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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Storm disrupts Olympic build-up |
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Summary: A tropical storm causes the suspension of training for British athletes and disrupts preparation for the equestrian events. |
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Yahoo News |
11:51pm PDT |
Bush: NKorea must verify denuclearization
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush offered poverty-wracked North Korea hope Wednesday that it could share in South Korea's economic prosperity, while warning that it first must take concrete steps to live up to a promise to end its nuclear weapons program. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
ITV predicts advertising slowdown |
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Summary: Broadcaster ITV says ad revenues this autumn will be substantially lower than a year ago. |
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BBC News |
11:27pm PDT |
Indian PM calls Kashmir meeting |
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Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls an all-party meeting to discuss worsening tensions in Indian-administered Kashmir. |
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BBC News |
11:12pm PDT |
Man indicted over stabbing death |
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Summary: A grand jury in New Jersey indicts a man with the fatal stabbing of a Cardiff fitness instructor on holiday in America. |
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Yahoo News |
11:07pm PDT |
Wily sea lion slips aboard family's Wash. sailboat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - No one wants to be stuck with a large, uninvited visitor. Especially a sea lion that makes itself at home on a family sailboat — twice. |
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BBC News |
11:03pm PDT |
Consumer confidence falls |
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Summary: Job losses and falling property values has sent UK consumer confidence to new lows, the Nationwide says. |
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Cnn.com |
10:52pm PDT |
Self-deportation program nets few takers |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Maze decision 'due within weeks' |
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Summary: Sports Minister Gregory Campbell says he will make a decision about the proposed Maze stadium within the next few weeks. |
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Yahoo News |
10:41pm PDT |
Bush: NKorea has work to verify denuclearization
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Wednesday that North Korea has much to do before the U.S. can remove it from the terror blacklist, but expressed hope that its pariah status as a member of the "axis of evil" could some day be a thing of the past. |
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BBC News |
10:35pm PDT |
Grant boost for .cym domain bid |
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Summary: £20,000 of public money is given to secure a .cym web domain despite a report saying it is unlikely to promote Welsh culture. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13pm PDT |
Texas executes Mexican-born killer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Mexican-born condemned prisoner was executed Tuesday night for the rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago after a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a reprieve. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
Bush says too early to drop NKorea from "axis of evil"
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush expressed concern Wednesday at North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes and rights record, and said it is premature to drop the communist state from his "axis of evil." |
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BBC News |
9:49pm PDT |
Britons 'held' in Beijing protest |
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Summary: The British Embassy in Beijing is investigating reports that two Britons have been detained during a protest about Tibet. |
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BBC News |
9:49pm PDT |
'Britons' held in Beijing protest |
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Summary: The British Embassy in Beijing is investigating reports that two Britons have been detained during a protest about Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
9:37pm PDT |
Torch cheered in Tiananmen, protesters held
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Euphoric crowds chanting "Go Olympics,
Go Beijing" cheered the Olympic flame through Tiananmen Square
on Wednesday at the end of its troubled global relay. |
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BBC News |
9:29pm PDT |
Police cell condition 'squalid' |
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Summary: A police custody suite for immigration detainees is "unhygienic and unsafe" and should be closed, a report says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:24pm PDT |
Texas defies World Court with execution
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas defied the World Court and
executed a Mexican national by lethal injection on Tuesday over
the objections of the international judicial body and
neighboring Mexico. |
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Cnn.com |
8:54pm PDT |
Appeal denied; Mexican executed in Texas |
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Summary: A Mexican national on Texas' death row is awaiting possible last-minute intervention from the Supreme Court, just hours before he is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday for two brutal slayings.
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BBC News |
8:49pm PDT |
'Maddy sighting' prompts interest |
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Summary: Private detectives for Kate and Gerry McCann pursue an alleged sighting of a girl calling herself Maddy in Holland. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48pm PDT |
U.S., South Korea push North Korea on nuclear verification
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush and South
Korean President Lee Myung-bak pressed North Korea on Wednesday
to agree on a verification plan for its nuclear weapons program
or continue to face international isolation. |
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BBC News |
8:36pm PDT |
Texas executes Mexican murderer |
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Summary: A Mexican man whose case has drawn international legal attention is executed in Texas for rape and murder. |
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Yahoo News |
8:34pm PDT |
Beijing celebrates as Olympic flame begins final journey
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Olympic torch began its final leg in the heart of Beijing on Wednesday, with genuine excitement among the city's millions replacing the controversy that often surrounded its global journey. |
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Yahoo News |
8:25pm PDT |
Texas defies World Court, executes condemned Mexican
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas defied the World Court and
executed a Mexican national by lethal injection on Tuesday over
the objections of the international judicial body and
neighboring Mexico. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24pm PDT |
Bush concerned at NKorea uranium enrichment
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush expressed concern Wednesday at North Korea's nuclear and missile development and called for strong verification of its nuclear declaration delivered in June. |
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Yahoo News |
8:19pm PDT |
Favre leaves Lambeau, maybe Packers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The bond between Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers appears to be broken beyond repair. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11pm PDT |
Six powers to confer on Iran's nuclear response
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Six world powers are to confer by telephone Wednesday on whether to seek new sanctions or keep talking to Iran after its ambiguous response to their offer to resolve the dispute over its allegedly arms-targetted nuclear program. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08pm PDT |
Bush: N. Korea has work to verify denuclearization
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Wednesday that North Korea has much to do before the U.S. can remove it from the terror blacklist, but he raised hope that its pariah status as a member of the "axis of evil" status could some day be a thing of the past. |
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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
Torch cheered through Tiananmen Square
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Euphoric crowds chanting "Go Olympics,
Go Beijing" cheered the Olympic flame through Tiananmen Square
on Wednesday at the end of its troubled global relay. |
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Cnn.com |
7:56pm PDT |
Appeal denied; Mexican to be executed in Texas |
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Summary: A Mexican national on Texas' death row is awaiting possible last-minute intervention from the Supreme Court, just hours before he is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday for two brutal slayings.
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