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Monday, 21 December 2009
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- Current Twitter trends: 'if the sex is good', 'now playing', 'you know you're fat'
- Current Google Insights trends: the deaths of Brittany Murphy and Chris Henry
- This week's most popular Diggs: operating systems as seen by Mac fanboys
- Online dictionary lists buzzwords of 2009
- Current Google Insights trends: Chris Henry's death, Belen Esteban's operation
- Current Twitter trends: 'How would you feel,' 'RIP Brittany Murphy'
Obituaries
- Brittany Murphy: Actress whose versatility matched her 'jolie laide' looks
- Louis Handschuh: French resistance operative who survived one of the most daring escapes of the Second World War
- Orig Williams: Wrestler known as 'El Bandito'
- Jack Goldhill: Businessman and philanthropist whose property deals assisted in reconstructing post-war Britain
- William Ferrier: Steelworker and trade unionist who served Labour in Scotland for decades
- Professor G. Singh: Poet and academic who established his reputation with translations of Montale
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCommentators
- Michael Brown: Tories still dogged by 'rich toffs' image
- Vanessa Austin Locke: Why this Christmas’s number one has voiced a nations political rage
- Daniel Howden: A golden example for Africa's resources
- Robert Gates: Our founding fathers' belief in public service is due a revival
- Barack Obama: The insurance lobby must not be allowed to kill healthcare reform
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCricket
- Question 1: How can England take 20 wickets?
- Trott stands by strategy of pausing for effect
- Graeme Swann: 'I still come out in goose bumps when I think of the final Ashes wicket'
- James Lawton: From genius to jester – anything is possible when KP's involved
- Andrew Gale to skipper Yorkshire
- England retain confidence in Bell
- Shane Watson claims he was baited by Chris Gayle
- Marcus Trescothick signs new deal at Somerset.
- Tykes consider Gale after McGrath quits
- Strauss takes confidence from draw
- Images from England's victorious second Test
- 'It's fair to say Cardiff was on my mind' says Collingwood
- England deny hosts in thrilling final act
Travel
Travel RSS Feed - click to grab the feedNews & Advice
- Don't blame us – it was the wrong kind of snow
- 2010 holidaymakers set to seek out 'chadventures'
- 'No guarantees' as Eurostar trains resume
- Anger at winter transport chaos
- BAA wins part of appeal against airport sale ruling
- Passengers hit out over airport delays
- Eurostar to restart some services, but backlogs remain
- Flight cancellations deal new blow to Christmas travel
- Lula inaugurates new Rio subway station -- 20 years late
- US introduces three-hour wait limit for grounded planes
- Eurostar cancels trains for third day
- Stranded Eurostar passengers battle to get home for Christmas
- Airlines pull out the stops to get travelers home
- Weekly transport agenda: Chinese rail link opens
- 1 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 2 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 3 Strewth mate. Aussies wave goodbye to Britain as it becomes too pricey to stay
- 4 Be more professional! GCHQ staff rapped as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals messages that he says point to 'fit up'
- 5 Join Ryanair! See the world! But we'll only pay you for nine months a year
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