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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
Mills appeals after £24.3m payout |
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Summary: Heather Mills will appeal against the ruling in her divorce deal with Sir Paul McCartney being published. |
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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
China thanks India for Tibet move |
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Summary: Chinese PM Wen Jiabao says he "appreciated" steps taken by Indian authorities in handling protests by Tibetans. |
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BBC News |
11:47pm PDT |
Valleywood studios worries mount |
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Summary: An administrator is called in to deal with problems at the international film studios, dubbed Valleywood. |
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BBC News |
11:45pm PDT |
Hijacked baby back with parents |
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Summary: A 19-month-old child is reunited with its parents after thieves stole a car and drove off with the toddler on board. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PDT |
Trial of Chinese activist begins |
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Summary: Human rights activist Hu Jia goes on trial in the Chinese capital, Beijing, charged with subversion. |
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Yahoo News |
11:25pm PDT |
Tibet isolated after Chinese lockdown
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Tibet remained largely cut off from the outside world Tuesday after a crackdown by China, which said violence there was backed by the Dalai Lama and aimed at undermining the Olympic Games in Beijing. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PDT |
Americas talks on border tensions |
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Summary: Foreign ministers from the Americas hold talks aimed at easing tensions after the killing of a Farc commander. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
Death toll from Iraq Shiite shrine attack rises to 52
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The death toll from a bomb attack near a revered Shiite shrine in the central Iraqi city of Karbala has risen to 52, a health official told AFP Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
Wen denounces supporters of Dalai Lama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao denounced supporters of the Dalai Lama as separatists and instigators of violent anti-Chinese riots in Tibet's capital, taking a hard stance Tuesday as a deadline for protesters to turn themselves in passed without apparent |
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Cnn.com |
10:31pm PDT |
Report: New York governor admits affairs |
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Summary: New York Gov. David Paterson, who took over the state's top job Monday after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, has admitted he and his wife Michelle had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago, a newspaper report |
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Yahoo News |
10:25pm PDT |
Report: New NY governor admits affair
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Just hours after he received a standing ovation from lawmakers chanting his name, New York's newly sworn governor was answering questions about straying from his own marriage. |
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9:58pm PDT |
Dalai Lama blamed for Tibet riots |
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Summary: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, organised recent unrest in Lhasa. |
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Yahoo News |
9:31pm PDT |
China says Tibet rioters trying to wreck Olympics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China's premier accused Tibet's exiled
spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of orchestrating riots in
which dozens may have died and said his followers were trying
to "incite sabotage" of Beijing's August Olympic Games. |
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BBC News |
9:22pm PDT |
Man in court over Shannon kidnap |
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Summary: A man is due to appear in court charged with the kidnap and false imprisonment of Shannon Matthews. |
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Yahoo News |
9:13pm PDT |
Fed set for big rate cut amid market turmoil
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve is
expected to slash interest rates by as much as a whole
percentage point at its policy meeting on Tuesday as investors
warily await investment bank results that could aggravate fears
of a full-blown markets crisis. |
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BBC News |
9:09pm PDT |
Asian markets rally after turmoil |
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Summary: Asian markets steady after Monday's global market turmoil sparked by the emergency sale of Bear Stearns. |
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BBC News |
8:57pm PDT |
China premier attacks Dalai Lama |
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Summary: The Dalai Lama's claim of 'cultural genocide' in Tibet is nothing but lies, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:51pm PDT |
China's deadline passes for Tibet surrender
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China's deadline passed early Tuesday for protesters to hand themselves in to authorities in Tibet, which remained cut off from the outside world after a lockdown by Chinese security forces. |
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Cnn.com |
8:23pm PDT |
Gun ban decision: This time, it's personal |
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Summary: Shelly Parker wants to keep a handgun in her house. She's single, been threatened by neighborhood drug dealers, and violent crime rates are on the rise where she lives. But her home is in Washington, D.C., which does not allow its residents to possess han |
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BBC News |
8:15pm PDT |
NZ teen charged over backpacker |
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Summary: A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of British backpacker Karen Aim in New Zealand. |
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BBC News |
8:15pm PDT |
Murder charge in backpacker case |
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Summary: A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of British backpacker Karen Aim in New Zealand. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PDT |
China premier comments on Tibet riots
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says riots in Tibet caused heavy loss of life and that the government acted with extreme restraint in putting down the protests. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PDT |
Report: NY governor admits to affairs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gov. David Paterson, who took over the state's top job Monday after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, has admitted he and his wife Michelle had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago, a newspaper reported. |
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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
New robot gets eyes, tools in spacewalk
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Spacewalking astronauts stepped outside Monday night and gave the space station's new robot some eyes and a set of tools. It was the third spacewalk of shuttle Endeavour's visit to the station, each one aimed at putting together Dextre, the giant rob |
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Yahoo News |
8:02pm PDT |
China's Wen accuses Dalai Lama of organizing riots
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Premier Wen Jiabao defended China's
crackdown in Tibet on Tuesday, accusing the Himalayan region's
exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of organizing the
rioting which has left dozens dead. |
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Yahoo News |
8:01pm PDT |
Study: Top NCAA seeds lag academically
(AP)
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Summary: AP - North Carolina was the only school among the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA men's tournament to graduate at least 50 percent of its players. A report released Monday found 86 percent of Tar Heels men's players earned diplomas during a six-year period. |
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Cnn.com |
7:06pm PDT |
Pilot charged in San Francisco Bay spill |
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Summary: The pilot of the oil tanker that crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge, causing a major oil spill last year, has been charged in federal court with criminal negligence in the accident.
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BBC News |
7:03pm PDT |
'Deadly clashes' in the Comoros |
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Summary: Soldiers from the Comoros islands clash with forces on Anjouan island ahead of a planned AU invasion. |
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Cnn.com |
6:59pm PDT |
Wife denies ex-governor's 3-way claims |
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Summary: He says it's true. She says it's not.
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Cnn.com |
6:59pm PDT |
Wife denies ex-governor's three-way claims |
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Summary: He says it's true. She says it's not.
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