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Queen Elizabeth II hailed inspirational unsung heroes in her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth on Sunday, as a heavy cold forced her to miss the royals' visit to church. The 90-year-old monarch put the focus on "ordinary people doing extraordinary things", in her annual message. |
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Here is the Queen's Christmas message in full: 'There was a time when British Olympic medal winners became household names because there were so few of them. But the 67 medals at this year's Games in Rio and 147 at the Paralympics meant that the GB medallists' reception at Buckingham Palace was a crowded and happy event. |
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When Tonya Bingham opened her Smoothie King franchise in the Bowie Town Center two years ago, the corporate parent told her it would be a slog just to sell $360,000 worth of the juice drinks the first year. She finished $19 shy of $700,000. “We did well,” said the 46-year-old mother of two, who.... |
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Christmas Day celebrations included a call by Pope Francis for peace and an end to terrorism, as well as a traditional holiday meal for hundreds of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who are fighting the Islamic State. Pope Francis wished Christmas peace for people scarred by wars and for those who have lost loved ones to terrorism. |
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Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett breaks down the matchups for Monday night's game: Detroit Lions (9-5) at Dallas Cowboys (12-2) When: 8:30 p.m. Monday. Where: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas. Line: Cowboys by 4. TV/radio: ESPN, Channel 7 in Detroit; WJR-AM (760).
Injury report. Lions. |
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LONDON, Dec 25 — Queen Elizabeth II will pay tribute to inspirational unsung heroes in her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth today. The 90-year-old monarch will put the focus on “ordinary people doing extraordinary things”, according to the text of her annual message. |
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Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett breaks down the matchups for Monday night's game: Detroit Lions (9-5) at Dallas Cowboys (12-2) When: 8:30 p.m. Monday. Where: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas. Line: Cowboys by 4. TV/radio: ESPN, Channel 7 in Detroit; WJR-AM (760).
Injury report. Lions. |
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“I recomposed myself and I bedded him down. I crossed the road to move on to the next person and I looked across and there he was in the doorway fixing his duvet and his pillow, and it was like looking in the window of somebody’s bedroom, only this was a doorway. The 25-year-old man finally secured a place in an emergency shelter a week later. |
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QUEBEC CITY — Sitting in a cabinet in the back of Philippe Couillard’s office are a set of red boxing gloves. “These were presented to me by (former premier) Jean Charest as a potentially useful tool, Couillard says with a chuckle leading a tour of his office in the Honoré-Mercier building — a stone’s throw from the National Assembly. |
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Journalists who work to separate fact from fiction see a dangerous conflation of stories that turn out to be wrong because of a legitimate misunderstanding with those whose clear intention is to deceive. A report, shared more than a million times on social media, that the pope had endorsed Mr. Trump was undeniably false. |
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This Sunday, for the first time anyone can remember , Britain's Queen Elizabeth II missed Christmas church service. But she still spoke to her country through her annual Christmas Broadcast, which was prerecorded. The queen, who has a bad cold, spoke of being inspired by the medal winners from the U. |
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