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At least 17 people are killed after a row over a horse race between drunken drug traffickers in Guatemala turns violent.

Liverpool move to the top of the Premier League after a goalless draw against West Ham.

Lance Armstrong will attempt to win the Tour de France for an eighth time as the American cyclist confirms he will ride in the 2009 race.

The Tories accuse ministers of seeking to influence the Commons speaker ahead of his statement on the Damian Green leak row.

On Saturday, 29th November, Merseyside Police protected around one hundred and fifty British National Party members from the people of Liverpool and other anti-fascists. In doing so, they allowed racist material to be openly distributed in Liverpool city centre on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. However, Alec McFadden of Merseyside Coalition Against Racism and Fascism and Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism must shoulder some of the responsibility for this horrifying turn of events.

More than 150 people came to Next To Nowhere's Free Shop on Saturday. This was a one-off event to mark Buy Nothing Day. The organisers encouraged people to come in by offering free tea and toast and free mistletoe on the street outside.

Thousands of people in flooded areas of northern Sri Lanka are without shelter and need help, a human rights group says.

blackbearnh writes "Last week, the net was all abuzz with speculation that SCO was finally gone and done for. With the final judgment in SCO v. Novell in, and SCO millions of dollars in the hole to Novell, it seemed like the fat lady had finally sung. But like most things in the legal system, it isn't nearly that simple. O'Reilly Media sought out Groklaw's Pamela Jones, and got a rundown of what's still alive, and why a final end to the madness may be many years away. 'Summing up, it looks bleak for SCO at the moment, but let's enter the alternate realm of SCO's best-case scenario in its dreams: in that realm, SCO wins on appeal, which one of SCO's lawyers indicated might take a year and a half or five years, and the case is sent back to Utah for trial by jury, which is what SCO wanted (as opposed to trial by judge, which is what it got), then everything listed above (except for the IPO class action) comes alive again, presumably, depending on what the appellate court decides. Then SCO is in position once again to go after Linux end users, as well as IBM, et al.'"

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Liverpool and West Ham are locked in a goalless stalemate at Anfield as the hosts try to pull clear at the top of the Premier League.

The top 10 contenders for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award are announced.

An excavation in Russia has unearthed female figurines, carved tools, and a cone-shaped carving of unknown purpose.

The US recession began in December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A 2006 paper by Matthew Salganik, Peter Dodds and Duncan Watts, about the patterns that users follow in choosing and recommending songs to each other on a music download site, may be the key to understanding the most effective form of "censorship" that still exists in mostly-free countries like the US It also explains why your great ideas haven't made you famous, while lower-wattage bulbs always seem to find a platform to spout off their ideas (and you can keep your smart remarks to yourself)." Read on for the rest of Bennett's take on why the effects of peer ratings on a music download site go a long way towards explaining how good ideas can effectively be "censored" even in a country with no formal political censorship.

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New England and Tampa Bay will play at Wembley on 25 October 2009, in the third NFL game to take place outside the Americas.

Brazil's environment minister has plans to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region by up to 70%, as UN climate talks begin.

The solicitor for the civil servant who leaked information to Tory Damian Green says he acted in the "public interest".

US manufacturing activity fell in November to a fresh 26-year low, the latest Institute for Supply Management data shows.

Manchester City are joining the Premier League big spenders as their new owners splash the cash in an effort to bring the good times to the Eastlands. They still have along way to go, as Sunday's 1-0 defeat at home to Manchester United proves, but just where has their new found wealth come from? Sarah Irving investigates...

South Africa's new heath minister pledges to increase the availability of treatment for HIV and Aids.

A German woman is jailed for more than four years for killing two of her babies and keeping them in a freezer.