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3:22am PDT |
China stands firm on Tibet relay |
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Summary: China reaffirms a commitment to take the Olympic torch through Tibet despite stong international pressure. |
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BBC News |
3:22am PDT |
Mosley 'orgy' injunction refused |
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Summary: A video showing F1 boss Max Mosley with five prostitutes can be shown after a court refuses an injunction. |
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Yahoo News |
3:17am PDT |
South Africa steps up pressure for Zimbabwe result
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Jacob Zuma, leader of the ruling party
in Zimbabwe's powerful neighbor South Africa, has joined a
chorus of demands for the release of delayed results from a
presidential election 11 days ago. |
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BBC News |
3:13am PDT |
Attacks mark Baghdad anniversary |
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Summary: At least six people are killed in mortar attacks on the fifth anniversary of Baghdad's capture by US troops. |
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3:12am PDT |
'Six-way' kidney transplant first |
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Summary: US doctors have carried out what is believed to be the world's first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant. |
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BBC News |
3:10am PDT |
Shannon mother remanded by court |
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Summary: Shannon Matthews' mother is remanded in custody after appearing in court over her daughter's disappearance. |
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BBC News |
3:04am PDT |
S Korea ruling party 'set to win' |
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Summary: Polls close in South Korea's parliamentary elections, with the ruling party looking poised to secure an overall majority. |
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3:04am PDT |
Life in the loo |
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Summary: Is a club toilet Britain's grimmest workplace? |
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3:00am PDT |
Danger, security |
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Summary: Afghans describe the impact of foreign troops |
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Yahoo News |
2:55am PDT |
No breakthrough in North Korea talks, U.S. says
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States and North Korea have
made no breakthrough toward a final resolution for Pyongyang's
declaration of its nuclear program, U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State Christopher Hill said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:28am PDT |
S.Korea conservatives win parliament majority: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The conservative party of South Korea's
new President Lee Myung-bak won a majority in Wednesday's
parliamentary election, according to projections by KBS and MBC
TV networks. |
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BBC News |
2:23am PDT |
Lords reject Iraq inquiry appeal |
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Summary: Nine Law Lords reject an appeal against a decision not to hold a UK public inquiry into the Iraq war. |
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Cnn.com |
2:20am PDT |
Rice warns Kenya to form Cabinet |
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Summary: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Kenya's government and opposition party to agree on the composition of their coalition Cabinet after the two sides suspended talks on power-sharing.
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2:19am PDT |
Two killed in Gaza Strip clashes |
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Summary: An Israeli soldier and a Hamas militant are killed during an Irsaeli raid on the southern Gaza Strip. |
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Yahoo News |
2:19am PDT |
San Francisco bracing for protest-plagued Olympic relay
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Thousands of demonstrators will line the streets of San Francisco on Wednesday as the Beijing Olympics torch relay arrives in the city following violent anti-China protests at previous legs of the flame's global odyssey earlier this week. |
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2:01am PDT |
DUP 'has discussed 11-plus plans' |
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Summary: The DUP says it has discussed its plans to replace the 11-plus with the other Northern Ireland parties. |
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BBC News |
1:56am PDT |
'Corrupting' Simpsons is replaced by Baywatch on Venezuelan TV |
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Summary: The Simpsons is pulled from Venezuelan TV for being unsuitable for children - and is replaced by Baywatch. |
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Cnn.com |
1:54am PDT |
Diana's butler may face police investigation |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
1:42am PDT |
Incomes stall for poor, middle class |
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Summary: Poor and middle-class families are entering the recession in a precarious situation due in part to declining or stagnant income growth, a study released Wednesday has found.
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BBC News |
1:41am PDT |
Police spoke to missing presenter |
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Summary: Officers who spoke to TV presenter Mark Speight hours before he was reported missing say he appeared distracted. |
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1:40am PDT |
Britains black Christians called to support development in Africa |
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Summary: The chair and founder of the recently launched African Development Forum ADF the Rev Wale HudsonRoberts has called on black Christians to be advocates for the African continent and to challenge structures and attitudes which keep millions of Africans in p |
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Yahoo News |
1:37am PDT |
Sect accused of marrying pubescent girls
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The scared girl, already a mother at 16, whispered into a cell phone: she wanted out. She'd been forced to spiritually marry a man more than three times her age, becoming his seventh wife. |
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BBC News |
1:35am PDT |
Firm sued over decomposing body |
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Summary: A teenager sues a funeral company after her family visits her father's decomposing body. |
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BBC News |
1:35am PDT |
Wenger unhappy at Liverpool's 'dodgy penalty' |
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Summary: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger blames poor refereeing decisions for his side's Champions League exit to Liverpool. |
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Cnn.com |
1:33am PDT |
Al Fayed abandons Diana murder theory quest |
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BBC News |
1:30am PDT |
Chelsea handed Cudicini setback |
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Summary: Avram Grant says the chances of Carlo Cudicini making a quick recovery from a hamstring injury "does not look good". |
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BBC News |
1:23am PDT |
Darling 'optimistic' on UK economy |
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Summary: The chancellor stands by his forecast for UK economic growth, despite a downgrade by the International Monetary Fund. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15am PDT |
Buddhist monks: End Dalai Lama's exile
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than a dozen Buddhist monks staged an emotional protest Wednesday in front of visiting journalists at a monastery in western China to call for the return of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, according to a reporter at the event. |
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Yahoo News |
1:14am PDT |
Security high for torch's S.F. stop
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Olympic torch's round-the-world trip is the longest in Olympic history, and is meant to highlight China's rising economic and political power. But on its sole North American stop, activists are also calling attention to the Olympic host's human r |
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Yahoo News |
1:08am PDT |
Deadly fighting in Baghdad as Iraq marks Saddam's fall
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iraq on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's iron-fisted regime with the nation still wracked by deadly violence and the capital under curfew. |
