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Alexendra Burke has notched up a second week at number one with her version of ‘Hallelujah’.
Last week the X Factor champion topped the Christmas singles chart with the track, a cover of Leonard Cohen’s classic.
Leona Lewis bounces back to two with ‘Run’, while Beyoncé rebounds to three with ‘If I Were A Boy’.
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Israel obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of what the defense minister described Monday as a “war to the bitter end,” striking next to the Hamas premier’s home, and devastating a security compound and a university building.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of what the defense minister described Monday as a “war to the bitter end,” striking next to the Hamas premier’s home, and devastating a security compound and a university building.
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Allow me to step away from the reportorial, third-person voice in which this news digest is normally written to share the following advisory and observations with you.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 — A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday while the target of another attack, the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, partially reopened three months after a brazen truck bombing there left 54 dead.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 17 — Somalia’s parliament voted Wednesday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Abdullahi Yusuf, another sign that his U.S.-backed government is unraveling.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 — A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City on Sunday, and an Iraqi was killed when a suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew himself up amid a mass rally against Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza.
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TUZ KHURMATU, Iraq
Sheelan Anwar Omer, a shy 7-year-old Kurdish girl, bounded into her neighbor’s house with an ear-to-ear smile, looking for the party her mother had promised.
There was no celebration. Instead, a local woman quickly locked a rusty red door behind Sheelan, who looked bewildered when her mother ordered the girl to remove her underpants. […]
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il made his first appearance at a mass public event since his suspected stroke in August when he attended a concert and was met by a cheering crowd, according to a state media report on Monday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip for a third day on Monday and militants launched a fatal rocket attack on Israel in defiance of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians.
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Israeli air raids have pounded the Gaza Strip for a third day, hitting key sites linked to militant group Hamas.
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LONDON (AFP) –
Children’s clothing manufacturer Adams has applied to go into administration, PricewaterhouseCoopers said Sunday as another high-profile British firm felt the grip of the financial crisis.
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Living standards in Britain will fall below those in other major developed countries following a deep recession and collapse in the value of the pound, analysts have predicted.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 28) - A single-file line of school children walked past a military checkpoint Sunday as a bomb-loaded truck veered toward them and exploded, ending the lives of 14 young Afghans in a heartbreaking flash captured by a U.S. military security camera.
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An astonishing 140,000 households are pocketing more in benefits than the average take-home wage.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers Sunday, pounding weapons smuggling tunnels and a central prison, sending more tanks and artillery toward the Gaza border and approving a reserves callup for a possible ground invasion.
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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 resembled […]