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BBC News |
4:15pm PDT |
Schools adopt vocational courses |
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Summary: More vocational qualifications are being taken by school-age children, a report claims. |
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Cnn.com |
4:14pm PDT |
Dolly becomes a hurricane, targets Texas |
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Summary: Dolly became a Category 1 hurricane today in the western Gulf of Mexico, prompting a weather official to urge anyone on Texas' barrier islands to consider leaving immediately. The storm is heading toward southern Texas and northeastern Mexico and is expec |
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BBC News |
4:06pm PDT |
Clubbing together |
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Summary: Small bookstores are trying to match the big boys |
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BBC News |
4:05pm PDT |
Eco-towns plan 'may be unlawful' |
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Summary: The government's approach to delivering up to 10 eco-towns could be "unlawful", councils warn. |
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BBC News |
4:04pm PDT |
Ministers set for N Korea talks |
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Summary: Foreign ministers from six nations involved in talks to disarm North Korea are to hold a rare meeting in Singapore, officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
3:38pm PDT |
Dolly becomes hurricane, churns toward Texas
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Dolly became a hurricane on Tuesday and
bore down on southern Texas, but forecasters don't expect it to
pack too much of a punch when it comes ashore near the Mexican
border on Wednesday. |
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Cnn.com |
3:36pm PDT |
VP buzz swirls around McCain |
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Summary: Amid speculation that Sen. John McCain will announce his vice presidential running mate this week, the Arizona senator Tuesday avoided answering any questions on a timetable for the decision.
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Yahoo News |
3:33pm PDT |
Dolly now a hurricane, set to hit Texas coast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dolly spun into a hurricane Tuesday, heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley, where officials feared heavy rains could cause massive flooding and levee breaks. |
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Yahoo News |
3:32pm PDT |
Omarosa: Wendy Williams is 'a fake and a phony'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Omarosa is not sorry for sparring with Wendy Williams. "I stand by everything I said," Omarosa told The Associated Press on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
3:27pm PDT |
Oil prices fall to six-week low |
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Summary: The price of oil hits a six-week low as US demand slides and a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico takes a favourable course. |
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BBC News |
3:20pm PDT |
Chavez calls for Russia alliance |
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Summary: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez calls for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect Venezuela from the US. |
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Cnn.com |
3:18pm PDT |
Dolly becomes hurricane, targets Texas |
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Summary: Dolly became a Category 1 hurricane today in the western Gulf of Mexico, prompting a weather official to urge anyone on Texas' barrier islands to consider leaving immediately. The storm is heading toward southern Texas and northeastern Mexico and is expec |
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BBC News |
2:56pm PDT |
Manned spaceship design unveiled |
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Summary: The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled. |
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Cnn.com |
2:48pm PDT |
'Swift Boat' backer has a new crusade |
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Summary: When Texas oilman, investor, and sometime political player T. Boone Pickens talks, people listen.
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Cnn.com |
2:45pm PDT |
Cop: Car of missing tot's mom smelled like death |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
2:43pm PDT |
Despite smuggling conviction, agent has no regrets
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gus Dominguez negotiated the contract for the first Cuban player to defect to the United States. He opened his home to prospects fresh from the communist island and taught them about bank accounts. |
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Yahoo News |
2:33pm PDT |
Angry Serb nationalists protest Karadzic arrest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Serb nationalists skirmished with riot police in the capital Tuesday, lashing out against the new Western-leaning government that captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. |
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Yahoo News |
2:25pm PDT |
Obama vows to work for Mideast breakthrough
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stepped into the thicket of Mideast politics Tuesday, declaring in Jordan that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are strong enough internally to make the bold concessions necessary for peace. |
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Yahoo News |
2:23pm PDT |
Dolly upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Forecasters say Dolly has become a hurricane and is heading toward southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. Dolly was upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday afternoon and some strengthening is forecast before landfall Wednesd |
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Yahoo News |
2:10pm PDT |
Dolly upgraded to second hurricane of '08 season
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Dolly was upgraded to the Atlantic
season's second hurricane late Tuesday as it strengthened in
the warm waters of the western Gulf of Mexico on its way
towards the Texas-Mexico border, the U.S. National Hurricane
Center said in its latest a |
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Yahoo News |
1:55pm PDT |
Fugitive Karadzic worked in Belgrade clinic: officials
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic practised alternative medicine under a false name in the Serbian capital, officials said Tuesday, after his arrest following years on the run. |
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BBC News |
1:51pm PDT |
Israel hit by new digger attack |
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Summary: At least 10 people are injured in Jerusalem, as the driver of a construction vehicle rams cars before he is shot dead. |
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BBC News |
1:50pm PDT |
Family of INLA murder man misled |
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Summary: The family of one of the disappeared say they are being misled in the search for his body in France.
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BBC News |
1:50pm PDT |
Family of INLA murder man misled |
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Summary: The family of one of the disappeared say they are being misled in the search for his body in France.
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Yahoo News |
1:50pm PDT |
Testimony begins in Guantanamo war crimes trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Osama bin
Laden's driver was so close to al Qaeda's inner circle he knew
the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the September 11
attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the first Guantanamo
war crimes trial. |
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Cnn.com |
1:46pm PDT |
Cop: Mom's car smelled like decomposition |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
1:35pm PDT |
Obama arrives in Israel for talks with leaders
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Israel on
Tuesday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. |
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BBC News |
1:34pm PDT |
Calzaghe postpones Roy Jones fight |
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Summary: A hand injury forces Joe Calzaghe to postpone his September super-fight with Roy Jones Jr. |
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BBC News |
1:31pm PDT |
Terror police detain disabled boy |
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Summary: A police officer is transferred from duties after a disabled child and his parents are detained under the Terrorism Act. |
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Yahoo News |
1:30pm PDT |
Prosecutor: Missing Fla. girl may have been killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors in Florida say the case of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl is beginning to look like a homicide. |
