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BBC News |
6:18pm PDT |
Dragon Jones heads skills academy |
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Summary: Dragons' Den star Peter Jones is to become head of a skills academy to teach budding entrepreneurs tricks of the trade. |
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Yahoo News |
6:16pm PDT |
Prosecutors move to delay Rezko sentencing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors moved Monday to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. |
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Yahoo News |
6:14pm PDT |
Upset over financial problems, man kills family, then himself
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An unemployed man with an advanced finance degree who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:12pm PDT |
R. Kelly seeks $3.4 million from tour promoter
(AP)
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Summary: AP - R. Kelly has won a $3.4 million award against his former tour promoter and is asking a Los Angeles judge to help him collect. |
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Yahoo News |
6:12pm PDT |
Rays top White Sox 6-2, advance to their 1st ALCS
(AP)
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Summary: AP - B.J. Upton and these Tampa Bay Rays are headed home — to get ready for the American League championship series. Worst in the majors last year, the Rays will play for a spot in the World Series after finishing off the Chicago White Sox 6-2 Monday in G |
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BBC News |
5:58pm PDT |
Japan continues plunge in shares |
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Summary: Asian stocks open down sharply amid investor panic that global governments may not be able to stem the financial crisis. |
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Yahoo News |
5:57pm PDT |
Japanese shares plummet, extend losses
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Japanese stocks plunged more than five percent within the first 30 minutes of the Tuesday session amid the global financial crisis that has sent major markets plummeting. |
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Yahoo News |
5:55pm PDT |
Penguins ride air force jet to South Atlantic
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil's equatorial beaches were flown south on a huge air force cargo plane and released closer to the frigid waters they call home, animal advocates said Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
5:55pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Marco forms in Gulf of Mexico |
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Summary: The 13th tropical depression of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season formed Monday in the Bay of Campeche, just off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said.
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BBC News |
5:43pm PDT |
Brown critic 'ends hostilities' |
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Summary: One of Gordon Brown's leading critics, backbench MP George Howarth, says his campaign for a Labour leadership contest is over. |
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Yahoo News |
5:42pm PDT |
U.S. dismisses Afghan war comments as "defeatist"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, as Washington seeks more troops for the conflict that started exactly seven years ago. |
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Yahoo News |
5:18pm PDT |
Palin warns Florida voters of "rough" campaigning
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Florida's voters on Monday to expect "rough" campaigning as she seeks to halt a slide in opinion polls in a state that could make or break Sen. John McCain's White House bid. |
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Cnn.com |
5:00pm PDT |
Palin's husband to answer questions in probe |
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Summary: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband has agreed to answer written questions in the state Legislature's investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner, campaign officials said Monday.
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Yahoo News |
4:51pm PDT |
Army sees progress in weapons programs
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Top U.S. Army officials on Monday said a $160 billion Future Combat Systems modernization program managed by Boeing Co and SAIC Inc was "on budget, on track," but could see changes over time. |
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BBC News |
4:40pm PDT |
China cancels US military contact |
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Summary: China cancels some military and diplomatic exchanges with the US over Washington's $6.5bn deal to supply Taiwan with arms. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
BofA earnings tumble, cuts dividend
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Bank of America Corp, citing "recessionary conditions," on Monday halved its dividend and said it would sell at least $10 billion in new common stock to bolster its capital to offset rising loan losses. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35pm PDT |
Crisis hammers stocks, U.S. urges unified response
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Governments around the world scrambled for new measures to contain the fast-spreading credit crisis as stock, bond and commodity markets bet on deepening uncertainty and a sharp downturn. |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
Dementia patients 'suffer stigma' |
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Summary: The stigma surrounding dementia makes life much harder for many patients suffering the condition, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
Smoking 'costs the NHS billions' |
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Summary: Smoking is costing the NHS in England £2.7bn pounds a year, up from £1.7bn a decade earlier, a report claims. |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
More concerns at Diploma options |
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Summary: England's new Diplomas offer a commendable way forward but people still need to be convinced of their credibility, MPs say. |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
MPs' concerns at Diploma options |
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Summary: England's new Diplomas offer a commendable way forward but people still need to be convinced of their credibility, MPs say. |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
First schools facing charity test |
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Summary: The charities watchdog has named the first five private schools that must demonstrate their charitable purpose. |
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BBC News |
4:20pm PDT |
A really open university - Oxbridge lectures put onto iTunes |
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Summary: Oxford and Cambridge University are to make lectures available online through downloading software iTunes. |
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Cnn.com |
4:20pm PDT |
Police: Jobless father kills family, self |
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Summary: A man distraught because he could not find work shot and killed his mother-in-law, his wife and three sons and then killed himself inside a home in an upscale San Fernando Valley neighborhood, police said.
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
West of Scotland worst for cancer |
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Summary: People in the west of Scotland are 50% more likely to get lung cancer than the rest of the UK, a report suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
4:07pm PDT |
6 die in family murder-suicide in upscale LA home
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An unemployed man with an advanced finance degree who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said Monday. |
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BBC News |
4:04pm PDT |
Social revolution |
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Summary: The UK's new breed of caring, sharing entrepreneurs |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
Fairytale feud |
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Summary: Clown-king in court over lucrative rights to wonderland |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
Fairytale fued |
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Summary: Clown-king in court over lucrative rights to wonderland |
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BBC News |
3:55pm PDT |
Smith orders police race review |
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Summary: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announces a nationwide assessment of ethnic minorities in the police. |
