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Times Online World News, 01.12.08 20:33 UTC

France's first lady Carla Bruni puts her star power at the service of Aids

Citing the memory of her dead brother, Carla Bruni, France's first lady, today put her celebrity power at the service of the cause of Aids, becoming an ambassador for the main international fund ...
Geneva  Paris  malaria  tuberculosis  Elle  media coverage  +10 more

Times Online, 01.12.08 20:32 UTC

Barack Obama's team of rivals will be responsible for keeping promise of change

Barack Obama insisted that “the buck will stop with me” as he dismissed doubts over how a heavyweight “team of rivals” that includes Hillary Clinton and a Republican Defence ...
Chicago  Iraq  United States  India  Susan Rice  James Jones  +8 more

Seattle Times, 01.12.08 20:32 UTC

Farmer who killed bald eagles "humbled" by pardon

ST. LOUIS Leslie Owen Collier was surrounded by cattle at a livestock auction when his cellphone rang. It was the White House. Twelve years after pleading guilty to federal charges in the deaths of ...
Missouri  Bill Clinton  Catherine Hanaway  Ronald Reagan  Lanie Black  Bush  +2 more

Wired, 01.12.08 20:32 UTC

Hot Rodding Comes to Hybrids

A growing number of Steve McGreens are souping up their gas-electric hybrids to make them go faster and handle better, while delivering stellar fuel economy. It isn't just gearheads busting their ...
Las Vegas  Toyota Prius  Toyota  Braille Battery  responsible-vehicle technologies  gas-electric drivetrain  +11 more

Wired, 01.12.08 20:32 UTC

Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web

In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips ...
Las Vegas  Seattle  Niketown  Google  Starbucks  software programs  +5 more

Telegraph, 01.12.08 20:32 UTC

Felix the Cat and Homer Simpson win the Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, the award which once epitomised the best of British contemporary art, has gone to a work which features Felix the Cat, Homer Simpson and a Honda car commercial.
LONDON  Titanic  The Simpsons  Tate Britain  Martin Reed  Chris Ofili  +6 more

Telegraph, 01.12.08 20:32 UTC

Vladimir Rubinstein

Linguist with the BBC's wartime Monitoring Service.
Berlin  Moscow  Cambridge  Tallinn  typhoid  BBC  +14 more

Telegraph, 01.12.08 20:31 UTC

Damian Green arrest: Home Office whistleblower breaks silence

The Home Office whistleblower who leaked documents to Damian Green broke his silence to declare that he only released information which "was important for the public to know".
LONDON  Christopher Galley  Neil O'May  Damian Green  Dominic Grieve  Home Office  +1 more

Telegraph, 01.12.08 20:31 UTC

Alex Salmond launches start of Scotland's winter festival

Alex Salmond addressed a celebration mass in honour of St Andrew and in so doing officially launched the beginning of what has come to be called Scotland's 'winter festival'.
the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns  Christmas  Scotland  Robert Burns  Alex Salmond  St Andrew's Cathedral  +1 more

Telegraph, 01.12.08 20:31 UTC

Britain has become lonelier over past 30 years

Researcj shows that many more people live in isolated existences than in previous generations.
Derby  LONDON  UK BBC Radio  Three Counties Radio  Northampton  Britain  +1 more
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