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BBC News |
11:45pm PDT |
City watchdog to face MP grilling |
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Summary: The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is next to be quizzed by MPs on Northern Rock's problems. |
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BBC News |
11:37pm PDT |
Suicide bomber hits Afghan convoy |
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Summary: A French soldier dies and several Afghans are injured in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say. |
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BBC News |
11:33pm PDT |
Man kills himself in Woolworths |
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Summary: A man brandishing a knife slashed himself across the throat in a Woolworths store in Cornwall. |
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BBC News |
11:26pm PDT |
Storm fears hold oil prices high |
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Summary: Oil prices remain around the $82-a-barrel mark, over fears a storm may develop in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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BBC News |
10:49pm PDT |
Inquests into M4 crash dead open |
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Summary: Inquests into the deaths of five people in a crash on the M4 are set to open and be adjourned later. |
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BBC News |
10:45pm PDT |
Thai crash victim's body returned |
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Summary: Thai body of Aaron Toland, the Londonderry man who died in the Phuket plane crash, will arrive home later. |
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BBC News |
10:41pm PDT |
UN diplomats speak out on Burma |
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Summary: UN diplomats express growing concern over Burma, after days of protests in the military-ruled nation. |
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Yahoo News |
10:17pm PDT |
Myanmar under international pressure over protests
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar's military junta came under growing international pressure Friday as it faces the most sustained challenge to its rule in nearly two decades, led by Buddhist monks. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PDT |
Israel, U.S. shared data on suspected nuclear site: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Before it decided to strike Syria,
Israel shared intelligence with President George W. Bush this
summer indicating that its neighbor was getting help from North
Korea on a nuclear facility, The Washington Post reported on
Friday. |
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BBC News |
10:04pm PDT |
African floods prompt aid appeal |
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Summary: Aid agencies are appealing for funds to help the victims of recent floods in a swathe of African countries. |
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BBC News |
9:42pm PDT |
Mugabe shrugs off Brown boycott |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe plans to attend a summit despite Gordon Brown's boycott threat. |
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BBC News |
9:28pm PDT |
Report reveals 500 custody deaths |
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Summary: Between 500 and 600 people die every year in state custody in England and Wales, a report will say. |
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BBC News |
8:59pm PDT |
US BAE probe request confirmed |
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Summary: The Home Office confirms it has been asked to give legal assistance to the US investigation of BAE's past arms deals with Saudi Arabia. |
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BBC News |
8:41pm PDT |
China installs Pope-backed bishop |
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Summary: China installs a new bishop of Beijing, the first in over 50 years to have tacit prior approval from the Vatican. |
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BBC News |
8:33pm PDT |
Lebanese to rally at MP's funeral |
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Summary: Senior Lebanese politicians are expected at the funeral of assassinated anti-Syrian MP Antoine Ghanim. |
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Yahoo News |
8:13pm PDT |
Lebanon in mourning for funeral of slain MP
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Lebanon was in mourning on Friday for the funeral of anti-Syrian MP Antoine Ghanem whose assassination has stirred fears of more instability in the tense runup to a presidential vote in parliament. |
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Yahoo News |
8:02pm PDT |
Surging Phillies rally to swat Nats 7-6
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jimmy Rollins and the Philadelphia Phillies have been playing catch-up all season, so it made sense they would overcome one more big deficit. |
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Yahoo News |
7:52pm PDT |
Democratic rivals query Clinton on health care
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Some Democratic presidential
contenders took aim at Hillary Clinton's leadership on health
care on Thursday, questioning whether she could rally the
political support to pass a broad plan for universal coverage. |
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BBC News |
7:06pm PDT |
Dutch cabinet to discuss EU vote |
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Summary: Netherlands ministers are due to meet to decide whether to hold a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty. |
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Yahoo News |
7:01pm PDT |
McCain to criticize Giuliani on guns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain lobbed a thinly veiled attack at fellow rival Rudy Giuliani, describing the former mayor's "devious" attempt with a lawsuit "to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers." |
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BBC News |
7:00pm PDT |
Warning over home carbon target |
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Summary: The government is in danger of missing its target for new homes to be carbon neutral by 2016, it is warned. |
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Cnn.com |
6:43pm PDT |
'God' strikes back at lawsuit, claims immunity |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
6:26pm PDT |
Iceland phasing out fossil fuels |
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Summary: Years before most knew about green energy, Iceland was tapping into its geysers and volcanoes. With gas at $8 a gallon, renewables now provide almost all heating and electricity. And advocates can see a country free of fossil fuel use by 2050.
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Cnn.com |
6:25pm PDT |
Snoop Dogg pleads guilty to weapons charge |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
5:47pm PDT |
Protesters highlight US race row |
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Summary: Thousands of civil rights protesters march through Jena, Louisiana, a US town at the centre of a race row. |
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BBC News |
5:45pm PDT |
Overseas pressure on doctor jobs |
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Summary: The government's immigration policy is to blame for unemployment among junior doctors, academics warn. |
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Yahoo News |
5:32pm PDT |
Deadlocked Spector jury resumes deliberations
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The jury in the Phil Spector trial
resumed deliberations on Thursday following a two-day hiatus
but left for the day without reaching a verdict on murder
charges against the rock producer. |
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Yahoo News |
5:30pm PDT |
'God' apparently responds to lawsuit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response. One of two court filings from "God" came Wednesday under otherworldly circumstances, according to John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County Distr |
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BBC News |
5:24pm PDT |
Women 'unaware of cancer age link' |
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Summary: Most British women are unaware that breast cancer risk increases with age, a poll suggests. |
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BBC News |
5:22pm PDT |
Salmond's economy experts meet |
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Summary: A team of expert economists prepares to meet for the first time to try to improve Scotland's economy. |
