Mourners at funeral for young hockey player sing him one last Christmas carol (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)

PORT PERRY, Ont. - Don Sanderson was in a coma during Christmas and missed celebrating his favourite time of year, so hundreds of mourners solemnly sang a yuletide carol Monday at the funeral for the 21-year-old hockey player who died following an on-ice fight.
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UK retailers Debenhams, Next report drop in sales over Christmas period, but profits hold up (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

LONDON - British retailers Debenhams and Next saw sales drop over the Christmas season, but both companies said profits held up well as they had prepared for one of the toughest retail periods in a long time.
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County will recycle Christmas tree for free (The Press-Enterprise)

Still stuck with an old Christmas tree? Riverside County will recycle them for free through Jan. 17. Most trash haulers will be picking up trees alongside residents' green waste bins in the two weeks following Christmas, according to a county news release.
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Next Debenhams shares jump after avoiding Christmas washout (Daily Telegraph)

Shares of Next and Debenhams jumped after they avoided disastrous declines in Christmas sales but both warned of difficult trading in 2009.
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Next pre-Christmas sales figures down 7% (RTÉ News)

Fashion chain Next said today it had made a 'good start' to post-Christmas sales despite further trading declines in the run-up to the festive season. The chain runs about 480 shops in the UK and Ireland.
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Next Debenhams warn of tough 2009 but avoid disastrous Christmas (Daily Telegraph)

Two of the biggest names on the UK high street warned difficult trading conditions will persist for all of this year but avoided disastrous Christmas sales.
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Cars could be fuelled by Christmas trees (Evening Standard)

RECYCLED Christmas trees could soon be used to power cars. Researchers today revealed they are developing a way to extract sugar molecules stored in the fibre of the trees.
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PGMA awards winners of 2008 Tangub City Christmas symbols contest (Philippine News Agency)

TANGUB CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 6 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo joined Tangubanons last night in honoring the winners of the municipality's Christmas symbols contest by personally awarding trophies to the participants who bested their peers in coming up with the most creative and ingenious décor designs depicting the true spirit of Christmas.
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Facebook 'sets Christmas record' (BBC News)

The social networking website was the second most viewed on Christmas Day behind Google, and ahead of YouTube and Hotmail.
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Next and Debenhams sales over Christmas (Daily Telegraph)

Next and Debenhams have this morning become the latest retailers to reveal their Christmas trading figures.
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