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BBC News |
11:51pm PST |
RBS profits up despite writedowns |
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Summary: Royal Bank of Scotland reports a rise in annual profits despite sub-prime related writedowns. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PST |
M&S to charge 5p for carrier bags |
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Summary: Marks and Spencer is to begin charging its food shoppers for carrier bags. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39pm PST |
Clemens declines to comment on DOJ probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Roger Clemens declined to say whether he was aware Congress had asked the Justice Department to investigate whether he lied in sworn testimony about steroid use. A letter drafted by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxma |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PST |
Record £14m fine for rail company |
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Summary: Network Rail is fined a record £14m after engineering work over-ran over Christmas and the New Year. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PST |
Deadly missile strike in Pakistan |
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Summary: Ten suspected militants die in a missile attack on a Pakistani house near the Afghan border, local residents say. |
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BBC News |
10:59pm PST |
Cabinet post office 'hypocrites' |
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Summary: The Tories are accusing cabinet ministers of "hypocrisy" for campaigning to save local post offices. |
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BBC News |
10:49pm PST |
Wales' tallest building approved |
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Summary: The tallest building in Wales is approved, despite complaints from some in Cardiff Bay that it will be overbearing. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40pm PST |
Thailand's Thaksin returns home, ending exile
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra flew home Thursday to an ecstatic welcome from thousands of supporters, kissing the ground as he ended nearly one and a half years of self-imposed exile. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PST |
Girl critical after bus collision |
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Summary: A nine-year-old girl remains critically ill following an accident which claimed the life of her 16-year-old cousin. |
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BBC News |
10:38pm PST |
Cricket: NZ skittle England |
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Summary: England are bowled out for 131 on the opening day of the three-day tour match with a New Zealand XI. |
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BBC News |
10:38pm PST |
England struggle in Test warm-up |
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Summary: England are bowled out for 131 on the opening day of the three-day tour match with a New Zealand XI. |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PST |
F1: Alonso tips Hamilton for title |
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Summary: Fernando Alonso tells the BBC that his former McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton could win the title in 2008. |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PST |
F1: Hamilton could win - Alonso |
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Summary: Fernando Alonso tells the BBC that his former McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton could win the title in 2008. |
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Yahoo News |
10:25pm PST |
Gates set to press Turkey for quick end to Kurdish offensive
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates was expected to press Turkish leaders on Thursday to quickly wrap up their offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, but Ankara was resisting setting a deadline. |
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Cnn.com |
10:19pm PST |
Yellow fever threat cited in Paraguay |
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Cnn.com |
10:09pm PST |
Foreign hurdles await next president |
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Summary: The next U.S. president will face a world fraught with far more foreign policy challenges than President Bush did when he took office.
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Cnn.com |
10:09pm PST |
Foreign policy hurdles await next president |
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Summary: The race for the White House is attracting interest beyond U.S. borders. The next president will face a world fraught with far more foreign policy challenges than President Bush did when he took office.
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BBC News |
9:57pm PST |
Missile kills eight in Pakistan |
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Summary: At least eight people die in a missile attack on a Pakistani village near the Afghan border, eyewitnesses say. |
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BBC News |
9:41pm PST |
Jersey police set to enter cellar |
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Summary: Officers investigating abuse claims are set to enter a second hidden chamber at a former Jersey children's home. |
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DJ Chuang |
9:33pm PST |
comments overheard about Erwin McManus |
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Summary: So, I’m at the National Pastors Convention. I missed Tuesday’s main session, where Erwin McManus spoke cleverly, in fine form, confounding many of the older people in the audience, and jazzing up the (fewer) younger crowd. I’m told by a |
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Yahoo News |
9:19pm PST |
Missile hits Pakistan's Waziristan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A missile struck a house in a
Pakistani region known as being a safe haven for al Qaeda early
on Thursday, killing 10 suspected militants including
foreigners, intelligence officials and residents said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11pm PST |
Rice tells Olmert she concerned about Gaza civilians
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
voiced concern about Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli
attacks in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to
"make the terrorists pay a very painful price." |
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BBC News |
8:56pm PST |
Heads 'ignore bullied teachers' |
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Summary: Teachers are being bullied by pupils, but school heads are not reporting it, says the National Association of Head Teachers. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24pm PST |
Missile hits Pakistan's Waziristan, 8 suspects dead
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A missile struck a house in a
Pakistani region known as a safe haven for al Qaeda militants
early on Thursday, killing at least eight people, residents and
intelligence officials said. |
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BBC News |
8:17pm PST |
Ex-Thai PM Thaksin back home |
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Summary: Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra is briefly detained by police on corruption charges as he returns home. |
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BBC News |
8:08pm PST |
Private firms to find people work |
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Summary: More private firms are to be hired to help find jobs for people on benefits under government plans. |
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BBC News |
8:04pm PST |
Former Thai PM Thaksin detained |
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Summary: Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra is detained by police on corruption charges as he returns from exile. |
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BBC News |
7:54pm PST |
Cameroon head blames opposition |
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Summary: Cameroon's President Biya says the opposition is to blame for violence arising from fuel price protests. |
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BBC News |
7:52pm PST |
Council tax rise 'below 4%' |
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Summary: The average council tax bill in England will rise by the lowest amount for 14 years, a survey finds. |
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BBC News |
7:52pm PST |
Council tax increase 'below 4%' |
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Summary: The average council tax bill in England will rise by the lowest amount for 14 years, a survey finds. |
