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2:19am PDT |
Making babies |
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Summary: French and Spanish solutions to the birth-rate challenge |
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BBC News |
2:19am PDT |
Full Glastonbury line-up revealed |
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Summary: Kings of Leon, The Raconteurs and Crowded House are among the acts to perform at this year's Glastonbury festival. |
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Yahoo News |
2:13am PDT |
UN chief announces food crisis taskforce
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced he was forming a UN task force on the food crisis Tuesday, bringing together heads of UN agencies to provide a coordinated response on the issue. |
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BBC News |
2:13am PDT |
Eriksson to be sacked by Man City |
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Summary: Sven-Goran Eriksson will not be Manchester City's manager next season, BBC Sport understands. |
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1:56am PDT |
Afghan intel: Karzai was warned of assassination plot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Hamid Karzai was warned of a weekend assassination plot against him, Afghanistan's intelligence chief said Tuesday, while admitting failings by security services. |
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1:53am PDT |
GTA game 'to break sales records' |
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Summary: Video game Grand Theft Auto IV goes on sale worldwide with analysts expecting it to smash sales records. |
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Cnn.com |
1:43am PDT |
Shell's profit soars to record $9 billion |
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Cnn.com |
1:39am PDT |
Spears coming back to 'How I Met Your Mother' |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
1:33am PDT |
Austria 'sex captor' due in court |
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Summary: An Austrian who admitted imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her children is to appear before a magistrate. |
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Yahoo News |
1:32am PDT |
Austrian to appear in court over abuse case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 73-year-old Austrian who
has confessed to locking his daughter in a windowless cellar
for 24 years and fathering her seven children will appear
before a judge on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
1:32am PDT |
Power-sharing call for Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's UN ambassador says a national unity government is needed, whoever wins the presidential election. |
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1:29am PDT |
U.N. sets up task force to tackle food crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.N. agencies and the World Bank will set
up a task force on food to deal with the unprecedented rise in
global food prices, the United Nations said on Tuesday. |
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1:27am PDT |
Eurotunnel in 915m euro cash call |
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Summary: Eurotunnel is asking its shareholders for extra cash to help the indebted firm pay off creditors. |
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1:20am PDT |
Sisters lose inheritance tax case |
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Summary: Two elderly sisters lose their final battle to avoid paying inheritance tax. |
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1:19am PDT |
Cameron 'unable to keep PMQs vow' |
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Summary: David Cameron admits failing to "end Punch and Judy politics", blaming prime minister's questions. |
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1:18am PDT |
Families, CEOs to testify on tainted heparin
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - People who lost relatives to deadly
reactions from the blood-thinner heparin are set to testify on
Tuesday before U.S. lawmakers probing contamination of the drug
made with raw ingredients imported from China. |
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1:09am PDT |
Man arrested in Jersey home case |
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Summary: Police investigating allegations of abuse at a former children's home in Jersey arrest a 68-year-old man on the island. |
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1:08am PDT |
Net under threat? |
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Summary: Will the internet crumble under the video boom strain? |
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1:07am PDT |
China jails Tibetan rioters as torch reaches Vietnam
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Chinese court jailed
17 people for terms ranging from three years to life on Tuesday
for their roles in deadly riots in Tibet last month which
triggered anti-China protests ahead of the Beijing Olympics. |
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12:59am PDT |
'Hundreds of jobs' for north west |
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Summary: A telecommunications company is expected to announce several hundred new jobs in Londonderry. |
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12:58am PDT |
Former Iraqi deputy PM Tareq Aziz to face court
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Tareq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, is set
to face court on Tuesday over the execution of dozens of
merchants in 1992. |
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12:57am PDT |
New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Marine scientists in New Zealand on Tuesday were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52am PDT |
Vietnam tightens security for torch's last international run
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Vietnam tightened security Tuesday ahead of the final international leg of an Olympic torch relay that has been dogged by protests against China's government. |
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BBC News |
12:48am PDT |
Many dead in Afghan suicide blast |
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Summary: A suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan kills 15 local people and injured 25 others, the Nato-led force says. |
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12:41am PDT |
U.S. Marines move to seize Afghan town from Taliban
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Marines have begun moving in to
capture a town from Taliban militants in the southern province
of Helmand, their first large operation in Afghanistan since
arriving to reinforce NATO troops, the force said on Tuesday. |
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Cnn.com |
12:40am PDT |
Wildfires rage on for third day |
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Summary: For a third day, firefighters continued to battle a stubborn wildfire that has consumed 538 acres of dry brush in the Southern California mountains.
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Yahoo News |
12:37am PDT |
Senate panel to look into chemical risk assessment program
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Senate committee is looking into a report that says the Bush administration is hampering the ability of Environmental Protection Agency scientists to assess the health dangers of toxic chemicals. |
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Yahoo News |
12:34am PDT |
Austria incest dad to appear before judge, search continues
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Austrian father who admitted raping and imprisoning his daughter for 24 years is due to appear before a magistrate on Tuesday to be remanded in custody, a court official said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:32am PDT |
Heated campaign souring Democrats on rival candidates
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Loyal Democrat Richard Somer says if Hillary Rodham Clinton gets his party's presidential nomination, he just may sit it out this Election Day. |
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12:26am PDT |
Senate debates how to make skies safer, less congested
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Senate is taking on what Sen. Jay Rockefeller calls "a national embarrassment," an antiquated air traffic control system that is making flying more unpleasant and possibly less safe. |
