#1 — BBC | Machu Picchu tourist airlift ends with 1,300 flown out
Police in Peru say they have airlifted the last of the tourists stranded near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu after floods destroyed road and rail links.
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#2 — BBC | Google phases out support for IE6
Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine.
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#3 — CNN | Honda recalls 646,000 Fits for fire hazard
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Honda announced a recall for 646,000 2007 and 2008 Fit, City and Jazz models worldwide, after a fire hazard involving a power window switch resulted in a death in South Africa.
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#4 — Fox | China to Suspend U.S. Military Exchanges Over Arms Deal
Chinese state media says the defense ministry is suspending military exchanges with the United States over its planned $6.4 billion arms sale to neighboring Taiwan.
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#5 — Fox | Obama Urges GOP to Join Dems on Job-Creation Efforts
In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.
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#6 — Fox | Climate Chief Knew of False Glacier Claims Before Copenhagen
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, the Times of London reports.
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#7 — Fox | Jury Finds Man Guilty of Murder in Kansas Abortion Provider’s Death
WICHITA, Kan. — Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a killing the gunman claimed was justified to save the lives of unborn children.
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#8 — NY Times | U.S. Drops Plan for a 9/11 Trial in New York City
The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in Lower Manhattan, bowing to almost unanimous pressure from New York officials and business leaders to move the terrorism trial elsewhere.
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#9 — Times | US economy soars 5.7 per cent in fourth quarter
The United States economy grew at 5.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2009, the fastest rise in six years and far ahead of analysts’ expectations of 4.8 per cent.
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#10 — Telegraph | Bear chases man after being shot with tranquilliser dart
A man who shot a marauding bear with a tranquilliser gun had an almighty scare when the beast awoke as he approached, and proceeded to attack him.
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