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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Vigil in Austria for cellar family |
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Summary: Hundreds of people hold a candlelit vigil in Amstetten, where Josef Fritzl locked his daughter in a cellar. |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Austrian vigil for cellar family |
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Summary: Hundreds of people hold a candlelit vigil in Amstetten, where Josef Fritzl locked his daughter in a cellar. |
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Yahoo News |
7:21pm PDT |
Gates says 2nd carrier in Gulf is 'reminder' to Iran
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran, but he said it's not an escalation of force. |
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Yahoo News |
7:11pm PDT |
DNA proves Austrian the father in dungeon-incest case
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - DNA tests in Austria confirmed that Josef Fritzl fathered six children with a daughter he kept prisoner in a purpose-built cellar for nearly a quarter century. |
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BBC News |
7:07pm PDT |
MPs criticise rising 2012 costs |
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Summary: MPs accuse London 2012 organisers of spending "money like water", as costs for the event soar. |
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Yahoo News |
7:06pm PDT |
New U.S. carrier in Gulf a "reminder" to Iran: Gates
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on
Tuesday said the Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft
carrier in the Gulf as a "reminder" to Iran but said the change
was not an escalation of U.S. forces. |
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Cnn.com |
6:56pm PDT |
U.S. surfer dies in shark attack in Mexico |
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BBC News |
6:36pm PDT |
Call to examine 50s killer case |
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Summary: The state of a notorious serial killer's mental health may have been suppressed to ensure he was hanged, an expert claims. |
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Cnn.com |
6:34pm PDT |
What drove dad who kept 'house of horror'? |
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Summary: Police say Josef Fritzl has admitted holding his daughter hostage and fathering seven children with her. Now authorities, medical professionals and those who know Fritzl are struggling to piece together how he led a double life in a small town for more th |
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Cnn.com |
6:34pm PDT |
What drove dad who built 'house of horror'? |
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Summary: Police say Josef Fritzl has admitted holding his daughter hostage and fathering seven children with her. Now authorities, medical professionals and those who know Fritzl are struggling to piece together how he led a double life in a small town for more th |
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BBC News |
6:25pm PDT |
Getting hooked |
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Summary: The year's top 10 most complained about adverts |
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BBC News |
6:24pm PDT |
Bed hopping |
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Summary: We're addicted to sex, some men say. Are they really? |
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BBC News |
6:15pm PDT |
Science cuts 'hit UK reputation' |
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Summary: A government review of science funding concludes that the UK looks like an "incompetent" partner for international projects. |
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Cnn.com |
6:11pm PDT |
Ailing inmate's confession solves 1976 murder |
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Yahoo News |
6:10pm PDT |
Minor league hockey player charged after caught streaking
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The captain of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday, and a teammate was arrested for public drunkenness. Nathan Smith told the officer he |
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Yahoo News |
6:09pm PDT |
Carly Simon: Nobody does it better than Brooke on 'Idol'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Carly Simon has more than a passing interest in this season's "American Idol" and leaves no mystery about who's her favorite remaining finalist — Brooke White. |
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Cnn.com |
6:07pm PDT |
Ancient war booty finding its way back to Iraq |
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Summary: Stolen by smugglers, and now returned to the cradle of civilization.
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Cnn.com |
6:04pm PDT |
Families recall heparin patients' suffering |
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Summary: In emotional testimony before a congressional panel Tuesday, family members recounted their loved ones' deaths after receiving contaminated heparin and expressed their anger and sadness about the failure to ensure the drugs were safe
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Cnn.com |
5:47pm PDT |
Vets say they feel misled about GI benefits |
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Summary: Cheated. Baited and switched. That's how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them.
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BBC News |
5:46pm PDT |
Specialist nurses 'fear for jobs' |
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Summary: Some of the most experienced and highly-skilled nurses in the NHS fear for their jobs despite the large surplus in the health service. |
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Yahoo News |
5:29pm PDT |
Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American push into Sadr City increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat. |
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Yahoo News |
5:26pm PDT |
Scientists seek clues as Reno earthquakes keep shaking
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents' homes to try to figure out what's happening beneath the earth's surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless |
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Yahoo News |
5:21pm PDT |
Cost issues and war sap U.S. military readiness: lawmaker
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A top Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday
called for urgent improvement of the U.S. military's readiness,
saying the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cost overruns in
weapons programs had sapped its ability to respond quickly to a
crisis elsewher |
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Yahoo News |
4:48pm PDT |
Beijing marks 100-day countdown to Games
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Beijing on Wednesday marks the 100-day
countdown to the Olympics with songs, a mass run and even
prayers, hoping to put behind it the tumultuous events of the
past month which have taken much gloss off its preparations. |
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Cnn.com |
4:40pm PDT |
Iraq budget trimmed after oil-profit windfall |
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Summary: The Pentagon has agreed to cut $171 million from its budget to build police stations in Iraq after demands from Congress that the Iraqi government spend its recent oil windfall on reconstruction projects.
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BBC News |
4:08pm PDT |
Deal could end refinery dispute |
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Summary: Union leaders and managers at the Grangemouth oil refinery continue to consider a possible agreement. |
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Cnn.com |
4:05pm PDT |
Under guard, polygamist teen has a baby |
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Cnn.com |
4:00pm PDT |
Prince William makes surprise Afghanistan visit |
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Summary: Britain's Prince William made a surprise visit to Afghanistan this week -- serving as part of an air crew that made the 30-hour trip from England.
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Cnn.com |
4:00pm PDT |
Prince makes surprise Afghanistan visit |
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Summary: Britain's Prince William made a surprise visit to Afghanistan this week -- serving as part of an air crew that made the 30-hour trip from England.
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Migration maps |
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Summary: How Eastern European workers spread around UK |
