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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Royal Marine dies during training |
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Summary: The Ministry of Defence confirms the death of a Royal Marine signaller during a routine exercise on the Brecon Beacons. |
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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Centrica hit by high energy costs |
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Summary: British Gas owner Centrica reports a fall in half-year profits following Wednesday's record price rises. |
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Yahoo News |
11:41pm PDT |
NASA says liquid confirmed on Saturn's moon Titan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA sa |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
UK house price fall 'at new low' |
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Summary: UK house prices see their biggest annual fall - 8.1% - since the Nationwide began its housing survey in 1991, it reports. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PDT |
Oil prices boost Shell's results |
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Summary: High oil prices give another boost to profits from Royal Dutch Shell, making up for difficult conditions in its retailing arm. |
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Yahoo News |
11:19pm PDT |
Israel's opposition calls for new election
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israel's right-wing Likud leader
Benjamin Netanyahu called on Thursday for a new parliamentary
election after Ehud Olmert pledged to resign following his
party's leadership contest in September. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
China lashes out at US, says Internet curbs will stay
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Olympic host China lashed out Thursday at the United States for interfering in its affairs and insisted it would maintain restrictions on Internet use by reporters covering the Games. |
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BBC News |
10:51pm PDT |
Shot honeymoon man 'to come home' |
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Summary: A critically ill British man shot in Antigua while on his honeymoon, is to be flown back to the UK, the BBC understands. |
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BBC News |
10:42pm PDT |
Gang beats man in front of family |
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Summary: A Londonderry man is badly beaten in front of his wife and seven-year-old son by a gang of eight youths. |
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Yahoo News |
10:34pm PDT |
White House to unveil intelligence overhaul: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The White House will unveil on
Thursday a major overhaul of intelligence powers, boosting the
powers of the director of national intelligence, the Wall
Street Journal reported. |
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Cnn.com |
10:33pm PDT |
China turns spotlight on fighting pollution |
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Summary: Chinese officials announced an emergency plan to deal with Beijing's persistent pollution problem, as thousands of world-class athletes head toward the country for the start of the Olympic Games. The plan includes a complete halt to all construction proje |
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Cnn.com |
10:33pm PDT |
China begins emergency anti-pollution plan |
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Summary: Chinese officials announced an emergency plan to deal with Beijing's persistent pollution problem, as thousands of world-class athletes head toward the country for the start of the Olympic Games. The plan includes a complete halt to all construction proje |
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BBC News |
10:23pm PDT |
Vulture 'eatery' |
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Summary: Where the food is rotten and the clientele flocks to it |
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Yahoo News |
10:21pm PDT |
Alicia Keys snubs out cigarette branding from gig
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Philip Morris International has pulled down billboards and posters promoting an Alicia Keys concert Thursday in Indonesia's capital after the singer protested the cigarette company's sponsorship. |
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Yahoo News |
10:11pm PDT |
NYPD nabs man accused of killing woman in Mass.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man accused of fatally stabbing a woman in a Massachusetts apartment and then fleeing with his four children and their mother was arrested Wednesday by police, who said the siblings and their mother were in good health and apparently had not been t |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
Gore likely to star at Democratic convention
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Gore, long mocked as an
exaggerating bore, seems certain to land a lead role at the
Democratic National Convention as an internationally recognized
defender of the Earth. |
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BBC News |
9:59pm PDT |
Offenders 'go unpunished' |
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Summary: Defence solicitors in England and Wales warn that criminals are getting off too lightly because of performance targets. |
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BBC News |
9:57pm PDT |
Anti-Semitic incidents 'rise 9%' |
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Summary: Anti-Semitic incidents rose 9% in the first half of 2008 compared with the same period a year earlier, a charity reports. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49pm PDT |
Iraq militant group head said to be in Afghanistan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The leader of the Sunni insurgent
group al-Qaeda in Iraq and several of his top lieutenants have
recently left Iraq for Afghanistan, the Washington Post
reported on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Ex-Thai PM's wife guilty of fraud |
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Summary: The wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is given a three-year sentence for tax fraud. |
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BBC News |
9:23pm PDT |
'I lost 185kg' |
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Summary: Slimming secrets of the world's heaviest man |
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BBC News |
9:23pm PDT |
Antigua calls on British police |
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Summary: Antigua's prime minister urges British police to help solve the shootings of honeymoon couple Catherine and Ben Mullany. |
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BBC News |
9:07pm PDT |
Support for Darfur mission urged |
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Summary: A report says the world is failing peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region, as a UN vote looms on extending the mandate. |
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BBC News |
8:58pm PDT |
Live fish caught at record depth |
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Summary: Scientists capture deep-sea fish at 2,300m and pull them to the surface alive in a special container. |
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ChristianPost |
8:55pm PDT |
Desire to Build a Church Led to Player's Major League Comeback |
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Summary: Fernando Tatis? return to major league baseball after a two-year absence had little to do with his desire to play the game, the New York Mets left fielder said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:52pm PDT |
Terrorism focus of new U.S. military strategy: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
last month approved a new National Defense Strategy that
recommends making fighting al Qaeda and other militant groups
the top military priority in coming decades, the Washington
Post reported in Thursday |
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BBC News |
8:32pm PDT |
Legionella contracted in hospital |
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Summary: Cheltenham General Hospital says it is likely that a patient contracted Legionnaires' disease on one of its wards. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
Bush signs new rules, roles for spy agencies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush approved an order Wednesday that rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, according to a U.S. official |
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BBC News |
8:29pm PDT |
Remains of five found on Jersey |
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Summary: The remains of at least five children aged between four and 11 have been found at former children's home, Jersey police say. |
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BBC News |
8:29pm PDT |
Jersey murder inquiry 'unlikely' |
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Summary: The remains of at least five children have been found at an-ex children's home, but a murder probe is unlikely, police say. |
