Archive for December, 2010

New Year’s Eve revelers settle in for long wait in Times Square

New Year’s revelers started staking out prime spots 15 hours before the ball dropped Friday, banking on bundled-up bodies, folding chairs and strong bladders to make it to midnight.

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Sheriff: Storm kills 2nd in Mo.; death toll at 5 (AP)

Margie Sizemore cleans up in the after a tornado destroyed several homes in the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010.  A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of northwestern Arkansas early on New Year's Eve, killing three people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses.  (AP Photo/April L. Brown)AP – Authorities say a second resident of a southeast Missouri mobile home destroyed by a powerful storm system that spawned tornadoes has died.


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4 dead in rare New Year’s Eve tornado outbreak (AP)

An unidentified rescue worker walks past debris after a tornado tore through Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of northwestern Arkansas early on New Year's Eve, killing three people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses.  (AP Photo/April L. Brown)AP – Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least four people, injuring dozens of others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses.


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Having a ball: Snooki rehearses for ‘New Year’s’ bash

Snooki’s already having a ball and it’s not even New Year’s Eve yet!

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Millions gather worldwide to ring in new year (AP)

The sky above Sydney Harbour lights up at midnight during the fireworks display to celebrate the New Year's Day in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP – Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia’s Sydney Harbor, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revelers released balloons carrying notes with people’s hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011.


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Flood disaster: Australia becomes the land down underwater

Australia may have to change its nickname to the land down underwater.

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Karzai keeps minister considered corrupt by US (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2009 file photo, Afghanistan's Energy Minister Ismail Khan speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from the helm of Afghanistan's energy and water ministry a year ago because of his corruption and ineffectiveness, threatening that aid might end unless he went. But the Afghan president rebuffed America, according to secret diplomatic records, leaving the minister — privately termed 'the worst' by U.S. officials — still atop an agency that controls $2 billion in U.S. and allied projects. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP – U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry a year ago because of corruption and ineffectiveness, and threatened to end aid unless he went.


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