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BBC News |
11:39am PDT |
Assembly backs victims' bill plan |
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Summary: The Assembly votes in favour of giving the first and deputy first ministers the option to appoint a Chief Victims' Commissioner. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36am PDT |
Nearly 100 arrested in drug investigation at San Diego State
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nearly 100 people, most of them students, were arrested in an undercover drug investigation at San Diego State University that began after a student's fatal cocaine overdose last spring, authorities said Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35am PDT |
Fannie Mae posts loss, to cut payout
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fannie Mae on Tuesday posted a
massive quarterly loss, its third straight, on the protracted
U.S. housing market slump, prompting it to slash its dividend
and set plans to raise $6 billion of fresh funds. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Let them eat brioche! Barnsley baker sells bread to the French. |
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Summary: A baker from the northern England town of Barnsley starts selling brioche to France. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Let them eat brioche! Barnsley baker sells bread to the French |
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Summary: A baker from the northern England town of Barnsley starts selling brioche to France. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Airliner bomb suspects 'bugged' |
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Summary: Conversations between members of an alleged terror cell about a plot to blow up planes mid-air were recorded, a court hears. |
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Yahoo News |
11:14am PDT |
Georgia court refuses to stay impending execution
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Georgia Supreme Court refused to
issue a stay of execution for a convicted murderer due to die
by lethal injection at 7 p.m. local time/ 2300 GMT on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:04am PDT |
Greed behind food price rises: development bank head
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The food price crisis is caused
largely by greed and speculation rather than food shortages,
the head of Southern Africa's development bank said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
11:03am PDT |
Man cautioned over web fight |
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Summary: A man is cautioned after footage is posted on the internet showing two young boys being forced to fight each other. |
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BBC News |
10:58am PDT |
Police return fire in shoot-out |
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Summary: Armed police return fire after they are shot at in a square just off the popular Kings Road shopping area in London. |
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Yahoo News |
10:51am PDT |
Yahoo shares up on hope of talks, Google deal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Yahoo Inc investors latched
on to hopes the company would resume talks with Microsoft Corp
or soon forge a deal with Google Inc , sending
shares up 6 percent on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:47am PDT |
California students arrested in major drug bust
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Police have arrested 18 San Diego
State University students on drug-related charges stemming from
an undercover investigation there, a spokesman for the college
said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
10:43am PDT |
Parents had drinks spiked - claim |
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Summary: A couple who allegedly passed out drunk while their children were taken into care in Portugal had their drinks spiked, it is claimed. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42am PDT |
Austrian incest victim may sue for compensation
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Austrian Elisabeth Fritzl, who was
imprisoned by her father for 24 years and gave birth to seven
of his children, may sue her father for compensation, her
lawyer said on Tuesday. |
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ChristianPost |
10:34am PDT |
Evangelical Divide Widens along Generational Line, Says Expert |
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Summary: Younger evangelicals are increasingly feeling disconnected from the older generation when it comes to politics, said an expert on ... |
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BBC News |
10:30am PDT |
Mangrove loss 'left Burma exposed' |
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Summary: Mangrove deforestation in Burma left coastal areas exposed to the full fury of Cyclone Nagris, a top politician suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
10:29am PDT |
House Democrats favor timetable for Iraq troops
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic leaders in the House of
Representatives have agreed on a plan to fund the Iraq war into
next year but included a provision to withdraw combat troops by
the end of 2009, aides said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28am PDT |
Clinton, Obama vie in Indiana, North Carolina primaries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama battled in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries on Tuesday, the last big-delegate prizes left in their marathon race for the Democratic presidential nomination. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
Obama, Clinton await judgement of North Carolina, Indiana
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Voters in North Carolina and Indiana weighed in on the fates of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Tuesday, in the most significant contests left in their gripping presidential showdown. |
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BBC News |
10:25am PDT |
'Saddam's jail diaries' published |
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Summary: A newspaper prints what it says are excerpts from diaries by ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before his execution in 2006. |
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BBC News |
10:20am PDT |
Darling 'assures' 10p tax rebels |
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Summary: Alistair Darling has given MPs a "categoric" pledge to help people hit by axing the 10p tax rate, the BBC learns. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PDT |
Jury in New York City convicts fan of stalking Uma Thurman
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A lovesick former mental patient was convicted Tuesday of stalking and harassing Uma Thurman for more than two years, showing up on her front doorstep and movie set and sending the actress a series of creepy love letters. |
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BBC News |
10:18am PDT |
Brazil rescuers find plane wreck |
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Summary: Rescuers searching for a missing plane carrying four British men, find wreckage on a Brazilian beach. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05am PDT |
NCAA academic report: some college teams may be hit hard
(AP)
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Summary: AP - College teams that consistently underperform in the classroom are getting hit harder by the NCAA. |
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Yahoo News |
10:04am PDT |
Greed behind food price rises-development bank head
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The food price crisis is caused
largely by greed and speculation rather than food shortages,
the head of Southern Africa's development bank said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
10:03am PDT |
Israel's 60 years |
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Summary: A special look at Israel's history, in video and text |
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BBC News |
10:03am PDT |
60 years of Israel |
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Summary: The history of the Jewish state, in video and text |
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Cnn.com |
9:58am PDT |
Drug bust nets 96 at San Diego State |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
9:53am PDT |
Paddick 'won second vote race' |
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Summary: Lib Dem Brian Paddick picked up by far the most second preference votes in the race to be mayor of London. |
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Cnn.com |
9:50am PDT |
Dead thrown into rivers; living wait for aid |
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Summary: The destruction of Myanmar's deadly cyclone spared few.
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