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AP - The Indianapolis Colts kept saying 16-0 didn't matter. Apparently it didn't.

Reuters - Bankruptcy has been proposed by a state-backed fund as an option in the restructuring of Japan Airlines, two sources familiar with the matter said.

AFP - The Thai army early Monday began its operation to forcibly return thousands of ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers to communist Laos despite international protests, an army official said.

AP - Florida coach Urban Meyer changed his mind Sunday and said he was taking an indefinite leave of absence instead of resigning. Despite ongoing concerns with his health, he expects to be on the sideline leading the Gators when next season opens.

AP - Thailand early Monday morning launched an operation to close a refugee camp and send some 4,000 ethnic Hmong back to Laos, despite concerns about their safety.

AP - Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89.

AP - Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed.

Reuters - The United States is investigating whether al Qaeda was involved in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a passenger jet, but there is no early evidence the Nigerian suspect in the case was part of a larger plot, the U.S. homeland security chief said on Sunday.

Reuters - Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen said it would take revenge over raids against the group this month, which it said were carried out by U.S. jets and killed about 50 men, women and children, in an Internet statement on Sunday.

AP - Investigators piecing together a brazen attempt to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner said Sunday the suspect tucked a small bag holding his deadly concoction on his body, using an explosive that would have been easily detected with the right airport equipment.

AP - Thai Army begins operation to send 4,000 ethnic Hmong back to Laos, despite safety concerns.

AFP - More than 125 whales have died in two separate strandings in New Zealand, conservation officials said Monday.

Reuters - Five people died in Tehran on Sunday when pro-reform protesters clashed with security forces, police said, in the worst outbreak of violence since June's contested presidential election sparked political turmoil.

AFP - President Barack Obama ordered Sunday a review of US no-fly watch-lists and demanded to know how a Nigerian man managed to board a Detroit-bound airliner wearing an explosive device.

AP - Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend — but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

AP - It was a memorable and merry Christmas in Hollywood as moviegoers shattered box-office records, responding in droves to a diverse array of high-profile releases over the holiday weekend.

AP - As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London.

Reuters - For residents in his home town, it was Umar Abdulmutallab's foreign education, not his roots in Muslim northern Nigeria, that radicalized him and led him to try to blow up a U.S. passenger plane.

AP - Two House Democrats who favor a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, acknowledged Sunday it might have to be sacrificed as negotiators work out a final agreement with the Senate.

AP - A Nigerian man's claim that his attempt to blow up a U.S. plane originated with al-Qaida's network inside Yemen deepened concerns that instability in the Middle Eastern country is providing the terror group with a base to train and recruit militants for operations against the West and the U.S.

AFP - Iranian reformist websites said security forces killed a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Sunday as police confirmed that five people died during anti-government rallies in Tehran.

AFP - A Chinese cargo ship and its crew of 25 were rescued from Somali pirates Monday, state media said, after their kidnappers collected a ransom of 3.5 million dollars (2.2 million euros).

AFP - Air travellers worldwide faced tightened security Sunday as authorities ramped up efforts to prevent attacks in the wake of a failed bid to blow up an airliner over the United States.

AFP - A bomb attack killed a US service member in Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, doubling the number of American soldiers killed in the country this year compared with 2008, according to an AFP tally.

AFP - More than 20 pilot whales died in a mass beaching in New Zealand Sunday while another 40 were successfully herded back to sea, conservation officials said.

AP - A suicide bomber targeted a large gathering of Shiite Muslims in the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, killing five people and wounding 80 — a rare sectarian attack in an area police said has little history of militant violence.

Reuters - The families of three Americans charged with espionage in Iran after straying over the border from northern Iraq in July said on Sunday they have secured an Iranian lawyer to try to get them released.

Liputan6.com, Yogyakarta: Ketua Mahkamah Konstitusi (MK) Mahfud MD menegaskan, tak mudah melakukan pemakzulan (impeachment) terhadap presiden maupun wakil presiden terkait kasus Bank Century. Sebab diperlukan proses yang panjang dan tidak sebentar. Hal itu diutarakan Mahfud saat ditemui Liputan 6 SCTV di Yogyakarta, Ahad (27/12).

Liputan6.com, Bogor: Dua narapidana Lembaga Permasyarakatan Pondok Rajeg, Cibinong, Bogor, Jawa Barat, Ahad (27/12). Kedua tahanan bernama C. Ali dan M. Yani kabur setelah memotong jeruji besi dengan gergaji.

Liputan6.com, Depok: Menteri Negara Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak Linda Agum Gumelar menemui empat anak yang ditelantarkan orangtua mereka di kawasan Depok, Jawa Barat, Ahad (27/12). Linda Gumelar mengaku prihatin dengan kasus ini.

Liputan6.com, Malang: Majelis Ulama Indonesia Kota Malang, Jawa Timur, menilai tayangan infotainmet tak perlu dilarang. Sebab keberadaan acara gosip itu tak lepas dari selera masyarakat. "Kita tidak bisa melarang tayangan infotainment. Upaya penolakan tayangan infotainment justru tidak dewasa," kata Sekretaris MUI Kota Malang Muhammad Nidhom Hidayat, Ahad (27/12) seperti dikutip ANTARA.

Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shi'ite Muslim hall in the Pakistani part of disputed Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least 5 people, police said.

AP - Two cousins of a British man who is due to be executed in China this week for drug trafficking arrived in the country Sunday to plead for his life, an activist group said.

AP - In the world of competitive paper airplane throwing, a 20-second flight is exceptional, 25 or better is world class.

Reuters - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called on Egypt to stop building a steel wall along the Gaza border that could obstruct tunnels which provide a lifeline for the blockaded enclave.