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New Year's Day racing at Cheltenham abandoned due to waterlogged track The Guardian Cheltenham's fixture on New Year's Day has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track. Course officials at Prestbury Park had scheduled a 3pm inspection on Monday afternoon, but saw no reason to delay the inevitable. With further rain forecast, the ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Chavez Suffers New Complications in Cancer Fight TIME (CARACAS, Venezuela) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is confronting "new complications" due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery, his vice president said in Cuba as he visited the ailing leader for the first ... See all stories on this topic »

See brightest star Sirius at midnight on New Year's Eve EarthSky (blog) Sirius in the constellation Canis Major – the legendary Dog Star – should be called the New Year's star. This star – the brightest one in our sky – celebrates the birth of 2013 and every new year by reaching its highest point in the sky around the ... See all stories on this topic »

Community-owned pool in Leeds marks New Year's Day revival with fancy dress ... The Guardian (blog) Some people like to start the New Year with a bracing dip in the cold of the North Sea, no doubt to bolster their freshly-made resolutions. But at noon on this New Year's Day, campaigners who helped to secure the future of one of the north's last ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Sydney prepares for New Year's Eve fireworks - video The Guardian Thousands of locals and tourists gather around Sydney's harbour to claim the best vantage spots to watch the midnight fireworks display from. Kylie Minogue, creative ambassador for the New Year's Eve event, greeted crowds and said she was very excited ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

New Tribune Board to Include Peter Liguori, Other Entertainment Veterans Hollywood Reporter Former Discovery Communications COO and News Corp. veteran Peter Liguori, who is expected to be named CEO of Tribune in the coming weeks, Craig Jacobson, the lawyer for Ryan Seacrest and Jennifer Aniston, and current Tribune CEO Eddy ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood Reporter

Ashley Tisdale welcomes the New Year on the slopes with teen stars Daily Mail Geared up with some brand new snowboarding gear - she had been shopping around the Burton Snowboard shop in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon - Ashley couldn't wait to try out her new merchandise. And clearly there was no shortage of white ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Open Thread: New year's resolutions in fiction The Guardian (blog) I bought myself some jogging bottoms and ran up and down my street twice but the visions of the new, improved, healthier version of myself soon faded - unlike the flush of shame as I walked home in defeat. I have not jogged since. It set me thinking ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Criminals can be tracked via satellite with new tags Telegraph.co.uk The sophisticated new electronic tags allows probation officers to check on a criminal's whereabouts 24 hours a day. They can be used to ensure convicted sex offenders are not near schools, with an alarm triggered if they come within a set distance of ... See all stories on this topic »

To Ring in the New Year, Grab a Horseshoe, Knock on Wood Wall Street Journal In 1880, Captain William Fowler, a Civil War veteran, tempted fate by creating a club in New York that met on the 13th of each month with 13 members around a dinner table. Menus were printed in the shape of tombstones. Similar clubs arose in other cities. See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Six Money Saving New Year's Resolutions Forbes "I will pay less tax" may sound like a good New Year's resolution, but it may not be possible in 2013. See Year-End Tax Planning Despite The Cliff. Besides, resolutions should be manageable and concrete. Here are six that will save you money in 2013 ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Bizarre New Year celebrations in the world Times of India Germans and Austrians celebrate the New Year with 'lead pouring', a tradition in which molten lead is 'read' like tea leaves. A small amount of lead is melted in a tablespoon and then poured into a bowl or bucket of water. The resulting pattern is ... See all stories on this topic » Times of India

This new year, raise your glass to a Buy British campaign Telegraph.co.uk I have drunk a prodigious quantity of wine over the past few decades without bothering to learn anything about the difference between one vintage and another. So when my hand passes along a row of bottles on a supermarket shelf, there is nothing ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Armed forces scrap new year parties in memory of Delhi victim The Hindu Army chief Gen Bikram Singh and his wife Bubbles Singh will visit patients in Army Research and Referral Hospital here and Base Hospital on the first day of the new year and distribute sweets. The Navy and the Indian Air Force have also told their ... See all stories on this topic »

Thousands Expected at Rangoon's First New Year Party The Irrawaddy News Magazine "Most other countries usually hold public New Year countdown parties. But we Burmese have no idea about the countdown, as we have never celebrated it before as a public gathering," said Swe Hein, project manager at Myanmar Index Creative Village ... See all stories on this topic » The Irrawaddy News Magazine

Tech rival not getting Taiwan New Year's spotlight DAWN.com TAIPEI, Taiwan - South Korea's high-tech sector won't be taking the spotlight at Taiwan's biggest annual extravaganza. The New Year's fireworks display at Taipei 101 has long been among the world's most spectacular. This year, South Korean electronics ... See all stories on this topic »

New Year's Eve 2012: Google marks last night of the year with special doodle Mirror.co.uk Google is reflecting on a year in doodles with a special interactive New Year's Eve image. It's homepage features a clickable image which points users to 34 of 2012's doodles. A 35th element sends people through to the New year's Eve 2012 search results. See all stories on this topic »

Wozniacki endures disastrous start to new season ESPN.co.uk Caroline Wozniacki's new season got off to the worst possible start, as she was beaten by qualifier Ksenia Pervak at the Brisbane International. Wozniacki, the eighth seed, was forced to deny renewed speculation about an engagement to world No. 1 ... See all stories on this topic » ESPN.co.uk

Zero Dark Thirty New Yorker The writer-director team of Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have made a mesmerizing chronicle of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, centered on the obsessive drive of a C.I.A. agent they have named Maya (based on a real person) to find the courier bringing ... See all stories on this topic »

Coleman signs new five-and-a-half-year contract with Everton Goalcom Everton utility man Seamus Coleman has signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract which will keep him at Goodison Park until the summer of 2018. The Republic of Ireland international joined Everton from Sligo Rovers back in 2009 and has made 67 ... See all stories on this topic » Goal.com

On New Year's: 3-day ban on pillion riding, motorcycles without silencers The Express Tribune The spokesperson of the Sindh Police SSP Imran Shaukat had earlier told Express News that the police will register a case of attempted murder against any person found involved in aerial firing anywhere in the city. The step has been taken to curb any ... See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune

Chatterbox: New Year's Eve The Guardian (blog) Chatterbox: New Year's Eve. End 2012 as you've spent it: talking about video games! Share · Tweet this. Email. And so 2012 comes to a close. The year of Wii U, Vita, Dishonored, Journey and Xcom is almost over. Let's see it out with some game-related ... See all stories on this topic »

New Delhi: fog disrupts flight operations at IGI Hindustan Times Dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Monday morning, disrupting the schedule of around 40 flights. Overnight around 16 flights were delayed. Around five flights were cancelled either due to operational reasons or ... See all stories on this topic »

Woman who pushed Indian to death in New York subway laughed during trial in ... Times of India NEW YORK: A 31-year-old woman accused of shoving an immigrant from India to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. See all stories on this topic » Times of India

Celebrities' New Year resolutions Inquirer.net (blog) The start of a brand new year gives us a chance to get things right this time around. We may have lost many things in 2012, except our hope that 2013 will be a better year. Even celebrities still have unfulfilled promises and dreams that they hope to ... See all stories on this topic » Inquirer.net (blog)

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