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 Petraeus warns over Koran burning
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6 hours 12 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:05:23 GMT
The US Afghan commander warns troops' lives will be at risk if a US church goes ahead with plans to burn ...
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 Ross Martin: Room at the top for strong leadership
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
London's example suggests the path Scotland's cities should follow if they are to overcome their long-te...
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 Congress Republicans wary of Obama economy plan
(Reuters)
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2 hours 20 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:56:35 GMT
Reuters - Republicans in Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve $350 b...
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Mystery as oil tycoon suspended by firm
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
THE suspension of one of Scotland's richest oil tycoons from his executive post at a leading maritime saf...
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Pedal power puts town in the fast lane
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
DUMFRIES yesterday went where Dundee dared not -launching Scotland's first self-service cycle hire scheme...
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 Car bomb kills 20 in Pakistan after Taliban threat
(Reuters)
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6 hours 3 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:14:06 GMT
Reuters - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killi...
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Mike Nellis: This snapshot gives us a very hazy picture of crime in Scotland today
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
The annual recorded crime statistics are always welcome, but you have to work at them a bit to understand...
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 Activists face tough midterm test
washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights
164 days 1 hours 5 minutes ago
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:12:00 GMT
For volunteers who helped catapult Obama to White House, 2010 elections pose stiff hurdles.
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MPs urged not to ban deep-sea oil exploration
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
The UK oil industry insisted yesterday that there was "no case" for a moratorium on offshore drilling in...
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Heartache of widow of one of the 44 soldiers from the Rifles killed in Afghanistan
Mirror.co.uk - News - Top Stories
163 days 23 hours 17 minutes ago
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT
Lee Brownson will never see his unborn child. The 3 Rifles corporal died in a bomb blast in Afghanistan, ...
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 EU decries 'barbaric' plans to stone Iranian woman
(AP)
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1 hours 55 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:21:30 GMT
AP - The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensifi...
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Scottish scientists 'prove' that ME exists and may be caused by virus
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
SCOTTISH scientists have found new evidence that the debilitating condition ME could by caused by a virus...
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 Pressure rises on pastor who wants to burn Quran
(AP)
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1 hours 33 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:43:32 GMT
AP - The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to bur...
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Life on the level: they may have a frumpy image but bungalows offer flexible living space and are perennially popular
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Think "bungalow" and you probably think net curtains, gnomes and owners with one foot in the grave. Bunga...
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Obituary: Lt-Cmdr Tony Bentley-Buckle
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Lieutenant-Commander Tony Bentley-Buckle, naval officer and businessman.
Born: 13 August, 1921, in Knokk...
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Delving into soul of Robert Louis Stevenson, the real-life Dr Jekyll
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Delving into soul of Robert Louis Stevenson, the real-life Dr Jekyll
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Blind golfer joins hole-in-one club on 'very tricky' green
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
When blind golfer Jim Gales stepped out for a quick practice round, he had no idea that membership to one...
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 Daffodil pride blooming for show - BBC News
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872 days 18 hours 17 minutes ago
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:59:58 GMT
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 Seventh charged in Rhys inquiry - BBC News
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872 days 17 hours 57 minutes ago
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 Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
(AP)
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1 hours 55 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:21:34 GMT
AP - Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic at...
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 Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts
(AP)
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1 hours 58 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:18:56 GMT
AP - Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage...
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Australian in line for Booker hat trick as shortlist is revealed
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Australian author Peter Carey moved a step closer to achieving a literary hat trick with the announcemen...
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 Chicago Mayor Daley won't run for re-election
(AP)
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1 hours 55 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:21:39 GMT
AP - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who has presided over the nation's third-largest city for 21 years, ...
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 Ten million without shelter in Pakistan floods: UN
(AFP)
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7 hours 47 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:30:22 GMT
AFP - Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said ...
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 U.S. team to discuss N.Korea in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing
(Reuters)
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4 hours 23 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:53:37 GMT
Reuters - A U.S. government team will travel to Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing next week to discuss North Korea...
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Hugh Reilly: Time to hang out the bedsheets
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
When it came to ripping out the heart of communities, Genghis Khan wasn't big on consultation. For exampl...
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 Take Better Flash Photos
Wired Top Stories
2 hours 32 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:45:00 GMT
Most flash photos — even those shot with your new, fancy $500 camera — look like junk. But yo...
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Tube strike brings major delays
BBC News - Home
6 hours 10 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:07:19 GMT
Millions of Londoners have been attempting to travel home amid a major Tube strike affecting nearly all i...
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Microelectrodes help brain signals 'speak'
CNET News.com
2 hours 54 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:23:15 GMT
Using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted atop the brain, Utah researchers are one step closer to e...
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Pressure mounts in U.S. against Koran-burning plan
(Reuters)
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6 hours 39 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:38:22 GMT
Reuters - Civil and military leaders stepped up calls on Tuesday for an obscure U.S. pastor to drop his p...
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Lloyds to be sued by own charity for £3.5m
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
THE charitable arm of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland has launched a legal action against the financial ...
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 Grim outlook for Democrats puts House up for grabs
(AP)
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1 hours 56 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:21:17 GMT
AP - Disgruntled voters, a sluggish economy and vanishing enthusiasm for President Barack Obama have put ...
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 Boise State gains ground in AP Top 25
(AP)
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2 hours 34 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:42:50 GMT
AP - More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country.
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Teed off Elin Nordegren says to Tiger Woods - it's divorce time
Mirror.co.uk - News - Top Stories
163 days 23 hours 17 minutes ago
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT
Golfer's wife is furious he has decided to play in US Masters next month
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Ann Widdecombe leads sports and soap stars on to dancefloor
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Former Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams will share the dancefloor with former MP Ann Widdecombe in ...
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Gang preparing jailed neo-Nazis for violence on release is raided
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
NATIONWIDE swoops on a neo-Nazi group that has infiltrated jailed right-wingers to prepare them for viole...
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Minister told 'bonfire of Korans' will damage US
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
A CHRISTIAN minister says he will continue with plans to burn copies of the Koran this weekend to protest...
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Gales and flash floods disrupt travel across country
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
A SCOTRAIL train hit a fallen tree yesterday as strong winds and heavy rain caused flash flooding and hit...
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 Nanny: Bloody syringes in Anna Nicole's bathroom
(AP)
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1 hours 54 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:22:41 GMT
AP - A nanny who worked for Anna Nicole Smith in the last months of her life said Tuesday that she found ...
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France in turmoil as strikers attack rise in retirement age
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
ALMOST half a million anti-government protesters took to the streets of France yesterday in a day of stri...
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Crime is down but half of all offences still left unsolved
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
POLICE have failed to improve their detection rates, despite a fall in the number of crimes and record le...
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Stuart Kelly: Early favourites have all been written off
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
The Booker, despite its august reputation, is not a predictable prize. This year, the judges chose not to...
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Ombudsman's office 'too often failing in its duty' to the public
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
The body that investigates complaints about public services is failing to perform and should be overhaule...
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Health minister urges help for patients in cash crisis risiss
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
More help needs to be given to Scots whose mental health has suffered as a result of the financial crisis...
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Religious leaders condemn "anti-Muslim" frenzy
(Reuters)
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2 hours 35 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:41:59 GMT
Reuters - U.S. religious leaders joined on Tuesday to condemn an "anti-Muslim frenzy" in the United State...
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 John Lennon killer Chapman denied parole in NY
(AP)
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1 hours 55 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:22:20 GMT
AP - John Lennon's killer was again denied parole in New York, nearly 30 years after gunning down the ex-...
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WPC's killer 'must face UK court'
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
THE killer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher should face justice in the UK rather than Libya, a Tory MP said yesterd...
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U.S. judge refuses to lift ban on govt stem cell funds
(Reuters)
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2 hours 53 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:24:18 GMT
Reuters - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell r...
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 Verdict wait in heroin death case - BBC News
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872 days 18 hours 22 minutes ago
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:55:04 GMT
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Trust us, we got through economic storm, insists European president
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
THE head of the European Union has claimed that the worst of the economic crisis is over and the recovery...
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 Half a year on, little progress in Iraq government talks
(Reuters)
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2 hours 21 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:55:44 GMT
Reuters - Six months after Iraq held an election many hoped would usher in greater stability and peace, v...
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Right to die 'is hard for doctors to face'
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
DOCTORS are reluctant to carry out assisted suicides but will do so to ease the suffering of their patien...
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Obituary: Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms.
Born: 12 March, 1940, in Tanfield House, Yorkshir...
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European wind farm strikes a blow for green energy
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
IT is already Europe's largest onshore wind farm and creates enough electricity to power 180,000 homes.
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 Tributes as Labour MP Dunwoody dies - The Press Association
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872 days 18 hours 46 minutes ago
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:31:02 GMT
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 U.S. says not considering NATO Afghan troop request
(Reuters)
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4 hours 52 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:25:14 GMT
Reuters - The United States does not plan to contribute to a NATO request for 2,000 troops for the Afghan...
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 Asteroid Double Whammy Near Earth Wednesday
Wired Top Stories
3 hours 47 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:30:00 GMT
Get out your telescopes! Two small asteroids will come within moon-distance of Earth Wednesday.
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 Toll from Guatemala, Mexico landslides rises above 50
(AFP)
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3 hours 42 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:20 GMT
AFP - The toll from the heaviest rains in living memory in Guatemala and Mexico rose Tuesday above 50, as...
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 Colorado fire forced residents to make mad dash
(AP)
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1 hours 56 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:21:20 GMT
AP - David Myers knew it was time to leave when he looked out into the forest and spotted bright red flam...
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Court allows warrantless cell location tracking
CNET News.com
3 hours 33 minutes ago
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:44:11 GMT
Court rules no search warrant is needed for police to track Americans' cell phone whereabouts, but says i...
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Obituary: Elizabeth Jenkins OBE
Scotsman.com News - News
17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
Elizabeth Jenkins OBE, novelist and biographer.
Born: 31 October, 1905, in Hertfordshire.
Died: 5 Septe...
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Jack McConnell 'embarrassed' by Labour at Westminster
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17 minutes ago
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:00:00 GMT
JACK McConnell has launched a remarkable assault on Labour's record in government, saying he was regularl...
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