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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
Japanese lawmaker in 'Nazi' gaffe |
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Summary: Taro Aso, the man who could be Japan's next prime minister, reportedly likens the opposition to the Nazis. |
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Cnn.com |
11:49pm PDT |
Accused 'underwear researcher' indicted |
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BBC News |
11:28pm PDT |
More Brazil murder remains found |
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Summary: The forearms, leg and head of a south London teenager murdered in Brazil have been discovered, police say. |
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BBC News |
11:27pm PDT |
Swiss Re buys Barclays life unit |
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Summary: Barclays agrees to sell its life
assurance arm to Swiss Re for £753m in cash. |
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BBC News |
11:26pm PDT |
China confident of safe Olympics |
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Summary: China stresses the Beijing Olympics will be safe, following an attack that killed 16 policemen in the north-west of the country. |
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11:15pm PDT |
Strike threat may delay SPL start |
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Summary: The start of the Scottish Premier League this weekend could be delayed because of a strike threat from the country's Referees' Association. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11pm PDT |
Russians to pay last respects to Solzhenitsyn
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russians on Tuesday were to pay their last respects at a lying-in-state for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a dissident writer who challenged the Soviet Union but was largely forgotten by a younger generation. |
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BBC News |
10:55pm PDT |
Review after baby's stroke missed |
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Summary: An NHS Trust is to review its care procedures after a baby suffered a stroke that went undiagnosed for more than a week. |
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BBC News |
10:45pm PDT |
44 post office branches to close |
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Summary: A list of post offices in south and west Wales either closing or being replaced by mobile services is announced. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
Clampdown in China Muslim region after bloody attack on police
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Chinese authorities moved Tuesday to keep a lid on further information about a bloody assault on police in Kashgar with a truck, explosives and machetes. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23pm PDT |
Moehler, Astros beat Cubs in rain-shortened game
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brian Moehler pitched five sharp innings before two powerful storms rolled into Wrigley Field, and the Houston Astros withstood the wild weather to beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 in a rain-shortened game that was called in the bottom of the eighth Monday |
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Cnn.com |
10:03pm PDT |
Edouard strengthens as it barrels toward Texas |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Edouard strengthened late Monday and could be near hurricane strength when the eye of the storm makes landfall, forecasters said. The storm's winds hit Louisiana on Monday, and are expected to reach the coast near the Texas-Louisiana state |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
MDs urged to quit prostate screens in elderly men
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Doctors should stop routine prostate cancer screening of men over 75 because there is more evidence of harm than benefit, a federal task force advised Monday in a new blow to a much scrutinized medical test. |
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Yahoo News |
9:57pm PDT |
Bush gives mixed appraisal of China ahead of visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush offered a
mixed assessment of China's role in the world but said in an
interview published on Tuesday it is "important to engage" the
Chinese. |
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Yahoo News |
9:56pm PDT |
Attackers hacked Chinese police with machetes: witnesses
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Chinese authorities moved Tuesday to keep a lid on further information about a deadly assault on Kashgar police with a truck, explosives and machetes. |
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Yahoo News |
9:39pm PDT |
Torch finally heads for Beijing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Olympic torch made its way to
Beijing on Tuesday, allowing China to put the focus back on
sport after one of its worst militant attacks days before the
Games. |
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BBC News |
9:16pm PDT |
Morgan Freeman in 'good spirits' |
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Summary: Actor Morgan Freeman is expected to make a good recovery after being injured in a car accident in Mississippi. |
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Yahoo News |
9:14pm PDT |
Fed seen holding rates steady as growth stumbles
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday
is expected to hold interest rates steady as dismal housing
markets and tight credit weigh on the economy, while it signals
lingering inflation concerns despite lower oil prices. |
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Yahoo News |
8:42pm PDT |
Cliff Lee wins 15th game as Indians beat Rays 5-2
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cliff Lee tied the major league lead with his 15th win and the Cleveland Indians stayed unbeaten against the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays this season with a 5-2 victory on Monday night. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PDT |
Frostbitten Italian hobbles, aided down K2
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Helped by a rescue party, an Italian
climber hobbled on frostbitten feet down K2 on Tuesday morning,
after spending four nights on the world's second-highest
mountain following a climbing disaster that killed 11 others. |
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Cnn.com |
8:03pm PDT |
Toxin in soil may mean no life on Mars |
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Summary: NASA's Phoenix lander has discovered a toxic chemical in soil near Mars' north pole, dimming hopes for finding life on the Red Planet, the probe's operators said Monday.
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Yahoo News |
7:56pm PDT |
Clampdown in China Muslim region after 16 police killed
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Chinese authorities moved Tuesday to keep a lid on further information about a deadly assault on police in Kashgar, as a quiet tension gripped this heavily Muslim city a day after the attack. |
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BBC News |
7:41pm PDT |
Surf's up? |
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Summary: Cornish craftsmen face wipeout from cheap imports |
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Yahoo News |
7:38pm PDT |
Plane crashes into Oregon house, kills 3 children
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A small plane crashed into a vacation
home on the Oregon coast on Monday, killing three children
inside and two adults on board, officials said. |
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BBC News |
6:55pm PDT |
Obama urges opening oil reserves |
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Summary: US presidential hopeful Barack Obama outlines his plans to tackle the cost of energy and its impact on the US economy. |
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Yahoo News |
6:44pm PDT |
World leaders salute Russia's 'conscience' Solzhenitsyn
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - World leaders hailed the life and work of dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy paying a glowing tribute to Russia's "conscience". |
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Cnn.com |
6:40pm PDT |
Pakistani woman on FBI terror list arrested |
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Summary: A Pakistani accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody last month has been extradited to the United States, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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BBC News |
6:30pm PDT |
Clinton wants Aids funding boost |
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Summary: Former US President Bill Clinton calls for the cost of HIV drugs to be kept down, in a speech to Mexico conference. |
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BBC News |
6:20pm PDT |
Bush to face S Korea protesters |
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Summary: President George W Bush is due in South Korea where protesters plan to voice their anger over US beef imports. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PDT |
Sorority may link anthrax suspect to NJ letters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link a former Army biowarfare scientist to four anthrax-laced letters dropped off at a New Jersey mailbox in 2001, authorities said Monday in the latest twist of one of the most bizarre unsolved |
