is due to report. |
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BBC News |
11:09pm PDT |
Women injured in guesthouse fire |
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Summary: Two women are in hospital following a fire at a Bed and Breakfast in Newcastle, County Down. |
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BBC News |
11:04pm PDT |
Public 'backs easier abortions' |
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Summary: Women should not have to gain the permission of two doctors to obtain an abortion in Britain, a slim majority tell a survey. |
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BBC News |
10:55pm PDT |
Turkish diplomatic push over PKK |
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Summary: Ankara's foreign minister heads to Baghdad as part of intense efforts to avert Turkish military action in Iraq. |
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BBC News |
10:50pm PDT |
New Stradey homes inquiry |
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Summary: A second public inquiry into controversial plans to build homes on Llanelli's rugby ground is set to begin. |
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DJ Chuang |
10:15pm PDT |
most people are okay, homes not so much |
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Summary: The Southern California wild fires have been overwhelming for thousands upon thousands. I’m safe here in Aliso Viejo, sleeping in my own bed. The smokey stench and sooty dust is everywhere, even here. But for more than 265,000 by some count, they |
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Cnn.com |
10:05pm PDT |
Chargers smoked out, move practice |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
9:54pm PDT |
Girl critical after balcony fall |
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Summary: A seven-year-old British girl is critically ill after falling from a hotel fifth-floor balcony on the island of Majorca. |
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BBC News |
9:35pm PDT |
Search for body of murder suspect |
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Summary: Police are set to search a field in Leicestershire where they believe the body of a murder suspect may be buried. |
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BBC News |
9:35pm PDT |
Search for murder suspect body |
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Summary: Police prepare to search a field in Leicestershire where they believe the body of a suspect in a murder inquiry may be buried. |
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BBC News |
9:31pm PDT |
UK population projections due out |
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Summary: The latest predictions of the scale of Britain's population growth are published, including increased immigration estimates. |
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BBC News |
9:27pm PDT |
Turkish diplomatic bid on Kurds |
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Summary: Ankara's foreign minister heads to Baghdad as part of intense efforts to avert Turkish military action in Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
9:26pm PDT |
U.S. cannot account for billion-dollar Iraq contract
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The State Department does not know
specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract
with security firm DynCorp International to provide training
services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on
Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:07pm PDT |
Colts crush Jags in AFC South showdown
(AP)
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Summary: AP - All that talk about defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis being better this season just might be true. The Colts dominated every aspect of Monday night's showdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars, easily winning 29-7 and once again taking charge |
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Cnn.com |
8:59pm PDT |
Contractor 'command center' urged for Iraq |
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Summary: A panel recommended to the State Department that the U.S. create a "central command center" to improve coordination among agencies using private security contractors in war zones, senior State Department officials and others familiar with the review told |
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Cnn.com |
8:48pm PDT |
Review: Iraq contractor's paperwork 'in disarray' |
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Summary: The U.S. State Department is unable to account for most of $1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police, a government report said Tuesday.
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BBC News |
8:36pm PDT |
Bush seeks new Afghan war funds |
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Summary: US President George W Bush asks Congress for an extra $46bn (£23bn) to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. |
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Yahoo News |
8:20pm PDT |
Oral Roberts denies accusations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oral Roberts returned to his namesake university Monday and denied the lurid accusations that have threatened to engulf the school, telling students and employees in a chapel service that "the devil is not going to steal ORU." |
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Yahoo News |
8:18pm PDT |
Colts lead Jaguars 22-7 in 4th quarter
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a game for early control of the AFC South, the Indianapolis Colts showed they're still in charge by dominating every facet of the game to build a 22-7 lead over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the fourth quarter on Monday night. |
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Yahoo News |
7:18pm PDT |
Homes destroyed as wildfires engulf southern Calif
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An epic wave of fast-moving
wildfires engulfed a massive swath of southern California on
Monday, destroying hundreds of homes as more than 250,000
people were told to evacuate from neighborhoods, schools and
hospitals. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04pm PDT |
Homes destroyed as wildfires engulf southern California
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An epic wave of fast-moving
wildfires engulfed a massive swath of southern California on
Monday, destroying hundreds of homes as more than 250,000
people were told to evacuate from neighborhoods, schools and
hospitals. |
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Yahoo News |
7:03pm PDT |
Manning, Colts lead Jaguars 17-0 at half
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Indianapolis made a fourth-down gamble pay off Monday night, getting a 23-yard run from Joseph Addai that set up a 3-yard touchdown run by Kenton Keith, and Peyton Manning scored on a quarterback sneak to help the Colts take a 17-0 lead over the Jack |
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Yahoo News |
7:03pm PDT |
Osmond faints, but recovers on 'Dancing'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Marie Osmond fainted onstage during ABC's live broadcast Monday of "Dancing with the Stars" but quickly recovered. Osmond and her partner, dancer Jonathan Roberts, the first performers of the evening, had just finished a samba and were listening to c |
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ChristianPost |
6:36pm PDT |
Thousands of Students Worldwide to Hold Silent Pro-Life Protest |
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Summary: Tens of thousands of students on more than 4,000 campuses around the world are hoping that their silence on Tuesday will lend a voice to the ... |
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BBC News |
6:30pm PDT |
Californians flee as fires rage |
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Summary: California evacuates a quarter of a million people as fierce winds fan wildfires in the Los Angeles region. |
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Yahoo News |
6:19pm PDT |
Kansas woman guilty of cutting baby from womb
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Kansas woman was found
guilty on Monday of killing a pregnant woman, cutting the baby
from her womb and kidnapping the newborn in a gruesome ruse to
pass the child off as her own. |
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Yahoo News |
6:05pm PDT |
Parrot imitates fire alarm, saves family
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A noisy parrot that likes to imitate sounds helped save a man and his son from a house fire by mocking a smoke alarm, the bird's owner says. |
