Business
 | BBC News - European countries have agreed to provide 150bn euros (£125bn; $194bn) to the International Monetary Fund. The money could be used to help countries in the eurozone struggling to pay their debts. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Philip C. Tubeza The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized two container vans of smuggled firecrackers worth P10.6 million and eight container vans of lumber which recently arrived in two separate shipments. |
 | Inquirer.net - Software provider Touch Solutions Inc. saw its share price fall 7.78 percent during its stock trading debut on the second board of the Philippine Stock Exchange Monday. |
 | ABS CBN News - By Miguel R. Camus, BusinessMirror MANILA, Philippines - Listed supermarket chain Puregold Price Club Inc. expects a sustained sales growth of about 30 percent for the remainder of the year, President Leonardo Dayao said. |
 | Forbes - Billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia purchased his stake in Twitter on the secondary market and not directly from Twitter, Forbes has learned. |
Health
 | MarketWatch (press release) - SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A recent study on a sophisticated form of radiation treatment for breast cancer is inaccurate and has caused unnecessary concern among many patients, according to four top physician researchers. |
 | Fortune - Nuclear physicist Edward Flynn was moved by his wife's cancer to find a better procedure. He's not the only one angling for a piece of a growing $6 billion market. |
 | AFP - YEREVAN - The percentage of male children born in Armenia has risen significantly due to an increase in female foeticide, the United Nations Population Fund said on Monday. |
 | Santiago Times - María José Paredes Navarrete, a Chilean infant who was separated from her conjoined twin in a risky surgery last week, died on Sunday night of organ failure, five days after the procedure. |
 | London Free Press - By QMI Agency A researcher at St. George's, University of London found that chickenpox occurs less often in places with high UV levels, and hopes his findings can help develop new treatments for chickenpox and shingles. |
 | Harrow Times - By Suruchi Sharma » HOSPITAL wards were shut over the weekend at Northwick Park Hospital after a spread of winter vomiting disease Norovirus. |
 | Daily Mail - By Fiona Macrae Breakthrough? Scientists have discovered a compound which switches off appetite, without the usual side effects It is the perfect excuse to have another mince pie. |
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