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Study: MRI scans might prevent breast cancer  
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CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:54
FDA: No apparent heart risk from Prilosec, Nexium  
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Charges dropped for two Marines in Haditha killings  
Charges have been dropped for two Marines accused in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Iraq, the U.S. Marine Co...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:54
Poll: Better GOP views on Iraq give Bush approval a shot ...  
Changing attitudes about Iraq among Republican voters may explain President Bush's approval rating boost, according t...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:54
Poll: Clinton firmly positioned as Democratic front-runner  
Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York retains her position firmly at the front of the pack of Democratic presidential cand...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:54
Daly beats heat to hold early lead  
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Seventh body pulled from bridge site  
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Lennon has surgery on knee injury  
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Endeavour heads for space station with teacher on board  
Space shuttle Endeavour lifted off into the blue skies above Florida on Wednesday, its seven-member crew headed for t...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:54
Accused Barton pleads 'not guilty'  
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Astronomers find largest exoplanet to date  
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Remembering Elvis Presley  
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Monster truck rolls through Illinois crowd; 9 hurt  
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Tuchman: Journey into collapsed mine was nerve-racking  
Ever since the Crandall Canyon Mine collapsed Monday, reporters had been kept some distance from it as we covered the...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:53
Dems to spar, GOP no-show at landmark gay debate  
Voters concerned about where presidential candidates stand on gay rights may have their question answered tonight. ...
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Pair arrested in Newark schoolyard slayings  
Two people, including a 15-year-old boy, are in custody in connection with the execution-style slayings of three coll...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:53
Mine operator: Drill hole should reach miners Thursday ev...  
A 2½-inch drill hole should reach six trapped Utah coal miners Thursday evening, the mine's operator said at a lunch...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:53
Triple-digit temperatures broil Southeast U.S.  
Temperatures reached record highs across much of the Southeast on Thursday, while rainy weather cooled off many of th...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:53
CNN Student News Transcript: End of Summer Special  
August 10, 2007
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Recalled: 255,000 Chinese tires  
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CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:46
Tropical storm forms off Hawaii  
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UK shark report a great white lie  
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Triple-digit highs rewrite record books  
Temperatures reached record highs across much of the Southeast on Thursday. Highs in the upper 90s or above were expe...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Executions suspect surrenders  
This is the moment when Jose Carranza -- wanted for the execution-style killings of three college students -- is take...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Seventh body reportedly pulled from bridge site  
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Alleged 9/11 mastermind closer to trial  
Fourteen suspected terrorists listed as "high-value detainees" at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ha...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Drill hole may reach miners today  
A 2½-inch drill hole should reach six trapped Utah coal miners Thursday evening, the mine's operator said at a...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Dems to spar at gay debate; GOP slate no-show  
Voters concerned about where presidential candidates stand on gay rights may have their question answered tonight. ...
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Dow dives on 2nd worst day of 2007  
Stock slumped Thursday, with the Dow suffering its second worst session of the year. Worries about the U.S. mortgage ...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Charges dropped for two Marines in killings  
Charges have been dropped for two Marines accused in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Iraq, the U.S. Marine Co...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Mayor 'demonized' gays, protesters say  
With white sandy beaches and a laid-back atmosphere, Fort Lauderdale has long billed itself as a gay-friendly tourist...
CNN 2007-08-10 18:01:45
Bertinelli no stranger to f-word, (fat)  
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Alleged 9/11 mastermind closer to military trial  
Fourteen "high-value detainees" -- including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the September 11, ...
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Rice sways Musharraf on emergency  
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped persuade Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to hold off declaring ...
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Pilgrims trek through Baghdad  
Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops imposed stiff security across Baghdad on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of S...
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Two killed in Vancouver restaurant shooting  
Two gunman opened fire inside a Vancouver, British Columbia, restaurant early Thursday, killing two people and woundi...
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Russia accuses Georgia over attack  
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Rescue 'copter crash kills three  
A HELICOPTER sent to recover the body of a man found on a rubbish dump in Brasilia crashed yesterday, killing three o...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:37
Death toll rises as floods recede  
A RESPITE in the South Asian monsoon has allowed rescuers to reach remote submerged villages in northern India, findi...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:37
More inventions filed than ever  
INVENTORS are filing more patents than ever before, with Japan and the US receiving almost half of the 1.66 million r...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:37
Bear killed on the road to Lourdes  
A BEAR, blamed by farmers for savaging sheep after being freed in the Pyrenees, has been killed in a road accident.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:37
Victims to be given their say before their attackers are ...  
VICTIMS of serious crime are to be given a much bigger voice in the justice system, The Scotsman has learned.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Drop in performance at NHS 24 as demand for health phone ...  
THE performance of Scotland's out-of-hours health phone line has fallen in the last year as the service struggles wit...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
How would you fare in the bid to be British?  
NATIONHOOD quiz means testing times for aspiring immigrants, writes ALASTAIR JAMIESON
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
The next stage for devolution  
ADRIAN COLWELL, a former special adviser to Jack McConnell, reflects on the SNP's manifesto promises to devolve power...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Green light spells danger for traffic signals as bigots h...  
SCOTLAND'S sectarian shame is normally played out with chants on the football terraces or marches through the streets.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
The moor the merrier as grouse estates benefit from risin...  
A SURGE in demand for grouse moors could reverse the decline of shooting estates in Scotland, helping both the enviro...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Scots should heed EC procurement ruling  
FOLLOWING the European Commission's (EC) investigation into the legality of the Scottish Parliament construction tend...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Met Office says world is warming up faster than at any ti...  
THE world is warming up faster than at any time in the past 100 years, according to a global climate forecast that re...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Tourists hurt as crumbling Arctic glacier triggers massiv...  
BRITISH tourists were injured when their sightseeing boat was rocked by a huge wave triggered by chunks of ice breaki...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Briefing board  
SARAH Tennant and Yvonne Postlethwaite, from Aberdeenshire Council, have both been awarded the Certificate of Profici...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Fashion shades for drivers cast a dark shadow over road s...  
WOMEN who drive while wearing fashionable chunky sunglasses are a potential road safety hazard, campaigners warn.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Shetland one step ahead in bid to tackle burning issue of...  
MOST householders probably feel the odd twinge of guilt when they put their black bin bags of non-recycled rubbish ou...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
British officer's plea to US over civilian deaths  
A BRITISH commander in Afghanistan has asked the US military to withdraw its special forces from his area because the...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
True love is still a classic winner  
THE course of true love never did run smooth, wailed Shakespeare's thwarted lover Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Mbeki under fire for sacking AIDS fight deputy health chief  
A DELUGE of criticism has greeted South African president Thabo Mbeki's sacking of a member of his government who spo...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Hunt for clues at 'copter crash site  
ACCIDENT investigators were last night scouring the site of an RAF helicopter crash in which two people were killed a...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Plan to merge health and safety bodies aims to 'provide r...  
THE Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a ministerial consultation on the proposed merger of the Heal...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
£50,000 boost for historic theatre revamp  
IT WAS one of Scotland's leading venues in the golden age of music hall, when everyone from George Formby to screen l...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
'Share our dreams of space travel - it's much better than...  
SPACE exploration should set the public's pulses racing faster than an episode of the steamy television series Desper...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
World pipes tournament to give city £10m boost  
THOUSANDS of musicians from around the world have descended on Glasgow ahead of this weekend's World Pipe Band Champi...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Festival programme steps boldly on to centre stage  
THE jazz and Broadway tunes of Leonard Bernstein's modern operetta Candide open the 61st Edinburgh International Fest...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Great white lie moves Jaws to South Africa  
FEARS that a Cornish holiday resort had got its own real-life Jaws were proved groundless yesterday after it was reve...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Crime writer on trial for murder - and his own whodunit i...  
THE media call it the "Murder, He Wrote" trial and it is captivating Polish society in a long hot summer. The case co...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
People of Pennan return home to chaos  
THE enormity of the clear-up facing some home-owners in the devastated village of Pennan became clear yesterday, when...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Black week in Basra as toll rises  
TWO British soldiers were killed and another two seriously injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq early yesterday.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Man arrived at airport with £100k of cocaine  
AN AMERICAN man arriving at Edinburgh Airport had £100,000 of cocaine in his suitcase when he was stopped by customs...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
New armed vehicles saved our lives, say soldiers  
BRITISH soldiers in Afghanistan told yesterday how they emerged unhurt after driving over landmines in new heavily ar...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
First for teacher evokes memories of disaster  
BARBARA Morgan and her six crewmates will arrive today at the International Space Station, 220 miles above Earth.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Medics tortured, Gaddafi son admits  
FOREIGN medics freed from a Libyan jail were tortured into confessing they deliberately infected hundreds of Libyan c...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Missing peer Lucan is not playing possum  
THE hunt for Lord Lucan hit another dead end yesterday when a British man living rough in a car in New Zealand denied...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
BAA study will focus on customer service  
THE Competition Commission said yesterday a study into market domination by airport operator BAA will focus on the fi...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Constable acquitted of bribing witness  
A POLICEMAN was cleared yesterday of trying to buy a witness's silence with a £50,000 bribe.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
£160,000 boost for cancer study  
RESEARCHERS who have been studying the role aspirin can play in fighting bowel cancer have today been given a funding...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Overseas gambling websites to be banned  
HUNDREDS of gambling websites based overseas will be banned from advertising in the UK under new rules announced yest...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Lager loses its head as louts go sophisticated  
IT HAS become a byword for loutish behaviour and is often associated with binge drinking, but lager is suffering a po...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Putin flexes Russia's muscles by sending its air force bo...  
RUSSIA'S strategic bombers have resumed Cold War-style long-haul missions to areas patrolled by NATO and the United S...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
If you crave a pizza, blame the 'Homer hormone'  
SCIENTISTS have found the "Homer hormone" which controls our desire for food and leaves the Simpsons character saliva...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Two men arrested over Jessie's murder  
TWO people were arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of 15-year-old schoolboy Jessie James.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Mauritania introduces prison terms in attempt to stamp ou...  
MAURITANIA has passed a law promising prison terms for people who keep slaves - a monumental step in the north-west A...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Man held for attempted murder at Sandhurst  
A SERVICEMAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a female officer cadet at the Sandhurst Royal Mil...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Lords urge tight control of 'wild west' online fraud  
MINISTERS have been urged to clamp down on the "wild west" culture that has taken hold of internet banking and shoppi...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Vandal's hammer attack on £1.7m Reynolds work  
A PAINTING worth £1.7 million by the British artist Sir Joshua Reynolds has been damaged by a hammer-wielding vandal...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Top of the world cycling trip  
A TEAM of cyclists will set off from Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh this weekend for a gruelling 7,000-mile trek...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Antioxidants 'may do you more harm than good'  
ANTIOXIDANT overload may underlie diseases such as congenital heart failure and Alzheimer's, a study has shown.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Seven struck by salmonella  
AS MANY as seven people have contracted salmonella poisoning after eating at a Chinese restaurant, forcing health off...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Candid camcorders for police  
POLICE are being armed with camcorders to capture antisocial behaviour on film, it was revealed yesterday.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Radioactive waste returned  
RADIOACTIVE waste exported to South America almost a decade ago has been returned to the Dounreay nuclear plant in Ca...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
House with a garden worth a premium for purchasers  
HOMEBUYERS are prepared to pay an average £10,000 extra to secure a property with a garden, a survey has shown.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Boy, 14, is charged over attack at zoo  
POLICE have charged a third boy in relation to attacks on animals at a zoo in Dundee last month. Two boys, aged 11 an...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Pavarotti in hospital 'for observation'  
THE opera star Luciano Pavarotti has been admitted to hospital for observation in his hometown of Modena in northern ...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Holiday flight quarantined  
A FLIGHT carrying sick holidaymakers from a resort in the Dominican Republic hit by a stomach bug was quarantined aft...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Redheads given free pass to festival  
RED-HAIRED people are to be offered free entry to a festival celebrating all things ginger.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
Bids for ID card system begin  
COMPANIES have been invited to bid for a slice of the multi-billion-pound identity scheme, due to be rolled out from ...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:36
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