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11:41pm PST |
Arrests in town murder inquiry |
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Summary: Police investigating the murder of a man in a County Antrim town at the weekend arrest three men. |
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11:27pm PST |
Prince's diary bid back in court |
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Summary: Prince Charles' attempt to stop further publication of diaries returns to the High Court for a second day. |
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Yahoo News |
10:48pm PST |
Hope not lost for trapped Mexican miners: rescuers
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Mexican rescuers
dug for a fourth day on Wednesday to reach 65 miners trapped in
deep, unstable coal shafts and asked victims' families not to
lose hope, despite making little progress. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10pm PST |
Morgan Freeman to Get Spencer Tracy Award
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Morgan Freeman will be honored with UCLA's Spencer Tracy Award, which recognizes outstanding screen performances and professional achievement. |
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Cnn.com |
9:19pm PST |
Debate over doctors' role postpones execution |
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Summary: Michael Morales was not executed as planned tonight after California prison officials decided they weren't able to comply with a judge's order that a medical professional administer his lethal injection, a prison spokesman said. Morales was convicted for |
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Cnn.com |
8:19pm PST |
Fireman dies months after waking from 10-year coma |
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Summary: Less than a year after awaking from a decade-long coma, a brain-injured firefighter from Buffalo, New York, has died, fire officials told CNN. |
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6:56pm PST |
Bush backs port deal with veto threat |
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Summary: President Bush on Tuesday strongly defended a deal that would let a United Arab Emirates-based company run key U.S. seaports. "If there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States, it would not go forward," he s |
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5:58pm PST |
Bush threatens veto in ports row |
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Summary: President George W Bush says he will veto any law blocking a deal to give an Arab company control of six US ports. |
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4:03pm PST |
Breast screening 'a life-saver' |
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Summary: The NHS breast cancer screening programme saves 1,400 lives a year, a group of experts says. |
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4:03pm PST |
Heart disease 'costs EU billions' |
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Summary: Cardiovascular diseases cost the European Union 169 billion euros in 2003, a study has found. |
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11:10am PST |
DNA 'could predict your surname' |
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Summary: Forensic scientists could use DNA retrieved from a crime scene to predict the surname of the suspect, a study suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
10:18am PST |
Justices to review late-term abortion law |
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Summary: The Supreme Court wasted little time jumping back into the contentious abortion issue, agreeing today to review the constitutionality of a federal law banning a controversial late-term procedure critics call "partial birth" abortion. The case could provid |
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Cnn.com |
7:46am PST |
Supreme Court to hear late-term abortion case |
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BBC News |
7:43am PST |
Fog of vapour 'behind oil blasts' |
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Summary: A fog of petrol and water vapour moved across the Buncefield site before the oil depot blasts, investigators say. |
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7:42am PST |
Many dead in Baghdad blast |
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Summary: At least 20 people are killed and 25 injured in an explosion at a market in Baghdad, police say. |
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Cnn.com |
7:41am PST |
Baghdad marketplace bomb kills 20 |
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Summary: Seven bomb attacks ripped through Iraq on Monday, killing 16 people, including a U.S. soldier, and wounding 56, officials said. |
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7:40am PST |
UK urges united Iraq government |
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Summary: The UK foreign secretary calls on Iraqi leaders to put aside sectarian interests and form a national unity government. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39am PST |
Justices to Weigh Late-Term Abortion Ban (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights. |
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Cnn.com |
7:34am PST |
Bush pressed to block ports deal |
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Summary: President Bush is under political pressure to block a deal that would give a company based in the United Arab Emirates management of six major U.S. ports. Opponents of the deal argue against putting the ports in the hands of a nation with links to financi |
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Yahoo News |
7:29am PST |
Car Bomb Kills 22 in Baghdad Market (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A car bomb exploded Tuesday at an outdoor market in a Shiite area of southwestern Baghdad, killing 22 people and injuring 28, police said. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PST |
Wembley hopeful for gig go-ahead |
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Summary: Wembley Stadium management say they are "very hopeful" its summer concerts will go ahead. |
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Cnn.com |
7:28am PST |
California execution delayed as doctors walk out |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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7:26am PST |
Car bomb kills 21 at Baghdad market (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A car bomb parked at a Baghdad market
killed 21 people and wounded at least 25 on Tuesday in one of
the worst attacks for weeks. |
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Yahoo News |
7:23am PST |
Index of Leading Economic Indicators Rises (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A closely watched gauge of future economic activity rose sharply in January, suggesting the nation's economy could see robust growth in the spring, a private research group said Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:23am PST |
GOP Governors, Lawmakers Oppose Port Deal (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Two Republican governors are threatening legal action to block an Arab company from taking over operations in major U.S. ports and some GOP lawmakers say the deal should be closely examined. |
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Cnn.com |
7:17am PST |
Miners' relatives desperate for news |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15am PST |
Actress Betty White Honored by L.A. Zoo (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Actress Betty White, whose many TV roles included domestic guru Sue-Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in the 1970s, was honored by the Los Angeles Zoo Monday for her commitment to animals. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13am PST |
Abbas set to task Hamas with forming government (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was set to formally task Hamas's Ismail Haniya with forming a new government as Israel's acting prime minister said hopes for peace had not disappeared. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13am PST |
US court to decide federal ban on some abortions (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on
Tuesday it would decide a Bush administration appeal urging the
justices to uphold a federal law that bans certain abortion
procedures. |
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BBC News |
7:00am PST |
Guantanamo actors held at Luton |
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Summary: The actors in award-winning film The Road to Guantanamo are questioned by police at Luton Airport. |
