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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Assembly election's finance flaws |
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Summary: An investigation into the running of the 2007 assembly election discovers financial flaws and inconsistencies. |
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Yahoo News |
11:51pm PDT |
Report: Spitzer call girl identified
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal that prompted Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign in disgrace has been identified as a 22-year-old aspiring musician who struggled in a broken home as a child. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PDT |
Suicide bomb kills 6 in Afghan capital
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide car bomber struck a convoy carrying U.S. troops near the Kabul airport Thursday, killing six Afghan civilians, officials said. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PDT |
Watchdog anger over child support |
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Summary: The Child Support Agency comes under fire from a watchdog over parents who do not pay maintenance. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PDT |
Israel strikes targets in northern Gaza Strip
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Israeli planes on Thursday hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip effectively ending a lull in the violence since March 8, the Israeli armed forces announced. |
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Yahoo News |
11:26pm PDT |
New York Gov. Spitzer resigns but more woes likely
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Resigning over reports he paid for a
$1,000-an-hour prostitute, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leaves
behind his political post but could face legal trouble from the
stunning sex scandal. |
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Yahoo News |
11:24pm PDT |
Suicide attack kills six Afghans near Kabul airport
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suicide car bomber killed six Afghan
civilians in an attack on U.S. troops near the airport in
Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, officials said. |
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BBC News |
11:09pm PDT |
Climate set to dominate EU summit |
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Summary: Climate change, energy security and reform are set to dominate the EU's Spring summit in Brussels. |
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Yahoo News |
11:06pm PDT |
Suicide attack in Afghan capital kills six: police
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A suicide car bomb targeting foreign troops in the Afghan capital on Thursday killed six civilians, Kabul's police chief said. |
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BBC News |
11:04pm PDT |
Hundreds of schools make news |
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Summary: Schools across the UK are creating their own news reports and broadcasting them via the BBC. |
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BBC News |
11:01pm PDT |
Scientists warn of wheat disease |
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Summary: Poorer countries face starvation if a disease called Ug-99 hits wheat yields hard enough to push up prices. |
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10:45pm PDT |
Indian police halt Tibetan march |
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Summary: Police in India detain 100 Tibetan refugees trying to march to Tibet in protest over China hosting the Olympics. |
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Cnn.com |
10:38pm PDT |
First finalist voted off 'American Idol' |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
10:15pm PDT |
Suicide raid kills six Afghans near Kabul airport
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suicide attack aimed at foreign troops
near the airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday killed six
Afghans, a senior official said. |
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Cnn.com |
10:06pm PDT |
Shuttle Endeavour docks with space station |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
10:06pm PDT |
Endeavour docks with space station |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:02pm PDT |
Kabul car bomb attack kills six |
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Summary: A suicide car bomb blast kills at least six civilians and injures 15 on the road to the airport in Kabul. |
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BBC News |
10:01pm PDT |
Cricket: Ambrose nears century |
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Summary: Tim Ambrose's unbeaten 97 helps England end day one of the second Test against New Zealand on 291-5. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55pm PDT |
Shuttle docks at space station with Japanese lab
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Space shuttle Endeavour linked up with
the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth
on Wednesday on a mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49pm PDT |
China sees conspiracy behind Olympics criticisms
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China said the United States is unfit
to present itself as a "defender of human rights" and a senior
official accused Western critics of conspiring to use the
Beijing Olympic Games as a tool to subvert Communist Party
rule. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
MPs to scrutinise Budget measures |
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Summary: MPs are to debate Alistair Darling's budget, which saw rises in duty on alcohol and polluting cars. |
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BBC News |
9:28pm PDT |
Police chief inquest due to open |
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Summary: The inquest into the death of police chief Michael Todd, whose body was found on a Welsh mountain, is to open. |
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Cnn.com |
9:00pm PDT |
Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum dead at 90 |
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8:57pm PDT |
Former Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum dies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire before he began a long career fighting big business in the Senate, died Wednesday night. He was 90. |
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Yahoo News |
8:55pm PDT |
Shuttle Endeavour docks at space station
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour docked
at the International Space Station more than 200 miles above
Earth on Wednesday on a mission to deliver a Japanese space
laboratory. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Pentagon reviewing interrogation tapes: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Department of Defense is
conducting a review of the videotaping of interrogations at
military facilities from Iraq to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and so
far has identified nearly 50 tapes, The New York Times reported
on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PDT |
Shuttle on course for late-night docking
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Space shuttle Endeavour closed in on the international space station on Wednesday for a late-night linkup that will kick off almost two weeks of demanding construction work. |
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BBC News |
8:09pm PDT |
HK schools close amid flu fears |
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Summary: Kindergartens and primary schools close in Hong Kong after a flu-like illness kills three children. |
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Yahoo News |
8:03pm PDT |
'American Idol' axes first finalist
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A juicy backstory wasn't enough to keep David Hernandez on "American Idol." The 24-year-old ex-stripper from Glendale, Ariz., was dismissed Wednesday, leaving 11 aspiring singers to vie for the "Idol" title and a record contract. |
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Yahoo News |
7:58pm PDT |
Iraq: US military says it killed child
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. soldiers fired a warning shot near a woman who "appeared to be signaling to someone" along a dangerous stretch of road north of Baghdad, but the bullet killed a young Iraqi girl, a military official said early Thursday. |
