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10:23pm PST |
Olympics: Turin set for Games |
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Summary: The Olympic flame will burn again when the 20th Winter Games begins in Turin, Italy, on Friday. |
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BBC News |
9:46pm PST |
Japan PM 'suspends' royal plans |
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Summary: Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi reportedly suspends plans to introduce a bill allowing women on the throne. |
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Cnn.com |
9:27pm PST |
Libby: My 'superiors' authorized leaks |
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Summary: Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, told a grand jury he was "authorized by his superiors" to disclose classified information from an intelligence report to reporters, according to the special prosecutor in the CIA lea |
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8:23pm PST |
Climate 'warmest for millennium' |
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Summary: The northern hemisphere is uniformly warmer now than at any time in the past 1,200 years, new research shows. |
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Cnn.com |
7:28pm PST |
8 Olympic skiers, including two Americans, suspended |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
6:10pm PST |
U.S. hostage pleads, 'Do whatever they want' |
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Summary: Abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video broadcast on Kuwaiti television Thursday, urging the U.S. government to meet her kidnappers' demands. "I'm here. I'm fine. Please, just do whatever they want. Give them whatever they want as qu |
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10:36am PST |
Bush Says Cooperation Thwarted 2002 Attack (AP) |
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Summary: AP - President Bush said the U.S.-led global war on terror has "weakened and fractured" al-Qaida and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled purported terrorist plans to fly a commercial airp |
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Yahoo News |
10:34am PST |
Feared bird flu virus spreads in Nigeria (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to four farms in Nigeria, amid fears that a disease which has already killed more than 80 people in Asia will cause an Africa-wide epidemic. |
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Cnn.com |
10:33am PST |
Bush: U.S. thwarted al Qaeda attack in L.A. |
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Summary: Shortly after 9/11, al Qaeda began planning to use shoe bombers to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles, President Bush said today. "By working together, we stopped a catastrophic attack," he said. The details w |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PST |
Briton arrested in UK after US wife, baby murdered (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A British man has been
arrested in London on suspicion of murdering his wife and
infant daughter in Massachusetts and prosecutors said on
Thursday the shooting deaths may have been intended as a
murder-suicide. |
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10:24am PST |
Dutch MP backs Muhammad cartoons |
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Summary: A Somali-born Dutch MP who calls herself a "dissident of Islam" defends the Danish Muhammad cartoons. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PST |
Suicide Bomber Hits Shiite Procession (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A suicide bombing ripped through a Shiite Muslim procession Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, sparking riots during the Muslim sect's most important holiday. At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured in the violence, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03am PST |
'American Idol' Crushes Grammys in Ratings (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Some humbling news for the pros: By a wide margin, TV viewers prefer the amateurs. |
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Yahoo News |
10:01am PST |
Rahlves Fastest on Tough Downhill Course (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Only the world's most cunning and experienced speedsters tame this Olympic downhill, as American Daron Rahlves and Austrian Hermann Maier showed Thursday during the first official training run. The Kandahar Banchetta course is rugged, rigorous a |
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Yahoo News |
9:58am PST |
Rivals concede ex-president leads Haiti election (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A number of Haitian
presidential candidates conceded on Thursday that former
President Rene Preval appeared to be heading for an easy
victory in the first election since Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
ousted two years ago. |
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Yahoo News |
9:57am PST |
Hamas joins call for calm in cartoon row (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The radical Palestinian group Hamas joined voices for calm in the international furore sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, as a Taliban commander in Afghanistan said 100 suicide bombers were lined up on the side of further violence. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48am PST |
Google Offers Transfer Tool for Computers (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days. |
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BBC News |
9:45am PST |
Voting slow in by-election fight |
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Summary: Voting has been slow in the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election. |
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Cnn.com |
9:39am PST |
Briton charged with killing wife, baby |
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Summary: The British man whose American wife and baby were found shot to death last month in Massachusetts has been arrested in England and charged with murder. Neil Entwistle is charged with two counts of murder, one count of illegal possession of a firearm and o |
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Cnn.com |
9:39am PST |
Man charged with killing wife, baby |
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Summary: The British man whose American wife and baby were found shot to death last month in Massachusetts has been arrested in England and charged with murder. Neil Entwistle is charged with two counts of murder, one count of illegal possession of a firearm and o |
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Yahoo News |
9:38am PST |
Bush: US, allies thwarted terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush unveiled new details about a thwarted September 11th-style Al-Qaeda plot to crash a hijacked airliner into the tallest building in Los Angeles in 2002. |
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BBC News |
9:27am PST |
Pledge on ability sets 'missed' |
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Summary: Most secondary pupils are not taught in ability sets, figures show, even though ministers pledged to increase setting. |
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9:24am PST |
Bush details 'foiled terror plot' |
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Summary: The US and its allies thwarted "a catastrophic attack" on Los Angeles in 2002, President Bush says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:19am PST |
Bush details Qaeda hijack plot to use shoe bombs (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush on
Thursday disclosed new details of a thwarted al Qaeda plot to
use shoe bombs to hijack a plane and fly it into a Los Angeles
building, as he sought to justify his tactics in Washington's
war on terrorism |
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Yahoo News |
9:10am PST |
US searches off Yemen for escapees (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Navy ships are helping patrol
the international waters off Yemen to try to recapture al Qaeda
prison escapees if they try to flee by sea, the Pentagon said
in a statement on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:10am PST |
US searches off Yemen for escapees (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Navy ships are helping patrol
the international waters off Yemen to try to recapture al Qaeda
prison escapees if they try to flee by sea, the Pentagon said
in a statement on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:03am PST |
Halo 2 gamers face Vista upgrade |
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Summary: The PC version of Halo 2 will only be available for Microsoft's next edition of Windows called Vista. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PST |
White House Details Programs to Be Cut (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The White House Thursday sent lawmakers details of the 141 programs that President Bush wants to eliminate or significantly cut to save taxpayers almost $15 billion. |
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BBC News |
8:44am PST |
Football: McLeish sacked |
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Summary: Alex McLeish will leave his position as Rangers manager at the end of the season. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38am PST |
Attacks kill 33 in Pakistan (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A suspected suicide bombing and
gunfire killed at least 29 minority Shi'ite Muslims in
northwestern Pakistan on Thursday and gunmen killed at least
four more people in an attack on a bus, officials said. |
