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BBC News |
11:59pm PDT |
Tributes paid to Sir Edward Heath |
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Summary: Politicians from all parties pay tribute to ex-Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, who has died aged 89. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
Couple's 'suicide' after son dies |
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Summary: A couple appear to have committed suicide after being told their only son had taken his life. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PDT |
Key figure quits Marks & Spencer |
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Summary: Charles Wilson, a senior director at Marks & Spencer, leaves the firm to become chief executive of Booker. |
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Yahoo News |
11:34pm PDT |
Governors: Drivers License Costs to Soar (AP) |
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Summary: AP - In the name of homeland security, motorists are going to see costs skyrocket for driver's licenses and motor vehicle offices forced to operate like local branches of the FBI, the nation's governors warn. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PDT |
India PM begins landmark US visit |
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Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is due to hold talks with US President George W Bush on the opening day of a key visit. |
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Cnn.com |
11:30pm PDT |
Hurricane Emily slams Yucatan Peninsula |
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Summary: A dangerous Hurricane Emily was making landfall on the shores of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early today with 135 mph winds, and forecasters predict it will cross into the Gulf of Mexico later in the day. Ahead of the storm, Mexican authorities asked an es |
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Yahoo News |
11:17pm PDT |
White House Mum on Disclosure in CIA Leak (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The White House is maintaining silence over the leak of a CIA officer's identity despite a journalist's disclosure that Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was a source for a story about the intelligence agent. |
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BBC News |
11:06pm PDT |
Four men are injured in shooting |
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Summary: Police appeal for information after four men are injured in a shooting incident in County Down. |
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BBC News |
11:06pm PDT |
Four men are injured in shooting |
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Summary: Police appeal for information after four men are injured in a shooting incident in County Down. |
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BBC News |
10:51pm PDT |
Tory spokesman to meet loyalists |
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Summary: Shadow Northern Ireland secretary David Lidington is to meet with members of the Loyalist Commission. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Lights erected after show death |
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Summary: Temporary lights and other safety measures are put in to place at the Royal Welsh Show after the death of a young farmer last year. |
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BBC News |
10:43pm PDT |
Bid values Hoover firm at $2.3bn |
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Summary: Hoover-maker Maytag could become the subject of a bidding war as it receives an offer from Whirlpool. |
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Cnn.com |
10:29pm PDT |
Report: Air ambulance crashes rise to record levels |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
10:02pm PDT |
Lethal Hurricane Emily lashes Mexican resorts (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Emily pounded Mexico's
Caribbean coast on Sunday night and thousands of panicked
tourists fled beach resorts or squeezed into shelters to escape
its destructive winds and torrential rains. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Iraqi Panel Files Case Against Hussein (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The first criminal case has been filed against former president Saddam Hussein for his alleged role in a 1982 massacre of more than 150 people, and he may be tried as early as September, the chief investigative jud |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Herndon Confronts Immigrant Tensions (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - The throng of Latino immigrants gathering outside the 7-Eleven in downtown Herndon looking for a day's work has been the most noticeable part of this commercial district of shopping plazas and fast-food restaurants for almost a decade |
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Yahoo News |
9:18pm PDT |
Hurricane Emily Lashes Yucatan Peninsula (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Emily lashed the Yucatan peninsula Sunday, hours after thousands of jittery tourists streamed out of their waterfront hotels and fled inland to shelter in schools and gymnasiums. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PDT |
Iraq war support 'put UK at risk' |
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Summary: A report says Britain's support of the invasion of Iraq put the UK more at risk from terrorist attack. |
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BBC News |
9:01pm PDT |
'MPs must back' Aceh peace deal |
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Summary: Indonesia's vice president says constitutional change is needed to fulfil the Aceh peace deal. |
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BBC News |
8:55pm PDT |
Warning over maternity care risk |
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Summary: The lives of new mothers and babies are at risk from poor conditions in many maternity wards, a report warns. |
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Cnn.com |
7:38pm PDT |
FBI says it has files on advocacy groups |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
7:37pm PDT |
Hunt for UK bombing network spreads (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - British secret services last year vetted
one of the bombers behind the London attacks and judged he was
not a threat, a report said on Sunday, as police searched for a
support network of planners, bomb-makers and financiers. |
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Yahoo News |
7:29pm PDT |
CORRRECTED: Hunt for UK bombing network spreads (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Please read in paragraph 10 "arrested six men in the town
of Leeds, northern England, under immigration laws" instead of
"arrested six men in the town of Leeds, northern England, under
anti-terrorism laws" and please change paragraph 11 to read |
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Yahoo News |
7:14pm PDT |
Lethal Hurricane Emily targets Mexican coast (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Emily howled toward
Mexico's Caribbean coast on Sunday packing 135 mph (215 kph)
winds and torrential rain and causing panic in Cancun, where
screaming tourists squeezed into musty shelters. |
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Yahoo News |
7:12pm PDT |
Sharon gives army free hand; troops mass near Gaza (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israel massed troops and tanks at the Gaza
frontier and gave a free hand to security forces to stop
Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes on Sunday, but
suggested it would delay a major escalation of violence. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04pm PDT |
Whirlpool Offers to Buy Maytag for $2.3B (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Whirlpool Corp. announced Sunday an offer to acquire fellow appliance maker Maytag Corp. for $2.3 billion, topping an earlier offer by Triton Acquisition Holding Co. |
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Yahoo News |
6:57pm PDT |
Whirlpool Offers to Acquire Maytag (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Whirlpool Corp. announced Sunday that it has made a proposal to acquire fellow appliance maker Maytag Corp. for $2.3 billion, topping an earlier offer by Triton Acquisition Holding Co. |
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Cnn.com |
6:55pm PDT |
Two sedans get top crash test ratings |
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Summary: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave two large luxury cars its top safety ratings in front and side impact crash test results released Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:46pm PDT |
FBI Says It Has Files on Rights Groups (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The FBI has thousands of pages of records in its files relating to the monitoring of civil rights, environmental and similar advocacy groups, the Justice Department acknowledges. |
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Cnn.com |
6:41pm PDT |
Disneyland celebrates golden anniversary |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
