Come on in, the water’s freezing - The Independent
Increasing numbers of hardy – or foolhardy – swimmers are heading outdoors and taking the plunge into icy seas, rivers and lakes over the holidays. Emily Dugan joined them

Drunken celebrities are poor role models - Daily Telegraph
Some members of Girls Aloud were cited by young people as evidence of the attractiveness of a celebrity lifestyle. Photo: Geoff Pugh Young people see drinking by pop stars, models

Chiswick teen dies after falling on live rail track - Richmond & Twickenham Times
A teenager has died after being electrocuted on a railway line on New Year’s Day after a prank went tragically wrong. Sam Griffiths, 16, from Chiswick, died in the early hours of

Government crackdown on web standards - PC Advisor
In an effort to protect children from ‘harmful and offensive material’ the UK government is looking at adding cinema-style age ratings to websites. Culture Secretary Andy

Party murder mum named - Shropshire Star
A mother whose death at a New Year’s Eve party in a Shropshire village has prompted a murder investigation has been named by police as Sharn Elizabeth Jones. Ms Jones died at a

MURRAY DUMPS OUT FEDERER - Sporting Life
Post to del.icio.us Facebook Andy Murray’s preparations for the new season gained momentum in Abu Dhabi as he defeated world number two Roger Federer to progress to the final of

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Steve Jobs’ health “rapidly declining” - Pocket-Link.co.uk
Steve Jobs” health “rapidly declining” - Anonymous Apple source speaks 31 December 2008 11:18 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott. The speculation continues over the state of Steve Jobs

Microsoft’s Zune MP3 players hit by leap year bug - Technology.timesonline
Thousands of Zune players, Microsoft’s rival to the Apple iPod, shut down over the new year, leaving many owners waking up on January 1 unable to listen to their cherished music

Jobs health rumours bite again - Mac User
Apple’s share price took a bit of hammering as 2008 drew to a close, amid rumours that Steve Jobs continues to be dogged by ill health. Speculation that the company’s chief

US STOCKS-Wall Street higher to start New Year - Guardian Unlimited
NEW YORK, Jan 2 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks started the new year higher on Friday as investors looked beyond another piece of grim economic data and hoped that an economic recovery is

US STOCKS-SNAPSHOT-Tech large-caps lead rise; Nasdaq up 3 pct - Reuters UK
NEW YORK, Jan 2 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose further on Friday with the Nasdaq Composite briefly notching a 3 percent gain as large companies in the technology sector led the way

Apple’s Macworld Game - Forbes
BURLINGAME, Calif.–After 11 consecutive keynotes at the annual Macworld Conference & Expo, Apple Chief Steve Jobs has learned that the only way to win the expectations game he

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Media Talk: 2008 in review - Guardian Unlimited
Matt Wells and the Guardian’s director of digital content Emily Bell cast aside the mince pies and forego another helping of brussel sprouts to analyse the biggest media stories of

As I was just saying to my ice crystals . . . - Times Online
The original plan for this, my final business column of 2008, was to compile a list of the top five most idiotic moments of the year. Business 2.0 magazine used to publish an

Beauty queen’s grieving family ask: How was our Sahar’s life cut so - Daily Mail
The new, pretty pink dress Sahar Daftary had planned to wear for her 24th birthday on Christmas Day hangs unworn in her mother Anisa’s house in West London - a terrible reminder of

Why the whole world is in a Twitter - Daily Telegraph
This was the plane from which Mike Wilson and his fellow passengers escaped, and about which he immediately began to Twitter Photo: GETTY Britney Spears loves Japan, and thinks the

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Design Team Creates User-Friendly Bus Stops - dBusinessNews.com
CARY – HumanCentric ( www.humancentric.com ), an integrated product design and development company, partnered with BlueStripe Software and Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T

Sign Up for Bleacher Report - Bleacherreport.com
You must register in order for that functionality to work! Joel Barker, 26, From Chattanooga, TN/North Georgia area. Lived here all my life. Started writing almost 10 years ago

JumpBox for the Wordpress Blogging System 1.1.8 - CNET Asia
Wordpress is the leading Open Source blogging platform that has rocketed to popularity thanks to its open design and powerful feature set. An extremely popular Open Source

Scammers working OT to “reel” in victims - Shreveport Times
The e-mail was surprising and alarming. It said Caddo School Board member Dottie Bell, known for her work on behalf of children, was in Africa on a humanitarian mission

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Climate scientists: it’s time for ‘Plan B’ - The Independent
Artificial cloud cover over areas of open sea could lower global temperatures An emergency “Plan B” using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate

European gas supply threatened as Russia prepares to cut off Ukraine - Times Online
Russia will cut off Ukraine’s gas pipeline after talks between the countries failed amid threats that the pipeline to Western Europe could be shut down. The Russian Gazprom

ANALYSIS: Pressures of obtaining energy - Times Online
Another new year and another arm-wrestle between Moscow and Kiev over gas supplies. Utility bosses in Europe and Ukraine learnt lessons in January 2006 when Gazprom first turned

Forget the silliness. It’s time to get serious in 2009 - Women.timesonline
This is a tricky time to be a futurist; the world is changing so quickly that predictions can be out of date almost as soon as they are made. But when our lives are in a scary

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How to sign up for email alerts - InsideHousing
You will then be sent the bulletins you have signed up for. Job alerts can be tailored to contain only the jobs you are interested in. To subscribe follow the steps above, but to

Nintendo Wii video channel coming next year - PC Advisor
Nintendo plans to launch a video channel for the Nintendo Wii in 2009. The service, which will be launched in collaboration with advertising agency Dentsu, will initially be

Microsoft poised to announce job losses - Times Online
Microsoft is preparing to announce the first widescale layoffs in its 32-year history, with up to 15,000 jobs at risk, according to some predictions. Speculation about job cuts was

Your guide to the BBC News Pop-up Player - BBC News
The BBC News (pop-up) Player is a Watch or Listen icon which launches a player in a separate internet window and requires Real Player or Window Media Player to work. You can watch

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Wanted in 2009: a religious leader who can speak to Britain - Daily Telegraph Blogs
Archbishop Rowan Wiliams , Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali , Cardinal Basil Hume , Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor , Cardinal Keith O’Brien , The Queen As the country heads fearfully into

Police force zeroes in on street football as priority target for New - Daily Mail
Compared with terror plots, knife crime and drug gangs, it may not seem the most pressing of issues facing frontline police. But officers in Cambridgeshire have zeroed in on street

Cuba marks 50th anniversary of Castro revolution - Reuters UK
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba on Thursday celebrated the 50th anniversary of a 1959 revolution whose leader Fidel Castro transformed the island into a communist state that has survived

Calls for end to Gaza attacks - Irish Times
The continuing attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip are “totally unacceptable” and in breach of international humanitarian law, the Labour Party said. Party president and

The world that awaits President Obama - Daily Telegraph
The past year belonged to Barack Obama, from success in the Iowa caucuses on January 3 to victory over John McCain 10 months later. In that gripping campaign, the first African

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Apple, Google & Microsoft sued over file preview - PC Advisor
A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating

New UK research project explores use of PlayStation 3 as a business - PublicTechnology.net
British academics are about to embark on a novel research project that will see business leaders from some of the world’s leading companies use PlayStation 3 as a business tool

Tough sentences in China over piracy ring - Al Arab Online
A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than two billion dollars’ worth of fake Microsoft goods, the

Where the money goes - The Sun
THE foundation is worth more than £23.3billion. To maintain its status as a charity, it must donate at least five per cent of its assets each year – more than £1.2billion. Here

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A new year’s resolution: Could we be a little more polite, please? - Daily Telegraph
Horror movie: many find it acceptable to use their mobile phones in places like cinemas these days. Two years ago I was travelling by train from London to Edinburgh to spend

Record stock market falls in 2008 - BBC News
Britain’s FTSE 100 had its worst year on record, down 31.3%, with similar falls in Paris and Frankfurt. Shanghai was one of the worst-hit major markets, ending the year 65% lower

THE PUREFECT WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS - Daily Star
You’re not alone. At this time of year, a lot of people feel that way. The great news is, this year, a new herbal slimming programme is available that can help you lose that post

Leading thinkers predict technologies that will turn the world upside - Guardian Unlimited
Ian McEwan muses that we will look back and ‘wonder why we ever thought we had a problem when we are bathed in such beneficent radiant energy’. Photograph: Getty Flying cars

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This is the print preview: Back to normal view » - Huffingtonpost.com
The Hillary campaign might have their own surrogate with foot-in-mouth syndrome who they’ll have to deal with. During an appearance yesterday on talk radio — at almost the same

JumpBox for the Wordpress Blogging System 1.1.8 - CNET Asia
Wordpress is the leading Open Source blogging platform that has rocketed to popularity thanks to its open design and powerful feature set. An extremely popular Open Source

BBC Blog Network - bbc
Robbo’s Christmas presents 12:09pm on 25 Dec 2008 Perhaps we should all try watching and talking less, and playing more. http://fiofafi.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/seasons-greetings

‘I’m worried about Said’ - Ahwatukee Foothills News
He went on leave a couple of days ago and I haven’t heard from him yet. He said he would let me know when he got home by contacting me via Facebook. The night he left I was on

Ten tips to get an online campaign started - Manchester Evening News
There’s a host of tools and resources available to help you get your voice heard and engage people with your campaign. Here’s some ideas and links to get started. 1. Launch a

Burns can make boom from bust - Herald
First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday viewed the original manuscript of Auld Lang Syne and predicted that “our very own international cultural icon, Robert Burns” would help turn a

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