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7:56pm PDT |
Christina Applegate treated for breast cancer
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Summary: AP - Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, her publicist said. |
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Cnn.com |
7:52pm PDT |
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of gulag, dies at 89 |
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Summary: Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at 89, Russian news agencies reported. Given the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, he was considered a moral voice for Russia. His "Gulag Archipelago" unveiled the horrors of the Soviet pris |
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7:51pm PDT |
9 climbers feared dead after avalanche on K-2
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Summary: AP - At least nine climbers were feared dead on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials and other climbers said Sunday. |
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7:49pm PDT |
Bush travels to Asia for talks, Olympics |
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7:46pm PDT |
Third home |
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Summary: A Serb family's new life in multi-ethnic Kosovo village |
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7:39pm PDT |
Ill Palestinians 'asked to spy' |
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Summary: Israel is accused of trying to recruit Palestinian medical patients as informers - a claim it dismisses as unfounded. |
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7:30pm PDT |
Global Aids forum opens in Mexico |
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Summary: Mexico City opens a global conference on HIV/Aids, 25 years after the syndrome first became widely known. |
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7:19pm PDT |
Lad mags 'linked to social ills' |
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Summary: Some magazines are encouraging irresponsible behaviour among young men, a Tory spokesman will say. |
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7:05pm PDT |
Husband in Antigua honeymoon attack dies |
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7:05pm PDT |
Husband in honeymoon attack dies |
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7:01pm PDT |
World's tiniest snake found, scientist says |
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7:01pm PDT |
Scientist: World's tiniest snake found |
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6:45pm PDT |
Israeli airport staff find three-year-old forgotten by her parents |
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Summary: Staff at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel find a small girl alone after her parents accidentally take a plane without her. |
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6:26pm PDT |
DNA links man to anthrax mailings, source says |
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Summary: DNA evidence from the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings led authorities to a suspect who officials say killed himself, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The DNA linked the anthrax used in the mailing to a flask used in Bruce Ivins' lab at |
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6:23pm PDT |
Obama switches on voting rights |
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Summary: Barack Obama calls for delegates from Michigan and Florida to have their voting rights restored at the Democratic convention. |
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6:05pm PDT |
Scots cabinet follows Lloyd George's example |
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Summary: Scottish ministers are to meet in the same room that hosted a gathering of Lloyd George's cabinet. |
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6:00pm PDT |
Learning disability sex campaign |
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Summary: A campaign highlighting the rights of people with learning disabilities to sex and relationships is being launched. |
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5:59pm PDT |
At least 9 climbers feared dead on K-2
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Summary: AP - At least nine climbers were feared dead on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials and other climbers said Sunday. |
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5:53pm PDT |
Curtain up on Edinburgh's Fringe |
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Summary: The largest arts festival in the world gets under way with 2,088 shows in 247 venues across Edinburgh. |
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5:36pm PDT |
Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
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Summary: Reuters - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet
dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner who revealed
the horror of Stalin's camps to the world, died late on Sunday
aged 89, Russian news agencies reported. |
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Cnn.com |
5:21pm PDT |
Source: DNA links man to anthrax mailings |
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Summary: DNA evidence from the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings led authorities to a suspect who officials say killed himself, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
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5:07pm PDT |
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies
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Summary: AP - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. |
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5:06pm PDT |
Greek man held after girlfriend beheaded |
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4:57pm PDT |
MPs sceptical over car tax rise |
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Summary: A committee of MPs disagrees over the plan to increase car tax for
"gas-guzzling" vehicles. |
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4:45pm PDT |
Russian dissident, novelist Solzhenitsyn dies |
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Summary: Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at 89, Russian news agencies reported. Given the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, he was considered a moral voice for Russia. His "Gulag Archipelago" unveiled the horrors of the Soviet pris |
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Cnn.com |
4:40pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Edouard forms in Gulf of Mexico |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Edouard formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, threatening to parallel Louisiana's coast while heading toward Texas, the National Hurricane Center said.
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4:37pm PDT |
Russian Gulag writer Solzhenitsyn dies aged 89
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Summary: AFP - Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who shone a light on the inhuman world of the Soviet gulags, died late Sunday, the Itar-Tass news agency said, citing his son Stepan. He was 89. |
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4:33pm PDT |
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. |
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4:32pm PDT |
UK Africans 'need more HIV help' |
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Summary: More effort is needed to spread HIV prevention messages among African men and women now living in the UK, claim researchers. |
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4:23pm PDT |
ANC hero |
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Summary: Supporters of Jacob Zuma turn out for his day in court |
