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Cnn.com |
4:32pm PDT |
No Afghanistan 'surge' during Bush term |
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Summary: It will be left to the next president to send a significant number of additional troops to Afghanistan, the Pentagon's spokesman said Wednesday.
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Cnn.com |
4:29pm PDT |
Cancer expert warns staff on cell phones |
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Yahoo News |
4:25pm PDT |
Bale attends 'Dark Knight' premiere in Spain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a glittering Spanish premiere of "The Dark Knight," appearing calm as he greeted fans a day after reports surfaced that his mother and sister had accused him of assault. |
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4:10pm PDT |
Literary save |
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Summary: Oldest football book lives for another season |
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BBC News |
4:09pm PDT |
After the 'surge' |
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Summary: Last US extra troops leave Iraq - what now? |
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BBC News |
4:07pm PDT |
Soy foods 'reduce sperm numbers' |
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Summary: A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may halve sperm concentrations, scientists suggest. |
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4:02pm PDT |
£5.19 - the price of a coffee in the world's most expensive city |
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Summary: Moscow tops the league of the most expensive cities to live in for expatriates, followed by Tokyo and London. |
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Low uptake mars chlamydia testing |
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Summary: Chlamydia screening in England reached just a third of those it should have in its first full year, the BBC learns. |
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BBC News |
3:56pm PDT |
France scraps the 35-hour week |
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Summary: France's parliament passes a law which effectively ends the country's compulsory 35-hour working week. |
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BBC News |
3:56pm PDT |
MPs scrap France's 35-hour week |
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Summary: France's parliament passes a law which effectively ends the country's compulsory 35-hour working week. |
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BBC News |
3:56pm PDT |
Vote revokes French 35-hour week |
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Summary: France's parliament passes a law which effectively ends the country's compulsory 35-hour working week. |
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BBC News |
3:53pm PDT |
US lawmakers pass housing rescue |
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Summary: The US House of Representatives passes a housing rescue bill after President Bush says he will not veto it. |
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Yahoo News |
3:41pm PDT |
Bale mum at 'Dark Knight' premiere in Spain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a glittering Spanish premiere of "The Dark Knight," appearing calm as he greeted fans a day after reports surfaced that his mother and sister had accused him of assault. |
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Yahoo News |
3:33pm PDT |
Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. |
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Yahoo News |
3:31pm PDT |
Hurricane Dolly slams South Texas, but levees hold
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. |
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BBC News |
3:24pm PDT |
Italy targets illegal immigrants |
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Summary: Illegal immigrants convicted of crime in Italy face longer jail sentences than those for Italians, under new laws. |
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Cnn.com |
3:22pm PDT |
Hurricane whips Texas-Mexico border |
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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 |
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Yahoo News |
3:21pm PDT |
Al-Qaida leaving Iraq for Afghanistan, says Iraqi ambassador
(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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Yahoo News |
3:20pm PDT |
Minimum wage increase is little help as costs soar
(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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Cnn.com |
3:18pm PDT |
House passes sweeping mortgage rescue |
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Summary: The House voted 272-152 to pass sweeping legislation that will offer up to $300 billion in aid to troubled homeowners and throw government support behind mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The nearly 700-page bill will now go to the Senate, CNNMo |
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Yahoo News |
3:18pm PDT |
U.S. rejects outside probe of Canadian sent to Syria
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Michael
Mukasey said on Wednesday he had rejected a request from
lawmakers that an outside special counsel investigate the case
of a Canadian taken off a plane in New York and sent to Syria,
where he says he was torture |
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BBC News |
3:16pm PDT |
UUP, Tories consider closer links |
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Summary: The Conservatives and UUP are to set up a working group to consider greater co-operation between their parties. |
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BBC News |
3:16pm PDT |
Tories reach out to UUP |
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Summary: The Conservatives and UUP are to set up a working group to consider greater co-operation between their parties. |
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Cnn.com |
2:48pm PDT |
House passes mortgage rescue |
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Summary: The House voted 272-152 to pass sweeping legislation that will offer up to $300 billion in aid to troubled homeowners and throw government support behind mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The nearly 700-page bill will now go to the Senate, CNNMo |
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Cnn.com |
2:44pm PDT |
Oil spill closes miles of Mississippi River |
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Summary: The U.S. Coast Guard has closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans southward after a tanker and a barge collided, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the river.
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Cnn.com |
2:44pm PDT |
Huge oil spill closes part of Mississippi River |
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Summary: The U.S. Coast Guard has closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans southward after a tanker and a barge collided, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the river.
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Yahoo News |
2:41pm PDT |
Arctic's oil could meet world demand for 3 years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Arctic Circle holds an estimated
90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough supply to meet
current world demand for almost three years, the U.S.
Geological Survey forecast on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:38pm PDT |
House OKs rescue for homeowners, Freddie, Fannie
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rescue legislation sailed through the House Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and to prevent troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing. |
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Yahoo News |
2:35pm PDT |
Minimum wage going up, little help as costs soar
(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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Yahoo News |
2:30pm PDT |
House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression. |
