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L’Oreal cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman, yesterday said she would sever ties with her meddlesome daughter over a dispute involving a billion dollars in gifts to a society photographer. Read more
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With Nancy Sutley joining Team Obama as chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality, she becomes the first prominent, openly gay or lesbian to join the Cabinet. Read more
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With Germany’s economy projected to contract by up to three percent next year, a new survey shows that “German consumer confidence remains weak amid production cutbacks and fears of unemployment….” In Germany, “shoppers are turning gloomier as the downturn in Europe’s biggest economy continues….Until recently, Germany had been able to depend on its traditionally strong [...]
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Workers at Jaguar Land Rover have been given a crumb of Christmas comfort with news of a government bailout worth tens of millions of pounds. Nobody could argue that a strong car manufacturing base is important to Britain. Nobody could argue that it would be disastrous for a company that employs 15,000 UK workers – [...]
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MUMBAI — On a leafy hospital campus in this still-scarred city, one of the victims of last month’s terrorist attacks is making a recovery. He’s a chubby, cream-colored pooch whom workers have named Sheru — the Hindi word meaning Lion Heart. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21 — The decapitated bodies of 12 men were discovered early Sunday scattered in and around a state capital in southern Mexico. Nine of the headless corpses were strewn along a busy street, where the Guerrero state governor later appeared for a religious procession. Authorities said some of the victims were Mexican [...]
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DADAAB, Kenya — By the time Mohamed Abdi Ibrahim decided to leave Somalia, life in the southern city of Kismaayo had become, as he put it with consummate understatement, “complicated.” Read more
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 — Iraqi officials say they intend to expel members of an Iranian exile group living in a camp north of Baghdad that is protected by the U.S. military. The expulsion, which the Shiite-led government has long sought, is expected to become feasible once the U.N. mandate that regulates the presence of U.S. [...]
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 21 — The United States will not support a unity government in Zimbabwe that includes President Robert Mugabe, a top American envoy told reporters in South Africa on Sunday. Read more
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By Bappa Majumdar and Robert Birsel NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – India accused Pakistan on Monday of trying to shift blame for last month’s Mumbai attacks and demanded it do more to dismantle militant networks. India and the United States have blamed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for the attacks, which [...]
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By Tomasz Janowski and Ralph Boulton SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) – China cut its benchmark lending and deposit rates on Monday and Japan warned it was sliding deeper into a recession that is encroaching on the global economy, closing factories and throttling trade. British central bankers said interest rate cuts alone would [...]
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Japan’s biggest carmaker Toyota has forecast its first annual loss in 71 years due to plummeting sales and a surge in the value of the yen. Read more
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TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s sumo authority Monday called off an exhibition tour of London next year, saying that the global financial crisis had made the trip too costly. Read more
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BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush says he would do it again and that he was forced to write a letter of apology after being tortured in jail, the journalist’s brother said Monday. Read more
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THIS is a poignant, previously unseen, picture of little Madeleine McCann issued by her heartbroken parents who want this to be their last Christmas without her. Read more
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VATICAN CITY (Dec. 21) – Pope Benedict XVI is marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope. Read more
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Every GP is to be trained to diagnose dementia under an ambitious five-year plan that will revolutionise treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers. Read more
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NEW YORK – Spiralling violence in Somalia, forced civilian displacements in eastern Congo, and neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe were among the Top 10 humanitarian crises of 2008, according to an annual list released by Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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On WTTW-Ch. 11′s  ”Chicago Tonight” this evening, interviewer Eddie Arruza asked U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Chicago) if he had spoken with Gov. Rod Blagojevich about his interest in assuming the U.S. Senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama: Read more