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  • University lecturer wins Emirates Skywards Miles (Daily News)
    WIN: A lecturer at the University of Moratuwa and a frequent flyer on Emirates was the lucky grand prize winner in the on-line booking promotion organised in Sri Lanka by the award-winning Dubai based airline.


  • Stocks end 2006 with best gains in three years (MarketWatch via Yahoo! Finance)
    NEW YORK - U.S. stocks finished the year with strong gains, with all three major stock averages booking their best performance since 2003.


  • A tale of two cities for confused tourist (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometres away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.


  • Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out (CNN.com)
    BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.


  • Bolton Wanderers v Portsmouth team news (RTÉ News)
    Bolton midfielder Ivan Campo is available for Saturday's Barclays Premiership match with Portsmouth at the Reebok Stadium. Despite picking up his fifth booking of the season in the win over Newcastle, the seven-day rule allows him to face both Pompey and Liverpool on New Year's Day.


  • UPS, FedEx Skirt Storms, Retail Slowdown (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
    Every holiday season, UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp. bank on booking fat profits as people buy and ship holiday gifts, and while this year the delivery companies appear to have withstood a moderating economy, they still had to contend with a fair bit of meddling from Mother Nature.


  • CIL gets nod for e-booking (The Times of India)
    Coal India has received permission from the PMO to introduce an interim coal sale policy though e-booking till 31st January 2007.


  • MARKET SNAPSHOT: Stocks End 2006 With Best Index Gains In Three Years (Nasdaq)
    U.S. stocks finished the year with strong gains Friday, with all three major stock averages booking their best performance since 2003. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) stood at 12,463 at the close of trading on Friday, marking a 16.3% gain for the year.


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