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US court orders curfew, electronic tag for Madoff (AFP)

AFP - US Wall Street baron Bernard Madoff was set tough new bail terms Wednesday including a curfew and wearing an electronic tag, as the US finance watchdog stepped up a probe into his alleged 50-billion dollar fraud.

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Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf (AP)

AP - A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about […]

Human-sized heart found at the Paw Paw car wash (AP)

AP - A human-sized heart found at a southwestern Michigan car wash has investigators wondering whether it came from a person or an animal. The organ was discovered in a corner of a manual wash bay at Soapy’s Car Wash, Paw Paw police said. The owner of the business found it Monday on the floor […]

Madoff in house arrest, SEC under fire (Reuters)

Reuters - Disgraced Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff, accused of orchestrating a $50 billion fraud, was put under house arrest on Wednesday.

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Injured Saints RB Reggie Bush to miss last 2 games (AP)

AP - Reggie Bush produced teasing glimpses of his dazzling talent, but for a second straight season got too beat up to do much else. The former Heisman Trophy winner, now in his third pro season, was placed on injured reserve Wednesday with a sprained left knee. When this season ends, he’ll have missed 10 […]

Aretha Franklin and YoYo Ma to headline at Barack Obama inauguration (Daily Telegraph)

Barack Obama’s inauguration will feature performances by Aretha Franklin YoYo Ma and Itzhak Perlman organisers have said.
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Protesters at Acropolis urge Europe-wide protest (Reuters)

Reuters - Protesters hung banners from the Acropolis in Greece on Wednesday and called for demonstrations across Europe, in the 12th day of unrest since police shot dead a teenager.

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First U.S. patient gets face transplant (Reuters)

Reuters - Surgeons have replaced 80 percent of a woman’s face, transplanting bone, teeth, muscle and nerve in the first such operation in the United States.

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First-graders offer advice to Barack Obama (UPI)

WAUWATOSA, Wis., Dec. 17 (UPI) — Letters to President-elect Barack Obama from first-graders in Wisconsin include this advice: “Don’t talk to strangers.”
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