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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
PM to launch local poll campaign |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is set to launch Labour's campaign for the May local elections, focusing on community policing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:47pm PDT |
Astronauts to ready shuttle for landing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Space shuttle Endeavour astronauts were
set to spend Tuesday on the routine tasks of getting their ship
ready for a Wednesday landing as they neared the end of what
NASA hailed as a landmark mission. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PDT |
Ban on hospital junk food vending |
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Summary: Wales is to ban chocolate, crisps and sugary drinks from all vending machines in hospitals. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PDT |
'Unhealthy' vending machine ban |
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Summary: Wales is to ban chocolate, crisps and sugary drinks from all vending machines in hospitals. |
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BBC News |
11:38pm PDT |
Army launches Comoros assault |
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Summary: A military operation begins in the Comoros to put down a year-old rebellion on the island of Anjouan. |
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BBC News |
11:37pm PDT |
Second man questioned on killing |
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Summary: A second man is being questioned about the murder in County Tyrone of Shaun Fitzpatrick. |
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Yahoo News |
11:33pm PDT |
Fierce fighting erupts in Iraq's Basra city
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Fierce fighting erupted Tuesday between Iraq's security forces and the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in southern Basra city, an AFP reporter at the scene said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12pm PDT |
AU forces enter Anjouan capital: witnesses
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Tanzanian troops part of an African Union military assault against the breakaway Comoros island of Anjouan entered the isle's capital Mutsamudu on Tuesday, witnesses said. |
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BBC News |
11:05pm PDT |
Parliament reform plans due out |
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Summary: The justice secretary is due to announce details of plans to reform the way parliamentary business is conducted. |
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Cnn.com |
11:05pm PDT |
Gov't laptop stolen with patients' data |
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Summary: A government laptop computer stolen last month held unencrypted medical records of 2,500 participants in a government study, Susan Shirin, deputy director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) told CNN Monday.
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Cnn.com |
11:04pm PDT |
Pamela Anderson's latest marriage annulled |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PDT |
Officially, China all but ignores Olympics protest
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The vast majority of Chinese media on Tuesday ignored a protest at the ceremony to light the Olympic flame, which put new pressure on Beijing over its handling of the ongoing unrest over Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38pm PDT |
Blasts hit Comoros after invasion threat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Explosions and gunfire resounded in the Indian Ocean nation of Comoros Tuesday as the government announced it was invading Anjouan to oust a renegade colonel who seized the key island last May. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14pm PDT |
Judge upholds Spears conservatorship
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A state appeals court on Monday dismissed an attorney's challenge to the order that gives Britney Spears' father control over much of her life. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03pm PDT |
Iraq seen as more stable than Afghanistan: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraq has emerged as a more stable
country than Afghanistan, thanks to lower violence, the
presence of a large U.S.-led international force and high oil
prices, according to a report published on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
9:59pm PDT |
Judges criticised over gun crime |
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Summary: A senior policeman criticises some judges for being lenient in their sentencing in gun crime cases. |
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BBC News |
9:57pm PDT |
Medvedev warns on Nato expansion |
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Summary: Russia's new leader says Moscow is not happy about the prospect of Ukraine and Georgia joining Nato. |
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BBC News |
9:51pm PDT |
Shooting on Comoran island |
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Summary: A military operation begins in the Comoros to put down a year-old rebellion on the island of Anjouan. |
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Yahoo News |
9:35pm PDT |
Shuttle heads for home after leaving station
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from
the International Space Station on Monday and headed home after
delivering part of Japan's ambitious space laboratory. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Cricket: England poised to win |
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Summary: Monty Panesar and Stuart Broad share five wickets as England close on a series victory over New Zealand on day four in Napier. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
England poised for series victory |
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Summary: Monty Panesar and Stuart Broad share five wickets as England close on a series victory over New Zealand on day four in Napier. |
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BBC News |
8:47pm PDT |
Shooting erupts on Comoran island |
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Summary: Gunfire and explosions break out on a Comoran island hours after the president orders action to end a rebellion. |
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Cnn.com |
8:39pm PDT |
One 'Barbie Bandit' heads to prison |
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Summary: A judge Monday sentenced one of two women dubbed the "Barbie Bandits" and a teller who helped them rob the bank where he worked.
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BBC News |
8:28pm PDT |
MP expense claims being released |
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Summary: The expenses of 14 prominent MPs and ex-MPs from all the major parties are expected to be published later. |
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Cnn.com |
8:16pm PDT |
Food prices rising across the world |
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Yahoo News |
8:08pm PDT |
Pilot's gun fires on US Airways flight
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane went off as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00pm PDT |
US engineer gets 24 years for exporting military data to China
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A Chinese-born US engineer convicted of conspiring to smuggle sensitive technology about US Navy submarines to China was on Monday jailed for 24 years, justice officials said. |
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Cnn.com |
7:58pm PDT |
Va. Tech victims' kin offered settlement |
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Cnn.com |
7:42pm PDT |
NY gov says he tried coke, pot in his youth |
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Summary: New York Gov. David Paterson admitted during a television interview Monday that he used cocaine and marijuana during his early twenties.
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BBC News |
7:38pm PDT |
Mining forces out thousands in SA |
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Summary: Mining giant Anglo American has displaced thousands of South Africans in its quest for platinum, a BBC report finds. |
