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11:56pm PDT |
Ferguson concern over Rome return |
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Summary: Manager Sir Alex Ferguson is wary of further crowd trouble when Manchester United meet Roma in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final. |
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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Two militants killed in Gaza raid |
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Summary: Two militants from the Hamas group are killed during an Israeli army raid in the Gaza strip, officials say. |
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11:49pm PDT |
Animal slaughter rejected by show |
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Summary: Footage of animals being slaughtered with sledge hammers is turned down by the Gi art festival. |
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11:43pm PDT |
Council landfill costs increasing |
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Summary: The tax that councils pay to dump rubbish in landfill sites is rising sharply. |
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11:36pm PDT |
Harry Potter firm looks to future |
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Summary: Publisher Bloomsbury says profits tripled in 2007, the year of its last Harry Potter novel. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PDT |
Iraqi casualties at highest level since mid-2007
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Summary: Reuters - Violent civilian deaths in Iraq climbed
to their highest level since mid-2007, Iraqi government figures
showed on Tuesday, due to a spike in violence between Iraq
security forces and Mehdi Army militia fighters. |
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11:27pm PDT |
India footballer in Tibet protest |
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Summary: India's soccer captain Baichung Bhutia refuses to carry the Olympic torch during its run through India. |
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Cnn.com |
11:07pm PDT |
Freed inmate charged in fatal home invasion |
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10:48pm PDT |
Tasmanian Devil cancer hope |
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Summary: Experts say a Tasmanian Devil called Cedric could hold the key to the survival of the cancer-hit species. |
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10:44pm PDT |
UBS doubles sub-prime writedowns |
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Summary: Swiss bank UBS says its writedowns as a result of the sub-prime crisis have more than doubled. |
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Cnn.com |
10:40pm PDT |
Severe weather leaves mark across Midwest |
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Cnn.com |
10:40pm PDT |
Severe weather whips through Midwest |
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10:40pm PDT |
Warning over rising landfill tax |
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Summary: Councils in Wales warn they will be £10m worse off because of rising taxes on waste going to landfill sites. |
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10:21pm PDT |
Almost 100 post offices to close |
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Summary: Almost 100 Post Office branches in Northern Ireland will close as part of a UK-wide restructuring process. |
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Cnn.com |
10:14pm PDT |
Pelosi: Bush should skip Olympic opener |
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Summary: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Bush should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Olympics Games in Beijing this summer to protest China's human rights record.
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10:06pm PDT |
Report: Low grad rates in US cities
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Summary: AP - Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday. |
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10:06pm PDT |
Health screening for the over-40s |
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Summary: People aged 40 to 74 will be given key health checks under government plans which aim to save 2,000 lives a year. |
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9:49pm PDT |
Democrat Pelosi urges end to race |
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Summary: Senior US Democrat Nancy Pelosi urges a quick decision to choose the party's presidential candidate. |
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Cnn.com |
9:39pm PDT |
Nun pleads guilty to stealing money to gamble |
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9:36pm PDT |
N Korea hits out at South leader |
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Summary: The new South Korean leader's stance could have "catastrophic consequences", North Korea warns. |
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9:36pm PDT |
Olympic torch heads off on world tour as protests planned
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Olympic torch headed for Kazakhstan Tuesday on the first leg of an epic world tour designed to drum up enthusiasm for the Beijing Games, but also certain to draw anti-China protests. |
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9:22pm PDT |
"Rambunctious" McCain says he had chip on shoulder
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential
candidate John McCain's is on a nostalgic tour this week of
some of the places he has known, featuring a lot of straight
talk about what a difficult young man he was. |
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8:48pm PDT |
Under strain |
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Summary: Turkey struggles with soaring prison population |
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8:16pm PDT |
Ky. snakes seized as owner loses fingers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Kentucky man wasn't around when officers seized reptiles from his home. That's because he was at a hospital having fingers amputated after a snakebite, his wife says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:05pm PDT |
Navy SEAL to get Medal of Honor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An elite Navy SEAL who threw himself on top of a grenade in Iraq to save his comrades will be posthumously awarded the nation's highest military tribute, a White House spokeswoman said Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
7:07pm PDT |
Revised CPR method helps save lives |
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Summary: Mike Mertz had no pulse until he benefited from a revised CPR method -- where paramedics skip the breathing step -- that has boosted Arizona's success rate. The American Heart Association Monday revised its guidelines to urge breathless resuscitation as t |
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Cnn.com |
7:07pm PDT |
Inspector: Federal negligence in mine collapse |
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Summary: Federal safety officials were negligent in their approval of work plans for a Utah coal mine that collapsed in August 2007, leaving nine dead, a Labor Department report concluded Monday.
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Yahoo News |
7:04pm PDT |
Bush to affirm support for NATO aspirant Ukraine
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush was to affirm on Tuesday his support for the NATO membership goals of ex-Soviet Ukraine, during a European tour focused on the alliance and relations with Russia. |
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BBC News |
7:04pm PDT |
Hitting a century |
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Summary: What future for the Territorial Army as it turns 100? |
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Yahoo News |
7:01pm PDT |
Ventura: No plans to run again, but ...
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Minnesota already has a comedian running for Senate. So why not its most famous former pro wrestler? In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, former Reform Party Gov. Jesse Ventura said there's nothing that could get him back into politics. |
