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Yahoo News |
11:47pm PDT |
Shuttle to depart space station and head for home
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Space shuttle Endeavour was set to
depart from the International Space Station on Monday, ending a
long and busy stay that had astronauts thinking fondly about
the return home. |
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Cnn.com |
11:45pm PDT |
4 victims identified in fishing vessel's sinking |
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Summary: Four crew members from a fishing vessel sinking off the coast of Alaska have died and a fifth is missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Seattle-based Alaska Ranger began sinking with 47 people on board. Survivors were being taken aboard the Coast Guard C |
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Yahoo News |
11:42pm PDT |
Pakistani parliament set to elect prime minister
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistan's National Assembly is set
to elect a prime minister on Monday five weeks after President
Pervez Musharraf's opponents swept a general election. |
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Yahoo News |
11:18pm PDT |
US military death toll in Iraq hits 4,000
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The death toll of US soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict has hit 4,000 in what the US military said Monday was a "tragic" loss of lives after four troops were killed in a Baghdad bombing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:17pm PDT |
Cheney meets with Israeli prime minister
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With Palestinian complaints about Israeli settlement expansion fresh in his ears, Vice President Dick Cheney turned his attention back to Israel's top concerns as he sought to nudge the two sides closer to a Mideast peace agreement. |
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11:06pm PDT |
Hawker family renew appeal |
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Summary: The family of murdered teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker are in Japan to raise awareness of the hunt for her killer. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01pm PDT |
Qaida No. 2 urges attacks on Israel, US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims in a new audiotape released Monday to strike Jewish and American targets in revenge for Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this month. |
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Yahoo News |
10:57pm PDT |
Report: JPMorgan could up Bear offer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - JPMorgan Chase & Co. was discussing a deal that would increase fivefold its offer for Bear Stearns Cos. to $10 a share, The New York Times reported Monday. |
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10:44pm PDT |
Bhutanese vote in historic polls
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Bhutan was set to bring a century of absolute monarchy to an end Monday with the election of the tiny Himalayan nation's first democratic government. |
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Cnn.com |
10:27pm PDT |
Blast kills 4, raising U.S. toll in Iraq to 4,000 |
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Summary: Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, military officials said, bringing the American toll in the 5-year-old war to the grim milestone of 4,000 deaths. Eight of those killed were civilians working for the Pentagon.
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Cnn.com |
10:24pm PDT |
Protests may greet Olympic torch lighting |
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10:17pm PDT |
Ukrainian sailors missing off HK |
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Summary: Hopes fade for 18 Ukrainian sailors trapped underwater when their boat sank after a collision off Hong Kong. |
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Yahoo News |
10:12pm PDT |
JPMorgan in talks to raise Bear Stearns bid: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co was in
talks to quintuple its offer to buy Bear Stearns Cos to
$10 per share in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders,
The New York Times said on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:06pm PDT |
Jackson's late 3s topple Kobe, Lakers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stephen Jackson scored six of his 31 points on two 3-pointers in the final 38 1/2 seconds, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 115-111 Sunday night after blowing a 26-point lead. |
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BBC News |
9:45pm PDT |
Cricket: England in control |
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Summary: Andrew Strauss (173no) and Ian Bell (110) give England a big lead in the third Test against New Zealand. |
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9:45pm PDT |
Strauss ton sets up winning chance |
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Summary: Andrew Strauss (173 not out) and Ian Bell (110) give England a huge lead on day three of the third Test against New Zealand. |
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BBC News |
9:37pm PDT |
High security for Olympic flame |
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Summary: Security is tight for the lighting of the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games, amid threats of pro-Tibet protests. |
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9:36pm PDT |
Tibet officials vow tight security for Games torch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China will impose strict security on
the Olympic Games torch relay through restive Tibet to Mount
Everest, as the government seeks to prevent any protests
upsetting the symbolic display of national unity. |
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BBC News |
9:27pm PDT |
Ecuadorean death report confirmed |
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Summary: Colombia confirms that an Ecuadorean was killed when its troops attacked a rebel camp in a cross-border raid. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17pm PDT |
Death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reaches 4,000
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The number of U.S. soldiers to die in
Iraq has reached 4,000, the U.S. military said on Monday, just
days after the fifth anniversary of a war that President George
W. Bush says the United States is on track to win. |
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Yahoo News |
9:10pm PDT |
Landmark elections begin in remote Bhutan
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Voting began in the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan Monday in elections that will select the country's first democratic government and mark the end of absolute royal rule, an AFP reporter said. |
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BBC News |
9:07pm PDT |
Thousands 'still hit by floods' |
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Summary: More than 10,000 people are still unable to return home after last summer's flooding, figures obtained by the BBC suggest. |
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Yahoo News |
8:59pm PDT |
US death toll in Iraq war hits 4,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on a day when at least 61 people were killed across the country |
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Yahoo News |
8:58pm PDT |
China urged to shift urban growth to supercities
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Shifting China's model of urbanization
to favor huge supercities could boost per capita output,
improve energy efficiency and help contain the loss of arable
land, the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
8:53pm PDT |
Sarkozy's ex-wife marries in NY |
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Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz
remarries at private ceremony in New York. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PDT |
4 killed in Alaska fishing boat accident
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A fishing boat sank off Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Sunday, leaving four crew members including the captain dead and another missing, the Coast Guard said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:35pm PDT |
Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, death toll 4,000
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A roadside bomb killed four U.S.
soldiers in southern Baghdad on Sunday, the military said,
bringing the number of U.S. military deaths to 4,000 since the
invasion of Iraq in 2003. |
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BBC News |
8:19pm PDT |
Bhutanese vote in historic poll |
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Summary: The people of Bhutan are voting in their first parliamentary elections for the 47-seat National Assembly. |
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BBC News |
8:17pm PDT |
US military Iraq toll hits 4,000 |
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Summary: The US military death toll in Iraq since 2003 reaches 4,000, the US military and independent counts say. |
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Cnn.com |
8:15pm PDT |
Blast kills four, raising U.S. toll in Iraq to 4,000 |
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Summary: Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, military officials said, bringing the American toll in the 5-year-old war to the grim milestone of 4,000 deaths. Eight of those killed were civilians working for the Pentagon.
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