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Britain 'will be immune' to gas shortages in Russian row
The Herald (subscribe) | 10 minutes ago | International
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Celebrity Big Brother: Ulrika flirts Michelle cries and Coolio upsets everyone
The Telegraph (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Entertainment
Coolio is the villain of the Celebrity Big Brother house after reducing fellow contestant Michelle Heaton to tears with a string of sexist jokes. -
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Ten groups in talks on Waterford Wedgwood
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Atheist advertising campaign to appear on Scottish buses
The Herald (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | International
A £140,000 atheist advertising campaign on buses was launched today with the slogan: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." -
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Sunday Telegraph's Colin Freeman describes fear during his Somalia kidnap
The Guardian (subscribe) | yesterday | International
The Sunday Telegraph chief foreign correspondent, Colin Freeman, has written today about the moment he and a Spanish colleague were betrayed and kidnapped by their Kalashnikov-wielding bodyguards in Somalia. Freeman and photographer José Cendon were freed on Sunday after being abducted in November in the northern Puntland region while reporting on piracy in the area. The British journalist today detailed... -
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Scottish ambulance driver arrested for drink driving
The Herald (subscribe) | yesterday | UK
An ambulance driver in Scotland was arrested for drink-driving shortly before starting his shift, it emerged today.
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Oil near $49 on Russia gas row and Mideast tension
Reuters UK (subscribe) | yesterday | International
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Cameron Duodu: Ghana's presidential election was free and fair, but tense
The Guardian (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | International
When Ghana swears in a new president on Wednesday, it will be installing an opposition candidate who has defeated the candidate of the incumbent government in a free and fair election. People in other African countries will marvel at this, especially those in Kenya , who elected a new leader in 2007 but are still encumbered with the old one, President Mwai Kibaki . The people of Zimbabwe will also... -
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Rebecca Romijn & Jerry O’Connell welcome twin girls
Celebamour (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Entertainment
Rebecca Romijn and husband Jerry O’Connell welcomed their twin girls, Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip, on Dec. 28, according to Usmagazine.com. Howard Stern first announced the birth on his radio show detailing the naming of the girls. "They had twin girls, Dolly and Charlie," Stern said. "Rebecca likes Dolly Parton, so they named the [...] -
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Nationwide reports further fall in house prices
FT.com - Europe homepage (subscribe) | yesterday | UK
House prices fell by 2.5% in December, equivalent to an annual drop of 15.9% and wiping out all gains earned since spring 2005, the buliding society reported -
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Patricia Arquette Files for Divorce
The Evil Beet (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
So far, 2009 has not been a stellar year for romance. Now on the chopping block: Patricia Arquette, who’s divorcing her husband Thomas Jane, citing irreconcilable differences. The two have a 5-year-old daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane. Ha! So Harlow wasn’t really Nicole Richie’s idea!!! She totes stole it from Patricia. -
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Eurozone inflation tumbles
FT.com - Europe homepage (subscribe) | yesterday | International
Eurozone inflation dropped to its lowest level in more than two years as economic activity crumbled at the end of last year - see all breaking news
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Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
Boing Boing (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
A UK campaign to raise money to buy London bus-ads to promote atheism was a massive success -- 800 of the busses took the streets today, and the campaign is spreading around the world. Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming £135,000, breaking our original target of £5,500 by over 2400%. Given this unexpected amount, I'm... -
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Washing Machine project lets it Twitter when finished
Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Technology
Everyone has dealt with those days where you’re running around and doing other things so much that you forget all about the load of laundry you put into the washer or dryer. Then you come back and they’re either overly wrinkly or mildewed. Now luckily dryers do have buzzers, however, if you have a house [...] -
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Install-it - simple instant free CD installer utility
The Red Ferret Journal (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Install-It is a tiny freeware utility which does one thing. Burn this prog to the root folder of a CD, add some other [...] 126 words | permalink | No comments | digg this -
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Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor: ‘Capitalism is dead’
Archbishop Cranmer (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
O please. Any Christian should know that death is not the end. But this has not prevented the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster from declaring that, just as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 killed off Communism on , so the ‘credit crunch’ of 2008 sounds the death knell of capitalism. And this he announced at a lavish black-tie, four-course, champagne reception in the palace that is Claridges –... -
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Billy Bragg and the BNP revisited
Home of the Green Arrow (subscribe) | 05/01/2009 | Politics
I see that Billy Bragg as been dragged from his luxury retirement home to take a pop at the British National Party via the comments section of the Guardian. Billy has spend so long in that luxury ivory tower of his, that he has lost the plot completely and does not see a problem with the large numbers of colonisers taking over Our Land and fails to understand the concerns of the True British people.... -
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Tax cuts for savers: a dumb idea from David Cameron
Dave's Part (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
THOSE of us that came to political maturity in more ideological times can be forgiven for wondering whatever happened to the notion that Labour and the Conservatives stood for fundamentally different ideas of how society should be organised. While the turning point can be variously dated, it is patently the case that they no longer do. As a result, a certain degree of passion has long been lacking...
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Patapon tattoo
Wonderland (subscribe) | 05/01/2009 | Video Games
Sent in by Masatomo Ueda, his new supercute Patapon tattoo. Brilliant work. Patapon... the combination of rhythm game with strategy game is very, very intriguing, but I don't own a PSP :-/ -
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It was a 'Hamas stronghold'
Lenin's Tomb (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | International
"At least 40 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources have said. A number of children were among those who died when the al-Fakhura school in the Jabaliya refugee camp took a direct hit, doctors at nearby hospitals said. People inside had been taking refuge from the Israeli ground offensive." That's the trouble with... -
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Gordon Brown Is a Murderous Two Faced Cunt
Craig Murray (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Politics
Brown is appeasing domestic horror at the Israeli massacre in Gaza by calling for a ceasefire. Meanwhile British diplomats on the United Nations Security Council are under direct instructions to offer "tacit support" to United States' efforts to block a... -
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4 a Change
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Technology
The government have officially launched its Change4Life advertising campaign . Its aim is to create a “lifestyle revolution” by promoting diet and exercise. Join in -
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Thoughts on Arsenal vs. Plymouth
Gunnerblog (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Football
Arsenal 3 - 1 Plymouth (Van Persie 47, 84, Gray 49 (og) Duguid 52) Highlights here; Arsene’s reaction here A fairly routine win over Plymouth, and it’s a trickier looking tie away to last year’s finalists Cardiff in the next round. I have to say, it was a rare delight to see an Arsenal side who were comfortably [...] -
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2008 Weblog Awards: BlogF1 Is Up For Best Sports Blog
BlogF1 (subscribe) | 05/01/2009 | Other
Earlier in the year, BlogF1 was nominated (not just by myself, either) for the 2008 Weblog Awards, in the category of best sports blog. BlogF1 has never been up for such an award before, so I was quite pleased to say the least. However, the first round of voting that so many of you took [...] - see all discussions
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