New Year drunks should pay for hospital care? (Reuters)

December 31st, 2009 by admin

New Year drunks should pay for hospital care?
(Reuters)

A customer poses for the camera with a pint of beer in a public house in Leeds, northern England October 13, 2008. REUTERS/Nigel RoddisReuters – Excessive drinking over New Year’s Eve could cost Britain’s National Health Service as much as 23 million pounds, according to a report on Thursday which recommends drunks be charged a hospital admission fee of 532 pounds ($845.9).

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Obamas in, reality stars out in desirable neighbors poll (Reuters)

December 30th, 2009 by admin

Obamas in, reality stars out in desirable neighbors poll
(Reuters)

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and their two children, Sasha and Malia, arrive for their vacation aboard Air Force One at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 24, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters – Americans would most like to live next door to the Obama family. But a reality star like California’s “Octomom”, or Jon and Kate Gosselin and their brood of eight would be a big turn off, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

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Times Square shredder offers good riddance to 2009 (AP)

December 29th, 2009 by admin

Times Square shredder offers good riddance to 2009
(AP)

Tom Tompkins with the Times Square Alliance shreds Tiger Woods headlines  Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 in New York's Times Square. Need to say good riddance to bad memories from 2009? Head to Times Square, where organizers of New York City's New Year's Eve celebration are setting up shredders on Monday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP – Want to forget 2009? Shred it.

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Times Square shredder offers good riddance to 2009 (AP)

December 29th, 2009 by admin

Times Square shredder offers good riddance to 2009
(AP)

Tom Tompkins with the Times Square Alliance shreds Tiger Woods headlines  Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 in New York's Times Square. Need to say good riddance to bad memories from 2009? Head to Times Square, where organizers of New York City's New Year's Eve celebration are setting up shredders on Monday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP – Want to forget 2009? Shred it.

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Ghana’s Mills spurns Christmas hampers on graft fears (Reuters)

December 26th, 2009 by admin

Ghana’s Mills spurns Christmas hampers on graft fears
(Reuters)

Ghana's President John Atta Mills waves after arriving at Yamoussoukro airport April 7, 2009. Atta Mills is in Ivory Coast for his first visit since he was elected in January. REUTERS/Luc GnagoReuters – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills is refusing to accept traditional Christmas gifts such as hampers this year because they may be efforts to corrupt him, a spokesman said on Thursday.

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Australian man turns Santa, gives away belongings (Reuters)

December 25th, 2009 by admin

Australian man turns Santa, gives away belongings
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Reuters – An Australian man has embraced the spirit of the season, taking on the role of a real-life Santa and giving away his possessions as gifts for the second Christmas in a row.

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Australian man turns Santa, gives away belongings (Reuters)

December 25th, 2009 by admin

Australian man turns Santa, gives away belongings
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Reuters – An Australian man has embraced the spirit of the season, taking on the role of a real-life Santa and giving away his possessions as gifts for the second Christmas in a row.

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Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again (AP)

December 24th, 2009 by admin

Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again
(AP)

The charred remains of a Christmas straw goat stands in the town center of Gavle, Northern Sweden, on Wednesday Dec. 23, 2009. Torching the goat has become a yuletide tradition, in spite of surveillance cameras and security guards the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) goat has burned 24 times since it was first set up in 1966 to mark the holiday season. (AP Photo/Pernilla Wahlman)AP – A giant straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition, to the dismay of local leaders.

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Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again (AP)

December 24th, 2009 by admin

Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again
(AP)

The charred remains of a Christmas straw goat stands in the town center of Gavle, Northern Sweden, on Wednesday Dec. 23, 2009. Torching the goat has become a yuletide tradition, in spite of surveillance cameras and security guards the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) goat has burned 24 times since it was first set up in 1966 to mark the holiday season. (AP Photo/Pernilla Wahlman)AP – A giant straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition, to the dismay of local leaders.

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Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again (AP)

December 24th, 2009 by admin

Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again
(AP)

The charred remains of a Christmas straw goat stands in the town center of Gavle, Northern Sweden, on Wednesday Dec. 23, 2009. Torching the goat has become a yuletide tradition, in spite of surveillance cameras and security guards the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) goat has burned 24 times since it was first set up in 1966 to mark the holiday season. (AP Photo/Pernilla Wahlman)AP – A giant straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition, to the dismay of local leaders.

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