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BBC News |
12:59am PDT |
Marines help Dame Helen name ship |
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Summary: Royal Marines will help Dame Helen Mirren to name a new £300m superliner ahead of its entry into passenger service. |
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Yahoo News |
12:57am PDT |
FDLS members responded to raid with song, prayer
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Summary: AP - When police officers armed with weapons and protective gear descended on a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamist church, its members responded by going to their knees in prayer. |
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Yahoo News |
12:54am PDT |
Olympic torch in China-friendly Pakistan amid tight security
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Summary: AP - Thousands of police with sniffer dogs stood guard as Pakistan hosted the Olympic torch Wednesday for what the pro-China government hopes will be a trouble-free leg of its world tour. |
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BBC News |
12:45am PDT |
Disabled woman 'denied justice' |
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Summary: A woman with a learning disability who was sexually assaulted is being denied justice, a reports says. |
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BBC News |
12:31am PDT |
Children die in Indian bus plunge |
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Summary: Around 40 people, mostly children, die after a bus plunges into a river in western India, officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
12:29am PDT |
Court meeting to weigh death penalty for child rapists
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court is considering whether someone may be executed for raping a child, a case that balances concerns about the death penalty with tougher sanctions for child sex crimes. |
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BBC News |
12:28am PDT |
Japan vaccinates bird flu workers |
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Summary: Japan is to become the first country in the world to vaccinate thousands of health workers against bird flu. |
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Yahoo News |
12:26am PDT |
President Bush to revise climate strategy
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Summary: AP - President Bush is proposing new targets for curtailing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to short-circuit what aides call a potential regulatory "train wreck" if Congress doesn't act on climate change. |
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ChristianToday |
12:21am PDT |
Brown to urge credit crunch action on US trip |
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Summary: Plagued by crumbling popularity and slumping house prices at home Prime Minister Gordon Brown will tell Wall Street bankers on Wednesday to reveal their losses quickly to help end a global credit crunch |
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Yahoo News |
12:20am PDT |
Bush, big White House crowd to greet pope on his birthday
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Summary: AP - President Bush has quite a birthday present for Pope Benedict XVI: at least 9,000 excited guests gathered on the White House's South Lawn for a 21-gun salute, a famed soprano's rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" and an emotional presidential welcome. |
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ChristianToday |
12:20am PDT |
UN council and AU to debate Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Leaders of key members of the UN Security Council and the African Union meet at UN headquarters on Wednesday where they are expected to debate the crises in Zimbabwe Sudan and Somalia |
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ChristianToday |
12:19am PDT |
Plane crash in Congo kills at least 33 |
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Summary: A Congolese airliner crashed into a market district in the eastern city of Goma on Tuesday killing at least 33 people and injuring 80 the government said |
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ChristianToday |
12:19am PDT |
China steps forward in new bid to end Iran dispute |
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Summary: China edges nearer the centre of contention over Irans nuclear ambitions on Wednesday by hosting talks of diplomatic powers on whether to offer stronger incentives to Iran to curb atomic work |
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ChristianToday |
12:18am PDT |
Bus crash kills 40 children in western India |
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Summary: At least 40 school children were killed on Wednesday when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western India police said |
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ChristianToday |
12:17am PDT |
Olympic torch kicks off Asian journey in Pakistan |
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Summary: The Olympic torch arrived in Pakistan early on Wednesday on the first leg of its relay in Asia amid security worries that led to a change of venue in the countrys capital Islamabad |
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ChristianToday |
12:15am PDT |
Evangelical Alliance head calls on Christians to transform society |
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Summary: Evangelicals should be recognised as good news people says Evangelical Alliance General Director Joel Edwards |
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ChristianToday |
12:08am PDT |
Faith vote big in Pennsylvania primary |
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Summary: Darwin McAfee is a white evangelical Protestant who is opposed to abortion and likes the great outdoors |
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Yahoo News |
12:05am PDT |
Whites under siege hunker down in Zimbabwe election crisis
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Summary: AP - With his 28-year grip on power slipping, President Robert Mugabe's government has again lashed out at Zimbabwe's white community, calling his black opponents tools of former colonial master Britain and stoking anger against the nation's whites. |
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ChristianToday |
12:00am PDT |
Medics say Israeli forces kill four Gaza gunmen |
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Summary: Israeli troops killed four Hamas gunmen on Wednesday in clashes in the Gaza Strip near a terminal used to supply fuel to the coastal territory Palestinian medical workers and Hamas said |
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ChristianToday |
12:00am PDT |
Indonesian volcano spews ash |
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Summary: About 600 people have been evacuated in eastern Indonesia after a volcano began spewing ash a vulcanologist said on Wednesday |
