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BBC News |
11:54pm PDT |
UN official sees Burma progress |
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Summary: A UN official says there are fragile signs that Burma's co-operation with international relief agencies is improving. |
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ChristianToday |
11:11pm PDT |
Spacecraft lands at Mars north pole |
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Summary: A small science probe blazed through the salmoncoloured skies of Mars on Sunday touching down on a frozen desert at the planets north pole to search for water and assess conditions for sustaining life NASA officials said |
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BBC News |
11:10pm PDT |
Fire attack at school sports hall |
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Summary: There has been an arson attack at the sports hall of a school on north Belfast's Ballysillan Road. |
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ChristianToday |
11:09pm PDT |
Colombia quake victims huddle in shelters |
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Summary: Hundreds of Colombians huddled in makeshift shelters on Sunday afraid to go home a day after a 56magnitude earthquake damaged scores of homes and triggered landslides killing at least 11 people |
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ChristianToday |
11:08pm PDT |
Protests banned as Nepal scraps monarchy |
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Summary: Nepal has banned demonstrations in and around the royal palace and King Gyanendras private home in Kathmandu fearing trouble two days before a special assembly is due to formally abolish 239yearold monarchy |
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ChristianToday |
11:08pm PDT |
Tibet leg of Olympic torch relay cut |
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Summary: The Beijing Olympic flame will spend just one day in Tibet next month rather that the three days originally scheduled an official with the torch relay department of the Beijing Organising Committee said on Monday |
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ChristianToday |
11:07pm PDT |
Haitian president makes friend Prime Minister |
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Summary: Haitian President Rene Preval nominated his longtime friend and adviser Robert Manuel on Sunday to become prime minister of the impoverished Caribbean nation where the previous government was toppled by food riots in April |
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ChristianToday |
11:07pm PDT |
Tornado storms kill at least seven in US Midwest |
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Summary: At least seven people were killed on Sunday by tornadoes and violent thunderstorms spawned by a powerful spring storm system that moved across the United States midsection authorities said |
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BBC News |
11:01pm PDT |
UK and US unions 'to join forces' |
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Summary: The UK's biggest union Unite is on the brink of a formal tie-up with a prominent North American union. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19pm PDT |
G8 ministers endorse greenhouse gas cuts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Environment chiefs from the world's top industrial countries pledged "strong political will" Monday toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14pm PDT |
Tornadoes, storms kill at least seven in Midwest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least seven people were killed
on Sunday by tornadoes and violent thunderstorms spawned by a
powerful spring storm system that moved across the United
States' midsection, authorities said. |
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Cnn.com |
10:00pm PDT |
6.0 quake kills 6, destroys 70,000 homes |
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Summary: A powerful 5.8 magnitude aftershock hit China's Sichuan province today, damaging more than 70,000 homes in the region where at least 60,000 people were killed by a powerful earthquake on May 12, according to local television reports.
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BBC News |
9:48pm PDT |
Taiwan party chief heads to China |
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Summary: The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party departs for a visit to China, in what is seen as another sign of warming ties. |
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BBC News |
9:29pm PDT |
Nepal bans rallies in Kathmandu |
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Summary: Authorities in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, ban rallies in strategic areas ahead of the constituent assembly meeting. |
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BBC News |
9:19pm PDT |
UK diver 'should pay for rescue' |
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Summary: Australian authorities suggest a UK diver should pay towards his rescue after selling his story to a newspaper. |
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BBC News |
9:17pm PDT |
Science probe for 'space pistols' |
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Summary: Scientists investigate whether a former US president's duelling pistols were really made from a meteorite. |
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BBC News |
9:17pm PDT |
Space pistols? |
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Summary: Are these ex-US president's guns out of this world? |
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Yahoo News |
9:16pm PDT |
Taiwan party chief visits China
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The leader of Taiwan's new ruling party promised to seek peace and conomic engagement with China ahead of his departure Monday on a trip to the mainland to meet President Hu Jintao. |
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Yahoo News |
9:15pm PDT |
Aid workers ready for action after Myanmar promise
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Foreign aid workers were heading for the
cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether
army-ruled Myanmar will honor a promise made by its top general
to give them freedom of movement. |
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BBC News |
9:09pm PDT |
Chinese troops tackle quake lake |
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Summary: Chinese troops work to unblock a lake formed by the earthquake, as the toll from Sunday's aftershock rises. |
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Yahoo News |
9:07pm PDT |
Lebanon's new president calls for unity as he starts in office
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Lebanon's new president Michel Sleiman prepared for his first full day in office Monday after hearing his appeal for unity in the violence-hit country endorsed on all sides by the international community. |
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BBC News |
9:02pm PDT |
New law against rogue traders |
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Summary: A new law comes into force to protect consumers from rogue traders' tactics including aggressive selling. |
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Cnn.com |
8:33pm PDT |
Seven dead as twisters hit nation's midsection |
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Summary: Tornadoes swept through the Midwest on Sunday, killing six people in Iowa and a toddler in Minnesota. The Iowa towns of Parkersburg and New Hartford were hit hard, the governor's office said. And a 2-year-old child died when a tornado slammed a Minneapoli |
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Cnn.com |
8:29pm PDT |
Arlington memento: 'You are my hero, Daddy' |
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Summary: America's most recent war dead lie in a quiet patch of ground at Arlington National Cemetery known as Section 60.
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BBC News |
8:22pm PDT |
Tough Tory plan for young jobless |
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Summary: The Conservatives are to unveil tough new proposals of work schemes for jobless young people. |
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BBC News |
8:21pm PDT |
Historic pictures sent from Mars |
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Summary: Nasa's Phoenix lander sets down in the far north of Mars and sends back pictures of a barren landscape. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PDT |
Powerful storms kill 8 in Iowa and Minnesota
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Severe thunderstorms packing large hail and tornadoes rumbled across the nation's midsection on Sunday, killing at least eight people and damaging dozens of homes, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:18pm PDT |
NASA spacecraft successfully lands near Mars pole
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and successfully landed in the Red Planet's northern polar region on Sunday, where it will begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08pm PDT |
Kahne capitalizes on Stewart slip to win Coca-Cola 600
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tony Stewart suffered his second heartbreaking defeat of the season Sunday night when a flat tire late in the Coca-Cola 600 handed Kasey Kahne the victory in NASCAR's longest race of the year. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07pm PDT |
U.S. spacecraft lands safely at Mars north pole
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A small science probe
blazed through the salmon-colored skies of Mars on Sunday,
touching down on a frozen desert at the planet's north pole to
search for water and assess conditions for sustaining life,
NASA officials said. |
