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Cnn.com |
11:45pm PDT |
Boy sliced from mother's womb leaves hospital |
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Summary: A baby boy police believe was deliberately cut from his mother's womb was released from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hospital on Wednesday, a spokeswoman told CNN.
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Cnn.com |
11:45pm PDT |
Infant cut from mother's womb leaves hospital |
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Summary: A baby boy police believe was deliberately cut from his mother's womb was released from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hospital on Wednesday, a spokeswoman told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
11:39pm PDT |
NKorea, Thai-Cambodia flare-up dominate Asian security talks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday called for a peaceful resolution to a dangerous border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia as Asia's main security talks were held here. |
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11:37pm PDT |
Levees hold but waters rise in Dolly's rains
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds. |
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11:30pm PDT |
50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign
(AP)
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Summary: AP - 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent. |
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11:27pm PDT |
Obama set for warm German welcome |
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Summary: US presidential hopeful Barack Obama heads to Berlin, where big crowds are expected to hear a key speech. |
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11:27pm PDT |
Minimum wage going up, but so does inflation
(AP)
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Summary: AP - About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers. |
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11:25pm PDT |
Ambassador: al-Qaida leaving Iraq for Afghanistan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Al-Qaida's foreign fighters who have for years bedeviled Iraq are increasingly going to Afghanistan to fight instead, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. |
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11:17pm PDT |
Person familiar with test: Hardy tests positive
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Swimmer Jessica Hardy's trip to the Beijing Olympics could be in jeopardy after she tested positive for a banned substance. |
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11:04pm PDT |
Early sale for Glastonbury 2009 |
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Summary: Fans wanting to attend next year's Glastonbury Festival will be able to reserve their tickets six months earlier than normal. |
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10:53pm PDT |
Murray advances after rain delay |
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Summary: Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal both reach round three of the Toronto Masters but top seed Roger Federer suffers a shock loss. |
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10:45pm PDT |
Oxygen supply change criticised |
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Summary: Changes in the way home oxygen supply was brought in by the NHS in Wales is criticised by an audit report. |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PDT |
Obama keaves Israel for Germany
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama left Israel Thursday for Germany on the European leg of an international tour after paying a brief visit to the Wailing Wall. |
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Cnn.com |
10:26pm PDT |
Obama heads to Europe after visit to holy site |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama is on his way to Europe, the next leg in an international trip intended to bolster his foreign-policy credentials.
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BBC News |
10:14pm PDT |
Guatemalan baby 'stolen for adoption' |
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Summary: Officials in Guatemala say they have irrefutable proof that a child was stolen and put up for adoption in the state system. |
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10:03pm PDT |
Police use own bodies to save man |
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Summary: Two firearms officers are in hospital after using their own bodies to smother flames engulfing a knife-wielding man who had set himself alight. |
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10:02pm PDT |
Obama speech expected to draw huge crowd in Berlin
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential candidate Barack Obama
travels to Berlin on Thursday to give the only public speech of
a week-long foreign tour, an outdoor address on transatlantic
ties that is likely to draw tens of thousands. |
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9:54pm PDT |
Bin Laden driver trial shows interrogation video
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A
black-and-white interrogation video of Osama bin Laden's driver
showed Salim Hamdan denying under questioning in a dark cell
that he worked for al Qaeda. |
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BBC News |
9:52pm PDT |
Indonesian crash pilot on trial |
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Summary: The pilot of an Indonesian airliner that crashed at last year, killing 21 people, goes on trial charged with negligence. |
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9:38pm PDT |
Voters head to by-election polls |
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Summary: Voting in the Glasgow East by-election will get under way from 0700 BST. |
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9:23pm PDT |
Pakistan seeks militancy 'debate' |
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Summary: The Pakistani government says it aims to create greater national consensus to fight Islamic militancy. |
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8:42pm PDT |
Dozens injured in Japan quake |
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Summary: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rattled north-central Japan early Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Cnn.com |
8:42pm PDT |
Strong quake injures 92 in Japan |
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Summary: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rattled north-central Japan early Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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8:25pm PDT |
Coroner calls for inquest change |
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Summary: A senior coroner is calling for new legislation to make sure inquests are held within a year of a person's death. |
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Yahoo News |
8:14pm PDT |
Top Israeli officer stresses Iran on first U.S. visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, on
his first visit to Washington as Israel's top military officer,
said on Wednesday it was crucial to block what he called
"Iranian aggression" in the Middle East. |
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Cnn.com |
8:02pm PDT |
Chronicling 'Olympics that changed the world' |
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Summary: The subtitle of David Maraniss' new book, "Rome 1960" (Simon & Schuster), is "The Olympics That Changed the World."
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Yahoo News |
7:54pm PDT |
Japan hunts for injured after powerful quake
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Rescue teams searched under dense fog and rain Thursday for victims of a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 100 people injured, some of them seriously. |
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Yahoo News |
7:53pm PDT |
Obama pays visit to Jerusalem holy site
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama paid a predawn visit to the holiest place in Judaism on Thursday, bowing his head in prayer at the Western Wall. |
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Yahoo News |
7:49pm PDT |
Dolly downgraded to tropical storm in south Texas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm. |
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Cnn.com |
7:37pm PDT |
Dolly weakens, carries rains inland |
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Summary: Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane today after it made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. But Dolly's sustained winds were still about 95 miles an hour. The storm is expected to produce from 8 |
