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BBC News |
4:40pm PDT |
Reporting Burma |
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Summary: Covering a natural disaster against all the odds |
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BBC News |
4:34pm PDT |
Doubt over date for Brit invasion |
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Summary: Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 55BC could not have occurred on the date stated in many history books, astronomers claim. |
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BBC News |
4:34pm PDT |
Astronomers cast doubt over date of Caesar's invasion of Britain |
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Summary: Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 55BC could not have occurred on the date stated in many history books, astronomers claim. |
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Yahoo News |
4:24pm PDT |
Hall or not? Bonds' 756th homer ball on odd path
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The ball Barry Bonds launched for his record-breaking 756th home run took a strange turn Tuesday on its possible path to the Hall of Fame. |
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Yahoo News |
4:20pm PDT |
Gen. Clark won't back off critique of McCain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark rejected suggestions he apologize Tuesday for saying John McCain's medal-winning military service does not qualify him for the White House. Elaborating, Clark said a president must have judgment, not merely courage and chara |
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Yahoo News |
4:18pm PDT |
Letter writer boasts of killing pregnant soldier
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A pregnant soldier lay dead in the bathtub. Reportedly scrawled on the motel-room mirror in lipstick was a crosshair design — the same symbol contained in a letter that arrived at the local newspaper four days later. |
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Yahoo News |
4:08pm PDT |
June car sales plummet for nearly all automakers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nearly all the major automakers reported steep sales declines for June, but for General Motors at least there was consolation: Toyota, its leading international competition, had it worse. |
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BBC News |
4:08pm PDT |
Stockline public inquiry to begin |
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Summary: The public inquiry into the Stockline factory blast in 2004 begins later in Glasgow's Maryhill Community Centre. |
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Cnn.com |
4:07pm PDT |
Obama, McCain in a statistical dead heat |
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Summary: With the dust having finally settled after the prolonged Democratic presidential primary, a new poll shows Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama locked in a statistical dead heat in the race for the White House.
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BBC News |
4:04pm PDT |
Child food 'poor' at attractions |
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Summary: UK theme parks, museums and other holiday sites are serving up child meals loaded with sugar, salt and fat, a survey finds. |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PDT |
NHS dentistry reforms 'failing' |
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Summary: Changes designed to improve NHS dental services have not been successful, a House of Commons committee report suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
MPs gear up for excise duty fight |
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Summary: Ministers face a fresh battle with MPs over plans to raise vehicle excise duty on the most polluting cars. |
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Firms 'feel worst' for 16 years |
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Summary: UK business confidence falls to its lowest level since 1992, according to research from BDO Stoy Hayward. in suggests. |
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BBC News |
3:56pm PDT |
Confident Murray ready for Nadal |
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Summary: Andy Murray will play the biggest match of his life when he faces Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon on Wednesday. |
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ChristianPost |
3:53pm PDT |
New TV Drama Focuses on Teen Pregnancies |
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Summary: A new TV drama series about the life and trials of a 15-year-old girl who gets pregnant will no doubt generate special attention. |
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Cnn.com |
3:40pm PDT |
Florida executes child killer after moratorium |
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ChristianPost |
3:31pm PDT |
39 US Missionaries Robbed in Jamaica |
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Summary: A U.S. Christian group said Tuesday it will find a new location for its goodwill trips to Jamaica after 39 young missionaries were robbed at gunpoint in the crime-prone capital of Kingston. |
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ChristianPost |
3:28pm PDT |
Venezuela Priests Open Pro-Chavez Church |
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Summary: A fledgling church that openly backs President Hugo Chavez is raising the ire of Venezuela's Roman Catholic hierarchy, preaching the Gospel alongside socialism. |
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Cnn.com |
3:06pm PDT |
State outlaws cyberbullying after suicide |
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Yahoo News |
3:05pm PDT |
Grasso case "over" as court dismisses claims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former New York Stock Exchange chief
Richard Grasso won a knockout victory on Tuesday in his
four-year fight to keep every last penny of his $187.5 million
pay package, as an appeals court threw out the state's
remaining claims against him. |
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BBC News |
2:59pm PDT |
How much did this U2-owned Basquiat artwork fetch at Sotheby's? |
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Summary: A piece of art owned by rock band U2 has sold for more than £5m at an auction held in London. |
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Yahoo News |
2:55pm PDT |
Bush: Housing deal possible with 'less politics'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush expressed confidence Tuesday he will reach a deal with Congress on a housing-rescue plan but prodded lawmakers to show "less politics." |
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Yahoo News |
2:51pm PDT |
Ex-con suspected in deaths of 8 in Ill., Mo.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The FBI launched a manhunt Tuesday for an ex-con suspected of killing eight people in two states, including a 93-year-old man, a child, and a couple whose blood-soaked dogs were found roaming a motel parking lot. |
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Cnn.com |
2:47pm PDT |
U.S. takes Mandela off terror watch lists |
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Summary: Former South African President Nelson Mandela is to be removed from U.S. terrorism watch lists under a bill President Bush signed Tuesday.
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Yahoo News |
2:34pm PDT |
Peru, Bolivia leaders not so neighborly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Peru's president said Tuesday that he's sick of Bolivian President Evo Morales criticizing Peru's trade pact with the United States, spreading false rumors about American military bases and urging Peruvians to protest in the street. Things really got |
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Cnn.com |
2:22pm PDT |
FBI hunts suspected spree killer |
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Cnn.com |
2:22pm PDT |
FBI launches manhunt for suspected spree killer |
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BBC News |
2:19pm PDT |
Nelson Mandela is finally taken off US terror list |
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Summary: US President George W Bush signs a bill removing Nelson Mandela and South African leaders from the US terror watch list. |
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BBC News |
2:08pm PDT |
Can't live without |
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Summary: What are your lifestyle essentials? Take our quiz |
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BBC News |
2:08pm PDT |
Standards quiz |
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Summary: What the public say it needs and can't do without |
