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BBC News |
2:31am PDT |
Live text - England v South Africa |
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Summary: Darren Pattinson gets a shock call-up as England bat first at Headingley. |
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BBC News |
2:27am PDT |
Paid to betray |
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Summary: The man who befriends people, then exposes them |
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BBC News |
2:21am PDT |
Hard Rock wages 'below minimum' |
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Summary: Staff at London's Hard Rock Cafe are on salaries of less than half the national minimum wage, the BBC finds. |
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BBC News |
2:18am PDT |
Prosecutors quiz canoeist's wife |
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Summary: The wife of a back-from-the-dead canoeist is quizzed by prosecutors who accuse her of helping fake her husband's death. |
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ChristianToday |
2:02am PDT |
Labour loyalists may save Brown in crunch vote |
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Summary: Scottish pensioner Frances OGrady will vote for Labour in an election next week to choose a new MP although she is not sure why |
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Yahoo News |
2:00am PDT |
Former bin Laden driver 1st test of Gitmo trials
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Salim Hamdan is a small player with a big role. A former driver for Osama bin Laden, he is about to become the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried for war crimes in a major test of the U.S. system for prosecuting alleged terrorists. |
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Yahoo News |
1:59am PDT |
Former Bin Laden driver 1st test of Gitmo trials
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Salim Hamdan is a small player with a big role. A former driver for Osama bin Laden, he is about to become the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried for war crimes in a major test of the U.S. system for prosecuting alleged terrorists. |
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BBC News |
1:58am PDT |
Mortgage squeeze tightens further |
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Summary: The mortgage squeeze continues to tighten with a further drop in lending, says the Council of Mortgage Lenders. |
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ChristianToday |
1:57am PDT |
Teen arrested over stabbing of 18yearold |
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Summary: Police arrested a teenage boy on Friday over the knife murder of an 18yearold male youth in south London the 21st teenager to be killed violently in the capital this year Scotland Yard said |
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ChristianToday |
1:57am PDT |
Man dies in motorway smash with stolen car |
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Summary: A motorist has died after his car was hit by a stolen vehicle pursued by police that flipped over a motorway barrier Durham Constabulary said on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
1:56am PDT |
Construction group Kier to cut 350 jobs |
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Summary: Kier Group said on Friday it would axe around 350 staff or 60 percent of workers in its residential division the latest construction firm to announce job cuts due to a housing market slump |
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Cnn.com |
1:56am PDT |
Obama takes campaign trail overseas |
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Summary: Democratic candidate Barack Obama heads overseas next week for a whistlestop series of meetings with Middle Eastern and European leaders but with an eye firmly on the U.S. presidential race back home.
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Yahoo News |
1:55am PDT |
Satellite radio saga takes unexpected turn
(AP)
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Summary: AP - During his tenure at the Federal Communications Commission, Jonathan Adelstein has been a fierce critic of government policies that allow big media companies to get bigger. So it came as a surprise when the Democratic commissioner put forth a proposa |
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ChristianToday |
1:51am PDT |
Black church leaders concerned over criminal DNA database |
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Summary: Black church leaders are to join a symposium at Parliament next week to raise their concerns over the high proportion of African and Caribbean people without a criminal record who are listed in the national criminal DNA database |
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BBC News |
1:38am PDT |
Hunt on for trainee police dog - after it was stolen |
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Summary: A 12-week-old puppy which was being trained to be a police dog is stolen from a back garden. |
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Yahoo News |
1:31am PDT |
Iran hopes for "constructive" nuclear talks in Geneva
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator
expressed hope for "good and constructive" talks when he left
Tehran on Friday for a meeting in Geneva with world powers on
the country's disputed nuclear program. |
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Yahoo News |
1:30am PDT |
Windy, misting rain: Normal day at British Open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The flags around Royal Birkdale flapped in the stiff breeze Friday morning. A light, misting rain fell from the gray clouds, which obscured any hint of the sun. By British Open standards, a normal morning. Compared to 24 hours earlier, a huge improve |
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BBC News |
1:18am PDT |
Found sounds |
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Summary: The lost tapes of Dr Who composer Delia Derbyshire |
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Yahoo News |
1:15am PDT |
Analysis: Security transfer stalled in Iraq region
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraq's government hopes to bring the entire country under its security control by year's end. But one critical area stands in the way: the western province of Anbar, where the Sunni insurgency was born and later received its first blows from a civil |
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Yahoo News |
1:07am PDT |
Pope: All faiths should unite against violence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday urged religious leaders of all kinds to unite against those who use faith to divide communities — an apparent reference to terrorism in the name of religion. |
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ChristianToday |
12:49am PDT |
Christian Vietnamese asylum seekers protest in Cambodian capital |
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Summary: Ethnic minority asylum seekers protested in the Cambodian capital on Friday against the forced return of their friends and relatives to neighbouring Vietnam |
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Yahoo News |
12:45am PDT |
Six-party ministers to meet next week on N. Korea
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Foreign ministers of the six countries in
talks on ending North Korea's nuclear arms program are expected
to hold their first meeting next week at a regional forum in
Singapore, a diplomatic source in Seoul said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:43am PDT |
With this fake wife, I divorce thee
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An Indian man who took an
impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after
his real wife found out, lawyers said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
12:41am PDT |
'Agreement' over Nepal president |
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Summary: Former Maoist rebels look set to back a 73-year-old leader from southern Nepal in presidential elections due on Saturday. |
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Cnn.com |
12:40am PDT |
Tropical storm kills 6 |
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Summary: A tropical storm lashed Taiwan on Friday, killing at least six people, an emergency official told CNN.
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BBC News |
12:39am PDT |
Driver dies in motorway pursuit |
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Summary: A motorist is killed when a vehicle being pursued by police flips into the path of his car on the A1M. |
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BBC News |
12:27am PDT |
Barclays share sale raises £4.5bn |
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Summary: Barclays raises £4.5bn from investors to bolster its finances but only a fifth of ordinary shareholders backed the plan. |
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BBC News |
12:17am PDT |
Teenager stabbed to death in London |
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Summary: A teenager dies from stab wounds after an attack in south London. |
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BBC News |
12:15am PDT |
Pope urges unity against terror |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI calls for all religions to unite against terrorism and resolve conflicts peacefully as he continues his visit to Australia. |
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BBC News |
12:13am PDT |
Weather delays Snowdon cafe again |
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Summary: Weather problems cause serious delays in building a new cafe on the highest mountain in Wales and England. |
