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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Police play down Madeleine claims |
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Summary: Police play down claims that blood matching Madeleine McCann's was found in her parents' hire car. |
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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
US base in Germany acts on threat |
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Summary: German police launch an operation to "protect" a US military base after it receives a telephone bomb threat. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36pm PDT |
Purported new bin Laden tape released: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
released a videotape on the sixth anniversary of the September
11, 2001 attacks, in which he praised one of the hijackers who
attacked the United States, CNN reported on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36pm PDT |
New bin Laden video to mark 9-11 attacks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Osama bin Laden will appear for the second time in a week in a new video to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, presenting the last will and testament of one of the suicide hijackers, al-Qaida announced Monday. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
Australia's PM vows not to quit |
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Summary: Australian PM John Howard insists he will lead his party into the next election, despite trailing in opinion polls. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PDT |
Last-minute rally lifts 49ers over Cards
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Alex Smith and his San Francisco 49ers looked awful on Bill Walsh Field until the very last minute. Arnaz Battle scored on a 1-yard end-around with 22 seconds to play, and the 49ers erased an inept offensive performance with an 86-yard scoring drive |
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Yahoo News |
11:23pm PDT |
Rocket blast injures 50 Israeli soldiers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Palestinian rocket exploded in an Israeli army base early Tuesday, wounding 50 soldiers and drawing calls for a major military operation against rocket squads in the Gaza Strip. |
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BBC News |
11:18pm PDT |
Rugby: England's Habana plan |
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Summary: Defence coach Mike Ford says England must starve South Africa winger Bryan Habana of possession to stop him in Friday's match. |
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BBC News |
10:47pm PDT |
Bonfire bill estimated at £60,000 |
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Summary: An estimated £60,000 is spent clearing up eleventh night bonfires, an assembly minister says. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42pm PDT |
Japan counts down to lunar probe launch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japan is preparing to launch this week
its first lunar explorer, in a bid to get the country's space
program back on track after a string of failures in the last
decade. |
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BBC News |
10:41pm PDT |
Seven-lane road inquiry to start |
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Summary: A public inquiry into controversial plans to upgrade a bypass into a seven-lane highway is to begin. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40pm PDT |
Tension surrounds Sept. 11 anniversary
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Once again, the city will pause for four moments of silence to mark the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people. Family members will lay flowers where the twin towers fell, and the names of victims will be read. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37pm PDT |
Intelligence chief details threats to US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Weapons of mass destruction, small boats packed with explosives and Islamic radicalization are the greatest terrorist threats facing the country, top U.S. security officials said Monday on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist at |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
Gazan rocket wounds 30 Israeli soldiers
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A rocket launched by Palestinian
militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded some 30 soldiers in
Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli
leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31pm PDT |
Remembering 9/11
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New Yorkers are doing all they can to
preserve the way September 11 is commemorated, and with it
falling on a Tuesday for the first time since 2001, the day is
another trigger of tragic memories. |
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BBC News |
10:30pm PDT |
Lewis buys 7% Bear Stearns stake |
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Summary: Billionaire UK investor Joseph Lewis spends $860m buying a 7% stake in struggling US bank Bear Stearns. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23pm PDT |
Pakistani press slams Sharif deportation
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pakistani newspapers Tuesday criticised President Pervez Musharraf for deporting former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, warning the move would push the South Asian nation further towards chaos. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20pm PDT |
Foul play unlikely in student's death
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An autopsy done on the body of a student found dead in a canyon after an extensive search has turned up no evidence that her death was a homicide, police said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18pm PDT |
Harshest words saved for Britney's body
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The consensus is clear: Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through mud at MTV's Video Music Awards. No one disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much-heralded comeback. |
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BBC News |
10:15pm PDT |
PM leads Anita Roddick tributes |
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Summary: Tributes pour in for the founder of the Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, who has died aged 64. |
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Yahoo News |
10:09pm PDT |
Six years on, America marks September 11 attacks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - America was to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Tuesday with more muted commemorations than in previous years but under the shadow of renewed threats from Al-Qaeda. |
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Cnn.com |
10:04pm PDT |
New bin Laden video surfaces |
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Summary: A new video purportedly featuring an introduction from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appeared on the Internet Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
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BBC News |
9:41pm PDT |
US general under fire over surge |
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Summary: Democrats in Congress challenge top US commander Gen Petraeus' positive view of the Iraq troop surge. |
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BBC News |
9:21pm PDT |
Tories square up for mayoral race |
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Summary: Four contenders hoping to be the Tories' London mayoral candidate set out their stalls at a hustings. |
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BBC News |
9:13pm PDT |
US experts arrive in North Korea |
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Summary: A US team of experts have arrived in North Korea to discuss ways to disable the country's nuclear programme. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04pm PDT |
Survey: Companies plan to add jobs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Employers are predicting another stable quarter of hiring, with 27 percent of companies expecting to add positions in the last three months of the year, according to a survey of 14,000 companies being released Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01pm PDT |
Clinton campaign returning $850,000 in donations
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful Sen.
Hillary Clinton is returning about $850,000 in campaign
contributions from a fundraiser who was arrested last week
after trying to escape sentencing on a decade-old criminal
charge, the campaign said on M |
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BBC News |
8:51pm PDT |
EU gives up on 'metric Britain' |
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Summary: The European Union is abandoning plans to force Britain to phase out the imperial measurement system. |
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Yahoo News |
8:49pm PDT |
Portuguese police to hand Madeleine case to prosecutor
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Portuguese police were due to
hand a file with evidence against the parents of missing
4-year-old Madeleine McCann on Tuesday to the public
prosecutor, who will decide whether to charge them. |
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Yahoo News |
8:15pm PDT |
U.S. team enters North Korea for nuclear survey
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A team of U.S. officials and nuclear
experts crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on
Tuesday on a rare visit to survey the communist state's nuclear
facilities. |
