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BBC News |
11:59pm PDT |
RBS has £691m loss in first half |
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Summary: Royal Bank of Scotland posts a pre-tax loss of £691m during the first six months of 2008, the second-biggest loss in UK banking history. |
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Cnn.com |
11:50pm PDT |
U.S. boxer collapses, out of the Olympics |
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Summary: By David Epstein, SI.com
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Yahoo News |
11:45pm PDT |
Russian aircraft attack Georgian territory: Georgian ministry
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Three Russian aircraft on Friday bombed a position in Georgia, a spokesman for the Georgian interior ministry told AFP. |
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BBC News |
11:45pm PDT |
Georgia surrounds rebel capital |
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Summary: Georgian troops close in on the capital of the separatist South Ossetia region, after a night of heavy fighting. |
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BBC News |
11:32pm PDT |
Floods cause further rail delays |
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Summary: Rail journeys on the East Coast Mainline between Newcastle and Edinburgh continue to be disrupted by flooding. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
Beijing ready for Olympic opening |
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Summary: China prepares to open the 2008 Olympic Games with a lavish ceremony in Beijing, amid heavy cloud and pollution concerns. |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Omagh families boycott memorial |
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Summary: The families of some Omagh bomb victims decide not to attend a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the atrocity. |
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Cnn.com |
10:56pm PDT |
Jets' Favre a Packer on 'Madden NFL 09' cover |
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Yahoo News |
10:53pm PDT |
China to celebrate might in opening night bash
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China celebrates its ancient past and
modern power when the Olympics open on Friday, looking to put
criticism behind it as world leaders arrive in Beijing. |
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Yahoo News |
10:44pm PDT |
After a year, The Police end comeback tour in NYC
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Police ended one of rock 'n' roll's most successful reunions in Madison Square Garden on Thursday with a tribute to other famous trios, an assist from some real cops and a not-particularly close shave. |
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Yahoo News |
10:41pm PDT |
Military jury gives bin Laden driver just 5 1/2 years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A U.S. military jury sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver Thursday to just 5 1/2 years in prison, a surprise rebuke to Pentagon prosecutors who portrayed him as a member of the al-Qaida leader's inner circle worthy of a life sentence. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38pm PDT |
Scientists create stem cells for 10 disorders
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish. |
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BBC News |
10:36pm PDT |
Digital TV switch to be revealed |
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Summary: The date when the first of Wales' television transmitters will start broadcasting only in digital is to be unveiled. |
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BBC News |
10:23pm PDT |
Australian police bust drugs ring |
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Summary: Australian police arrest 16 people after an investigation into an international drugs ring, seizing a record haul of ecstasy pills. |
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BBC News |
10:10pm PDT |
Thumbing a ride |
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Summary: Today's Evan Davis sees if hitchhiking still works |
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Yahoo News |
10:10pm PDT |
Bush, Chinese leader exchange warm greeting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Speaking on China's turf the very day it hosted the opening of the Olympic Games, President Bush on Friday prodded the communist country to lessen repression and "let people say what they think." |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
Zimbabwe power-sharing deal close: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will hold a make or break
meeting in Harare on Sunday aimed at finalizing a power-sharing
deal, a South African newspaper reported on Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
9:59pm PDT |
Bush opens huge U.S. Embassy in Beijing |
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Summary: China said it is committed to its citizens' "basic rights and freedoms" Thursday and criticized President Bush for meddling in what Beijing says are its internal affairs.
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
'Lack of role models' fuels gangs |
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Summary: A lack of parent and adult role models drives young people to gangs, a survey by the Prince's Trust suggests. |
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BBC News |
9:32pm PDT |
Teenage Briton in fatal Alps fall |
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Summary: An 18-year-old Briton on holiday with friends falls to his death in the French Alps at a training site near Chamonix. |
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Yahoo News |
9:20pm PDT |
Georgian troops, warplanes, pound separatists
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Georgian troops, backed by
warplanes, pounded separatist forces on the outskirts of the
South Ossetian capital on Friday hours after launching an
assault on the breakaway region following a short-lived truce. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04pm PDT |
Man held in Florida for threat to kill Obama, Bush
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A man with self-described mental health
problems was ordered held without bail in Florida on Thursday
on charges that he had threatened to assassinate Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama or President George W.
Bush. |
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BBC News |
8:48pm PDT |
Flu pandemic tops risk register |
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Summary: A National Risk Register commissioned by the prime minister cites a flu pandemic as the gravest threat to security. |
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Yahoo News |
8:47pm PDT |
Gates to back expansion of Afghan army: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
will endorse a $20 billion five-year plan to substantially
expand Afghanistan's army, The New York Times reported on
Thursday, citing senior Pentagon and military officials. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Guantanamo gives bin Laden driver just 5 1/2 years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A U.S. military jury sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver Thursday to just 5 1/2 years in prison, a surprise rebuke to Pentagon prosecutors who portrayed him as a member of the al-Qaida leader's inner circle worthy of a life sentence. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Bush challenges China to lessen repression
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Speaking on China's turf the very day it hosted the opening of the Olympic Games, President Bush on Friday prodded the communist country to lessen repression and "let people say what they think." |
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Yahoo News |
8:19pm PDT |
Georgian troops battle separatists, Russia alarmed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Georgian troops battled
separatist forces on the outskirts of the South Ossetian
capital Tskhinvali on Friday hours after launching an all-out
assault on the breakaway region which broke a short-lived
truce. |
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Yahoo News |
8:15pm PDT |
Heavy fighting as Georgia attacks rebel region
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Violent clashes were underway Friday in South Ossetia as Georgia said its forces had surrounded the capital of the breakaway region. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PDT |
Mewing models slink into NYC hotel fashion show
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The catwalk really was a catwalk Thursday. Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress strutted their stuff at New York's Algonquin Hotel. |
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Yahoo News |
7:54pm PDT |
Officials say Bill Clinton to address Democrats
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Clinton will have a role at the Democratic convention in Denver later this month. |
