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Cnn.com |
11:59pm PDT |
Atheist ads to adorn subway stations |
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Summary: Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming "Thank God" when arriving at their destination subway station beginning next Monday.
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11:58pm PDT |
Man dies and family hurt in fire |
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Summary: A man is killed and his wife and two young children are seriously injured in a suspected arson attack at their home in Lancashire. |
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Yahoo News |
11:52pm PDT |
Afghan president's political rival accepts run-off
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Summary: AP - President Hamid Karzai's chief political rival agreed Wednesday to stand in the Nov. 7 run-off election, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown in the face of Taliban threats and approaching winter snows. |
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Yahoo News |
11:49pm PDT |
21 killed in northern India train collision
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A passenger train crashed into another train's rear carriage reserved for women and disabled passengers, killing 21 people and injuring 17 who remained trapped for hours Wednesday near the Taj Mahal in northern India, police said. |
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11:41pm PDT |
Green China? |
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Summary: The tower block revolutionising green building |
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Yahoo News |
11:40pm PDT |
Afghan rival accepts run-off, says he ready
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Summary: AP - President Hamid Karzai's chief political rival agreed Wednesday to stand in the Nov. 7 run-off election, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown in the face of Taliban threats and approaching winter snows. |
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BBC News |
11:28pm PDT |
Sack Afghan poll officials - UN |
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Summary: The UN is seeking to get half the officials involved in the flawed Afghan elections replaced ahead of a run-off. |
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11:15pm PDT |
BAA agrees Gatwick airport sale |
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Summary: BAA agrees to sell Gatwick, the UK's second busiest airport, to Global Infrastructure Partners for £1.5bn. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11pm PDT |
Afghan president's rival accepts run-off
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Hamid Karzai's chief political rival is agreeing to run in the Nov. 7 run-off election and says he'll be ready. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
Afghan election officials fired ahead of run-off
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Summary: Reuters - The heads of more than half of Afghanistan's district election offices will be replaced to prevent fraud in a second-round presidential election critical to the country's credibility and foreign support. |
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BBC News |
11:09pm PDT |
Silver screen |
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Summary: Plans to restore Britain's first cinema
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11:07pm PDT |
Pakistan hits Taliban, urges NATO to seal border
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban bases near the Afghan border on Wednesday as the army urged NATO forces to seal the frontier to stem cross-border movement of militants. |
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11:06pm PDT |
Poll fraud officials must go - UN |
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Summary: The UN is seeking to get half the officials involved in the flawed Afghan elections replaced ahead of a run-off. |
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Cnn.com |
11:00pm PDT |
Mom: Missing daughter excited about concert |
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Summary: The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert says she helped her daughter choose an outfit for the show that same morning.
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Yahoo News |
10:55pm PDT |
Congress pressed to act to curb child-abuse deaths
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Armed with grim statistics, experts and activists are mobilizing this week to demand expanded federal efforts — including more money and tougher oversight — to reverse a recent rise in the number of children dying from abuse and neglect. |
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BBC News |
10:42pm PDT |
Flu vaccine programme is launched |
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Summary: Northern Ireland's swine flu vaccination programme is launched by Health Minister Michael McGimpsey. |
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10:42pm PDT |
Flu vaccine programme launched |
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Summary: Northern Ireland's swine flu vaccination programme is launched by Health Minister Michael McGimpsey. |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PDT |
Former Wyo. governor, US Sen. Clifford Hansen dies
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Summary: AP - Clifford Hansen, a former Wyoming governor and the nation's oldest former member of the U.S. Senate, died Tuesday night at his home in Jackson, his son said. He was 97. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19pm PDT |
Train crash in India, at least nine dead
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Summary: AFP - An Indian express train ploughed into the back of another near the Taj Mahal town of Agra early Wednesday, killing at least nine and trapping dozens in the wreckage, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:15pm PDT |
Watchdog: Bailout helped but at a great cost
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A government watchdog said the $700 billion bailout for the financial industry played a major role in rescuing the economy over the last year but also engendered anger and distrust among Americans because of secrecy and confusion about the way the pr |
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10:00pm PDT |
Career risk |
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Summary: Doctors urged to avoid treating friends and family |
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Yahoo News |
9:55pm PDT |
Afghans race to organize Karzai-Abdullah runoff
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Facing Taliban threats and approaching winter snows, Afghan election officials must now scramble to organize a runoff presidential election on Nov. 7 after a grim President Hamid Karzai bowed to intense U.S. pressure and acknowledged that he fell sho |
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9:48pm PDT |
Many 'missing' after China riots |
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Summary: Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared in the wake of the riots in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:44pm PDT |
A-Rod launches Yankees to brink of World Series
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Alex Rodriguez has done something remarkable in every game of his charmed October. CC Sabathia is settling for every time he takes the mound. Together, they've got the New York Yankees within one win of a long-awaited return to the World Series. |
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BBC News |
9:21pm PDT |
India train collision kills nine |
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Summary: Two passenger trains collide near the city of Mathura in northern India, killing at least nine people. |
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BBC News |
9:09pm PDT |
UN 'to replace Afghan monitors' |
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Summary: The UN's secretary general says it will replace half the officials involved in Afghanistan's flawed election ahead of a run-off. |
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BBC News |
9:06pm PDT |
Sharing the pain |
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Summary: How UK Pakistanis relate to a growing humanitarian crisis |
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Yahoo News |
8:54pm PDT |
Train crash kills 15, many trapped: reports
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Summary: AFP - An express train ploughed into the back of another in northern India early Wednesday, killing up to 15 and trapping as many as 50 in the wreckage, officials and reports said. |
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BBC News |
8:53pm PDT |
India train collision kills many |
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Summary: Two passenger trains collide near the city of Mathura in northern India, killing at least nine people. |
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Yahoo News |
8:43pm PDT |
Fed's Yellen: No tightening in next several months
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Summary: Reuters - The time for the U.S. Federal Reserve to start pulling back its extensive support for the economy is not close at hand and policymakers have time to decide what sequence of steps they will take, San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen said on T |
