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BBC News |
11:52pm PDT |
Supermarkets 'fixed dairy prices' |
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Summary: Supermarkets and dairy producers colluded to fix prices of milk and butter, the competition watchdog finds. |
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Pakistan election date announced |
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Summary: Pakistan is to hold its presidential election on 6 October, the election commission announces. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
Grant set to take over at Chelsea |
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Summary: Chelsea are set to name Avram Grant as their new manager replacing former boss Jose Mourinho. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PDT |
Hunt for abandoned girl's father |
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Summary: New Zealand police seek the arrest of an abandoned girl's father, after confirming the mother's death. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PDT |
Hunt on for father of abandoned girl |
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Summary: New Zealand police seek the arrest of an abandoned girl's father, after confirming the mother's death. |
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BBC News |
11:40pm PDT |
Hunt on for abandoned girl's dad |
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Summary: New Zealand police seek the arrest of an abandoned girl's father, after confirming the mother's death. |
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BBC News |
11:35pm PDT |
New party would oppose DUP stance |
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Summary: Disaffected unionists want a new party to oppose the DUP's power-sharing accord with Sinn Fein. |
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Yahoo News |
11:33pm PDT |
Jackson disputes report on Obama comment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was "acting like he's white" for not speaking out more forcefully about a racially charged schoolyard beating in Louisiana. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
Carers save UK '£87bn a year' |
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Summary: The unpaid work of carers saves the UK £87bn per year - more than was spent by the NHS last year, say experts. |
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BBC News |
11:22pm PDT |
Sainsbury's opens books to suitor |
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Summary: Sainsbury's opens its books to the Qatar-based investment firm Delta Two which is planning a £10.3bn bid. |
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11:11pm PDT |
Abandoned child's mother is dead |
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Summary: New Zealand police confirm the death of the mother of an abandoned child, and seek US help to hunt the father. |
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BBC News |
11:03pm PDT |
Governor defends role in crisis |
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Summary: Bank of England boss Mervyn King has defended his role in the Northern Rock banking crisis. |
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10:58pm PDT |
Rice pushes MidEast peace summit |
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Summary: The US secretary of state is to hold talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, after Israel labels Gaza "hostile". |
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10:48pm PDT |
Air-rail link plans for take-off |
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Summary: Plans are being drawn up for a rail link to Belfast International Airport near Antrim, the BBC has learned. |
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10:46pm PDT |
'Third World' kidney care claim |
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Summary: Some kidney patients travel hundreds of miles a week for treatment in 'unacceptable conditions', a charity claims. |
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10:38pm PDT |
Mourinho makes shock Chelsea exit |
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Summary: Chelsea Football Club confirms manager Jose Mourinho has left his job at Stamford Bridge "by mutual consent". |
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10:33pm PDT |
Khmer Rouge No. 2 to tell all at trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two"
Nuon Chea is ready to lift the lid on Pol Pot's murderous
regime when he appears in court on charges of war crimes and
crimes against humanity, a trial judge said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
US leads world outrage at Beirut bombing
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United States led a global chorus of outrage Wednesday at the slaying of an anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker in Beirut and warned Syria and Iran against trying to destabilize their smaller neighbor. |
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BBC News |
8:55pm PDT |
Brown threatening Mugabe boycott |
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Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will not go to a summit if Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe is there. |
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8:36pm PDT |
Ivo strengthens into hurricane near Mexico
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tropical Storm Ivo strengthened
into a hurricane on Wednesday as it headed over the Pacific
toward Mexico's Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National
Hurricane Center said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:29pm PDT |
Iran releases Iranian-American held since May
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An Iranian-American academic has
been released from detention in Tehran's Evin prison after
being held since May, the Open Society Institute said on
Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24pm PDT |
Jackson disputes report on Obama remark
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was "acting like he's white" for not speaking out more forcefully about a racially charged schoolyard beating in Louisiana. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22pm PDT |
Hasselbeck tried to keep cool with Rosie
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she tried to keep her cool during her heated on-air spat with Rosie O'Donnell on "The View" earlier this year. |
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BBC News |
8:21pm PDT |
Probe over second railway death |
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Summary: Police investigate how a mother died on the same stretch of rail track where her daughter was found dead five weeks earlier. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PDT |
Yanks pull within 1 1/2 games of Red Sox
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Andy Pettitte earned his 200th win, Mariano Rivera escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth and the New York Yankees edged the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep that pulled them within 1 1/2 games of first-place Bost |
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Yahoo News |
7:36pm PDT |
Rice to meet Abbas in search of accord
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Condoleezza Rice takes her
shuttle diplomacy to the Palestinian leadership on Thursday as
she works to narrow their differences with Israel before
Washington hosts a major Middle East peace conference. |
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BBC News |
7:35pm PDT |
UN sanctions urged against Sudan |
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Summary: The UN must impose sanctions on Sudan over continuing attacks on civilians in Darfur, says Human Rights Watch. |
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BBC News |
7:18pm PDT |
Sir Menzies set to rally Lib Dems |
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Summary: Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell is to attack the "cosy consensus" between the two big parties. |
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Yahoo News |
6:34pm PDT |
Rev. Jackson disputes remark about Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was "acting like he's white" for not speaking out more forcefully about a racially charged schoolyard beating in Louisiana. |
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Cnn.com |
6:16pm PDT |
Iran's leader banned from ground zero |
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Summary: Iran's controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been denied permission to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center, a police spokesman said Wednesday. The U.S. considers Iran a state sponsor of terror. Ahmadinejad's predecessor at the tim |
