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BBC News |
11:59pm PDT |
Chinese riot farmers regain land |
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Summary: Chinese farmers win a dispute over land rights which culminated in a bloody riot last month. |
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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Rare drawings given to the nation |
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Summary: Rare drawings by William Blake and Joshua Reynolds are amongst a haul paid in lieu of tax. |
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BBC News |
11:52pm PDT |
Mandelson urges economic reform |
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Summary: The European Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, calls for economic reform of the EU. |
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BBC News |
11:47pm PDT |
Concern grows over defence jobs |
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Summary: Opposition MPs demand a full Commons statement amid fears for the future of defence jobs across Scotland. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PDT |
Relentless Heat in Phoenix Kills 18 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A record heat wave has led to the deaths of 18 people, most of them homeless, leaving officials scrambling to provide water and shelter to the city's transient population. |
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BBC News |
11:21pm PDT |
Drugs education is 'improving' |
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Summary: Schools are better at drugs education - but could miss the mark by not focussing on alcohol and tobacco, inspectors say. |
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Yahoo News |
11:14pm PDT |
Report: 3,400 Air Violations Since 2001 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Pilots flew into restricted airspace 3,400 times across the country in the three years following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a congressional report that says the government needs to better coordinate its response to such violations. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08pm PDT |
Man Detained in Grenade Throwing Incident (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Georgian police on Wednesday detained a man suspected of throwing a live grenade during a rally at which President Bush spoke in May, the Interior Ministry said. The capture came after a shootout in which one officer was killed and another wounded. |
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BBC News |
11:03pm PDT |
Memorial at blast site building |
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Summary: A memorial service at the site of the Tavistock Square bus blast is to mark two weeks since the London bombings. |
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BBC News |
10:56pm PDT |
Cricket: Ashes tension mounts |
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Summary: Lord's is bathed in glorious sunshine ahead of the first day of the eagerly-awaited Ashes series. |
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BBC News |
10:56pm PDT |
Burglary and car crime rates fall |
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Summary: New crime figures show burglary, robbery and vehicle crime have all dropped by 16% in Wales. |
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BBC News |
10:47pm PDT |
Shots are fired at house in city |
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Summary: A man escapes injury in a gun attack in east Belfast, which police say they are treating as attempted murder. |
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BBC News |
10:20pm PDT |
Rice in Sudan for talks on Darfur |
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Summary: The US secretary of state arrives in Khartoum for talks with Sudan's new government over the Darfur crisis. |
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BBC News |
10:04pm PDT |
'Shaken baby' appeal results due |
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Summary: Four people jailed in so-called "shaken baby" cases are due to learn whether they have won landmark appeals. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Sunni Faction Halts Work on Iraqi Charter (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, July 20 -- A Sunni Arab faction suspended participation Wednesday in the crafting of Iraq's constitution, and a Kurdish bloc asserted claim to hundreds of square miles of additional territory stretching south of Baghdad. The |
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Cnn.com |
9:41pm PDT |
London bomb suspect has U.S., Pakistan ties |
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Summary: Relatives of a man wanted by British authorities in connection with the July 7 London bombings said Wednesday they have not seen him in a decade. Haroon Rashid Aswat, 30, a British-born citizen of Indian heritage, is suspected of ties to the four bombers |
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Cnn.com |
8:47pm PDT |
Senate moderates cast doubt on court filibuster |
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Summary: President Bush's pick for the Supreme Court made a round of courtesy calls to top lawmakers Wednesday, with a key group of moderates casting doubt on the possibility of a stalemate in the Senate. Three members of the Senate's so-called Gang of 14 downplay |
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Cnn.com |
8:47pm PDT |
Senate moderates cast doubt on court showdown |
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Summary: President Bush's pick for the Supreme Court made a round of courtesy calls to top lawmakers Wednesday, with a key group of moderates casting doubt on the possibility of a stalemate in the Senate. Three members of the Senate's so-called Gang of 14 said the |
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Cnn.com |
8:34pm PDT |
Quake sounds reveal Earth 'ripping apart' |
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Summary: Scientists are gaining insight about December's devastating earthquake and tsunami from the actual sounds of the magnitude 9.3 quake in the Indian Ocean. |
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Yahoo News |
8:29pm PDT |
NASA Aims for Tuesday Shuttle Launch (AP) |
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Summary: AP - NASA will try to launch Discovery on the first shuttle mission in more than two years next Tuesday, after tracing last week's fuel gauge failure to, most likely, an electrical grounding problem lurking inside the spacecraft. |
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BBC News |
7:49pm PDT |
Football coach abducted in Mexico |
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Summary: The coach of one of Mexico's top football clubs is kidnapped by an armed gang on the outskirts of Mexico City. |
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Cnn.com |
7:06pm PDT |
London suspect has U.S., Pakistan ties |
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Summary: Relatives of a man wanted by British authorities in connection with the July 7 London bombings said Wednesday they have not seen him in a decade. |
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Yahoo News |
7:06pm PDT |
Death Toll Up to 18 in Phoenix Heat Wave (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A record heat wave has led to the deaths of 18 people, most of them homeless, leaving officials scrambling to provide water and shelter to the city's transient population. |
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Yahoo News |
7:02pm PDT |
Piazza Ties Bench for Homers As Mets Win (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Mike Piazza hit a two-run homer to move into a tie with Johnny Bench on the career home run list, and Carlos Beltran also connected Wednesday night in the New York Mets' 7-3 victory over the San Diego Padres. |
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Yahoo News |
6:54pm PDT |
Google Map Service Covers Lunar Surface (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface. |
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BBC News |
6:48pm PDT |
No proof bombers Muslims - Bakri |
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Summary: Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed tells BBC News he does not believe the London bombers were Muslims. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PDT |
NASA Aims for Tuesday Launch (AP) |
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Summary: AP - NASA will try to launch Discovery on the first shuttle mission in more than two years next Tuesday, after tracing last week's fuel gauge failure to, most likely, an electrical grounding problem lurking inside the spacecraft. |
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BBC News |
6:15pm PDT |
The Ashes: Vaughan upbeat |
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Summary: England captain Michael Vaughan believes his side have shown Australia they will be a threat at Lord's. |
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BBC News |
6:03pm PDT |
Brazil official admits violations |
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Summary: The former treasurer of Brazil's governing party admits it broke the law when financing election campaigns. |
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Cnn.com |
5:51pm PDT |
Shuttle launch planned but problem not solved |
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Summary: NASA officials decided Wednesday to go ahead with the launch of the space shuttle Discovery Tuesday morning, even though they have still not definitively found what caused a fuel sensor malfunction that forced the mission to be scrubbed last week. |
