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BBC News |
11:43pm PDT |
Madeleine parents head back to UK |
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Summary: Kate and Gerry McCann head back to the UK after being named as suspects over Madeleine's disappearance. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PDT |
APEC summit ends with pledge for Doha deal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Asia-Pacific leaders called for a speedy
resolution to stalled global trade talks on Sunday, pledging
flexibility and ambition to get the outline of a deal by year's
end. |
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Yahoo News |
11:25pm PDT |
Edwards' Cabinet list includes GOP names
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards carries a running list of people he might put in his Cabinet, and it includes "more than one" Republican. |
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Yahoo News |
11:14pm PDT |
Gabrielle aims at North Carolina coast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Gabrielle began to shower North Carolina's Outer Banks with rain and batter them with high winds Sunday as the storm slogged slowly toward the coast. |
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Yahoo News |
10:35pm PDT |
Gray whale shot off Washington coast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An injured California gray whale was swimming out to sea Saturday after being shot with a machine gun off the western tip of Washington state, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28pm PDT |
Pakistan braces for return of defiant Sharif
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pakistan's government braced Sunday for a showdown with former premier Nawaz Sharif as the man ousted by President Pervez Musharraf in 1999 vowed to defy international appeals and return from exile. |
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Yahoo News |
10:02pm PDT |
Pakistani airports on high alert
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pakistan stepped up security at all of its major airports Sunday after receiving reports about possible terror attacks, a day before the nation's exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was to return home, officials said. |
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BBC News |
9:45pm PDT |
Apec tackles stalled trade talks |
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Summary: Asia-Pacific leaders, closing their summit, are expected to call for a rapid conclusion to stalled global trade talks. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38pm PDT |
Ang Lee spy film is surprise winner in Venice
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually
explicit spy thriller "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner
of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just
two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain." |
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Yahoo News |
9:34pm PDT |
Racy Timberlake 'SNL' video wins Emmy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Emmys Awards got edgy as an off-color "Saturday Night Live" video featuring Justin Timberlake and strategically placed gift boxes was honored at the creative arts ceremony. |
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BBC News |
9:32pm PDT |
Iraq hosts regional conference |
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Summary: Iraq holds its third major meeting of regional powers to discuss security issues and energy. |
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8:58pm PDT |
Tory group urges 'green rebate' |
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Summary: A Tory policy group proposes a stamp duty rebate for home-buyers who improve energy efficiency. |
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Yahoo News |
8:40pm PDT |
No trace of missing Mount Hood climbers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Searchers looking for the remains of two mountaineers who vanished on Mount Hood last winter found no trace of the climbers when a search resumed Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00pm PDT |
Missing girl's parents leaving Portugal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A British couple named as suspects in the disappearance of their 4-year-old daughter in Portugal are to return home on Sunday, a family spokeswoman said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:50pm PDT |
APEC tackles security after climate compromise
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Asia-Pacific leaders tackled security
issues, including food safety, on the last day of their summit
on Sunday after compromising on climate change a day earlier
with a vague plan to reduce greenhouse emissions. |
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Yahoo News |
7:49pm PDT |
Racy Timberlake 'Box' video wins Emmy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Emmys Awards got edgy as an off-color "Saturday Night Live" video featuring Justin Timberlake and strategically placed gift boxes was honored at the creative arts ceremony. |
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Cnn.com |
7:42pm PDT |
Report: McCanns leaving Portugal |
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Summary: Two days after they were officially named suspects in the disappearance of their 3-year-old daughter, Kate and Gerry McCann will be leaving Portugal for their home in Britain, according to a source close to the Portuguese police.
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Yahoo News |
7:21pm PDT |
Techies ponder computers smarter than us
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At the center of a black hole there lies a point called a singularity where the laws of physics no longer make sense. |
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Yahoo News |
6:57pm PDT |
Oprah hosts Obama in star-studded event
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oprah Winfrey rolled out the red carpet Saturday for Barack Obama at a gala fundraiser attended by high-wattage stars that was expected to raise $3 million for the Democratic presidential candidate. |
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Yahoo News |
6:55pm PDT |
Henin wins 2nd U.S. Open title in rout
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Let those big-spending spectators or TV types gripe about Justine Henin's lopsided Grand Slam final victories. She'll take 'em. Every last one. Capping a dominant run, the top-seeded Henin overwhelmed No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-3 Saturday night |
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BBC News |
6:44pm PDT |
Tennis: Henin wins US Open |
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Summary: Justine Henin cruises to a second US Open and seventh Grand Slam title with victory over Svetlana Kuznetsova. |
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BBC News |
6:44pm PDT |
Henin takes second US Open crown |
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Summary: Justine Henin cruises to a second US Open and seventh Grand Slam title with victory over Svetlana Kuznetsova |
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Cnn.com |
6:02pm PDT |
Gabrielle closes in on North Carolina coast |
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Summary: The outer rainbands of Tropical Storm Gabrielle brushed onto the North Carolina coast late Saturday as the storm picked up speed on its way to a Sunday landfall. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center issued a new tropical storm warning from the Nor |
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BBC News |
5:59pm PDT |
Brown warned on Labour-union link |
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Summary: A prominent union leader warns Gordon Brown he will fight changes to Labour's constitution. |
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BBC News |
5:59pm PDT |
Brown warned on union link |
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Summary: The joint leader of the UK's largest trade union warns Gordon Brown he will fight plans to change the Labour party's constitution. |
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BBC News |
5:45pm PDT |
Morocco poll win for nationalists |
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Summary: Morocco's conservatives, part of the ruling coalition, win the most seats in elections, provisional results say. |
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Yahoo News |
5:34pm PDT |
Clashes in Congo park endanger gorillas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Renewed fighting Saturday inside a national park in Congo that is home to endangered mountain gorillas forced rangers to flee for the second time in less than a week, conservationists said. |
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Cnn.com |
5:32pm PDT |
Gabrielle churns toward North Carolina |
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Summary: Gabrielle became a tropical storm Saturday and was expected to intensify as its course moved toward the North Carolina coast. The storm's outer rain bands probably will reach the area Saturday night and its center will arrive Sunday afternoon, the Nationa |
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Yahoo News |
5:28pm PDT |
Parents of missing Madeleine to return to Britain
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - British couple Kate and
Gerry McCann, named as suspects in the disappearance of their
four-year-old daughter Madeleine in Portugal, will return home
on Sunday, a family spokeswoman said. |
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Cnn.com |
5:14pm PDT |
Death toll rises in Algeria bombing |
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Summary: The death toll kept rising in Algeria on Saturday after a car bomb attack near a coast guard barracks about 50 miles from Algiers. At least 30 people were killed in the port of Dellys, the Algerian Interior Ministry told state news agency Algerie Presse S |
