| Gazza's son wishes dad would 'go away': report (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 08:42 PM CST  AFP - England football legend Paul Gascoigne's 12-year-old son said in comments published Saturday that he thought his dad would likely "die soon" and wished that he would "go away" from the family.
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| British conjoined twin dies (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 10:08 AM CST  AP - Faith Williams, the month-old conjoined twin who survived a lengthy surgery to separate her from her sister, died on the afternoon of Christmas Day, London's Great Ormond Street Hospital said.
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| Britons hit the shops as struggling retailers slash prices (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 10:01 AM CST  AFP - Shoppers across Britain queued up before dawn on Friday for traditional post-Christmas sales, which this year have seen struggling stores offering discounts of up to 90 percent.
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| Thousands attend traditional Christmas hunts (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 08:47 AM CST  AFP - About 300,000 people gathered at hunts across the country on Friday, an advocacy group said, for a traditional Christmas event that has long pitted pro- and anti-hunt campaigners against each other.
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| US retail sales data deepens year-end gloom (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 04:24 PM CST  AFP - Christmas retail sales plunged in the United States, a poll showed Friday, as Japan reported record cuts in production in November in a gloomy run-up to 2009 for the world economy.
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| Surviving British conjoined twin dies: hospital (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 06:32 AM CST  AFP - A month-old baby girl who survived highly risky surgery to separate her from her conjoined twin has died, the London hospital where she was treated said Friday.
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| British economy to shrink by 2.9 % in 2009: think tank (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 06:29 AM CST  AFP - Britain's economy will shrink by 2.9 percent in 2009, the worst one-year fall in gross domestic product (GDP) since 1946, a leading think tank warned Friday in one of the gloomiest forecasts yet.
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| Queen Elizabeth gives somber Christmas broadcast (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 04:00 AM CST  AP - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II delivered a somber Christmas broadcast Thursday, acknowledging how the economic crisis has cast a shadow over the traditional festive season.
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| Queen urges resilience in Christmas message (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 03:56 AM CST  AFP - The Queen urged victims of the credit crunch not to "lie down and accept defeat" but to draw strength from loved ones in her annual Christmas message to the Commonwealth.
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| British soldier, four road workers killed in Afghanistan (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 03:52 AM CST  AFP - A British soldier was shot dead in Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, the same day a US soldier died in a separate attack, officials have said as international mortar fire killed four road workers.
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| Ahmadinejad stokes criticism with Christmas message (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2008 03:47 AM CST  AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stoked criticism by delivering a Christmas message on Channel Four, saying if Jesus were alive he would oppose "expansionist powers."
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