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Biography list for Best and Barker (Daily Mirror) Footballer George Best, comedian Ronnie Barker and past prime ministers Sir Edward Heath and Lord Callaghan have been added to the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. us.rd.yahoo.com
NAMES & FACES: Obama gets Spider-Man gig (Detroit Free Press) Superhero Barack Obama? Certainly the world could use one right about now. Marvel Comics is set to spin a web of capitalization on the popularity of the president-elect. us.rd.yahoo.com
Reader views (0) (Evening Standard) This year's Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual. No matter how deserving Diana Athill is of the biography award for her memoir Somewhere Towards the End, it is bizarre to say the least that Patrick French's authorised life of VS Naipaul didn't even make the shortlist. us.rd.yahoo.com
Nolan nominated for The Dark Knight (Daily Mirror) The Dark Knight has landed a Directors Guild of America nomination for filmmaker Christopher Nolan. us.rd.yahoo.com
Dan Gross: Rollins shows a fun side (Philadelphia Daily News) JIMMY ROLLINS is a stand-up guy. He proved it again Tuesday afternoon, when a ballsy high-school student knocked on the door of his South Jersey mansion to ask the Phillies shortstop if he would place a call to Wired 96.5. us.rd.yahoo.com
Weather: Put on those blue suede shoes (Cape Cod Times) Today will be mostly sunny with near steady temperature in the upper 30s but with west winds 20 to 30 mph and gusts up to 55-60 miles mph, decreasing this afternoon. us.rd.yahoo.com
Christopher Nolan, Rebecca Romijn, Laura Bush (International Herald Tribune) A roundup of the day's celebrity news. us.rd.yahoo.com
Scottish News: Business and Politics from Glasgow, Edinburgh - all Scotland - The Herald (The Herald) Fears are growing that thousands more jobs in Scotland could be axed after Marks & Spencer became the latest high-street giant to announce mass redundancies. us.rd.yahoo.com
Scottish News: Business and Politics from Glasgow, Edinburgh - all Scotland - The Herald (The Herald) The US-designed fighters picked by Britain to equip its two new aircraft carriers and several RAF squadrons are facing a budget battle in the US Congress. us.rd.yahoo.com
Scottish News: Business and Politics from Glasgow, Edinburgh - all Scotland - The Herald (The Herald) Three generations of British military families lived on a German housing estate blissfully unaware that the ground beneath them contained unexploded RAF bombs dropped on Hitler's Third Reich more than 60 years earlier, The Herald can reveal. us.rd.yahoo.com
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