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Cnn.com |
11:57pm PDT |
Taiwan storm's death toll hits 19 |
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BBC News |
11:56pm PDT |
Coalition 'bombs Afghan police' |
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Summary: Four Afghan police and five civilians are killed in an air strike after an apparently mistaken clash with international forces. |
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Yahoo News |
11:43pm PDT |
Pope leads 350,000 in prayer at youth festival finale
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air mass with hundreds of thousands of pilgrims Sunday to end a week of World Youth Day festivities marked by a historic papal apology for priestly sex abuse. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PDT |
Obama breakfasts with U.S. troops in Afghan capital
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama had breakfast with U.S. troops in the Afghan capital on
Sunday and talked about their experiences in the country that
has seen a sharp rise in violence this year. |
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BBC News |
11:23pm PDT |
Live text - Open day four |
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Summary: Veteran Greg Norman holds a two-shot lead as the final round of the Open at Royal Birkdale gets under way. |
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Cnn.com |
11:18pm PDT |
Taiwan businessmen missing off Madagascar |
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Yahoo News |
10:46pm PDT |
Iraq PM did not back Obama troop exit plan: government
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki did not
back the plan of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and his comments to a German
magazine on the issue were misunderstood, the government's
spokesman said on |
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BBC News |
10:22pm PDT |
Car restrictions begin in Beijing |
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Summary: Tough new rules aimed at forcing more than one million cars from Beijing's roads during the Olympics come into force. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10pm PDT |
Obama has breakfast with troops; to meet Karzai
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama shared Sunday breakfast with American troops in Kabul ahead of an expected meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, a man Obama has criticized for not doing enough to rebuild his war-torn country. |
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Cnn.com |
9:57pm PDT |
Corpse in baby mystery tentatively identified |
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Summary: The body of a woman found tied up inside an apartment with her uterus cut open has been tentatively identified, the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Medical Examiner's office told CNN late Saturday. The apartment belonged to another woman who arrived at a |
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Yahoo News |
9:51pm PDT |
Obama has breakfast with troops in Afghan capital
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama had breakfast Sunday with U.S. troops in Kabul as part of his visit to Afghanistan. |
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Cnn.com |
9:50pm PDT |
Corpse in baby mystery tentatively ID'd |
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Summary: The body of a woman found tied up with her uterus cut open inside a Pennsylvania apartment has been tentatively identified, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office told CNN late Saturday.
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Yahoo News |
9:43pm PDT |
Shannen Doherty back in '90210' 'hood this fall
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brenda Walsh is all grown-up and returning to Beverly Hills, 90210, this fall. But cast members of the new CW spin-off, "90210," are speculating whether Shannen Doherty will be equally mature when she reprises her role as Walsh. |
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Cnn.com |
9:32pm PDT |
Cristobal churns off North Carolina coast |
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Summary: Tropical storm Cristobal was forecast to move "parallel and very close" to the North Carolina coast Sunday morning, but the storm is not expected to make landfall along the eastern U.S. shores.
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Yahoo News |
9:28pm PDT |
Pope urges Australian youths to spurn materialism
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the "spiritual desert" spreading throughout the world and to embrace Christianity to build a new age free from greed and materialism. |
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Yahoo News |
9:23pm PDT |
Thousands march for Nicaragua's Ortega after protest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tens of thousands of people filled
Nicaragua's capital on Saturday to celebrate the country's 1979
leftist revolution, giving a lift to President Daniel Ortega as
his government faces simmering protests. |
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Yahoo News |
9:14pm PDT |
Dream of gas tax holiday falters over job losses
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. |
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Yahoo News |
9:08pm PDT |
Kidnappers of Britons in Iraq claim victim died: video statement
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The group that kidnapped five Britons in Iraq in May 2007 claimed one of the victims has committed suicide, in a video statement released to The Sunday Times. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01pm PDT |
The Shark is circling with 2-shot lead in British
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gusts that approached 50 mph required Greg Norman to manufacture shots from his 53-year-old memory Saturday in the British Open, which he called among the toughest tests he has ever faced in golf. |
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Yahoo News |
8:55pm PDT |
Favre declines to address rift with Packers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Favre stuck to the script, declining to address his public rift with the Green Bay Packers in an appearance at Lambeau Field on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:35pm PDT |
Guess who's not invited to the Olympics?
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Dalai Lama may be the guest of
honor of President George W. Bush, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and other world leaders, but you won't find Tibet's
exiled spiritual leader on the Beijing Olympics guest list. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
Brazil official's Nazi reference rocks WTO talks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Some pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident Saturday when Brazil's foreign minister said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. |
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BBC News |
8:29pm PDT |
Town joins hands to recall floods |
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Summary: Hundreds of people are expected to join hands around Tewkesbury Abbey to mark the first anniversary of devastating floods. |
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Yahoo News |
8:29pm PDT |
Pope warns youth of materialist "spiritual desert"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict, wrapping up his visit to
Australia, on Sunday urged a huge crowd of young people to
beware the spreading "spiritual desert" that often accompanied
modern prosperity. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23pm PDT |
Storm Cristobal forms off U.S., Bertha weakens
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The third tropical storm of the 2008
Atlantic hurricane season, Cristobal, formed off the U.S. East
Coast on Saturday, with gale-force winds and heavy rains
expected to lash the Carolinas as the storm grazes the
shoreline on a northeasterly |
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BBC News |
8:01pm PDT |
Pope warns of 'spiritual desert' |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI ends World Youth Day celebrations by warning young people to build a world free of greed. |
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BBC News |
8:00pm PDT |
Teenager falls 30ft from window |
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Summary: A schoolgirl from south London is seriously injured falling 30ft from her hotel window in Venice, according to reports. |
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Cnn.com |
7:58pm PDT |
'Dark Knight' sets opening-day record |
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Yahoo News |
7:42pm PDT |
Pope warns youth of "spiritual desert" of materialism
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict, wrapping up his visit to
Australia, on Sunday urged a huge crowd of young people to
beware the spreading "spiritual desert" that often accompanied
modern prosperity. |
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BBC News |
7:37pm PDT |
Lambeth Conference due to begin |
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Summary: Hundreds of Anglican bishops will attend a special service for the official opening of the Lambeth Conference. |
