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Cnn.com |
11:43pm PDT |
China orders evacuations in quake-hit Sichuan |
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Summary: Authorities on Tuesday evacuated thousands of people in southwestern China's Sichuan province, as engineers prepared to dynamite a potentially dangerous lake formed when landslides, triggered by this month's earthquake, dammed a river.
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Cnn.com |
11:38pm PDT |
Director Sidney Pollack dead at 73 |
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Summary: Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved critical acclaim with the period drama "Out of Africa" and the romantic comedy "Tootsie," died of cancer Monday, his agent told CNN.
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BBC News |
11:17pm PDT |
Vodafone chief to leave company |
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Summary: Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin is to step down from his post as the head of one of Britain's biggest companies. |
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10:59pm PDT |
Mancini & Hiddink 'dismiss Blues' |
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Summary: Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini and Russia coach Guus Hiddink are out of the running to be the new Chelsea boss, their agents say. |
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10:49pm PDT |
Decision on NI 'green' watchdog |
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Summary: The environment minister is to announce later whether Northern Ireland should have its own 'green' watchdog. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42pm PDT |
Borders returns to Web retailing after 7 years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Borders Group is jumping back into online retailing with a Web site designed to evoke the feeling of browsing at a neighborhood bookstore, down to the popular shelves of staff picks that are familiar to its customers nationwide. |
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10:37pm PDT |
Fuel protesters petition Senedd |
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Summary: Hauliers plan a convoy from Carmarthenshire to Cardiff Bay to hand in a petition protesting at fuel price rises. |
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10:31pm PDT |
Blackberry spurns Indian spy demand |
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Summary: Makers of Blackberry phones reject India's demands that it be allowed to spy on suspicious text messages. |
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Cnn.com |
10:26pm PDT |
Legendary director, actor Sidney Pollack dead at 73 |
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Summary: Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved critical acclaim with the period drama "Out of Africa" and the romantic comedy "Tootsie," died of cancer Monday, his agent told CNN.
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BBC News |
10:24pm PDT |
Action call after park killing |
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Summary: An MP calls for tough action to tackle violence among young people after a teenager is killed in a park. |
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10:14pm PDT |
UN nuclear watchdog says Iran hiding weapons studies
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The UN atomic watchdog has expressed serious concern that Iran is still hiding information about alleged studies into making nuclear warheads and defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment. |
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10:03pm PDT |
Bush hits '08 trail; do Republicans want his help?
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush has made it
clear he is excited to get out on the campaign trail this
election year to help Republicans keep the White House and
retake Congress -- but do they want his help? |
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9:54pm PDT |
McCain says he and Obama should visit Iraq together
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. |
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9:46pm PDT |
Osgood blanks Pens again; Red Wings halfway to Cup
(AP)
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Summary: AP - If the Red Wings keep this up, the next time they perform back in Hockeytown could be along a parade route. Producing timely offense and perfectionist defense, Detroit is not only beating the Pittsburgh Penguins, they are shutting them out. |
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9:35pm PDT |
A life in pictures |
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Summary: Images of the acclaimed director Sydney Pollack |
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Yahoo News |
9:33pm PDT |
Obama says won't guarantee Ahmadinejad a meeting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama
underscored his willingness to talk to leaders of countries
like Iran that are considered U.S. adversaries but said on
Monday that does not necessarily mean an audience with Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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9:29pm PDT |
Troops scramble to drain swelling China quake lake
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Troops armed with dynamite scrambled Tuesday to blast through a huge wall of debris that is damming a rising quake lake in southwest China and putting more than a million people at risk. |
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BBC News |
9:29pm PDT |
New Bond creation to be unveiled |
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Summary: A new James Bond novel is being unveiled more than 40 years after the last Fleming novel was published. |
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8:50pm PDT |
Tories outline plans for jobless |
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Summary: The Conservatives are to set out a raft of proposals aimed at reforming Britain's social security system. |
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Cnn.com |
8:47pm PDT |
Shopper has unfriendly encounter with scorpion |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:40pm PDT |
Protests in S Korea over US beef |
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Summary: Protesters and police clash in South Korea amid mounting public anger at the relaxation of a ban on US beef. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24pm PDT |
Director Sydney Pollack dies at 73 in Los Angeles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa," has died. He was 73. |
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Cnn.com |
8:19pm PDT |
Legendary director Sydney Pollack dies |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:01pm PDT |
Mars lander prepares for 3-month digging mission
(AP)
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Summary: AP - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable. |
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Yahoo News |
7:54pm PDT |
Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73. |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
US director Sydney Pollack dies |
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Summary: US film director Sydney Pollack, who won two Oscars for Out of Africa, dies of cancer, aged 73. |
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Yahoo News |
7:27pm PDT |
Sydney Pollack dies in Los Angeles
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hollywood filmmaker Sydney Pollack,
who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance "Out of
Africa" and earned praise for his acting stints in films such
as "Tootsie" and "Michael Clayton," died on Monday after a
battle with cancer, hi |
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Yahoo News |
7:25pm PDT |
Clintons campaign in Puerto Rico; Obama in NM
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton ended a three-day campaign swing across Puerto Rico the same way many Americans mark Memorial Day — with family, friends and a salute to the sacrifices of military men and women. |
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Yahoo News |
7:18pm PDT |
Canada's FM Bernier resigns in document scandal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned after leaving classified documents at a private residence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling it "a serious error." |
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Yahoo News |
6:32pm PDT |
Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An agent for actor and director Sydney Pollack says the Academy Award winner has died. He was 73. |
