For Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

Aid Group Names Top 10 Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Doctors Without Borders' Top 10 Humanitarian Crises

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/topten/

Military 'seizes power' in Guinea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7796902.stm

Dictator's death sparks coup in Guinea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28366192/

Lansana Conte

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansana_Conte

Guinea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea

Fear at army takeover

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7797371.stm

World Watch : Russian Missile Test A Dud

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/23/link/main4684076.shtml

US Warns Russia Against Selling Missiles to Iran

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_russia_iran;_ylt=AjcCITEr0IXQ0xfKF30kxj0DW7oF

Ex-Clinton adviser pleads to child-porn charge

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28363279/

Wade Sanders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Sanders

Official: Calif. could be broke in 2 months

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28359987/

Economy slows some areas' population growth

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28355559/

Governments must be ready to spend more on stimulus: IMF

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bm1th-us-financial-imf-economist/

GDP shrank in third quarter as economy chilled

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bm2wi-us-usa-economy-gdp/

Economy, consumer spending shrank in Q3

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28365353/

World economies limp to Christmas

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b70me-us-financial/

Existing home sales plunge 8.6 percent in November

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bm3f0-us-usa-economy-housing-1/

Home prices take record tumble

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28365973/

Retirement Woes: Forced to Work to Death?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6513517&page=1

ABC News: Your Complete Guide to Refinancing

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ConsumerFinance/story?id=6498727&page=1

When mortgage rescues go bad

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/23/real_estate/new_modifications_same_problems/index.htm?cnn=yes

Contraction of UK economy speeds up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7796960.stm

Putin says 'cheap gas era' ending

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7796806.stm

Interpol 'not given Mumbai data'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7796993.stm

US questions net overhaul plans

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7797206.stm

Motorists plucked from flood water in US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7797727.stm

Investigators: Doomed jet made odd noise

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28330517/

NY Times sued over copyright issues

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28366260/