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Fireworks flash over Sydney Harbor during New Year celebrations. The annual fireworks extravaganza over the city's landmark harbor bridge and opera house are the centerpiece of Australia's celebrations. (Photo by Rick Rycroft / AP)

Economic predictions for 2010

Will consumer spending move up and jobs grow apace in 2010? The answer depends on the economist you ask. A round up of the top predictions for the economy next year.

Christian Science Monitor

What's in store for the economy in 2010?

San Francisco Chronicle

Russia wants to be sure asteroid won't hit the Earth

Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency, is considering the creation of a mission to send a spacecraft to the Asteroid Apophis to cause a deflection in its orbit during 2036.

iTWire

Celebrating New Year around the world

Countries around the world are beginning to hold celebratory events to welcome in 2010. New Year's Eve this year will also see a rare blue moon — a second full moon in a month. The next will be in 2028.

BBC

A brief history of the New Year's Eve ball

TIME

Annual search is on for sashimi

Honolulu Star Bulletin

Extra security in Times Square

New York Times

Pakistan seeks terrorism charges, life term against 5 Americans

Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said.

Reuters

Afghan war could spill over into Central Asia

NPR

No more power lines for the US?

Buried super-cooled electrical cables may replace towering transmission lines and carry solar and wind energy efficiently over long distances.

Christian Science Monitor

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Ice encrusted branches frame the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP)	A fake elephant topiary in the garden at Tavern on the Green in New York's Central Park. (Photo by Tina Fineberg / AP)	Marie-Claire Hertzog feeds swans at the Rhine river near Breisach, Germany. (Photo by Winfried Rothermel / AP)

NATION

Anthrax attack? The mailman will help

In an executive order, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing "medical countermeasures" to biological weapons because of its "capacity for rapid residential delivery."

CBS News

Remains of more than 500 animals found at Philadelphia home

Investigators recovered the remains of more than 500 animals after executing a search warrant at a home in Philadelphia, according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

CNN

Officer accuses NYPD of racial profiling

NYPD Sgt. Reginald McReynolds, who is African-American, said he was a victim of racial profiling when he was stopped by two fellow police officers while in his girlfriend's apartment building in the Bronx.

CNN

POLITICS

Republican attorneys general threaten health care suit

"We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent to Nancy Pelosi.

San Jose Mercury News

Dems move to sack superdelegates

Democrats are moving to eliminate superdelegates from the party's national convention after their role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s primary.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rush Limbaugh admitted to hospital

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital after suffering chest pains and was resting comfortably, his radio program said in a statement.

Kansas City Star

Time Warner OKs arbitration with Fox

News Corp. and Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 U.S. cable operator, are in the midst of negotiating a fee contract. If a deal can't be reached, News Corp. threatens to pull its content from Time Warner customers.

ABC News

HEALTH

Swine flu not as infectious among young adults as 1st feared

People aged 19 and older show more immunity to H1N1 swine flu than was initially believed, a new study finds.

HealthDay

H1N1 and health reform dominated 2009 medical news

CNN

Health cuts with little effect on care

Since 1996, the Richmond, Va., area has lost more than 600 of its hospital beds due to state regulations. However, its quality of care is better than the rest of America and continues to improve.

New York Times

SPORTS

Back on its feat

Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema, his players and U.W. fans returned to the scene of arguably the young coach's most embarrassing defeat of the 2008 college football season — for a win.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wisconsin beats Miami

ESPN

Flyers' Mullen wants snow for game

Joey Mullen wants to see his Flyers beat the Bruins at Fenway Park. And Mullen, a Flyers' assistant coach, has one other wish: "I want it to snow during the game."

NHL.com

EDUCATION

Colleges routinely bend for athletes

A review of admissions data submitted to the NCAA by most of the 120 schools in college football's top tier shows that athletes have better odds when admission requirements are bent on their behalf.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Scholastic graduates from Harry Potter to stimulus for sales

Scholastic Corp., the children’s book publisher whose sales slumped when the “Harry Potter” series ended, is getting a lift from the U.S. government as stimulus funds go to buy educational software.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

Red Cross searching for unsung heroes

In a year that saw a handful of men lift a car off a trapped tot and two 10-year-olds rescue another child from an icy pond, the American Red Cross is trolling for a few more good heroes.

Denver Post

New acoustic tools may reduce ship strikes on whales

New sensors which improve monitoring of endangered North Atlantic right whales are now being used around the world in an effort to reduce ship strikes.

ScienceDaily

WORLD

Activists protest against Gaza blockade

Several hundred people have joined demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border to protest against the Israeli blockade of the territory.

BBC

Egyptian police halt Gaza protest in Cairo