About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010. So how did we do? By many measures, not so hot. But the nation has made at least some progress on many other goals.
Source:U.S. healthier in last decade? Program finds out
More than 1 million New Year revelers in Sydney, Australia, get one of the world’s biggest parties started — bidding farewell to the tough year that was 2009 and welcoming a new decade.
Source:World says good riddance to 2009
The votes are in: The winner of the 2009: Year in Pictures is photographer Chuck Kennedy’s now iconic image of President Barack Obama taking the oath of office. The remote-controlled camera that took it was the closest any camera has ever been to an inaugural oath.
Source:Picture of the Year: Obama taking [...]
Pakistani police say they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will seek life imprisonment sentences against them.
Source:5 Americans to face Pakistan terror charges
American spy agencies failed to combine the intercepted conversations with other information that might have disrupted last week’s attempted airline bombing.
Source:NYT: Agencies didn't connect clues
AP - Out with the old and in with the — what?
Source:At decade's end, revelers wonder what future holds
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Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve’s balance sheet shrank slightly in the latest week on a small dip in its holdings of agency mortgage-backed securities, Fed data released on Thursday showed.
Source:Fed's balance sheet shrinks slightly
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Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed an Egyptian-hosted summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a possible way to resume stalled peace talks, Israeli officials said on Thursday.
Source:Israel's Netanyahu proposes Egypt peace summit
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AFP - North Korea early Friday called for an end to hostile relations with the United States, state media reported.
Source:N.Korea calls for end to hostile relations with US: state media
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AP - As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family’s furniture store.
Source:Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaida grow in Yemen
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