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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Russia 'begins Georgia handover' |
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Summary: Russian troops are handing over control of the area around the town of Gori to Georgian forces, officials say. |
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Cnn.com |
11:56pm PDT |
Play the U.S. Olympic name game |
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Summary: There are 596 names on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team and names, like eyes, are windows into the soul.
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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
Patients' escape prompts review |
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Summary: Security at a psychiatric hospital in Devon is to be reviewed after two patients who escaped are recaptured.
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Sterling losses gather momentum |
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Summary: The pound falls further, hitting its lowest level in almost two years against the dollar on fears the UK may fall into recession. |
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Cnn.com |
11:47pm PDT |
Chef Julia Child, others part of WWII spy network |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Red tape blues |
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Summary: Police officers on the effect of targets on their workload |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
US foreclosures rise by 55% |
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Summary: More than 272,000 people in the US received a foreclosure notice in July, up 55% on a year ago, a survey says. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PDT |
Thousands flee homes in S Lanka |
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Summary: The UN says as many as 75,000 people have fled their homes in northern Sri Lanka in the last two and a half months. |
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BBC News |
11:33pm PDT |
Tribute paid to Afghan aid worker |
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Summary: Tributes are paid to University of Ulster research fellow Dr Jacqueline Kirk, who was killed in Afghanistan. |
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Yahoo News |
10:54pm PDT |
US dispatches envoy in bid to break NKorea nuclear deadlock
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Washington on Wednesday sent an envoy to Beijing and US and South Korean negotiators prepared to meet in New York to help break a deadlock over a mechanism to verify North Korea's nuclear weapons program. |
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Yahoo News |
10:52pm PDT |
Georgian-Russian truce faces new test
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The fragile truce between Georgia and Russia faced a new test Thursday as Moscow pledged to begin handing over a key Georgian town amid a continuing war of words. |
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Yahoo News |
10:47pm PDT |
Obama, McCain aim for faith vote at forum
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential rivals Barack Obama
and John McCain target religious voters on Saturday when as
guests of one of America's foremost evangelists they discuss
faith in public life, AIDS, the environment and other issues. |
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Cnn.com |
10:46pm PDT |
Palestinians make rockets, Israel takes note |
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Summary: Nearly two months after Israel entered into a truce with militant groups in Gaza, at least one of them says it is building longer-range rockets that Israel says would violate the cease-fire.
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BBC News |
10:44pm PDT |
Meeting held over two fish kills |
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Summary: Two major fish kills have been blamed on pollution coming from an industrial estate outside Belfast, a public meeting is told. |
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Yahoo News |
10:43pm PDT |
U.S. flies aid into Georgia, Russia to pull out of Gori
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. military planes began delivering
aid to Georgia as Washington stepped up support for a shaky
ceasefire with Russian troops around the breakaway region of
South Ossetia. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PDT |
Students wait for A-level results |
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Summary: Thousands of students across Wales wait for their A-level results, which are expected to improve once again. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40pm PDT |
Pakistan's Musharraf calls for reconciliation
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistan's President Pervez
Musharraf, under mounting pressure to resign, called on
Thursday for political stability and reconciliation to tackle
economic and security problems. |
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BBC News |
10:22pm PDT |
Third curfew amid Kashmir tension |
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Summary: A curfew continues in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir after violence in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley. |
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BBC News |
9:55pm PDT |
US whites 'to be minority sooner' |
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Summary: White people are projected to become a minority in the US by the year 2042 - eight years sooner than previous projections. |
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BBC News |
9:49pm PDT |
Musharraf urges 'reconciliation' |
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Summary: President Pervez Musharraf says Pakistan needs political stability for economic development and fighting militancy. |
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Yahoo News |
9:44pm PDT |
Japan's Kitajima steals spotlight from Phelps
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima
stole the spotlight from Michael Phelps on Thursday with an
unprecedented double-double in the Olympics breaststroke. |
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Yahoo News |
9:25pm PDT |
Phelps advances, others claim Olympic spotlight
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michael Phelps isn't the only swimmer setting records at the Water Cube. It only seems that way. |
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Yahoo News |
9:19pm PDT |
Japan's Kitajima reigns, Bernard takes sprint
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima
stole the spotlight from Michael Phelps on Thursday with an
unprecedented double-double in the Olympics breaststroke. |
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BBC News |
9:17pm PDT |
Rice says Russia faces isolation |
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Summary: Condoleezza Rice warns Russia it faces international isolation if it does not leave Georgia, as she starts a visit to Europe. |
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Yahoo News |
9:06pm PDT |
CORRECTED: U.S. flies aid into Georgia, backs ceasefire
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. military planes began delivering
aid to Georgia as Washington stepped up support for a shaky
ceasefire with Russian troops around the breakaway region of
South Ossetia. |
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Yahoo News |
8:37pm PDT |
Man fatally shoots Ark. Dem. chairman at party HQ
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man recently fired from a Target store barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters Wednesday and fatally shot the state party chairman before speeding off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32pm PDT |
Georgian Russian truce faces new test
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The fragile truce between Georgia and Russia faces a new test Thursday as Moscow pledges to pull its troops out of a key Georgian town amid a continuing war of words. |
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Yahoo News |
8:30pm PDT |
Kitajima makes it a double double in Beijing Games
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Make it a double for Japan's Kosuke Kitajima. Again. |
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BBC News |
8:18pm PDT |
Patient details in missing diary |
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Summary: A midwife's diary containing the names and addresses of hundreds of mothers and pregnant women goes missing. |
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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
CORRECTED: Arkansas Democratic chairman shot at HQ dies
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic
Party, Bill Gwatney, died in a hospital after being shot by a
lone gunman at the party's headquarters in Little Rock,
officials said on Wednesday. |
