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11:45pm PST |
More remains feared at home |
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Summary: Jersey police do not rule out finding more bodies at a former care home where a child's remains were found. |
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11:40pm PST |
Kurdish rebels say Turkish helicopter shot down
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Summary: Reuters - Kurdish PKK guerrillas said on
Sunday they had shot down a Turkish Cobra attack helicopter
during clashes with Turkish forces in northern Iraq. |
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11:31pm PST |
Wenger retracts Taylor criticism |
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Summary: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says his initial criticism of Martin Taylor was "excessive" after the Birmingham skipper's tackle broke Eduardo's leg. |
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11:17pm PST |
Obama: McCain puts lobbyists 'in charge'
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that the Republican presidential nominee in waiting, Sen. John McCain, has lobbyists as top aides and "many of them have been running their business on the campaign bus while they've been helping him." |
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11:03pm PST |
'No-go' Bishop defends comments |
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Summary: The Church of England bishop who claimed Islamic extremism is creating no-go areas for non-Muslims says he was right to raise the issue. |
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10:54pm PST |
Lakers hammer Clips for 7th straight win
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Summary: AP - Pau Gasol scored 23 points, five teammates finished in double figures, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 113-95 Saturday night for their seventh straight victory. |
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10:53pm PST |
Thousands mourn slain college student
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Summary: AP - More than 3,000 mourners gathered Saturday night to remember a 19-year-old college student believed killed by a serial rapist as a loving, caring woman with many friends and a winning personality. |
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10:40pm PST |
PKK 'shoots down Turkish chopper' |
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Summary: Kurdish rebels say they have shot down a Turkish Cobra attack helicopter
during clashes in northern Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PST |
Georgia couple win $270 million lottery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - All those lottery players holding crumpled, worthless Mega Millions tickets can take some consolation: The couple who won the $270 million jackpot are just too nice to resent. |
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10:35pm PST |
Castro rejects idea of political change
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Fidel Castro on Saturday rejected the idea of major political change after Cuba's parliament chooses a new president — his final published comments as the nation's longtime leader. |
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10:34pm PST |
Huckabee lingers on the set of 'SNL'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Even though Mike Huckabee is still battling for the Republican presidential nomination despite long odds, he said Saturday he won't "overstay his welcome." Then he did precisely that, lingering on the "Weekend Update" set of "Saturday Night Live" des |
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10:16pm PST |
Speaker facing more pressure |
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Summary: The Speaker of the House of Commons comes nder more pressure as newspapers focus on his expenses. |
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10:15pm PST |
Cuba to name new leader to succeed Fidel Castro
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Cuba's rubber-stamp National Assembly
will name Fidel Castro's successor on Sunday, ending the
49-year rule of the bearded revolutionary who turned Cuba into
a communist state on America's doorstep. |
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10:01pm PST |
Tennessee knocks off No. 1 Memphis.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Memphis wanted to prove it really was the best team in the country, maybe even make a run at perfection. |
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9:40pm PST |
Cyprus voting in run-off election |
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Summary: Polls have opened in the second round of presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus. |
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9:40pm PST |
Wladimir Klitschko wins unification bout
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With one round to go in a drearily dominant performance, even Wladimir Klitschko's trainer implored him to provide a thrill for a whistling, booing Madison Square Garden crowd that had been promised heavyweight action. |
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9:31pm PST |
Skier survives massive Alaska avalanche
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A skier was rescued from a massive avalanche that buried him for as many as 40 minutes Saturday near the site where another slide killed two snowmobilers earlier this month. |
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9:27pm PST |
Communist in pole position as Cyprus votes for president
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Cypriots were voting for a new president on Sunday with communist leader Demetris Christofias in pole position to become the strategic Mediterranean island's new head of state. |
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9:26pm PST |
Pakistan's ousted rulers to cooperate
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pakistan's outgoing ruling party promised Saturday to support the victors in combating Islamic extremism, while the winners discussed ways to curb President Pervez Musharraf's powers — especially his right to dismiss parliament. |
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9:24pm PST |
Clinton criticizes Obama over mailings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton angrily accused her Democratic rival Saturday of deliberately misrepresenting her positions on NAFTA and health care in mass mailings to voters, adding, "Shame on you, Barack Obama." |
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9:23pm PST |
Airline in first biofuel flight |
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Summary: The first commercial flight powered partly by biofuels is due to take off from London and fly to Amsterdam. |
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8:59pm PST |
More remains feared at former care home |
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Summary: Jersey police do not rule out finding more bodies at a former care home where a child's remains was found. |
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8:57pm PST |
Cuba to select Castro's successor |
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Summary: Cuba's National Assembly will select a new head of state, with Raul Castro tipped to take over from brother Fidel. |
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8:56pm PST |
LAPD make arrest in notorious '80s death
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Summary: AP - A Japanese businessman has been arrested on suspicion of murder more than a quarter-century after an infamous downtown shooting that left his wife dead and caused an international furor, police said. |
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8:47pm PST |
Tennessee ends Memphis' perfect season
(AP)
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Summary: AP - No. 1 no more. And the perfect season is gone, too. Tyler Smith hit a turnaround jumper in the lane with 26.5 seconds left and No. 2 Tennessee knocked off the nation's last unbeaten team, edging top-ranked Memphis 66-62 on Saturday night. |
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8:42pm PST |
Lohan thriller named worst at Razzies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A year after his Academy Awards dream went up in smoke, Eddie Murphy has not just one consolation prize, but three: Razzie Awards as worst actor, supporting actor and supporting actress for the comedy "Norbit." |
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BBC News |
8:23pm PST |
Shannon search enters sixth day |
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Summary: Police resume their search for Shannon Matthews on the sixth day since she disappeared. |
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8:23pm PST |
Shannon search enters fifth day |
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Summary: Police resume their search for Shannon Matthews on the fifth day since she disappeared. |
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7:44pm PST |
People missing five-a-day target |
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Summary: A food watchdog reports many people do not eat the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. |
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6:57pm PST |
Gates: Turkey raid won't solve problems
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Turkey's military assault into northern Iraq will not solve the terrorist problem there, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday, calling for greater political and economic initiatives by the Turks to win over supporters of the Kurdish rebels. |
