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BBC News |
12:51am PDT |
Sri Lanka forces 'kill 52 rebels' |
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Summary: At least 52 Tamil Tigers and 15 soldiers are reported killed in clashes in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. |
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BBC News |
12:50am PDT |
Microsoft unveils its web vision |
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Summary: Microsoft lifts the lid on Live Mesh, web-based software designed to connect devices and applications online. |
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ChristianToday |
12:47am PDT |
Demand for parish project funding outstrips supply says Church of Scotland |
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Summary: The Church of Scotlands General Assembly will hear next month that demand for parish development funding was twice as much as what was available for the first time ever this year |
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BBC News |
12:46am PDT |
Thieves threaten woman with knife |
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Summary: Knife wielding robbers hold a blade to the throat of a 69-year-old woman before stealing her car, police say. |
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BBC News |
12:33am PDT |
Khmer Rouge leader seeks release |
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Summary: Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan makes his first appearance at Cambodia's genocide trial. |
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Yahoo News |
12:27am PDT |
UN warns Darfur war worsening, with perhaps 300,000 dead
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Summary: AP - The conflict in Darfur is deteriorating, with full deployment of a new peacekeeping force delayed until 2009 and no prospect of a political settlement for a war that has killed perhaps 300,000 people in five years, U.N. officials said Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
12:23am PDT |
EBay sues Craigslist |
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Summary: EBay sues online ad site Craigslist, saying it needed to "safeguard its four-year financial investment". |
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ChristianToday |
12:23am PDT |
Grangemouth refinery strike talks extended |
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Summary: Management and trades union officials from Scotlands Grangemouth refinery extended into Wednesday mediation aimed at avoiding a strike that has threatened Britains energy supplies a union official said
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ChristianToday |
12:22am PDT |
Two arrested under antiterrorism laws |
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Summary: Police arrested two men under antiterrorism laws at Heathrow airport on Tuesday suspecting both to be involved in activities overseas police sources said |
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ChristianToday |
12:22am PDT |
Darling urges lenders to cut home loan costs |
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Summary: Chancellor Alistair Darling pressured mortgage lenders on Tuesday to bring down the cost of home loans as policymakers are getting worried about the housing market |
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Yahoo News |
12:18am PDT |
Barack Obama: Campaigning with a message of hope
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama's rapid rise
from relative obscurity toward winning the Democratic Party
nomination for U.S. president hit another bump when he lost to
rival Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. |
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ChristianToday |
12:15am PDT |
Security risk from climate underestimated |
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Summary: Countries around the world have hugely underestimated the potential conflicts stemming from climate change and must invest heavily to correct that mistake a report said on Wednesday |
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ChristianToday |
12:15am PDT |
Clinton moves on after Pennsylvania win |
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Summary: Hillary Clinton beat Democratic rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania on Tuesday prolonging an increasingly negative presidential nominating fight and keeping alive her slim White House hopes |
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ChristianToday |
12:14am PDT |
Newspaper calls for transitional Zimbabwe govt |
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Summary: Regional countries should mediate negotiations in Zimbabwe for a transitional government of national unity led by President Robert Mugabe to organise new elections that are free a state newspaper said on Wednesday |
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ChristianToday |
12:13am PDT |
Chavez says food prices massacre of worlds poor |
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Summary: Soaring food prices are a massacre of the worlds poor and are creating a global nutritional crisis Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday calling it a sign that capitalism is in decline |
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Yahoo News |
12:13am PDT |
Australia resorts to "dynamic" torch relay
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Australian police promised on
Wednesday a "dynamic" torch relay to dodge protesters when the
Olympic flame travels the Australian leg of its troubled
journey around the world. |
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ChristianToday |
12:11am PDT |
Tibet protest as torch lands in Australia |
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Summary: ProTibetan protesters beamed laser signs onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Wednesday reading Dont Torch Tibet and China talk to the Dalai Lama as the Olympic torch arrived in Australia under tight security |
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BBC News |
12:09am PDT |
Beyonce, Jay-Z wedding confirmed |
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Summary: A marriage licence for Beyonce and Jay-Z has been filed with the authorities, an official says. |
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ChristianToday |
12:09am PDT |
American arrested as nuclear spy for Israel |
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Summary: The United States arrested an 84yearold American on Tuesday suspected of giving Israel secrets on nuclear weapons fighter jets and missiles in the 1980s in a case linked to the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal that rocked USIsraeli relations |
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ChristianToday |
12:09am PDT |
Protests in Bangladesh capital over water shortage |
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Summary: Hundreds of people staged protests in the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday against a shortage of drinking water witnesses said defying a ban on such demonstrations |
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ChristianToday |
12:08am PDT |
France and US draft Somalia piracy resolution |
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Summary: France and the United States with the aid of Britain are drafting a UN Security Council resolution authorizing countries to fight piracy off Somalia and elsewhere Frances UN envoy said on Tuesday |
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ChristianToday |
12:07am PDT |
Mexico judge jails Canadian woman for 5 years |
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Summary: A Canadian woman who became a cause celebre at home after being kept in a Mexican jail for two years without trial received a fiveyear prison sentence on Tuesday after being convicted of links to an investment scam |
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Yahoo News |
12:07am PDT |
Marlee Matlin eliminated from 'Dancing With the Stars'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For the third consecutive week, a last-place finish has led to elimination on "Dancing With the Stars." |
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ChristianToday |
12:06am PDT |
Taliban kill seven Afghan police in attacks |
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Summary: Taliban insurgents killed seven Afghan policemen in an attack on a police post and a separate suicide bomb blast on Wednesday officials and witnesses said |
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Cnn.com |
12:06am PDT |
Mambo spells end for 'Dancing' star |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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ChristianToday |
12:06am PDT |
Africa gets impatient with Mugabe |
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Summary: South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma called on Tuesday for African action to resolve Zimbabwes crisis amid signs of increasing regional impatience with President Robert Mugabe |
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Yahoo News |
12:05am PDT |
Clinton's win still leaves her the underdog
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Still the underdog in a contest that won't quit, Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled off a feisty act of political survival in the Pennsylvania primary, defeating Barack Obama to keep her Democratic presidential hopes alive. |
