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Yahoo News |
7:42pm PDT |
Olympic torch evades protesters and supporters alike
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Olympic torch's only stop in
North America turned into a game of hide and seek on Wednesday
as San Francisco abruptly changed the route, angering both
China supporters and protesters. |
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BBC News |
7:23pm PDT |
Nepal prepares to go to the polls |
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Summary: Nepal prepares to vote in nationwide elections mired by violence that has claimed eight lives. |
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Cnn.com |
7:23pm PDT |
Wedding bed found in temple, affidavit says |
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Summary: Frightened and perhaps pregnant for the second time in a year, the 16-year-old mother whispered into a borrowed cell phone, defying everything she'd been taught by making contact with the outside world. She said she wanted out of a polygamous compound in |
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Cnn.com |
7:12pm PDT |
54 migrants suffocate in freezer truck |
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Summary: The bodies of 54 migrant workers from Burma were found Wednesday suffocated in a freezer on the back of a truck, police said.
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Yahoo News |
7:08pm PDT |
Rangers top Devils 4-1, take series lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scott Gomez showed the New Jersey Devils just what they let get away. In his first playoff game against the team he grew up with, Gomez assisted on three of the New York Rangers' goals in a 4-1 playoff-opening win over the Devils on Wednesday night. |
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Yahoo News |
7:03pm PDT |
Olympic torch dodges S.F. protesters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Olympic torch played hide and seek with thousands of demonstrators and spectators crowding the city's waterfront Wednesday before being spirited away without even a formal goodbye on its symbolic stop in the United States. |
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BBC News |
7:00pm PDT |
S Asian crises blamed on leaders |
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Summary: Oxfam says government failures can turn South Asia's natural disasters into humanitarian crises. |
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Yahoo News |
6:56pm PDT |
Yahoo, Time Warner closing in on AOL deal: source
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Yahoo Inc and Time
Warner Inc are "closing in" on a deal where Yahoo would
merge with Time Warner's AOL Internet unit, brushing aside
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, a source familiar with the talks
said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:51pm PDT |
54 Myanmar migrants die in seafood container: Thai police
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - At least 54 Myanmar migrants suffocated to death in a cold storage container as they were being smuggled into Thailand to look for work, Thai police said Thursday, |
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Cnn.com |
6:47pm PDT |
Iraq oil surplus fuels criticism in hearings |
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Summary: With U.S. gasoline prices setting records, opponents of the war in Iraq have raised a new complaint this week: The budget windfall that skyrocketing oil prices has given Baghdad.
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Yahoo News |
6:40pm PDT |
Army under stress from long wars
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. soldiers are committing suicide at record levels, young officers are abandoning their military careers, and the heavy use of forces in Iraq has made it harder for the military to fight conflicts that could arise elsewhere. |
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BBC News |
6:36pm PDT |
Moyles, Brand up for radio awards |
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Summary: Radio 1 star Chris Moyles and comedian Russell Brand are nominated for this year's radio industry Sony awards. |
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BBC News |
6:36pm PDT |
Radio 'Oscars' nominees revealed |
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Summary: Radio 1 star Chris Moyles and comedian Russell Brand are nominated for this year's radio industry Sony awards. |
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Yahoo News |
6:26pm PDT |
Texas authorities finish search of ranch
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Texas authorities say they have completed their search of a West Texas compound founded by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. State troopers, Texas Rangers and other authorities completed their search Wednesday. They've been at the remote ranch in Eldor |
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Cnn.com |
6:26pm PDT |
Detours, scuffles mark Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Heavy security surrounded runners taking part in the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco today, as the threat of violent protests prompted officials to make unannounced changes to the route and cancel a closing ceremony where thousands of people had gath |
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Cnn.com |
6:26pm PDT |
Route changes, scuffles mark Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Heavy security surrounded runners taking part in the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco today, as the threat of violent protests prompted officials to make unannounced changes to the route and cancel a closing ceremony where thousands of people had gath |
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Cnn.com |
6:18pm PDT |
Firefighters carry elderly down ladders |
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Summary: Lillian Wolfson shuffles slowly, holding on to her walker, as smoke still flutters in the distance from the apartment building she evacuated Wednesday morning.
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Cnn.com |
6:11pm PDT |
Couric, CBS downplay report of early split |
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Summary: CBS News and "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric are downplaying a Wall Street Journal report that Couric plans to leave the network long before her contract expires in 2011.
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Yahoo News |
6:06pm PDT |
Anger after few in San Francisco see torch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Olympic torch's only stop in
North America turned into the mystery of the missing flame on
Wednesday, as San Francisco abruptly changed the route,
angering both China supporters and protesters. |
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Yahoo News |
5:51pm PDT |
Clemens' lawyer fights removal attempt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brian McNamee's lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday that Roger Clemens' lead lawyer should be removed from the case because he might be forced to attack the credibility of Andy Pettitte, a former client of the same attorney. |
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BBC News |
5:50pm PDT |
Prisons drug trade 'worth £100m' |
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Summary: Drugs worth £100m could be being traded in prisons every year, a former prison service manager tells the BBC. |
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Cnn.com |
5:45pm PDT |
FCC OKs emergency texting system |
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Summary: A nationwide alert system will use cell phones or other mobile devices to send text messages to Americans when an emergency occurs, the Federal Communications Commission will announce Wednesday, according to an FCC representative.
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BBC News |
5:42pm PDT |
New appeal to identify Islay body |
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Summary: A fresh plea is made for help in identifying a man's body which washed up on Islay two years ago. |
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Yahoo News |
5:42pm PDT |
Torch concludes topsy-turvy tour of S.F.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Olympic torch played hide and seek with thousands of demonstrators and spectators crowding the city's waterfront Wednesday before being spirited away without even a formal goodbye on its symbolic journey to the Beijing Games. |
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BBC News |
5:29pm PDT |
Three share £2.2m Lottery jackpot |
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Summary: Three ticket holders are each £753,154 richer after sharing a £2.2m jackpot in Wednesday's main Lotto draw. |
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BBC News |
5:17pm PDT |
Stem cell pioneer backs research |
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Summary: The scientist who first isolated stem cells more than 25 years ago has hit back at critics of embryo research. |
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Yahoo News |
5:12pm PDT |
Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush's most
senior advisers approved "enhanced interrogation techniques" of
top al Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency, ABC
News reported on Wednesday, citing sources it did not name. |
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BBC News |
4:56pm PDT |
Google and Yahoo to share web ads |
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Summary: Yahoo and Google agree to share advertising space during a two week trial. |
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Yahoo News |
4:51pm PDT |
AMR cancels nearly 1,100 flights for inspections
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - American Airlines canceled almost 1,100
flights, or nearly half its schedule, on Wednesday to reinspect
aircraft, a disruption that affected about 100,000 passengers
and triggered chaos at the busiest U.S. airports. |
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Yahoo News |
4:49pm PDT |
Thomas to finish season as Knicks coach
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Isiah Thomas will finish the season as the Knicks' coach, but needs a good explanation for why things went so horribly wrong for any chance to last beyond that. |
