Flower Shops Bring Christmas to Kabul  © The Associated Press Iran Refuses to Cease Uranium Enrichment  © The Associated Press Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Police in Iraq A suicide bomber killed at least seven policemen and wounded 30 others at a police station northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, police said. more Asia Floods Kill 20, Displace 170,000  © The Associated Press Company Develops Virtual Meal Technology  © The Associated Press
Company Develops Virtual Meal Technology  © The Associated Press Nigerian Militants Bomb Gov't Facility  © The Associated Press Overtime Gives Prison Guards Fat Salary About 6,000 California corrections officers earned more than $100,000 in the last fiscal year thanks to overtime work in the strained prison system, and one brought in more than a quarter of a million. more Yale Makes MBA Students Study Abroad For one group of graduate business students at Yale, next month's lessons will take place on pineapple, banana and coffee plantations in Costa Rica. Other Master of Business Administration students are checking out investment prospects in Tanzania and what's sizzling in Singapore. more Goodyear, Strikers Reach Tentative Deal Thousands of striking workers are preparing to review a tentative deal between Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers union to resolve an 11-week dispute over health care and plans to close a tire factory in Texas. more
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Annan 'Concerned' on Libya AIDS Sentence Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday he was "deeply concerned" about a Libyan court's decision to reimpose death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting children with HIV. more British Woman With 2 Wombs Has Triplets A woman with two wombs has given birth to triplets, in what is believed to the first case of its kind, a hospital official said Friday. more Christmas Goodies Pack on the Pounds  © The Associated Press New Flu Pandemic Could Kill 81 Million A flu virus as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish flu could kill as many as 81 million worldwide if it struck today, a new study estimates. By applying historical death rates to modern population data, the researchers calculated a death toll of 51 million to 81 million, with a median estimate of 62 million. more Study: Teens Use Medicines to Get High  © The Associated Press
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Company Develops Virtual Meal Technology  © The Associated Press Web Site Allows Iranian Jews to Mourn  © The Associated Press Cuban Exiles Send Gifts Home Via Web A small but growing number of Cubans in South Florida are getting around the U.S. embargo that limits what can be sent to the communist island by sending their Christmas gifts through foreign Internet sites. more Feds: 5th Samsung Exec to Plead Guilty A Samsung Electronics Co. executive agreed to plead guilty and serve 10 months in prison for his role in a global price-fixing scheme involving a common form of computer memory, federal prosecutors said Thursday. more Journal Ends Peer Review Experiment Citing a lack of participation, the British journal Nature said Thursday it was ditching a closely watched online experiment that allowed scientists to comment on their peers' research before publication. more
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