'Millions' spent on Eve shopping

'Millions' spent on Eve shopping


'Millions' spent on Eve shopping

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 09:07 AM PST

Shoppers will have spent £951,000 per minute on Christmas Eve on last-minute shopping, research suggests.


Homes evacuated after subsidence

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST

Six houses built on the site of an old chalk quarry in east Kent are evacuated after large cracks appear in the walls.


China Issues More Death Sentences for Xinjiang Mayhem

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:48 AM PST

Five more people were sentenced to death for participating in the ethnic violence last July that killed nearly 200 people in the western region.


Afghan Police: Suicide Bomb Kills 8 in Kandahar

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 08:49 AM PST

A man driving a horse-drawn cart laden with explosives detonated the cache Thursday outside a guest house frequented by foreigners in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police said.


Bah! Humbug!

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 09:42 AM PST

Why you shouldn't be giving presents, by BBC Ethical Man


Exhausted and Divided, Senate Casts Holiday Vote

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 12:03 PM PST

Democrats and their allies rejoiced over their successful Christmas Eve vote, while Republicans sat scowling at their desks.


Iran security clashes with cleric mourners: website

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:59 AM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces clashed with supporters of dead dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Thursday, a reformist website said.


Two-time Venezuelan president Caldera dies at 93

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:40 AM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Rafael Caldera, who served twice as Venezuela's president and released current leader Hugo Chavez from jail after his failed coup attempt in the 1990s, died at age 93 on Thursday, his family said.


Madoff attack reports are denied

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:47 AM PST

Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff is being treated for hypertension and dizziness, a US prison official says.


Italian PM vows to defeat mafia

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:37 AM PST

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed to defeat the organised crime in the country by 2013.


Iran forces clash with Montazeri mourners: website

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:11 AM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces clashed with supporters of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Thursday, a reformist website said.


Chavez threatens to expel Toyota carmaker

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:30 AM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has threatened to expel Japanese carmaker Toyota unless it produces an all-terrain model of 4x4 vehicles used for public transportation in poor and rural areas.


Airstrike in Yemen Targets Outspoken Radicals

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:01 AM PST

Islamic radicals in Yemen may be rethinking their media strategy after two men who appeared in separate reports on Al Jazeera this week in support of anti-American violence may have been targeted by an airstrike on Thursday morning.


Early Holiday Gift For Googlers: $2.3 Billion

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:52 AM PST

A well-timed employee stock option exchange has delivered a generous windfall to nearly all of Google's 20,000 workers--about $117,000.


Resources for Accidental Landlords

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:56 AM PST

Some online resource recommendations for those who suddenly find themselves renting out real estate even though they would rather not.


Bomb Kills Maliki Ally Ahead of Holiday

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:29 AM PST

Attacks in Iraq killed at least 20, including an ally of Prime Minister Maliki, as religious-tinged violence ticked up ahead of a Shiite holiday.


Cost of war

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 08:56 AM PST

Liberia town still isolated years after conflict ended


Four arrests after body discovery

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:28 AM PST

Four people are arrested, two on suspicion of murder, after a body is found in Burnham-on-Sea.


Markets Finish Week at Highs for Year

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 12:04 PM PST

Stocks finished a holiday-shortened session on a high note after positive reports on unemployment and durable goods orders.


Israel asks Livni to join coalition

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:59 AM PST

Leader of opposition Kadima says she is open to discuss any serious offer.


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