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BBC News |
11:59pm PDT |
UN warns of Haiti flooding crisis |
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Summary: The UN says the storms that have hit Haiti in recent weeks have left some 600,000 people in desperate need of help. |
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BBC News |
11:52pm PDT |
Global stock markets still jumpy |
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Summary: Fears about a global economic slowdown continue to weigh on stock markets, with Japan's main share index falling nearly 3%. |
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Yahoo News |
11:44pm PDT |
McCain vows to fight on last battle for America
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Summary: AFP - John McCain Thursday vowed to fight for America as long as he draws breath, in a patriotic pledge to bring political change as he accepted the Republican White House nomination. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PDT |
Copter rescue amid flood warnings |
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Summary: A rescue helicopter reaches a motorist trapped by rising water, as severe weather warnings are given across Wales. |
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Yahoo News |
11:34pm PDT |
Asian markets plunge after Wall Street sell-off
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Asian stock markets plunged Friday after more bad news on the U.S. economy, a vital export market, triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street overnight. |
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BBC News |
11:10pm PDT |
New governor general in Australia |
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Summary: Quentin Bryce is sworn in as Australia's governor general, the first woman to serve as Queen Elizabeth's representative there. |
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BBC News |
11:05pm PDT |
Sex killer 'could not be stopped' |
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Summary: A stalker who killed his ex-lover and then had sex with her corpse could not have been stopped, a report finds. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Crime op results in 109 arrests |
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Summary: A summer crackdown on burglary and other crimes in Belfast leads to over 100 arrests, the police reveal. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Crime crackdown sees 109 arrests |
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Summary: A summer crackdown on burglary and other crimes in Belfast has led to over 100 arrests, police reveal. |
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BBC News |
10:43pm PDT |
Brown 'backs more Holyrood power' |
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Summary: The SNP claims that Gordon Brown is "caving in to pressure" to concede more powers to Holyrood. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26pm PDT |
New book says U.S. spied on Iraqi leaders: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States has spied on Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders,
according to U.S. journalist Bob Woodward's fourth book on
President George W. Bush, The Washington Post reported on
Friday. |
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BBC News |
10:21pm PDT |
Tata set for Nano factory talks |
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Summary: Talks are due to begin shortly in the Indian city of Calcutta to try to end a dispute over the building of the world's smallest car, Nano. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10pm PDT |
Asian markets tumble after Wall Street sell-off
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Asian stock markets plunged Friday after more bad news on the U.S. economy, a vital export market, triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street overnight. |
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Cnn.com |
9:51pm PDT |
Dems say McCain got at least one thing right |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain got one thing right Thursday when he said the Republicans had let Washington change them, Democrats said after his speech.
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Cnn.com |
9:48pm PDT |
Republican Convention report card: John McCain |
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Cnn.com |
9:48pm PDT |
Report Card: Rate John McCain's speech |
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Yahoo News |
9:39pm PDT |
McCain vows fight for change in big convention speech
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - John McCain Thursday vowed to fight for America as long as he draws breath, promising to unleash a torrent of political change as he accepted the Republican White House nomination. |
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Cnn.com |
9:28pm PDT |
Analysis: McCain sincere, short on answers |
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Summary: It's odd to present yourself as a maverick to the most partisan audience imaginable, as John McCain did Thursday night.
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Yahoo News |
9:24pm PDT |
Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago. |
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BBC News |
9:18pm PDT |
Rice set for historic Libya visit |
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Summary: Condoleezza Rice will meet Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in a bid to improve relations. |
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BBC News |
9:10pm PDT |
WWII 'remains' in jungle prove to be vines |
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Summary: The suspected remains of a WWII airman discovered in the Papua New Guinea jungle are the moss-covered branches of a tree. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09pm PDT |
Djokovic beats Roddick at Open; Federer advances
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Novak Djokovic heard what Andy Roddick said about him and didn't like it one bit. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04pm PDT |
McCain accepts party's nomination, promises jobs
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican John McCain cast himself as
an independent-minded reformer on Thursday, vowed "change is
coming" if he is elected president and promised to create
millions of jobs by developing new energy sources. |
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BBC News |
9:04pm PDT |
Government warned over fuel costs |
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Summary: A Labour backbencher warns the government faces public hostility if it doesn't provide help for voters to pay energy bills. |
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BBC News |
9:04pm PDT |
Djokovic sets up Federer showdown |
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Summary: Novak Djokovic beats Andy Roddick in four sets and will now meet defending champion Roger Federer for a place in the US Open final. |
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Yahoo News |
9:02pm PDT |
Greenspan: Don't use Fed as a 'magical piggy bank'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose sudden collapse could wreak havoc on the country's economic and financial stability. |
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Cnn.com |
8:59pm PDT |
Sen. John McCain: 'Fight with me' |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain tonight told convention delegates that he accepts the GOP presidential nomination and vowed to "shake up Washington." Earlier, Republicans made Sarah Palin their first female VP candidate.
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Cnn.com |
8:36pm PDT |
Police use tear gas, arrest protesters |
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Summary: Police arrested an estimated 200 anti-war protesters Thursday night after using tear gas and percussion grenades to disperse a crowd near the State Capitol, about a mile from the Republican National Convention.
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BBC News |
8:18pm PDT |
McCain vows to fight to change US |
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Summary: John McCain promises "change is coming" as he accepts the Republican party's candidacy for the White House. |
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BBC News |
8:17pm PDT |
Shannon mother and man due in court |
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Summary: The mother of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews and the man accused of abducting her are due to appear at Leeds Crown Court. |
