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(AP) – Two-thirds of Americans believe that President Barack Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Only 26 percent think he get the award and rightly so. This results in a survey conducted by the Quinnipiac Univerity. Around 2,300 people were interviewed in early December. Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo tomorrow.
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The battle over the billion-dollar tax package, accusing the opposition of the federal government to try to buy the consent of the Bundesrat by concrete financial commitments. The Greens turn their criticism against the Federal Education Minister Annette Schavan, which made the country as a compensation higher education grants in prospect.
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At midnight is the new Reform Treaty of the European Union. The so-called Lisbon Treaty lays the groundwork for an EU that will work better and more democratic future. By signing two years ago until the final ratification in all 27 EU members, there was much controversy within the community. But even in the countries themselves, there were severe political struggle. In Ireland, for example, had to make two referendums until the people said yes.

A 14-month-old toddler has locked his mother in New Zealand by mistake in a closet. The desperate mother had to endure seven hours until her husband came home from work. Through the door she heard her son Harry rumbling in the house – but the little one as if by a miracle nothing happened. They have tried three hours to break down the door or to alert neighbors by noise, but without success, the woman told the newspaper “New Zealand Herald. Finally, she had resigned.