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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Thu 22 Dec, 2011 Top Stories More Top Stories » 11 weird and wonderful moments from 2011 From dancing senators to lost penguins, planking, two-faced cats, gangster toga parties and all points in between, relive some of the quirkiest news stories of 2011. More » Watchdog quizzed over handling of implant scare 20,000 caught speeding in camera's first week Warne statue unveiled at MCG Boy survives fall from moving train Calm before storm as Top End braces for cyclone 31 years jail for murder of brothers Boy gets 13 years for stabbing Indian national Kathmandu on precipice amid weak sales Ticketek fined over discount ticket row More Analysis » Hitchens and infuriating faith Christopher Hitchens, the late journalist, author and polemicist is dead. And eventually nothing will be left of Hitchens but words. The man is gone. To his credit, this is exactly as Hitchens saw it: he was a thoroughgoing naturalist and physiological realist, with no desire for cosmic consolations. And it was this attitude that was one important cause of Hitchens's pop apotheosis. More » Asylum seeker solution: focus on the policy not political games Measuring the loss of the RQ-170 Sentinel in Iran A little extra Christmas care Happy Christmas (The war is not over) Media regulation made simple Towards a national identity we can all be proud of Global branding: the real hero (or villain) of MI4 IR review won't find cracks in the faulty system Convergence Review: complete, spectacular failure Just In More Just In » Watchdog quizzed over handling of implant scare By Karen Barlow and staff Independent senator Nick Xenophon is questioning Australia's medical safety regulator amid fears that tens of thousands of women around the world may have received faulty breast implants. More » Ticketek fined over discount ticket row 20,000 caught speeding in camera's first week No Christmas bail for accused Lin family killer Kathmandu on precipice amid weak sales Final strike sees AFL star banned for life 31 years jail for murder of brothers Appeal win against mineral exploration Shares edge lower after ECB loan rush Crane mourns death of Kim Jong-il World More World » Bradley Manning silent as defence wraps up By North America Correspondent Jane Cowan Former US army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who allegedly leaked secret intelligence to Wikileaks, has waived his right to speak at a pre-trial hearing. More » Phone hacking 'bog-standard tool' at tabloid Indonesian soldiers accused over asylum deaths Iraq PM tells Kurds to hand over Sunni leader Hundreds dead in Syrian massacre Business More Business » Banks gorge on record euro loans Banks have gobbled up nearly 490 billion euros ($635 billion) in three-year, cut-price loans from the European Central Bank, easing immediate fears of a credit crunch but leaving unresolved how much will flow to needy eurozone economies. More » Facebook ordered to boost privacy controls Moody's affirms Australia's AAA rating Kathmandu on precipice amid weak sales Ticketek fined over discount ticket row Phone hacking 'bog-standard tool' at tabloid Shares edge lower after ECB loan rush Politics More Politics » Watchdog quizzed over handling of implant scare By Karen Barlow and staff Independent senator Nick Xenophon is questioning Australia's medical safety regulator amid fears that tens of thousands of women around the world may have received faulty breast implants. More » Appeal win against mineral exploration Highs and lows of 2011 in South Australia Ruddock says Malaysia deal has legs Shipwreck survivors vent anger over search Sport More Sport » Warne statue unveiled at MCG Shane Warne has been immortalised in bronze, with a new statue of the Australian cricket great unveiled outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground today. More » Marsh confident of Boxing Day fitness City stay top as five-star United stay in touch Terry to fight criminal racism charge Mayweather jailed for 90 days Match abandoned after keeper kicks pitch invader Science and Technology More Science and Technology » Calls to censor details of potential killer flu US officials, scared of the potential for a biological attack, ask journals Science and Nature to not publish details of a man-made mutant flu virus with the potential to kill millions. More » New telescope captures 'starburst' galaxy NASA unveils plans to harpoon comets Devil breeding efforts meeting with success Scientists close in on possible 'God particle' Environment More Environment » Highs and lows of 2011 in South Australia By Gary Rivett A year of change, water worries, big mining hopes and an arts highlight More » Another leak, another warning: Orica acid spill Parker moves to amend NSW logging laws EPA wants report on latest Orica leak Fukushima plant reaches cold shutdown About this email You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts. This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email. 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