Obama says did not ‘overpromise’ US economy

WASHINGTON, Dec 10, AFP:

President Barack Obama has said he did not oversell his plan to fix the struggling US economy, insisting the nation's woes had been mounting for 20 years, in comments to CBS News released Friday. "I didn't overpromise. And I didn't underestimate how tough this was going to be," Obama said, according to excerpts from an interview to be broadcast in full on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday.

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New dinosaur species discovered in museum after nearly a century

10 Dec Daily Telegraph

A new species of horned dinosaur known as Spinops sternbergorum has been discovered in the vaults of the Natural History Museum. The remains of the herbivores, from the same family as the Triceratops, were excavated from a quarry alongside a large group of fossils in a so-called "bone bed" in Alberta, Canada in 1916. But the bones were described as "rubbish" by the Museum's Keeper of Geology at the time, and lay unnoticed for almost 100 years before experts realised they belonged to an undescribed species.

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Morning-after pill offered free by post

10 Dec BBC

Women are being urged to order emergency contraception in advance as the Christmas party season approaches. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) says women could find it difficult to obtain the drug quickly over the holiday period.

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