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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PDT |
Bears' D turns tables on Colts in 29-13 victory
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chicago rediscovered its winning formula Sunday night. Play tough defense, control the ball and make no major mistakes. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PDT |
Killer Ike pounds Cuba on way to Mexico Gulf
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Ike pounded northeastern Cuba
with 120 mile per hour (195 kph) winds, torrential rains and
massive waves that rolled through coastal towns on Monday on a
path toward the Gulf of Mexico oil fields and possibly New
Orleans. |
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Yahoo News |
11:45pm PDT |
Ike hits Cuba as dangerous Category 3 hurricane
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees Monday as the deadly storm roared across Cuba toward Havana and its historic but decaying old buildings. |
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Yahoo News |
11:44pm PDT |
Asian stocks soar after Freddie, Fannie bailouts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Asian stock markets soared Monday after Washington announced a bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — a move that could help bolster a shaky U.S. housing market and renew global investor confidence. |
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Yahoo News |
11:25pm PDT |
Ike slams Cuba, Haiti death toll passes 600
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hurricane Ike raged over Cuba early Monday, pummeling the island with gale force winds and torrential rain after killing dozens in beleaguered Haiti and worsening its growing humanitarian disaster. |
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BBC News |
11:23pm PDT |
Cuba hammered by Hurricane Ike |
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Summary: Giant waves and torrential rain from Hurricane Ike batter Cuba where hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated. |
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BBC News |
11:12pm PDT |
Nationwide will merge with rivals |
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Summary: The Nationwide Building Society says it will merge with two smaller rivals, the Derbyshire and Cheshire Building Societies. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Trainers link to pensioner murder |
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Summary: Three years after an OAP was murdered in her home, police release pictures of the killer's suspected footwear. |
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BBC News |
10:45pm PDT |
Under threat |
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Summary: Nigerian spirit-god festival at risk from commercialisation |
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Yahoo News |
10:42pm PDT |
Britney sweeps at otherwise tame VMAs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It took a year, but Britney Spears got the comeback she was seeking from the MTV Video Music Awards — and she didn't even have to sing or dance. |
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Cnn.com |
10:33pm PDT |
Stephen Colbert's DNA to be shot into space |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PDT |
Markets jump on US mortgage deal |
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Summary: Financial markets in Asia rally after the US government said it was taking over mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. |
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BBC News |
10:03pm PDT |
Spears scoops awards at MTV show |
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Summary: Britney Spears swept the board at the MTV Video Music Awards show in Los Angeles winning three gongs. |
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Yahoo News |
9:59pm PDT |
U.S. to look again at civilian deaths in Afghan raid
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. military said it planned to
reopen an investigation into civilian deaths in a coalition air
strike in western Afghanistan last month after new evidence |
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BBC News |
9:54pm PDT |
Nano car plant protest suspended |
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Summary: Opposition groups blocking work at a Tata Motors plant suspend protests after the government agrees to return land. |
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Yahoo News |
9:30pm PDT |
U.S. seizes Fannie and Freddie
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. government on Sunday seized
control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac launching what could be its biggest bailout ever to support
the U.S. housing market and ward off more global financial
market turbulence. |
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BBC News |
9:19pm PDT |
Scam victim |
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Summary: A woman tells how her elderly mother was victimised |
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BBC News |
9:13pm PDT |
Sarkozy leads EU trio to Moscow |
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Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy leads an EU delegation to Moscow for talks about the crisis in Georgia. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PDT |
Mass-market scams rake in £3.5bn |
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Summary: Fraudsters will devise more mass-marketed consumer scams to take advantage of the economic downturn, the OFT warns. |
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Cnn.com |
9:10pm PDT |
Serena Williams captures third U.S. Open |
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Yahoo News |
8:52pm PDT |
Serena Williams beats Jankovic for 3rd Open title
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Serena Williams flung her racket straight up and jumped for joy, hopping and skipping and screaming and generally looking like someone who had just won her first Grand Slam title. |
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Yahoo News |
8:52pm PDT |
Haiti's storm toll climbs to 600; Cuba evacuates 800,000
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hurricane Ike slammed into Cuba, the second major storm to hit the island in a little over a week, making landfall in the eastern province of Holguin as a major Category Three hurricane, weather officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PDT |
One More Time: Britney sweeps MTV VMAs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It took a year, but Britney Spears' comeback on the MTV Video Music Awards is finally a reality. |
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BBC News |
8:41pm PDT |
Unions demand public pay protest |
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Summary: Seven unions are asking the TUC to organise a protest campaign against the government's public sector pay policy. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Killer Ike hits Cuba after lashing Bahamas, Haiti
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Ike roared onto Cuba Sunday after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people. |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PDT |
PM to rally Cabinet in Birmingham |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is taking the Cabinet to Birmingham for its first meeting since the summer break. |
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Cnn.com |
8:30pm PDT |
'Glory Road' coach dies at 78 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:29pm PDT |
Serena seals third US Open title |
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Summary: Serena Williams sees off a valiant display from Jelena Jankovic to win her third US Open title and regain the number one ranking. |
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Yahoo News |
8:27pm PDT |
Hurricane Ike pounds Cuba on way to Gulf
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Ike pounded northeastern Cuba
with 120 mile per hour (195 kph) winds, torrential rains and
massive waves that rolled through coastal towns on Sunday on a
path toward the Gulf of Mexico oil fields and possibly New
Orleans. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07pm PDT |
Sarkozy in Georgia peace mission
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will ramp up the international pressure on Russia to withdraw more troops from Georgia as he visits Moscow and Tbilisi on Monday to shore up a fragile peace deal. |
