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11:58pm PDT |
Builders warn on mortgage impact |
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Summary: Two of the UK's largest housebuilders say the lack of mortgage availability is continuing to hamper the housing market. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
Africa's pride |
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Summary: Ghanaian view on being chosen for Obama visit |
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11:45pm PDT |
Bulls and Newton to part company |
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Summary: Bradford hooker Terry Newton is to leave the Super League club at the end of the current season after failing to win a two-year contract extension. |
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Yahoo News |
11:41pm PDT |
Iran won't back down "one step" in atom row
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Summary: Reuters - Iran will not back down "even one step" over its nuclear work, a senior adviser to the country's top authority said in remarks published on Thursday, making clear Tehran's continued defiance in a row with the West. |
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11:41pm PDT |
Investigation after man shot dead |
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Summary: Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in the Chadderton area of Greater Manchester. |
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Cnn.com |
11:38pm PDT |
Doctors, family reportedly tried to help Jackson |
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Summary: Michael Jackson's dermatologist said he was not surprised to learn that prescription drugs were found in the singer's home and he had warned Jackson about their danger. Two sources told CNN that sister Janet tried to stage an intervention in 2007 and Jack |
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11:38pm PDT |
More associates link Jackson to drugs |
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Summary: Michael Jackson's dermatologist said Wednesday that he was not surprised to learn that investigators found numerous bottles of prescription drugs in the singer's home -- adding that he had warned Jackson about their danger repeatedly.
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11:37pm PDT |
Uneasy calm in China's riot city |
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Summary: Security forces retain a tight grip as officials try to restore normality to the Chinese city of Urumqi after the weekend's riots. |
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11:37pm PDT |
Blast in central Afghanistan kills 25
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Summary: AP - A massive blast triggered Thursday in an overturned timber truck in central Afghanistan killed 25 people, destroyed shops and propelled pieces of the vehicle more than a mile (about 2 kilometers) away, officials said. |
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11:25pm PDT |
Obama broadens push for climate change pact
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Summary: AP - Rallying rich and surging nations alike, President Barack Obama wants the world's top polluters to keep driving toward a deal to halt global warming. |
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11:24pm PDT |
G8 welcomes developing states, eyes climate
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Summary: Reuters - Leaders of the world's richest and main developing nations meet on Thursday to try to find common ground on global warming and international trade, with the poorer countries seeking concessions. |
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11:22pm PDT |
25 people killed in Afghan blast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A massive blast triggered Thursday in an overturned timber truck in central Afghanistan killed 25 people, destroyed shops and propelled pieces of the vehicle more than a mile (about 2 kilometers) away, officials said. |
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11:19pm PDT |
Primark sales defy retail gloom |
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Summary: The owner of discount clothes shop Primark says the chain has continued to defy much of the retail gloom. |
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Cnn.com |
11:09pm PDT |
Police: Workers dug up graves, resold plots |
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Summary: Employees at a historic African-American cemetery near Chicago allegedly dug up more than 100 graves as part of an off-the-books scheme to resell burial plots to unsuspecting customers, authorities said Wednesday.
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11:01pm PDT |
Many killed in Afghan explosion |
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Summary: At least 25 people are killed in an explosion in Logar province in central Afghanistan, police officials say. |
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11:00pm PDT |
China confirms Rio Tinto staff arrests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China confirmed on Thursday the arrest of an Australian mining executive and three others on spying allegations, in a case that has rattled currency markets and raised questions about China-Australia relations. |
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10:57pm PDT |
Prescott concern over phone tap claims |
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Summary: John Prescott is to contact police over claims phone messages were intercepted by investigators hired by News of the World reporters. |
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Cnn.com |
10:56pm PDT |
Man dies after falling into vat of chocolate |
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Summary: An employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died Wednesday after falling into a vat of hot chocolate, according to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's office.
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10:52pm PDT |
Interior Ministry: Blast in Afghanistan kills 25
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An Interior Ministry spokesman says the massive blast in central Afghanistan has killed 25 people, including 21 civilians and four policemen. |
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10:51pm PDT |
Afghan truck bomb kills 25: police
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Summary: AFP - An overturned truck rigged with explosives blew up on a crowded road south of the Afghan capital, killing 25 people including many school children, Afghan officials said. |
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10:46pm PDT |
Deadly attacks in northern Iraq |
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Summary: At least 15 people are killed in two suicide bomb attacks in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police say. |
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10:42pm PDT |
'Growing worry' on sunbed salons |
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Summary: An inquiry begins into whether tighter controls are needed over tanning salons after "ever younger" children are burned. |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PDT |
More web attacks likely, North Korea suspected
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Summary: Reuters - A fresh wave of cyber attacks that slowed U.S. and South Korean websites this week could come later on Thursday, a web security firm said, while the South's spy agency has said the hacking may be linked to North Korea. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14pm PDT |
Blast outside school in Afghanistan kills 15
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An explosion outside a school south of the Afghan capital on Thursday killed at least 15 people, including 12 students, an official said. |
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10:12pm PDT |
'Twelve die' in Afghan explosion |
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Summary: At least 12 people are killed in an explosion in Logar province in central Afghanistan, police officials say. |
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Cnn.com |
10:10pm PDT |
Americans beaten, shot to death in Mexico |
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Summary: A multiagency search is under way for the killers of two U.S. citizens in northern Mexico, according to Chihuahua state officials.
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10:07pm PDT |
Honduras rivals to talk, but no sign of concessions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Veteran mediator and Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica hosts talks on Thursday between the rivals for power in Honduras, but neither side seems willing to yield following last month's coup. |
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Yahoo News |
9:42pm PDT |
Chinese armed police watch over a calmer Urumqi
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Traffic and shopping resumed in Urumqi on Thursday after days of ethnic violence in the western city killed at least 156 people, and China's alarmed leaders vowed to punish those behind the attacks. |
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Cnn.com |
9:42pm PDT |
House Dems: Panetta said CIA misled Congress |
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Summary: CIA Director Leon Panetta recently testified to Congress that the agency concealed information and misled lawmakers repeatedly since 2001, according to a letter from seven House Democrats to Panetta made public Wednesday.
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Yahoo News |
9:27pm PDT |
Afghan blast kills 12 students south of Kabul
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least 12 students were killed on Thursday by an explosion outside a school to the south of the Afghan capital, an official said. |
