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Police deny $1 m offer to family of Menezes
Deccan Herald - 1 hour ago Scotland Yard has denied reports that a staggering million dollars compensation has been offered to the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, who was shot dead in a botched police operation last month.

US base closing commissioners question cost savings
Reuters - 3 hours ago By David Lawder. WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Cost savings from the latest round of military base closings appear to be far less than the $50 billion estimated by the Pentagon, members of the commission with veto power over the actions said on Saturday.

Top Senate Democrat Reid learns of mild stroke
Reuters - 19 hours ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada suffered a minor stroke earlier this week but doctors found no complications, his office said on Friday. "Senator Reid feels fine," his press secretary Tessa Hafen said in a statement.

Pope Urges More Muslims to Fight Terror
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago By VICTOR L. SIMPSON. COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI went before an Islamic audience Saturday and delivered the strongest rebuke of terrorism of his papacy, asking Muslims to join Christians in trying

Bush invokes Sept 11 to defend Iraq war
Reuters - 2 hours ago By Tabassum Zakaria. CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush launched a counter-offensive against growing public discontent over Iraq on Saturday, when he defended the war as a way of protecting

Northwest Airlines' Mechanics on Strike
Los Angeles Times - 15 hours ago Ground workers walk out over the carrier's plan to slash jobs. The company has hired replacements and plans to keep flying. By James F. Peltz and Claire Hoffman, Times Staff Writers. Northwest Airlines Corp

Judges Rebuff Government on Endangered Species
New York Times - 21 hours ago WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 - Federal judges on opposite sides of the country ruled Friday that the Fish and Wildlife Service had acted arbitrarily and violated the Endangered Species Act when it reversed its own

BTK killer is jailed for 175 years
Scotsman - 22 hours ago AS THE BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader thrived on having the last word during a 17-year slaying spree that claimed 10 lives. But as family members of the victims took their turn at the microphone to confront

Love's lucky escape
Melbourne Herald Sun - 7 hours ago By NICK PAPPS. The former Hole singer and ex-wife of Kurt Cobain was told by a Los Angeles judge yesterday she was lucky to avoid jail. Love admitted to the Los Angeles court she had been using drugs in breach of her probation on assault charges.