Nationalized Northern Rock loses $1 billion in 1H |
| | | Nationalized British bank Northern Rock on Tuesday reported a net loss of 592 million pounds (US$1.2 billion) in the first half of the year, as mortgage customers failed to make timely repayments. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Chicago tornado warning sounded; Wrigley cleared |
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Well-heeled serenade Obama on his 47th birthday |
| | | It may take a few months for Barack Obama's birthday wish to come true. The expected Democratic presidential nominee turned 47 on Monday and shared his special day with hundreds of friends and other admirers, who paid up to $28,500 for the honor. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Olympic torch finishes China earthquake zone tour |
| | | The final Olympic torch parade in homage to victims of China's earthquake was completed Tuesday after the route was changed amid worries about security in a region where Tibetan protests erupted earlier this year. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Euro lower against dollar to $1.5505 |
| | | The euro was lower against the dollar Tuesday before a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank that was likely to leave interest rates unchanged amid slowing consumer spending in the United States. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Source: Gotti arrested on murder conspiracy charge |
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Civil liberties union sues NYPD over race records |
| | | The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the New York Police Department seeking records identifying the race of everyone shot by city police officers since January 1997. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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More Madeleine Evidence To Come |
| | | Fresh revelations from the newly-released Portuguese police files in the Madeleine McCann investigation are expected today. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Fingerprints deepen a mystery |
| | | BALTIMORE - Authorities are actively investigating the possibility that accused kidnapper Clark Rockefeller is concealing a violent past, after his fingerprints provided an unusual, but still unconfirmed, link to a killing in California from many years ago, according to two law enforcement officials. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Sorority may link anthrax suspect to NJ letters |
| | | His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link a former Army biowarfare scientist to four anthrax-laced letters dropped off at a New Jersey mailbox in 2001, authorities said Monday in the latest twist of one of the most bizarre unsolved crimes in FBI history. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Jurors to resume deliberations at Gitmo |
| | | A Pentagon jury was weighing a verdict for Osama bin Laden's former driver and alleged bodyguard as the U.S. neared completion Tuesday of its first war crimes trial since World War II. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Sportswear maker Adidas 1H profit up 23 percent |
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Air France-KLM quarterly earnings drop 59 percent |
| | | Air France-KLM said Tuesday it would deepen a cost cutting plan this year after rising oil prices led to a higher fuel bill and a steep drop in first quarter earnings. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Suspect pleads not guilty in Lynn slaying |
| | | LYNN - Rodlyn Petitbois stood expressionless in a gray prison jumpsuit with his hands handcuffed at his waist yesterday morning as he pleaded not guilty to a charge of killing the woman who harbored his girlfriend and four children. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Jet evacuated after emergency landing at LAX |
| | | Passengers were evacuated by inflatable chutes Tuesday when a Honolulu-bound aircraft made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport after someone smelled smoke in the cabin. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Mass. Daily |
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Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution |
| | | A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Honeymooners' Parents 'Devastated' |
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US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 491 |
| | | As of Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, at least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures July 26 at 10 a.m. EDT. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Murdered Brit's Body Parts Found |
| | | Brazilian authorities have discovered the head and arms of a British teenager murdered and dismembered over a week ago, allegedly by her drug-addict ex-boyfriend. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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