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  • Modern Warfare 2 best selling item on Amazon in 2009
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    Modern Warfare 2, a violent video game, was the biggest selling item on the Amazon.co.uk website, the country’s largest online retailer, beating the latest Harry Potter film.

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  • Pandemic of deadly animal diseases poised to infect humans
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    The world is facing a growing threat from new diseases that are jumping the human-animal species barrier as a result of environmental disruption and the progressive urbanisation of the planet, scientists have warned. At least 45 diseases that have passed from animals to humans have been reported in the last two decades, & is expected to escalate.

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  • 2009 Darwin Award Winners Announced
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    Greg Lindahl writes “From the woman who jumped in a swollen creek to rescue her drowning moped, to the man who hopped over the divider at the edge of the highway to take a leak, and plunged 65 feet to his death, 2009 was a year both exceptional and unexceptional for Darwin Award-worthy behavior!”

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  • Fitton makes early Lakeside exit
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    Seeds Darryl Fitton, Dave Prins, Martin Atkins and Mark Barilli are all beaten but Scott Waites eases through the first round of the BDO World Darts.

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