The planned British Airways strikes are likely to disrupt the holiday plans of almost 1 million passengers.
The strikes, which could last for 12 days, are due to a potential two-year pay freeze and a reduction of staff on long haul flights etc.
British Airways are currently seeking an injunction against the strike taking place and you can read more about it here.
UPDATE: The strike has been deemed illegal by the High Court, read more here.
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Over 900 climate change campaigners have been arrested during protests at the Copenhagen summit.
The violence broke out when tens of thousands of people marched with signs saying ‘Save the humans’ but a group of protesters began to throw bricks at the police.
Police have been accused of overreacting to ‘sporadic street violence’ by using ‘kettling’ methods to detain protesters, similar to those during the G20 protests in April.
Read more on the arrests here.
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Tiger Woods has announced on his website that he’s taking “an indefinite break from professional golf”
After a tumultuous fortnight, the golfer, widely regarded as one of the best of all time, makes the announcement after earlier securing an injunction on the UK press.
To read the statement in full, click here
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Tiger Woods has placed an injunction on the British media to prevent new details about his private life from surfacing.
The move has been described as “unbelievable”, especially as the information is widely available in the US media.
Woods’ personal life has been intensely reported since he crashed his car two weeks ago.
You can read more on it here
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Just as FiX predicted, the Turner Prize was won today by Richard Wright.
His gold leaf fresco was a favourite of many visitors to the exhibition and the judges said they “admired the profound originality and beauty of Wright’s work”.
He was awarded the £25,000 prize and the runner up artists each received £5,000. The exhibition will be on display until January 3rd next year at the Tate Britain.
Read more on it here.
And read FiX’s verdict on the exhibition here.
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Amanda Knox and on-off boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have both received guilty verdicts for the murder of English student Meredith Kercher.
The Leeds University student had been spending a year at Perugia’s university for foreigners where she was found murdered on 2nd November 2007.
Knox has received 26 years for murder and several other offences while Sollecito has received 25 years after two years of trials.
You can read more on the verdict here
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An inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war has been on-going since November 24th. The inquiry will involve looking into the time period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July this year which includes details on the run up to the Iraq conflict, the military action etc.
Read extensively on it here
You can read the full article here.
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]]>Fans of Sarah Palin struggled to come up with reasons for their support when interviewed by ‘New Left Media’. The supporters were queuing up outside a Borders bookstore in Ohio waiting during Palin’s book signing tour and fans showed strong support for her but in very vague terms such as ‘real’ etc. One fan even agrees with Palin’s suggestion that Russia is a neighbouring country to the state of Alaska.
You can view the interviews here
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