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BBC News |
4:29pm PDT |
Knife posters use graphic images |
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Summary: Graphic images of injuries inflicted by knives feature in a new £3m government campaign against youth violence. |
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BBC News |
4:27pm PDT |
Credit crunched |
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Summary: Could you survive for a day without any money? |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
Government to announce drug plan |
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Summary: The Scottish government is to announce a strategy aimed at tackling drugs problems. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Wages erode Premier League cash |
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Summary: Premier League clubs are spending a more of their cash on wages than ever, football finances report says. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
'Record' Premier League wage bill |
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Summary: Premier League clubs are spending more of their cash on wages than ever, football finances report says. |
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Yahoo News |
4:00pm PDT |
Dems seek compromise to delegate dispute
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With the nomination in sight, Barack Obama is willing to give rival Hillary Rodham Clinton the lion's share of the delegates from Florida and Michigan but is stopping short of her demand to fully recognize the two renegade states. |
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3:59pm PDT |
Defiant Israeli PM vows to stay |
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Summary: Israel's PM Ehud Olmert says he will stay in office despite a call by a key ally to step down over corruption claims. |
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Yahoo News |
3:59pm PDT |
Preservationists: Gas drilling threatens prehistoric carvings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Along Utah's Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world — thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat. B |
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Cnn.com |
3:53pm PDT |
Woman admits helping pass secrets to China |
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Summary: A Chinese woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping a spy provide the Chinese government with U.S. military secrets about arms sales to Taiwan.
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3:48pm PDT |
Haditha court martial trial opens |
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Summary: The court martial begins of US Lt Andrew Grayson, charged with destroying evidence of killings in Haditha, Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
3:38pm PDT |
Ex-spokesman says Bush used propaganda on Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former White House press secretary
Scott McClellan charges in an explosive new book that President
George W. Bush used propaganda to sell the Iraq war, prompting
angry rebukes from current and former Bush aides. |
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Cnn.com |
3:29pm PDT |
Former colleagues rip McClellan's Bush book |
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Summary: A former White House colleague of Scott McClellan challenged his book's assertion that President Bush did not review all the facts before going to war in Iraq. Dan Bartlett, a former White House counselor, also said McClellan's assertion that the media we |
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Yahoo News |
3:27pm PDT |
White House calls McClellan's book sour grapes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level — from too much secrecy to a less-than-hone |
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3:17pm PDT |
Clinton touts electability in South Dakota
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton touted her electability before separate audiences Wednesday, saying her wins in swing states and strong vote margins among certain voting blocs give her the best chance of defeating Republican John McCain in November. |
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Cnn.com |
3:11pm PDT |
Sources: Dem delegate deal could boost Clinton |
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Summary: The Democratic Party is likely to meet rule-breaking Florida and Michigan halfway when it comes to seating their delegates at the convention, two members of the rules panel say. Such a move may help Sen. Hillary Clinton close the delegate gap with Sen. Ba |
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3:05pm PDT |
Mosley sues over Nazi orgy claim |
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Summary: Motorsport boss Max Mosley starts a libel claim in French courts over claims he took part in a Nazi-themed orgy. |
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Cnn.com |
3:03pm PDT |
Motivational speaker accused of violent bender |
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BBC News |
3:00pm PDT |
Terry is natural leader - Capello |
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Summary: England coach Fabio Capello is buoyed by the performance of stand-in skipper John Terry against the USA. |
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Yahoo News |
2:54pm PDT |
Tenn. woman who spent life in iron lung dies at 61
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said. |
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Yahoo News |
2:49pm PDT |
Three shark attacks have Mexico resort area in panic
(AP)
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Summary: AP - No one could even remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen. So when sharks attacked three surfers in |
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BBC News |
2:44pm PDT |
Deal to ban cluster bombs reached |
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Summary: More than 100 countries, meeting at a conference in Ireland, agree on a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs. |
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ChristianPost |
2:42pm PDT |
Christian World Heritage Sites to Get Greater Protection |
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Summary: Christian sites are among England’s most important landmarks that will be provided with increased protection under new government ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:41pm PDT |
McCain, Bush largely similar on nuclear policies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - John McCain's nuclear proposals are largely in line with those of the unpopular President Bush, and even where the two disagree, the Republican presidential candidate has waffled. |
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Cnn.com |
2:39pm PDT |
Elected assembly abolishes monarchy |
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Summary: Nepal's newly elected assembly is expected to abolish the monarchy Wednesday and declare the Himalayan nation a republic.
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Yahoo News |
2:37pm PDT |
Gary Dourdan won't go to jail for drug charges
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gary Dourdan won't do time. The "CSI" co-star pleaded guilty to two of three counts of felony drug possession Wednesday but will not face prison following his drug arrest outside of Palm Springs last month, according to his lawyer. Dourdan could have |
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BBC News |
2:28pm PDT |
Evans strike earns Wales away win |
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Summary: A wonder goal from Ched Evans earns Wales their third successive victory in Iceland. |
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Cnn.com |
2:27pm PDT |
McClellan latest WH figure to leave and tell |
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Summary: In 2004, just after the release of Ron Suskind's "The Price of Loyalty" -- a critical account of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's experiences in the Bush administration -- Scott McClellan, then the administration spokesman, was asked what he thoug |
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Cnn.com |
2:22pm PDT |
100 nations OK cluster-bomb ban, group says |
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Summary: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that his nation plans to take all the cluster bombs "out of service" to help broker an international agreement to get them banned.
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BBC News |
2:16pm PDT |
New blow for NHS computerisation system |
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Summary: A key company involved in computerising the NHS in England has lost its contract, the BBC learns. |
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BBC News |
2:16pm PDT |
New blow for NHS e-record system |
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Summary: A key company involved in computerising the NHS in England has lost its contract, the BBC learns. |
