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ChristianToday |
11:55pm PDT |
Heathrow T5 opens amid tight security |
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Summary: Heathrow Airports giant new terminal five opens to passengers on Thursday with security forces on high alert after threats of ecoprotests |
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ChristianToday |
11:54pm PDT |
Brown and Sarkozy to urge more market transparency |
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Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Gordon Brown are expected to call for greater transparency in financial markets on Thursday in an effort to tackle the global credit crunch |
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Cnn.com |
11:50pm PDT |
Flooded Arkansas braces for more |
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Cnn.com |
11:50pm PDT |
Floods just keep coming in Arkansas |
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ChristianToday |
11:45pm PDT |
Government promotes dash for nuclear power |
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Summary: Britain needs urgently to replace its elderly power stations and Business Minister John Hutton said on Wednesday the government was doing all it could to encourage firms to finance and build nuclear power plants |
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BBC News |
11:45pm PDT |
Mother's hopes for Ghana adoption |
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Summary: A mother talks of her hopes of adopting the children of a late Ghanaian woman who was removed from the UK. |
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BBC News |
11:45pm PDT |
Father haunted by avoidable death |
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Summary: A child killed by her suicidal mother would still be alive if health workers followed basic procedures, a report is to say. |
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ChristianToday |
11:44pm PDT |
Brown scraps plan for Air Force One |
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Summary: The government has dropped plans for a longhaul private jet to be used exclusively by senior ministers and the royal family arguing that an Americanstyle Air Force One plane would be too costly |
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ChristianToday |
11:42pm PDT |
Paisley seeks Irish converts with gospel bus |
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Summary: Ian Paisley has hinted how he plans to fill his time after retiring as Northern Irelands first minister by taking a gospel bus south to mainly Catholic Ireland to win converts for his Protestant church |
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ChristianToday |
11:40pm PDT |
Pregnant women urged to avoid alcohol |
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Summary: Women should drink no alcohol during the first three months of pregnancy despite uncertainty over whether the odd drink could harm their baby a government watchdog said on Wednesday |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PDT |
Endeavour, astronauts back on Earth
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Summary: AP - Shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts glided through the darkness and made a rare nighttime landing, completing an exceptionally long space station mission that had NASA and other countries' space managers rejoicing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08pm PDT |
China refuses to budge on Dalai Lama talks
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Summary: AFP - China on Thursday refused to back down on its opposition to talks with the Dalai Lama after US President George W. Bush added his voice to calls for dialogue in an effort to solve the Tibetan crisis. |
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Cnn.com |
11:03pm PDT |
Anger feeds farmers strike |
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Summary: Farmers and their supporters protested Wednesday in hundreds of rural locations in Argentina on the two-week mark of the farmers' strike against an increase in export taxes for their products.
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BBC News |
10:57pm PDT |
Tsvangirai 'surprised' by support |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's main opposition leader says he is surprised at the level of support he has received. |
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Yahoo News |
10:47pm PDT |
AP: More passport reviews at State Dept.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, at least 20 times since January 2007, The Associated Press has learned. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37pm PDT |
Monks in Lhasa interrupt briefing and say China lying
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A group of Tibetan monks disrupted an
official news briefing at a key temple in Lhasa on Thursday,
accusing Chinese authorities of lying after more than two weeks
of unrest in the Himalayan region, witnesses said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:15pm PDT |
Feds: Saddam financed lawmakers' trip
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14pm PDT |
Monks in Lhasa interrupt briefing, say China lying
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A group of Tibetan monks disrupted an
official news briefing at a key temple in Lhasa on Thursday,
accusing Chinese authorities of lying after more than two weeks
of unrest in the Himalayan region, witnesses said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03pm PDT |
U.S. steps up missile strikes in Pakistan: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States has escalated air
strikes against al-Qaeda fighters operating in Pakistan's
tribal areas fearing that support from Islamabad may slip away,
The Washington Post reported on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:02pm PDT |
Heathrow T5 open to passengers |
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Summary: London Heathrow's new £4.3bn terminal opens to the public with the arrival of the first flight. |
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BBC News |
10:00pm PDT |
Monks disrupt Tibet media visit |
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Summary: Tibetan monks disrupt a tour by the first foreign journalists to visit Lhasa since protests erupted, witnesses say. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. space shuttle
Endeavour returned to Earth on Wednesday, capping a milestone
flight that brought Japan fully into the International Space
Station partnership with the delivery of the first part of its
research laboratory. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38pm PDT |
Population rebounds in storm-hit New Orleans: census
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New Orleans, abandoned by thousands
of residents after destructive floods and hurricanes in 2005,
was one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United
States last year, according to a report released by the U.S.
Census Bureau Thur |
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Cnn.com |
9:31pm PDT |
Monks disrupt tour of journalists to Tibet |
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Yahoo News |
9:16pm PDT |
4 Texas cities among top 10 in growth
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Four Texas metropolitan areas were among the biggest population gainers as Americans continued their trend of moving to the Sun Belt in 2006 and 2007, according to Census Bureau estimates to be released Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48pm PDT |
Endeavour returns to Earth at night
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Wednesday, making a rare nighttime touchdown to wrap up "a two-week adventure" at the international space station. |
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BBC News |
8:36pm PDT |
Brown and Sarkozy hold nuclear talks |
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Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown discuss nuclear energy and illegal immigration. |
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BBC News |
8:36pm PDT |
UK and French in nuclear talks |
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Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown discuss nuclear energy and illegal immigration. |
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BBC News |
8:32pm PDT |
Degree funding switch criticised |
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Summary: An committee of MPs say they cannot support the cut in funding for people taking second degrees. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08pm PDT |
Second day of Sarkozy state visit kicks off with Downing Street meet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy kicks off the second day of his state visit to Britain Thursday with a meeting in Downing Street, followed by an Anglo-French summit. |
