SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Black Friday retail sales online topped $1 billion for the first time this year as more consumers used the Interne t do their holiday shopping, comScore Inc said on Sunday. Online sales jumped at least 22 percent on Black Friday, from sales of $816 million on the same day last year, according to comScore data. E-commerce accounts for less than 10 percent of consumer spending in the United States. However, it is growing much faster than bricks-and-mortar retail as shoppers are lured by low prices, convenience, faster shipping and wide selection. … Poll points to lagging support for monarchy and universal pride in medicare
OTTAWA – Canadians, it seems, love their universal health care.
Divided Kuwait limps toward boycott-hit elections
The message from Kuwait's emir is blunt heading into this week's parliamentary elections: Opposition factions should express dissent in the legislature, and not in the streets. The response from the opposition is equally uncompromising: We're not satisfied with what we can accomplish through parliament, so we're boycotting the vote. In world's most religious country, humanists rally for secular space
In Ghana, where deeply held religious beliefs unite much of the population, a new group has formed around a shared disbelief in religion.
German Pirates Party struggles to define policy and stay afloat
BOCHUM, Germany (Reuters) – Germany's fast-sinking Pirates Party struggled to overcome infighting at a congress that ended on Sunday and chart a course for next year's feder al elections that may see it cast into political oblivion as swiftly as it arrived. Support for the Pirates, who surprisingly won seats in four states over the past year, has shrunk to around a quarter of its peak. Their demise could help the centre left recover enough votes to oust conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel. … UN to launch new round of talks on global warming
As nearly 200 countries meet in oil-and-gas rich Qatar for annual talks starting Monday on slowing global warming, one of the main challenges will be raising climate aid for poor countries at a time when budgets are strained by financial turmoil.
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