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Yahoo News |
1:09am PDT |
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' returning
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Summary: AP - "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" will remain on the case for another season on USA Network. |
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BBC News |
12:59am PDT |
Cameron to rally Scottish Tories |
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Summary: David Cameron will tell the Scottish Tory conference that the party can build support north of the Border. |
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Yahoo News |
12:55am PDT |
McCain spends months on standby; Democrats rev up
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Summary: AP - Republican John McCain has been slow to take advantage of his potential head start for the presidency against Democrats, who are better organized and generate more excitement among voters. |
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ChristianToday |
12:47am PDT |
Glasgow Christians Muslims renovate places of worship |
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Summary: A special project is due to conclude on Friday that has not only brought two of Glasgows faith communities together but demonstrated that they can coexist happily alongside one another and work together for a common cause |
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BBC News |
12:40am PDT |
Barlow backs Take That stage show |
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Summary: Gary Barlow gives a cautious blessing to the Take That musical, which has opened in the West End. |
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BBC News |
12:38am PDT |
Suicide bomb kills Afghan troops |
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Summary: A suicide bomber blows himself up in eastern Afghanistan, killing four Afghan soldiers and a child, officials say. |
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Cnn.com |
12:38am PDT |
Mom who caged teen son gets 20 years |
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BBC News |
12:38am PDT |
Child team meet over girl's death |
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Summary: A children's panel is to meet in Birmingham to discuss the death of a seven-year-old girl who is believed to have starved to death. |
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BBC News |
12:30am PDT |
Street racers |
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Summary: How Polish city has made them legal |
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BBC News |
12:22am PDT |
Oil cools after vaulting to $135 |
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Summary: Oil prices are well off their $135 peak after investors cash-in following five days of hefty price rises. |
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ChristianToday |
12:20am PDT |
UNs Ban says junta to admit |
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Summary: Myanmars Senior General Than Shwe agreed on Friday to let in all aid workers to help the 24 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon said after meeting him |
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BBC News |
12:20am PDT |
UK Labour Party suffers heavy defeat |
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Summary: The Conservatives win an easy by-election victory in Crewe, creating more woes for PM Gordon Brown. |
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BBC News |
12:20am PDT |
Tories hail 'remarkable victory' |
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Summary: The Conservatives achieve their first by-election gain in 26 years, taking Crewe and Nantwich from Labour, with a 17.6%-vote swing. |
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Cnn.com |
12:20am PDT |
$24M deal reached in tainted pet food cases |
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Yahoo News |
12:19am PDT |
China earthquake death toll above 55,000
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Summary: AP - Experts warily monitored dozens of lakes and the natural dams that formed them during China's earthquake to see if aftershocks could unleash flooding, and the death toll from the quake rose Friday to more than 55,000. |
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Yahoo News |
12:16am PDT |
Myanmar agrees to allow 'all aid workers': UN chief
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar has agreed to allow "all aid workers" to stage a relief effort for cyclone survivors, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said after meeting junta leader Than Shwe here on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:13am PDT |
Audit finds lax oversight in contractor payments
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Summary: AP - An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the mone |
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ChristianToday |
12:12am PDT |
Rains threaten quake lake disaster |
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Summary: The onset of the rainy season threatens to swell dangerous quake lakes and compound the difficulties of reconstruction after Chinas worst earthquake in decades |
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ChristianToday |
12:12am PDT |
South Africa migrant attacks spread |
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Summary: Antiimmigrant violence has spread to South Africas second largest city Cape Town where mobs attacked Somalis and Zimbabweans and looted their homes and shops police said on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
12:11am PDT |
Medvedev seeks assurances in China |
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Summary: New Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Beijing on Friday offering energy deals and military cooperation but seeking pledges of solidarity with resurgent China at a time when ties with the West are strained |
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ChristianToday |
12:11am PDT |
Indian political party fights back with fast food |
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Summary: A political party in Mumbai best known for its antiimmigrant rhetoric has decided to launch its own chain of fast food stands but with an ideological flavour that could stick in some throats |
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ChristianToday |
12:10am PDT |
Israel sets demands in new Syrian peace track |
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Summary: Israel set terms for concluding a peace deal with Syria on Thursday closing ranks with Washington in demanding Damascus distance itself from Iran and stop supporting Palestinian and Lebanese militants |
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Yahoo News |
12:10am PDT |
UN chief: Myanmar to allow all aid workers
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's junta has agreed to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday. |
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ChristianToday |
12:10am PDT |
Rice warns of more US sanctions on Iran |
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Summary: The United States will aggressively impose more sanctions on Iran as long as it refuses to give up sensitive nuclear work and uses the worlds financial system for terrorism US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday |
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ChristianToday |
12:09am PDT |
Bus crash in France kills six tourists |
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Summary: Six Moroccan tourists died and seven were severely injured when the bus they were travelling in crashed on Friday into the support pillar of a highway overpass in central France a police official said |
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ChristianToday |
12:08am PDT |
Chile flooding kills five |
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Summary: Heavy rains and flooding have killed five people and forced about 13000 from their homes in southcentral Chile some evacuated after rivers swelled and burst their banks the government said on Thursday |
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BBC News |
12:08am PDT |
Burma 'to let in all aid workers' |
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Summary: Burma's top leader agrees to let in all foreign aid workers to help in cyclone-hit areas, the UN secretary general says. |
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BBC News |
12:07am PDT |
US dealer says buy a car, get a gun for free |
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Summary: A US car dealership's promise of a free handgun or a $250 gas card with every car or truck sold is proving a popular deal. |
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ChristianToday |
12:06am PDT |
Sichuan Catholics pray for quakestricken |
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Summary: Historic churches in steep mountain towns are among the casualties of the earthquake that devastated Chinas Sichuan province last week leaving their poor and rural Catholic congregations with little but faith |
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ChristianToday |
12:05am PDT |
Syria weighs peace with Israel against costs |
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Summary: Under pressure over an alleged nuclear programme Syria is exploring a peace deal with Israel that could alter its links with Iran and with antiUS groups such as Lebanons Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas Islamists |
