#1 — BBC | Air France inquiry calls for ‘black box’ changes
“Black box” flight recorders should be modified to emit signals for longer, experts investigating June’s Air France disaster over the Atlantic have said.
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#2 — CNN | British Airways wins injunction to avert major holiday strike
London, England (CNN) — A strike that would have crippled British Airways over Christmas and New Year’s Day cannot go ahead, a judge ruled Thursday.
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#3 — Fox | Democrats Descend Into Brawl Over Health Care
WASHINGTON — It’s one of the oldest spectator sports in American politics: Democrat vs. Democrat. Welcome to the health care overhaul edition.
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#4 — Fox | Credit Card Has Eyebrow-Raising 79.9 Percent Interest Rate
NEW YORK — It’s no mistake. This credit card’s interest rate is 79.9 percent.
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#5 — NY Times | Hired by Customs, but Working for the Cartels
SAN DIEGO — At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them abusive, earned praise and commendations while serving in the Army and the Marines, including two tours in Iraq, and returned to Southern California to fulfill a goal of serving in law enforcement.
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#6 — DM | Heavy snow causes transport chaos
Britain was hit by transport chaos this morning as a blanket of snow fell in many areas overnight.
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#7 — Times | Eighty MPs join in mass revolt on expenses
More than a third of MPs who were asked to repay expenses after an independent audit of their claims by Sir Thomas Legg are refusing to accept his ruling.
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#8 — Times | Black gold — oil is the latest illicit product to flow out of Mexico
First it was cocaine. Now Mexico’s drug kingpins are offering an even more addictive substance to their American customers: black gold.
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#9 — Telegraph | Tulay Goren murder: ‘honour’ crimes doubling every year, figures show
“Honour killings” are now running at the rate of one a month, it has emerged, following a shocking rise in violent crimes committed in Britain in the name of religion.
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#10 — Telegraph | The Queen dropped from Victoria’s legal system
The Australian state of Victoria is to dump the Queen from legal proceedings only days before Prince William arrives on a goodwill visit.
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