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BBC News |
11:56pm PDT |
Search for missing worker goes on |
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Summary: Helicopters join the search of a landfill site at a former quarry after a workman went missing there on Thursday night. |
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BBC News |
11:56pm PDT |
Landfill searched for missing man |
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Summary: Police are searching a landfill site at a former quarry after a man went missing there on Thursday night. |
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BBC News |
11:56pm PDT |
Search at quarry for missing man |
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Summary: Police are searching a quarry filled with rubbish after a man went missing there on Thursday night. |
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Yahoo News |
11:55pm PDT |
Persistent questions about Chinese, but no proof
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Despite persistent questions about the ages of several members of the Chinese women's gymnastics team that won the gold medal, the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is still no proof anyone cheated and believes the controversy will be |
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Yahoo News |
11:50pm PDT |
Pakistan to hold election on Sept. 6
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistan will hold a presidential
election on September 6 to vote in a replacement for Pervez
Musharraf, who resigned this week, the Election Commission said
on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36pm PDT |
Fay bedevils Florida for 5th weary day
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its slow, wet trudge across the state Friday, prompting communities farther inland and on the state's Gulf coast to brace for what could be drenching rains. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36pm PDT |
Russians says withdrawing troops from Georgia
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russia promised to withdraw most forces from deep inside Georgia on Friday, but was set to retain a military presence in two separatist regions and a buffer zone. |
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BBC News |
11:33pm PDT |
UN split over Georgia resolutions |
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Summary: The UN Security Council splits over efforts to resolve the Georgia crisis hours before Russia is due to complete its troop pullback. |
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BBC News |
11:22pm PDT |
Two arrests after death near pub |
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Summary: A woman and a man are being questioned after the suspicious death of a man near a pub. |
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11:18pm PDT |
Paedophile Glitter arrives in UK |
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Summary: Paedophile and disgraced pop star Gary Glitter has returned to the UK after serving three years in a Vietnamese jail for abusing two girls. |
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11:17pm PDT |
Mortgage rates 'at 2007 levels' |
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Summary: Mortgage rates are back now to where they were in August 2007 at the onset of the credit crunch, according to website Moneyfacts. |
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Cnn.com |
11:12pm PDT |
Harvard No. 1 on list of nation's top schools |
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Cnn.com |
11:12pm PDT |
Harvard tops list of nation's best schools |
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Cnn.com |
10:57pm PDT |
Mexico plans to combat kidnappings |
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Summary: Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors Thursday to create a plan to combat the nation's staggering rise in crime and kidnappings.
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10:40pm PDT |
Clean-up efforts after flooding |
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Summary: A clean-up operation gets under way in Dundee after heavy rains which have also hit train services to Aberdeen. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PDT |
Clean-up efforts after floodling |
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Summary: A clean up operation gets under way in Dundee after heavy rains which have also hit train services to Aberdeen. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PDT |
Heavy rain brings more flooding |
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Summary: Some streets are flooded and trains between Dundee and Aberdeen are disrupted after a period heavy rain. |
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BBC News |
10:36pm PDT |
Underdog again? |
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Summary: Obama camp ponders its man's slipping poll lead |
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Yahoo News |
10:28pm PDT |
Suicide bombers kill 67 at Pakistani arms factory
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Suicide bombers killed 67 people at Pakistan's largest arms factory Thursday in one of the country's deadliest terror attacks, adding to turmoil from political squabbling that is threatening to tear apart the ruling coalition now that Pervez Musharra |
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BBC News |
10:15pm PDT |
Gary Glitter due back in London |
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Summary: Paedophile and disgraced pop star Gary Glitter has left Bangkok and is on a flight bound for London. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14pm PDT |
Split looms in Pakistani coalition government
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistan's governing coalition was
due to hold make-or-break talks on Friday to save the alliance
between the country's two main parties, as concern grew that
squabbling was keeping them from tackling critical problems. |
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Cnn.com |
10:07pm PDT |
3 Texas polygamists indicted by grand jury |
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Summary: A Texas grand jury Thursday indicted three more members of a polygamist sect that was raided in April, a Schleicher County official told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
10:04pm PDT |
IOC: Despite questions, no proof China cheated
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Despite persistent questions about the ages of several members of the Chinese women's gymnastics team that won the gold medal, the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is still no proof anyone cheated and believes the controversy will be |
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BBC News |
9:54pm PDT |
DNA tests for Madrid air victims |
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Summary: DNA tests will be needed to identify many of the 153 people killed in the Madrid air disaster, the Spanish government says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:53pm PDT |
Buffett, others say high U.S. debt levels pose risks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Warren Buffett, the billionaire
co-founder of a top private equity firm and a prominent voice
for U.S. fiscal responsibility, called on the United States and
its elected officials to combat the nation's fast-growing,
multi-trillion dollar de |
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BBC News |
9:50pm PDT |
Questions asked after data loss |
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Summary: Government must answer how a memory stick with thousands of criminals' details was lost, the Information Commissioner says. |
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Cnn.com |
9:29pm PDT |
Why Jamaica is taking the sprint golds |
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Summary: The short sprints at the Beijing Games have become a showdown between the United States and Jamaica, with Jamaica winning by an Usain Bolt-ian margin. It's the first time since the 1988 Seoul Games a country has captured both the men's (Bolt) and women's |
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BBC News |
9:21pm PDT |
UN split on Ossetia resolutions |
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Summary: The UN Security Council splits over South Ossetia hours before Russia is due to complete its combat troop withdrawal from Georgia. |
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BBC News |
9:07pm PDT |
Crunch talks for Pakistan leaders |
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Summary: Senior politicians are due to meet in Pakistan to try to resolve disputes which threaten to break up the coalition government. |
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BBC News |
9:04pm PDT |
Detectives hunt death fall gang |
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Summary: Detectives continue to search for youths thought to have been chasing a 16-year-old when he plunged to his death from flats. |
