Last one before the news takes a couple of days off so that those who cover it can enjoy the holiday…
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates will get to keep his job, at least for now.
- Ibrahim Nasir, the first president of independent Maldives, died on Saturday in Singapore.
- Michael Vick has entered a guilty plea for last year’s dogfighting charges and could be granted early release from prison on grounds of being a famous person.
- A Russian economics professor predicts that America will collapse and break up into several autonomous countries, with Russia and China becoming the world’s financial regulators.
- Venezuela is playing host to several Russian warships, the first Russian presence in Latin America since the Cold War.
- Like the Jewcy staff, astronauts aboard the International Space Station are hoarding their urine for future consumption.
- Americans are stockpiling weapons amidst fears that the incoming Obama Administration will take measures to restrict gun ownership.
- 360 people in Zimbabwe have died of cholera since August.
- Robots can now act in Japan.
- An Italian right-wing political party is offering 1500 Euros to any families who will name their children after Mussolini or his wife.
- Atlantic Records reports that digital downloading has surpassed physical CD sales for the first time in the company’s history.
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