EU demands £25bn lifeline from the UK

Photo: Reuters By Tim Ross and Bruno Waterfield 9:51PM GMT 18 Dec 2011 European finance ministers will aim to agree a new €200 billion (£167.7 billion) loan to the [...]

Photo: Reuters By Tim Ross and Bruno Waterfield 9:51PM GMT 18 Dec 2011 European finance ministers will aim to agree a new €200 billion (£167.7 billion) loan to the [...]
Reuters - A severe winter storm is expected to hit southwestern U.S. mountains on Sunday afternoon and evening and then move east to dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, weather forecasters said.[Read more...]

Egypt’s security forces attack a woman in Tahrir Square Photo: REUTERS By Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent 5:30PM GMT 18 Dec 2011 At least ten [...]
Reuters - A severe winter storm is expected to hit southwestern mountains on Sunday afternoon and evening and then move east to dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, weather forecasters said.[Read more...]

Better man won: Carl Froch heaped praise on Andre Ward after their bout Photo: REUTERS 12:21PM GMT 18 Dec 2011 Comments Englishman Froch came up short against Ward as the classy, [...]
Reuters - The last convoy of U.S. soldiers pulled out of Iraq on Sunday, ending nearly nine years of war that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and left a country still grappling with political uncertainty.[Read more...]
Reuters - More than 50 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday after they tried to climb over a chain-link fence around a church parking lot in a bid to establish a new encampment.[Read more...]
Reuters - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters took to New York City’s streets on Saturday in an attempt to establish a new encampment, with scores arrested as they tried to move onto church-owned land.[Read more...]
Reuters - Bradley Manning, the suspected source of the largest leak of classified U.S. documents in history, spent his 24th birthday in military court on Saturday listening to investigators detail how they pieced together the case against him.[Read more...]

Reuters - With two weeks left in the trading year, the euro zone debt crisis will remain the primary impediment to pushing the S&P 500 index into positive territory for 2011.[Read more...]
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Final U.S. Troops Leave Iraq
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