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Sylvie Perron, center, of France laughs as she tries on the pair of 2008 glasses she purchased in Times Square in New York. (Photo by Kathy Willens / AP)

Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes

More than 100 people have been killed across Kenya in violence blamed on the disputed presidential election.

BBC

Kenya protests

CNN

Marine avoids Iraq murder charge

The alleged ringleader of U.S. troops who killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005 in Haditha will not face murder charges, a U.S. Marines spokesman said.

BBC

Castro hints again at retirement

Cuba's ailing President, Fidel Castro, has for the second time this month alluded publicly to the possibility of retiring from office.

BBC

World welcomes New Year

A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney. Summer Olympics organizers hosted dance and music in Beijing. Across the globe, people held out hopes for a peaceful and prosperous 2008.

ABC News

Around the world, revelers greet 2008

USA Today

Top Pakistani rival calls for Musharraf to step down immediately

The most experienced opposition politician left in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sharpened the battle lines with President Pervez Musharraf, calling for his immediate resignation.

International Herald Tribune

Pakistan's economy threatened

Reuters

Missouri law to expand ethanol use

A law taking effect makes Missouri implement an ethanol mandate. Because ethanol is cheaper than traditional gasoline, most of Missouri's gas stations made the switch months ago.

CBS News

With biomass, you can get ethanol out of corncobs

USA Today

US existing-home sales unexpectedly rise

Sales of existing homes unexpectedly rose in November to a level that still suggests the housing slump will be a drag on growth.

Bloomberg

NATION

High winds, blowing snow close highways across Colorado

Whiteout conditions on icy roads slowed traffic to a crawl on Interstate 70 near Denver's Eisenhower Tunnel, before officials closed the highway in both directions from Vail to Georgetown.

Coloradoan

'Psycho' sought in shootings of 6

Police in Phoenix, Arizona, appealed for help in finding a 24-year-old man known as "Psycho" who is a suspect in shootings of six people and a dog.

CNN

Rash of racial killings in Gangland

CBS News

POLITICS

Presidential candidates spar before voting

Presidential contenders squeezed a final few hours of campaigning out of the old year in a race marked by exhausting personal appeals, anonymous phone calls and a negative campaign commercial.

Yahoo! News

2008 Candidate Resolutions

ABC News

Edwards, Romney get Iowa bump

MSNBC

Wicker expected to replace Lott

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is expected to name Rep. Roger Wicker as the next Republican senator from Mississippi.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Nasdaq-Dubai deal gets US security OK

Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. said the U.S. government approved a plan to give Dubai's state-owned bourse a stake in the U.S. electronic exchange.

Forbes

Severstal plans $1B investment in US

Severstal, Russia’s biggest steelmaker, aims to increase profit from its U.S. operations almost threefold by 2010 with the help of a $1 billion investment plan to increase output and improve quality.

Financial Times

SPORTS

Return of the Trojans

Back in September, Pasadena was the last place USC thought it would be spending New Year's Day — and it's most certainly not where Illinois thought its season would come to a close.

Sports Illustrated

Canseco plans 'Juiced' sequel

One-time big league slugger Jose Canseco will name more names in a sequel to his 2005 steroid memoir "Juiced," according to published reports. The new book will arrive in bookstores on opening day 2008.

Sports Illustrated

Skins cap resurgence with rout of Cowboys, playoff berth

Even the margin of victory reminded the playoff-bound Washington Redskins of Sean Taylor.

ESPN

Special section:

'07 Playoff picture

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

New way to sort stem cells discovered

Scientists have found a new way to sort stem cells that should be quicker, easier and more cost-effective than current methods.

Science Daily

Overeating could be due to lack of brain chemical caused by faulty gene

Using genetically altered mice, scientists have shown that lack of a brain-derived neurotrophic factor, in certain parts of the brain, leads to overeating and may be a factor to the rising obesity epidemic.

Medical News Today

A new approach to correcting autism

The causes of autism remain largely shrouded in mystery, but there are some types of the disorder that can be traced to specific gene defects.

TIME

RELIGION

Casual view of religion masks reflection

Students may be less likely to attend religious services while in college than they were as high school students, but that doesn't mean they're not wrestling with spiritual issues, a study suggests.

Detroit Free Press

Cambodian monk charged with sexually molesting young French girl

A Cambodian Buddhist monk may serve up to three years in prison if convicted on charges of molesting an 8-year-old French girl visiting the ancient temples of Angkor with her family, officials said.

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Retired worker giving away millions

The man who donated $1 million to southern New Jersey's Cumberland County College in December came by his riches the hard way -- by tons of work and savvy investing.

WNBC

Modern kids and charity

In lieu of presents at her 12th birthday party this year, Maddie Freed of Potomac asked her friends to bring money, and she raised $800 for Children's Hospital.

Washington Post

WORLD

North Korea expected to show nuclear data, US says

The US still expects North Korea to fully outline its nuclear operations as it agreed to do, even as a year-end deadline passed, the State Department said.

Bloomberg

Thailand hit by holiday blasts

Twenty-seven people have been injured in at least three separate explosions in Thailand's insurgency-hit south.

BBC

Pro-Thaksin party looks set to run Thailand

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Man saves year's worth of trash

Ari Derfel leads a trashy life. The 35-year-old caterer has saved every piece of trash he has generated over the past year to see how much garbage one person creates.

LiveScience

Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer

The holy grail of renewable energy came a step closer as thousands of mass-produced wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminum film rolled off a production line in California.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Forget a Big Bang, universe may have been created with Big Splat

According to data taken from NASA’s WMAP and research performed by University of Illinois researchers, the universe may not have started out with a theory involving traditional inflation.

iTWire

Terri Irwin launching whale research

The widow of TV Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin announced she will launch non-lethal research of whales in Antarctic waters next year in hopes of showing that Japan's scientific whale kill is a sham.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ax begins to fall on illegal loggers

Illegal loggers have long preyed on private properties from coast to coast, but as timber values rise, so have the stakes for landowners.

Newsweek

Concerts turned down the volume in 2007

The Police, Genesis and Justin Timberlake enjoyed lucrative tours this year, but none came close to matching the Rolling Stones' record take of $437 million in 2006, leaving 2007 in a double-digit downturn.

USA Today

EDUCATION

Mega universities for the new millennium

An MIT initiative called "OpenCourseWare" makes virtually all the school's courses available online for free -- lecture notes, readings, tests and often video lectures.

CBS News

University labs give leg up to businesses

Thirteen nano-level university laboratories across the country are hiring themselves out to businesses eager to make their mark in the millennium of the minuscule.

Seattle Times

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