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Yahoo News |
8:02pm PST |
Tom Bosley still acting up a storm at 80
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Summary: AP - Tom Bosley wants to show he still has it at 80. Last year, the actor best known for playing Richie Cunningham's father on "Happy Days" co-starred with Michael Learned in a seven-month national tour of "On Golden Pond." |
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Yahoo News |
8:01pm PST |
Georgia leads Hawaii 24-3 in Sugar Bowl
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Summary: AP - Georgia welcomed Hawaii to the BCS with a heaping helping of SEC speed and power. Knowshon Moreno ran for touchdowns on Georgia's first two possessions and the Bulldogs took a 24-3 lead on Hawaii after the fist half of the Sugar Bowl on Tuesday night |
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7:45pm PST |
Jail claim over prostitute rules |
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Summary: Prostitutes face short jail terms under a Bill which would "turn the clock back 25 years", a union claims. |
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Yahoo News |
7:28pm PST |
Pakistan awaits new election date after Bhutto killing
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Summary: AFP - Pakistan election officials were Wednesday poised to announce the date of crucial polls, thrown into chaos in the wake of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination. |
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Theophiles |
7:27pm PST |
US Anglican head in sexuality row |
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Summary: The head of the Anglicans in the United States has accused other churches, including the Church of England, of double standards over sexuality.
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katherine Jefferts Schori, told the BBC her church is paying the |
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6:59pm PST |
Blood flows across Kenya |
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Summary: Machete-wielding mobs are clashing with police, soldiers and ordinary people in the streets of Kenya. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive. Scores have been shot, hack |
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Yahoo News |
6:51pm PST |
Israeli embassy evacuated in Australian capital
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Summary: Reuters - The Israeli embassy in Australia's
capital Canberra was evacuated on Wednesday after the discovery
of a suspicious package containing white powder, a spokesman
told Reuters. |
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Cnn.com |
6:51pm PST |
Sources: Bhutto had vote warning for U.S. |
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Summary: Benazir Bhutto was assassinated hours before she was to tell U.S. lawmakers of an alleged plot to rig Pakistan's elections, sources said. Violence, ballot-tampering or intimidation could be used, according to a dossier Bhutto requested, the sources said. |
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Yahoo News |
6:44pm PST |
Whites more likely to get ER narcotics
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Summary: AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narc |
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Cnn.com |
6:41pm PST |
Dad accused of killing pregnant daughter |
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BBC News |
6:40pm PST |
Cameron suggests superbug fines |
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Summary: Hospitals should be fined for every patient who catches a superbug, Tory leader David Cameron is to say. |
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BBC News |
6:22pm PST |
Rail fare rises come into force |
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Summary: Train passengers across the UK are facing above-inflation fare rises of up to 11% from Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
6:08pm PST |
Eco-homes in forest planned |
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Summary: Plans to restore the ancient tradition of living and working in woodland areas are being submitted in the Highlands. |
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Yahoo News |
6:03pm PST |
USC trounces Illinois 49-17 in Rose Bowl
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Summary: AP - The loose balls? Southern California came up with them. Those crazy plays? They all went USC's way, too. The Trojans were every bit as good as advertised and the Rose Bowl was even more lopsided than expected. Freshman tailback Joe McKnight finished |
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Yahoo News |
5:57pm PST |
Tom Bosley still going strong at age 80
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Summary: AP - Tom Bosley is still going strong at 80, with acting jobs coming his way. Last year, Bosley costarred with Michael Learned in a seven-month national tour of "On Golden Pond." He's starting the new year with a starring role in the movie "Charlie & Me," |
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BBC News |
5:42pm PST |
Call for organ donation opt-out |
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Summary: Scotland needs to move to an "opt-out" system for organ donation as soon as possible to save lives, an MSP urges. |
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BBC News |
5:42pm PST |
Scots organ donation opt-out call |
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Summary: Scotland needs to move to an "opt-out" system for organ donation as soon as possible to save lives, an MSP urges. |
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BBC News |
5:16pm PST |
Woman killed in Spain balcony fall |
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Summary: A woman falls more than 140ft to her death from the balcony of a hotel in the Spanish resort of Benidorm. |
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Yahoo News |
5:13pm PST |
African Union boss headed to Kenya for crisis talks
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Summary: Reuters - Young men armed with machetes manned
roadblocks in Kenya on Wednesday as world powers stepped up
efforts to end a wave of tribal violence over a disputed
presidential election that threatens to tear the country apart. |
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Cnn.com |
4:54pm PST |
Snowstorm dumps 4 inches an hour |
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Cnn.com |
4:42pm PST |
Autopsy: Mall shooter had Valium in system |
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Yahoo News |
4:39pm PST |
American diplomat killed in Sudan
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Summary: AP - An American diplomat was shot and killed early Tuesday by gunmen in a passing car who cut him off as he was being driven home in Sudan's capital. Sudanese officials insisted it was not a terrorist attack but the U.S. embassy said it was too soon to d |
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Yahoo News |
4:32pm PST |
Purdue students sniff manure for science
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Summary: AP - Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs — by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barn |
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Yahoo News |
4:29pm PST |
Michigan helps Carr end career as winner
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Summary: AP - Lloyd Carr went out a winner. Chad Henne threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns, Mike Hart ran for 129 yards and two scores and the Wolverines upset No. 9 Florida 41-35 Tuesday in the Capital One Bowl to win their first bowl game since 2003. This o |
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Cnn.com |
4:18pm PST |
Another Huckabee ad, another Christian symbol |
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Summary: For the second time in two weeks, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has aired a commercial in which a Christian symbol appears in the background.
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BBC News |
4:02pm PST |
NHS 'now four different systems' |
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Summary: Patients in the UK's four nations are getting different services following devolution, say health chiefs. |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PST |
League tables for gifted pupils |
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Summary: The number of gifted and talented pupils in secondary schools is to be included in league tables in England. |
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Cnn.com |
3:47pm PST |
2 U.S. Navy sailors found dead in Ghana |
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Summary: Two U.S. Navy sailors were found dead Tuesday morning in their hotel room in Tema, Ghana, the Navy said.
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BBC News |
3:41pm PST |
Iowa rivals battle for votes |
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Summary: Would-be US presidential nominees see in 2008 on the stump in Iowa as the first caucuses beckon. |
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Cnn.com |
3:40pm PST |
Candidates offer sitters, shovels to Iowans |
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Summary: (CNN) -- The presidential candidates began the new year making their pitches to undecided voters and working hard to motivate their supporters to get out and participate in Thursday's Iowa caucuses.
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