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BBC News |
10:49pm PST |
Universities face foreign slump |
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Summary: The BBC's Mike Baker warns UK universities might face problems in the lucrative market of foreign students. |
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Cnn.com |
9:39pm PST |
Jill Carroll's kidnappers set 'final deadline' |
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Summary: The kidnappers of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll have set a February 26 deadline for their demands to be met or she will be killed, Alrai Television in Kuwait reported citing sources close to the kidnappers. In a video that appeared Thursday on the private |
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BBC News |
6:04pm PST |
Haiti poll may go to second round |
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Summary: Rene Preval sees his lead in Haiti's presidential poll drop, as latest results suggest a possible second round. |
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BBC News |
5:34pm PST |
Danish ambassador to leave Syria |
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Summary: Denmark pulls its envoy out of Syria on safety grounds because of the Prophet Muhammad cartoon row. |
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BBC News |
4:15pm PST |
Study into Forth bridge dry-out |
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Summary: Engineers are set to look into the feasibility of fitting £12m de-humidification equipment onto the main suspension cables of the Forth Road Bridge. |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PST |
How sperm can go into overdrive |
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Summary: Researchers have identified a key component of the mechanism sperm use to speed progress to the egg. |
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BBC News |
1:57pm PST |
UN urges Nigeria bird flu action |
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Summary: Nigeria must intensify measures to control the spread of the deadly bird flu virus, the UN warns. |
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BBC News |
9:46am PST |
Search site retires iconic Jeeves |
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Summary: Iconic valet Jeeves is set to disappear from the Ask search site by the end of February. |
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Yahoo News |
8:03am PST |
Judge Tosses Case of Atheist Vs. Priest (AP) |
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Summary: AP - An Italian judge has dismissed an atheist's petition that a small-town priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed, both sides said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:02am PST |
U.S. Slider Zach Lund Banned From Games (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Zach Lund, the top slider on the U.S. skeleton team, was banned from the Turin Olympics on Friday for taking a common hair-restoration pill that can be used to mask steroids. |
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Cnn.com |
8:01am PST |
Brown: Homeland Security policies doomed FEMA |
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Summary: The government's decision to fold the Federal Emergency Management Agency into the Department of Homeland Security led to FEMA's failure during Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA Director Michael Brown testified today. "There was a cultural clash which didn't |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PST |
Ex-FEMA Chief Brown Blames DHS (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Top Department of Homeland Security officials were told that New Orleans' levees were breached the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, former disaster chief Michael Brown said Friday, contradicting previous statements by agency officials w |
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Yahoo News |
7:55am PST |
Woman Who Weighs 37 Pounds Has Healthy Boy (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A woman who is 3 feet tall and weighed 37 pounds before she got pregnant has given birth to her first child — a healthy boy. |
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BBC News |
7:55am PST |
Volkswagen to cut 20,000 workers |
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Summary: German carmaker Volkswagen will cut up to 20,000 jobs as part of restructuring plans that are set to run until 2009. |
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BBC News |
7:51am PST |
Eight killed by Baghdad car bomb |
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Summary: At least eight people are killed and 17 wounded by a car bomb in southern Baghdad, Iraqi police say. |
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BBC News |
7:50am PST |
Judge blocks Barrymore case |
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Summary: There is insufficient evidence to prosecute Michael Barrymore following a man's death at his former home, a judge rules. |
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Yahoo News |
7:50am PST |
Seething protests around world over Mohammed cartoons (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Thousands of Muslims have vented their anger in seething protests around the world over satirical caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, torching flags and effigies and clashing with police. |
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Cnn.com |
7:48am PST |
Kenyan police open fire during protests over cartoons |
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Summary: Thousands of Muslims marched in Malaysia's biggest protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as the government declared it illegal to possess the caricatures. |
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BBC News |
7:47am PST |
Prison for anti-freeze drink man |
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Summary: A man who spiked his work colleague's cola drink with anti-freeze, leaving him severely disabled, is jailed for 15 months. |
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BBC News |
7:43am PST |
Lotto millionaire jailed for affray |
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Summary: Lottery millionaire Michael Carroll is sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to affray. |
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Yahoo News |
7:41am PST |
Nigeria struggles to contain bird flu (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Nigeria struggled to contain Africa's first known outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, as officials warned it is spreading rapidly through poultry flocks in the north of the country. |
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BBC News |
7:39am PST |
Ministers compromise on ID cards |
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Summary: Ministers have compromised on plans to introduce identity cards in an effort to head off a Commons defeat. |
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Cnn.com |
7:35am PST |
Spiteful dad guilty, kids still missing |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
7:27am PST |
G8 finance chiefs in Russia to talk energy (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Finance chiefs from the world's leading industrial nations kick off two days of discussions focused squarely on mounting Western concern over the Kremlin's swelling clout in world oil and gas markets. |
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BBC News |
7:20am PST |
Islam-West divide 'grows deeper' |
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Summary: Malaysia's PM speaks of a chasm between Islam and the West, as the cartoon row shows no sign of abating. |
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Yahoo News |
7:18am PST |
Gunmen Kill Woman Onlooker After Bombing (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A car bomb exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque Friday in Baghdad, killing at least eight people, officials said. Masked gunmen appeared at the scene later, killing one woman and wounding several other people near the blast-damaged building. |
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Yahoo News |
7:10am PST |
Briton to return to US over Mass. killings (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A British man accused of shooting dead
his wife and infant daughter in Massachusetts agreed on Friday
to be extradited to the United States to face charges of
murder. |
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BBC News |
6:58am PST |
Lib Dems glory in Labour defeat |
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Summary: Local issues helped the Liberal Democrats to cause a major by-election shock in a safe Labour seat, the new MP says. |
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BBC News |
6:42am PST |
Royal Mail fined for missing post |
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Summary: Royal Mail faces a £11.4m fine after regulators said it had failed to adequately protect mail from theft and damage. |
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Cnn.com |
6:37am PST |
Briton charged with killing wife, baby to return to U.S. |
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Summary: A British man charged with the murder of his American wife and baby near Boston has agreed to be extradited to the United States, his lawyers said today. Neil Entwistle could be back in Massachusetts within the week, Judith Seddon told reporters outside B |
