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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
BA reports large jump in profits |
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Summary: British Airways reports a 45% increase in annual profits to £883m, but the airline warns of challenges ahead. |
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Yahoo News |
11:50pm PDT |
Bush, Saudis to discuss soaring gas prices
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush is putting the finishing touch on his celebrate-and-be-celebrated Israel stay, leaving the Holy Land with no movement on Mideast peace but hoping to fare better in Saudi Arabia at obtaining help for soaring gas prices at home. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PDT |
China buries quake dead; school collapses in focus
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China struggled to bury the dead
and help tens of thousands of injured, homeless and hungry on
Friday, four days after a massive earthquake which is expected
to have killed more than 50,000. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PDT |
US marine guilty of Japan assault |
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Summary: A US marine is convicted of assaulting a 14-year-old girl on the Japanese island of Okinawa. |
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Cnn.com |
11:21pm PDT |
China pushes frantic search for survivors |
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Summary: President Hu Jintao arrived in southwestern China on Friday to observe the country's devastated earthquake zone, state-run media reported.
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BBC News |
11:07pm PDT |
Fraud detection scheme nets £4.5m |
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Summary: A two-yearly exercise to tackle fraud across the public sector uncovers £4.5m in bogus claims. |
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Cnn.com |
11:00pm PDT |
Ex-NBA star Rodman charged after hotel fight |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
10:56pm PDT |
FAA studying American's lightning checks procedure: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Federal aviation officials are
examining why AMR Corp's American Airlines asked
mechanics to start skipping some safety checks to detect damage
to planes from suspected lightning strikes, the Wall Street
Journal said on Friday, citing inter |
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10:48pm PDT |
Russia with love |
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Summary: How Moscow is pushing the boat out for English fans |
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BBC News |
10:42pm PDT |
India issues new suspect sketches |
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Summary: Police in India issue three more sketches of men whom they want to question for the attacks in the city of Jaipur. |
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Yahoo News |
10:29pm PDT |
Amid clamor to drop out, Clinton campaigns on
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Sitting on board Sen.
Hillary Clinton's campaign plane are the remnants of a colorful
balloon replica of the candidate, once nearly life-size but now
almost deflated and shriveled. |
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Yahoo News |
10:25pm PDT |
Drug combo helps women with advanced breast cancer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20pm PDT |
'$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren. |
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Cnn.com |
10:14pm PDT |
Shania Twain, husband splitting up |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:09pm PDT |
Lebanon leaders to meet in Qatar |
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Summary: Lebanon's rival leaders are to meet in Qatar for talks aimed at pulling the country back from the brink of civil war. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05pm PDT |
McCain action helped Arizona developer: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presumptive Republican presidential
candidate John McCain secured millions in federal funds for a
land acquisition program that provided a windfall for an
Arizona developer whose executives were major campaign donors,
according to a USA Toda |
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BBC News |
9:46pm PDT |
Dambusters remembered 65 years on |
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Summary: A service and fly-past are being held to mark the 65th anniversary of the famous Dambusters mission. |
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Yahoo News |
9:42pm PDT |
School collapses in focus as China buries quake dead
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China struggled to bury the dead
and help tens of thousands of injured, homeless and hungry on
Friday, four days after a massive earthquake which is expected
to have killed more than 50,000. |
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Yahoo News |
9:39pm PDT |
CORRECTED: New bin Laden message to focus on Israel: monitors
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will
address the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding in a Web
message expected to underscore a growing focus on the Jewish
state, U.S.-based Internet monitors said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:32pm PDT |
Chinese leader visits quake area |
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Summary: Hu Jintao flies to Sichuan Province, where it is feared up to 50,000 people may have died in Monday's earthquake. |
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Yahoo News |
9:29pm PDT |
Police: Man a prime suspect in Florida fires
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods as firefighters battled large blazes nearby set several other small fires to throw off officers who were pursuing him, police said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:28pm PDT |
How the 'world's worst poet' could be having the last laugh |
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Summary: The "world's worst poet" could be about to outsell JK Rowling, Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl at auction. |
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BBC News |
9:19pm PDT |
Website to trace Brits in crises |
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Summary: The Foreign Office launches a service to help track down Britons caught up in emergencies abroad. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11pm PDT |
Ginobili, Duncan help Spurs force Game 7
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The San Antonio Spurs' Big Three came through. Now they have to win one on the road to keep their title defense alive. Manu Ginobili scored 25 points, Tim Duncan had 20 points and 15 rebounds, and Tony Parker added 15 points in the Spurs' 99-80 victo |
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Yahoo News |
9:05pm PDT |
Bush set to talk oil as Saudis eye Mideast peace
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush was wrapping up a visit to Israel on Friday before heading on to the world's biggest crude producer Saudi Arabia for talks on record oil prices that have hit Western consumers hard. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04pm PDT |
Time running out in search for China quake survivors
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China on Friday allowed the first foreign rescue teams to join the desperate search for earthquake survivors, but time was running out with an estimated 50,000 people already dead. |
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BBC News |
8:48pm PDT |
Ruling due in MPs' expenses fight |
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Summary: The High Court is set to decide whether 14 MPs must disclose details of claims made for their second homes. |
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Yahoo News |
8:18pm PDT |
Taliban man convicted in U.S. for "narco-terrorism"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A member of an Afghan Taliban cell
was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday on charges of
narco-terrorism and narcotics distribution, the U.S. Justice
Department said in a statement. |
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BBC News |
7:58pm PDT |
Exam marking 'cannot be perfect' |
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Summary: A new body set up to boost confidence in the exams system is to stage a public debate about standards. |
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BBC News |
7:58pm PDT |
Exams system faces health check |
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Summary: A new body set up to boost confidence in the exams system is to stage a public debate about standards. |
