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Yahoo News |
11:52pm PDT |
Possible tornado tears through Atlanta
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A possible tornado ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, smashing skyscraper windows, sucking furniture and luggage out of hotel rooms, crumbling part of an apartment building and rattling the rafters of two major sports arenas filled with |
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BBC News |
11:49pm PDT |
China sets Tibet protest deadline |
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Summary: Tibet authorities give rioters until Monday to surrender, state media say, after riots said to have left 10 dead. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PDT |
Woman cyclist stabbed to death |
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Summary: A woman cyclist has been stabbed to death in the Anfield area of Liverpool. |
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Yahoo News |
11:37pm PDT |
Blair says global climate talks need new initiative
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former British prime minister
Tony Blair urged the world's top greenhouse gas emitters on
Saturday to launch a revolution to fight climate change and
said he'll work to sell a new global framework to slash carbon
emissions. |
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BBC News |
11:17pm PDT |
Police begin to question Shannon |
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Summary: Police begin to question Shannon Matthews, who was found alive almost a month after going missing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12pm PDT |
Tibet protests against China turn deadly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet turned violent Friday, bathing Lhasa in smoke from tear gas, bonfires and burned shops, and posing a challenge to China on whether its image can withstand a harsh crackdown ahead of the Bei |
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Yahoo News |
10:56pm PDT |
China sets deadline for rioters to surrender
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China set a "surrender deadline,"
listed deaths and showed the first extensive television footage
of rioting in Lhasa on Saturday, signaling a crackdown after
the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades. |
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Yahoo News |
10:49pm PDT |
Downtown Atlanta struck by possible tornado
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A possible tornado hit downtown Atlanta
on Friday night, causing several injuries and damaging
buildings, including the roof of the Georgia Dome where
thousands were watching a college basketball game, police and
witnesses said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:32pm PDT |
Conservatives seen ahead as Iran counts vote
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iran on Saturday was counting the vote from elections marked by the mass disqualification of reformists, with first indications showing conservatives set to win the majority in parliament. |
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BBC News |
10:15pm PDT |
Iran polls vote count under way |
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Summary: Votes are counted in Iran after parliamentary polls in which conservatives are expected to dominate. |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PDT |
Blair wants 'climate revolution' |
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Summary: Ex-prime minister Tony Blair has called for "global environment revolution" during a trip to Japan. |
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BBC News |
9:55pm PDT |
England poised to set huge target |
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Summary: England close day three of the second Test with a lead of 421 over New Zealand. |
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BBC News |
9:54pm PDT |
F1: Hamilton takes GP pole |
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Summary: Lewis Hamilton earns pole position for the Australian Grand Prix but Kimi Raikkonen suffers problems. |
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BBC News |
9:45pm PDT |
China warning on Tibet protests |
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Summary: Officials in Tibet say they will deal firmly with any fresh unrest after riots that state media say claimed 10 lives. |
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Yahoo News |
9:24pm PDT |
Tibetan protests escalate into violence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet turned violent Friday, bathing Lhasa in smoke from tear gas, bonfires and burned shops, and posing a challenge to China on whether its image can withstand a harsh crackdown ahead of the Bei |
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Yahoo News |
9:23pm PDT |
China says 10 killed in Tibet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China warned Saturday it would use a firm hand to quash the biggest protests in Tibet for decades, acknowledging 10 people had been killed in unrest there just months before the Olympic Games. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21pm PDT |
China says 10 "burnt to death" in Tibet riots
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China said at least 10 people burnt to
death in riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the fiercest
pro-independence protests to have rocked the region in two
decades, scarring China's image months before the Olympics. |
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Yahoo News |
9:16pm PDT |
Iran vote results expected to boost conservatives
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iran on Saturday awaited the first results from elections expected to tighten the grip of conservatives on parliament after the mass disqualification of reformist candidates. |
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Yahoo News |
9:14pm PDT |
Call girl laments use of exotic photos
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The lawyer for the call girl linked to the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer lashed out at the media on Friday for thrusting the 22-year-old woman into the "public glare" without her consent and publishing revealing photos. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01pm PDT |
Hospital fires workers for Spears' files
(AP)
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Summary: AP - UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spears, who was hospitalized in its psychiatric ward, a hospital official told The Associated Press. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01pm PDT |
Storms rips through downtown Atlanta
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A severe storm ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, injuring several people and damaging skyscrapers, hotels and two major sports arenas that were filled with thousands of pro and college basketball fans. |
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Yahoo News |
8:55pm PDT |
Rockets fly high with 21 straight wins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Houston Rockets' 21st consecutive victory gave them the second-longest winning streak in NBA history and a share of first place in the Western Conference. |
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Cnn.com |
8:35pm PDT |
Venezuela dares U.S. to put it on terror list |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PDT |
China says seven killed in Tibet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China warned Saturday it would use a firm hand to quash the biggest protests in Tibet for decades, acknowledging seven people had been killed in unrest there just months before the Olympic Games. |
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BBC News |
8:16pm PDT |
MPs call for BAA to be broken up |
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Summary: MPs call for the break-up of airport operator BAA, saying its dominance is stifling competition. |
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BBC News |
8:16pm PDT |
MPs call for break-up of BAA |
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Summary: A committee of MPs calls for the break-up of airport operator BAA, saying its dominance is stifling competition. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07pm PDT |
Hard-liners take early edge in Iran vote
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hard-liners allied with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a small lead in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results early Saturday, but reformists showed strength in some cities where the clerical leadership allowed them to compet |
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Cnn.com |
8:04pm PDT |
Tornado slams Atlanta |
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Summary: A tornado swept through downtown Atlanta tonight, disrupting a college basketball game and damaging the building that houses CNN. Authorities said there were numerous injuries and widespread damage, with roofs ripped off and trees torn down.
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Yahoo News |
8:03pm PDT |
Astronauts fix robot power trouble
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Astronauts got power flowing to the international space station's new robot Friday night, overcoming a problem that had threatened to disrupt shuttle Endeavour's construction mission. |
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Yahoo News |
8:01pm PDT |
Hospital to fire workers in Spears case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spears, who was hospitalized in its psychiatric ward, a hospital official told The Associated Press. |
