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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Fury as Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed |
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Summary: The US and UK condemn China and Russia for vetoing a UN resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders. |
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Cnn.com |
11:07pm PDT |
Muppets head to D.C. for special homecoming |
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Yahoo News |
11:05pm PDT |
IndyMac seized as financial troubles spread
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. banking regulators swooped in
to seize mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc on Friday
after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the
third-largest banking failure in U.S. history. |
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Yahoo News |
10:53pm PDT |
SKorea outraged by killing of tourist in NKorea
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - South Korea's press expressed outrage Saturday at the killing of a female South Korean tourist by a soldier in the North, demanding an apology and a thorough investigation into the incident. |
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BBC News |
9:25pm PDT |
Gangs use violence to steal pets |
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Summary: An animal charity says criminal gangs are becoming increasingly prepared to use violence to steal pets. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11pm PDT |
China defends veto of Zimbabwe resolution
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China said on Saturday that sanctions
against Zimbabwe's government would "complicate," rather than
ease, conflict in the troubled African country, defending its
decision to veto a proposed U.N. resolution. |
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BBC News |
9:09pm PDT |
Key US mortgage lender goes bust |
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Summary: One of the largest mortgage lenders in the US, the California-based IndyMac Bank, collapses amid a growing credit crisis. |
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BBC News |
8:41pm PDT |
Disabled 'wrongly denied' benefit |
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Summary: Disability campaigners say thousands of people who are unable to work are being wrongly denied incapacity benefit. |
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Yahoo News |
8:39pm PDT |
NKorea nuclear verification deal 'soon': China
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Envoys to the six-nation North Korean nuclear disarmament talks will "soon" announce an agreement on verifying Pyongyang's weapons declaration, China said as the negotiations resumed here on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Brett Favre wants release from Packers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Green Bay Packers want to do the right thing in response to Brett Favre's latest round of flip-flopping on his future in football. |
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Cnn.com |
8:32pm PDT |
Shark sighting at 'Jaws' site a hoax, police say |
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Yahoo News |
8:27pm PDT |
White House rejects regulating greenhouse gases
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it would cripple the U.S. economy. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11pm PDT |
U.S. seizes IndyMac as financial troubles spread
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. banking regulators swooped in
to seize mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc on Friday
after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the
third-largest banking failure in U.S. history. |
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Cnn.com |
8:03pm PDT |
Feds take over mortgage lender |
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Summary: California-based IndyMac was closed down on Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced. The bank's operations will be transferred to the FDIC. As of Friday, IndyMac had about $1 billion of potentially uninsured deposits held by about 10,0 |
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BBC News |
8:02pm PDT |
Polo on the coast |
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Summary: Getting in the saddle at UK's most exclusive beach |
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Yahoo News |
7:49pm PDT |
Actress Evelyn Keyes dies at 91 in California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister Suellen in "Gone With the Wind" and counted director John Huston and bandleader Artie Shaw among her famous husbands, has died. She was 91. |
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Yahoo News |
7:30pm PDT |
Government shuts down mortgage lender IndyMac
(AP)
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Summary: AP - IndyMac Bank's assets were seized by federal regulators on Friday after the mortgage lender succumbed to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures. |
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Cnn.com |
7:09pm PDT |
2nd possible near collision at JFK in week |
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Summary: An incident involving two airborne passenger jets on Friday has raised questions of a second possible near collision within a week at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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Cnn.com |
6:58pm PDT |
IndyMac is 2nd-largest bank failure in history |
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Summary: California-based IndyMac was closed down on Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced. The bank's operations will be transferred to the FDIC. As of Friday, IndyMac had about $1 billion of potentially uninsured deposits held by about 10,0 |
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BBC News |
6:56pm PDT |
Drug charge for 'Hollywood madam' |
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Summary: Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is charged with possession and use of illegal drugs in rural Nevada. |
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BBC News |
6:38pm PDT |
Dig for knowledge |
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Summary: Forensics students learn craft at replica of mass grave |
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Yahoo News |
6:32pm PDT |
Body found in fire-hit California community
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - One person was found dead in a
burned-out house in northern California on Friday after one of
the wildfires ravaging the state swept through a woodland
community, local police said. |
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Yahoo News |
6:12pm PDT |
AP: 'Lob bombs' biggest worry for US in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday in an Associat |
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Yahoo News |
6:10pm PDT |
Administration rejects regulating greenhouse gases
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it would cripple the U.S. economy. |
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BBC News |
5:49pm PDT |
Warning on power bill estimates |
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Summary: Energy customers could be racking up debts of hundreds of pounds without realising it, according to Citizens Advice. |
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Yahoo News |
5:41pm PDT |
Office of Thrift Supervision shuts down IndyMac
(AP)
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Summary: AP - IndyMac Bank's assets were seized by federal regulators on Friday after the mortgage lender succumbed to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures. |
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Yahoo News |
5:40pm PDT |
Senate passes mortgage rescue plan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A mortgage rescue to help hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and get more affordable, safer loans passed the Senate overwhelmingly Friday, but it faces a bumpy road amid continuing turmoil in the housing market. |
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Cnn.com |
5:36pm PDT |
Manager suspended over armpit tirade |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
5:32pm PDT |
Second near collision at JFK prompts changes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two airborne planes — one landing and the other taking off — came within a half-mile of colliding at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday in the second such incident at the airport in a week, the Federal Aviation Administration said. |
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BBC News |
5:31pm PDT |
New mission for 'Combat Barbie' - the soldier aiming for Miss England |
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Summary: A female soldier who once fought off a suspected Iraqi insurgent has won a place in the final of Miss England. |
