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Google News U.K. - Top Stories Times Online | Israeli soldiers killed by 'friendly fire' in Gaza Telegraph.co.uk - Israel has suffered its heaviest loss of life in the campaign so far when three soldiers from its elite Golani Brigade were killed and 24 wounded in northern Gaza when a tank shell hit a building where the infantrymen were resting. Video: Notebook: Gaza Israel looks to drive out Hamas |
 GulfNews | Obama Pushes for Stimulus on Capitol Hill New York Times - President-elect Barack Obama met with House Republican leader John A. Boehner, left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill on Monday. Video: Obama: Economy 'bad and Getting Worse' Barack Obama gets down to work with $775bn prescription for 'sick ... |
 Times Online | Cameron offers savings tax cut plus clamp on public spending guardian.co.uk - David Cameron took the side of savers hit by tumbling interest rates yesterday and promised to abolish tax on the savings income of all basic-rate taxpayers. Tories offer £4bn tax break for the thrifty Cameron calls for tax on savings to be axed |
 BBC News | Blair to accept top US medal in Bush's last week in office guardian.co.uk - Tony Blair in front of the American flag on November 27 2007. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Tony Blair is to receive the United States's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from his friend George Bush next Tuesday, ... Bush to honour Blair with Medal of Freedom Blair to get US Medal of Freedom |
Woman dies as car skids on to level crossing Independent - By Terri Judd A schoolteacher was killed by a train yesterday when her car skidded on to icy rail tracks as the barriers of a level crossing came down. Driver who skidded on ice at rail crossing is killed by train Teacher killed after train smashes into car trapped on level crossing |
 BBC News | Medal for murdered terror officer BBC News - A police officer who was murdered as he tried to restrain a suspected terrorist has been awarded a posthumous medal. Det Con Stephen Oake's receipt of the Queen's Gallantry Medal follows calls from former colleagues and politicians for his bravery to ... Honoured at last: The policeman killed by a terrorist Widow's pride at policeman's medal |
 ABC News | Senate Democrats put off plans to seat Franken Reuters - By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yielded to Republican threats and agreed on Monday not to immediately seat fellow Democrat Al Franken, whose razor-close victory in Minnesota faces legal challenges. Video: Franken: Senate Victory 'Incredibly Humbling' No joke as comedian is set to secure Senate seat |
 Times Online | Maggie Thatcher mourns death of economic adviser Alan Walters at 82 Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Baroness Thatcher was grieving yesterday for her 'fearless' economics guru who was credited with masterminding the monetarist policies of the 1980s. Thatcher's economic guru dies Thatcher economic adviser Walters dies |
 Times Online | Stop playing chicken over new bridge, politicians told Scotsman - By David Maddox POLITICIANS in Westminster and Holyrood were last night urged to "stop playing chicken" over one of Scotland's most important projects, for the good of the country. Why Holyrood and Westminster need similar solutions SNP vows to fight Darling on new Forth bridge |
 BBC News | India, Giving Pakistan Dossier on Mumbai Siege, Seeks Extradition ... New York Times - By SOMINI SENGUPTA and JEREMY KAHN NEW DELHI - Calling the Mumbai terrorist attacks a “conspiracy” hatched on Pakistani soil, India on Monday handed Pakistan what it said was the first comprehensive evidence linking them to Pakistan and demanded that ... India hands Mumbai dossier to Pakistan to back extradition plea Mumbai attacks linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba in Indian ... |
Fresh attacks on 'assault' teacher's home Scotsman - THE home of a teacher convicted of assaulting two pupils has been targeted in a fresh vandalism attack. In the latest incident, windows were smashed on Sunday night. Barile' daughter ‘ashamed’ of city Youth charged in probe into attacks on teacher' home |
 The Sun | Paraglider killed after slipping from safety harness Times Online - Salta A British tourist fell to his death after his safety harness failed when paragliding in northern Argentina on New Year' Eve. British paraglider killed in Argentina Tourist killed in paraglide accident |
