Bryan Adams is criticized for agreeing to play a concert in Harare, Zimbabwe in spite of international sanctions and boycotts provoked by autocratic ruler, Robert Mugabe
A massive road construction project in Iceland was halted as locals protested that it was disrupting an important elf church. Meanwhile in Canada, Harper seems determined to push through approval of the Enbridge Pipeline despite many real environmental concerns.
Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code in WWII, thus shortening the war and saving thousands of lives, who was then convicted of being gay and committed suicide, at last receives a posthumous Royal Pardon.
Volkswagon has discontinued production of its iconic Van and the final bus rolled off the assembly line on December 31st. [Apparently Westfalia failed in the East, South and North as well.]
“I assume the Penguin Plunge will be a spectator sport this year!” Travellers on a Russian research ship stuck in ice at Antarctica since Christmas Eve will have to wait at least until New Year’s Day for rescue.