<p>It's Sepulveda's first Thanksgiving, though neither of us lives in the United States, and he's expecting something out of "Friends." I've invited him and nearly two dozen other expatriates from various countries to my apartment in Sydney for a taste of Turkey Day Down Under.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/thanksgiving-food-thought-what-table-full-foreigners-taught-me-about-most-american-holidays-1485690
Ode To The Wild Turkey: American Comeback Story And Thanksgiving Tradition :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p dir="ltr">The Thanksgiving bird that most of us feast upon this holiday season would have astonished the Pilgrims and Native Americans of the 1600s. Today's turkeys are fatty beasts bred to have oversized chests – large enough that a factory-farmed tom can't actually have intercourse with a hen, because his massive breast gets in the way. Odds are nigh-on 100 percent that your Butterball was conceived through artificial insemination.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/ode-wild-turkey-american-comeback-story-thanksgiving-tradition-1486736
Cheapest World Cup final ticket £150 :: The organisers of the 2015 Rugby World Cup announce the cheapest tickets for the final at Twickenham will cost £150.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/25121033
United Utilities limits price rises :: Water company United Utilities says it will scale back its proposed price increase for next year, with prices rising by no more than inflation.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25121194#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
NSA Monitored Online Sexual Habits Of Muslim 'Radicalizers' In A Bid To Discredit Them: NSA Document Reveals :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The National Security Agency, or NSA, reportedly spied on the "online sexual activity" of individuals that the agency believed were radicalizing others through social media and other means, in a plot to undermine their reputation and credibility.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/nsa-monitored-online-sexual-habits-muslim-radicalizers-bid-discredit-them-nsa-document-reveals
Europe's response to U.S. surveillance is hopeful rather than harsh :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/gQyIqlQmhx8/
London Market Report :: Catering giant Compass Group helps to pull the FTSE higher after announcing a 9% rise in full-year profits and a new £500m share buyback.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11899862#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Beijing Lawmaker Lobbies For Free Abortion For College Students :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>While U.S. politicians and judges tangle over insurance coverage for contraception and abortion, a Chinese lawmaker is calling for making affordable — if not free — abortions available to college students, in a push to get young women with limited funds to use legitimate hospitals instead of resorting to unlicensed clinics.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/beijing-lawmaker-lobbies-free-abortion-college-students-1487452
Wal-Mart Says 'Save Money Live Better,' But Workers Don't Make Living Wage And Rely On State Benefits :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) announced Tuesday that CEO Mike Duke will be replaced by Doug McMillion next year. The change in top management comes at a time when the company's financial performance is thriving, but also just as its labor disputes are increasingly becoming a national issue.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/wal-mart-says-save-money-live-better-workers-dont-make-living-wage-rely-state-benefits-1487598
Pebble Mine Executive Says Northern Dynasty Can Manage Giant Alaskan Copper Mine Alone, If Necessary :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A top mine developer behind the ambitious and controversial Alaska Pebble mine, one of the world's largest proposed copper and gold mines, said Tuesday that his company could build the project without a partner if need be.</p>
<p> Ron Thiessen, head of Canada's Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM), told International Business Times in a phone interview that his company could file for the required regulatory permits alone, if necessary.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pebble-mine-executive-says-northern-dynasty-can-manage-giant-alaskan-copper-mine-alone-if-necessary
9th WTO Bali Ministerial Conference 2013: A Final Attempt To Salvage The Doha Round Of World-Trade Talks :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Twelve years ago, negotiations began in Doha, Qatar, to further liberalize trade rules around the world. Twelve years and numerous impasses later, negotiators are preparing to meet on the Indonesian island of Bali in a last-ditch effort to salvage the Doha Round of world trade talks and the credibility of the World Trade Organization.</p>
<p>Next Tuesday, trade ministers from WTO member states will begin three days of meetings in Bali for the ninth WTO Ministerial Conference -- the fifth Ministerial Conference since the launch of the Doha Round in 2001.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/9th-wto-bali-ministerial-conference-2013-final-attempt-salvage-doha-round-world-trade-talks-1486822
Project Beauty: Chinese Officials Pressure Uighur Muslim Women In Xinjiang To Drop Their Veils, Men To Cut Beards :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Muslims in China's far western Xinjiang province have become annoyed and offended by the authorities' attempts to discourage local Uighur women from wearing veils and men from sporting beards. The Times News Network, an Indian news agency, reported that the provincial government in Xinjiang has tried to exploit womens' vanity by staging beauty contests designed to highlight the attractiveness of their uncovered faces. The program even has the fanciful title of "Project Beauty."</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/project-beauty-chinese-officials-pressure-uighur-muslim-women-xinjiang-drop-their-veils-men-cut
VIDEO: 'I took out loan to make ends meet' :: A food bank user in Hull explains why she took out a £2,000 bank loan to buy basic necessities.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25120480#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
China to sell off cotton reserves :: China, which has about half the world's cotton, will start sales from its reserves on Thursday, says the China National Cotton Exchange.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25118513#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Consumer spending drives UK economy :: Economic growth in the UK was driven by consumer spending in the third quarter of the year, official figures show, and business investment also rose.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25118514#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
VIDEO: Thomasina Miers: Pigswill ban 'crazy' :: Some celebrity chefs have joined forces to try and change what British farmers can feed their pigs, after a ban on the porkers eating catering waste was introduced during the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25120544#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Angela Merkel's Conservatives Strike Coalition Deal With Center-Left Social Democrats :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the country's main center-left party struck a deal on Tuesday night to form a grand coalition government, following negotiations that lasted more than two months since general elections were held in the country.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/angela-merkels-conservatives-strike-coalition-deal-center-left-social-democrats-1487742
Royal Mail reports jump in profits :: Royal Mail reports a big jump in half-year profits in its first results since its flotation, as Business Secretary Vince Cable defends the sale before MPs.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25106394#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Comet ISON's Thanksgiving Encounter With The Sun: Where To Watch The Sun-Grazing Comet :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As Comet ISON makes its way rapidly toward the sun, astronomers are anxious to find out whether the space projectile will disintegrate from the sun's intense heat and gravity, or if it will manage to slingshot around the star on Thursday.</p>
<p>Many observatories across the U.S. are preparing to catch a glimpse of the comet and show it to the public through telescopes, hoping that it will survive its Thanksgiving Day encounter with the solar system's center-star. Meanwhile, a report from LiveScience said any place with a dark sky and a low horizon would be good to watch the comet.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/comet-isons-thanksgiving-encounter-sun-where-watch-sun-grazing-comet-1487730
VIDEO: HP shares up 7% in surprise soar :: Investors were braced for bad news from veteran computer firm Hewlett-Packard but they got just the opposite.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25119020#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
AUDIO: Carbon price floor is 'useful revenue' :: The BBC's environment and energy analyst, Roger Harrabin, reports on the carbon price floor that George Osborne is under pressure to scrap.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25117439#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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