#1 — BBC | Embattled Obama adviser resigns
A White House adviser has resigned in a row about crude remarks he made about Republicans, and over his signing of a controversial 9/11 petition.
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#2 — BBC | Hundreds saved from doomed ferry
A rescue operation is under way in the Philippines after a ferry sank with more than 960 people on board.
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#3 — CNN | White House ready to draft own health care bill, sources say
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The White House is quietly talking about drafting formal health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months, CNN has learned.
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#4 — CNN | California fire 49 percent contained, official says
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) – A fire north of Los Angeles is 49 percent contained and is moving east in the San Gabriel Wilderness area, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said Saturday.
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It looks like a typical spring water bottling plant – in the Scottish Highlands perhaps, or maybe the French Alps. But this factory, processing more than 15,000 gallons a day, is in a somewhat more unusual location: the middle of the Afghan desert.
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#6 — Times | BNP gets a slot on BBC’s Question Time
THE BBC has provoked controversy by giving the British National party a platform for the first time on Question Time, its top current affairs programme.
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#7 — Times | Thefts from Sunday Times office deepen spy mystery
An intelligence agency was suspected of infiltrating the London offices of The Sunday Times to spy on an investigation into the murder of one of its leading journalists.
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#8 — Times | Question a doctor and lose your child
PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care.
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#9 — Times | Barack Obama rattled as Afghanistan’s decision day approaches
Entertaining a group of US historians at the White House this summer, President Barack Obama revealed that he was beginning to worry about Afghanistan and the prospect that his ambitious domestic agenda would come to be overshadowed by an unpopular and unwinnable war.
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Times | President Hamid Karzai takes 100% of votes in opposition stronghold
#10 – Telegraph | Has Colonel Gaddafi lost his chance to meet Barack Obama?
The wild celebrations that greeted Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi on his return from Scotland have all but ensured that a meeting which Muammar Gaddafi’s had been trying to engineer with Barack Obama in New York will not take place.
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Van Jones is gone and good riddance, or is he really gone? I don’t trust Obama to cut all ties with this guy, that’s not the Chicago way.