30. desember 2005

Stones 'smash concert record'. The Rolling Stones' 2005 US tour is named the most successful of all time in a poll, beating U2 and Celine Dion. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 10:08:17 PM    comment [] Death threats cut Iraq oil flow. Iraq's largest oil refinery is shut down at a cost of $20m a day after death threats to tanker drivers. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 10:07:14 PM    comment [] 200 drivers trapped in snow. Two hundred drivers are caught in a snowdrift as the cold snap affecting the UK continues. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 10:06:26 PM    comment [] New Bolivian leader to visit Cuba. Bolivia's president-elect Evo Morales is due to arrive in Cuba on his first foreign trip since his election. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 10:05:26 PM    comment [] Attacks Halt Production At Iraq's Largest Refinery . BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 -- Under a mounting insurgent offensive against Iraq's gasoline supply, the country's largest fuel refinery sat idle Thursday. Gas station owners in surrounding communities in northern Iraq hung up their dry nozzles. A police chief put out a no-patrol order to his men to conserve... By Ellen Knickmeyer and Salih Saif Aldin. [washingtonpost.com - Business] 10:03:05 PM    comment [] Holiday online sales boom this year. 10:00:52 PM    comment [] High protein diet 'under attack'. The latest high-protein diet has come under fire in a leading medical journal. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:58:50 PM    comment [] E Guinean loses asylum in Spain. Spain withdraws political asylum from Equatorial Guinea opposition leader Severo Moto. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:57:51 PM    comment [] UN 'shocked' by violence in Cairo. The UN expresses shock as up to 20 Sudanese migrants die when their Cairo camp is stormed by Egyptian police. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:52:27 PM    comment [] Kidnapped Britons 'freed in Gaza'. The Foreign Office investigates reports three Britons kidnapped in Gaza on Wednesday are released. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:51:44 PM    comment [] Police vow to free kidnap Britons. A Palestinian police chief vows to find three kidnapped Britons and says he will use force if necessary. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 1:28:15 PM    comment []

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