US singer Lady Gaga poses for photographers backstage at Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday (AP)

Actress Amy Adams and boyfriend Darren Le Gallo on the premiere of "American Hustle" on Sunday (AP)

Police stop Civil services aspirants who were protesting outside Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday (PTI)

A Kejriwal, along with party leader K Vishwas, addresses workers from the window of the party office on Sunday (SONDEEP SHANKAR)

Sheila Dikshit arrives to address a press conference in New Delhi, India, on Sunday (AP)

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Ben Stokes reacts while bowling during the second Ashes cricket test match between England and Australia, in Adelaide (AP)

Flowers left by mourners surround a portrait of Nelson Mandela in the Sandton district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday.

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Thailand: Political crisis timeline

Dec 09, 2013 - AP

Thailand’s political crisis took an unexpected turn on Monday when Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she would dissolve the lower house of Parliament and call early elections.

Business

New American Airlines CEO vows to make merger work David Koenig

Dec 09, 2013 - AP

American Airlines and US Airways seem an unlikely couple, even to the man who will lead the combined company after their merger on Monday. Doug Parker says, however, that American’s buttoned-down, corporate culture will be the perfect complement to his scrappy US Airways, where “we sometimes fire before we’re ready.”

India

Civil service aspirants protest outside Parliament over exam pattern

Dec 09, 2013 - PTI

Scores of civil service aspirants on Monday protested outside the Parliament House demanding a change in the current pattern of the examination held by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC).

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AAP rises, causes Cong collapse

Dec 09, 2013 - Age Correspondent | SANJAY KAW

The 75-year-old Sheila Dikshit’s electoral fortune crashed on Sunday as the Congress could only win eights of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly election. Outgoing chief minister faced a humiliating defeat in her New Delhi seat where she was defeated by the newly-formed Aam Aadmi Party’s founder Arvind Kejriwal by a margin of 25,864 votes.

Newsmakers

Harry’s South Pole race turns into walk

Dec 09, 2013 - AFP

A race to the South Pole involving Prince Harry and teams of injured troops has been cancelled due to safety concerns, organisers said on Saturday, but the veterans will trek on together to the globe’s most southerly point.

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Sports

K(n)ock out blow for India

Dec 09, 2013 - AFP

Batting prodigy Quinton de Kock hit his second successive century to set up a convincing, series-clinching 134-run win for South Africa in the second one-day international against India at Kingsmead on Sunday.

Editorial

AAP is real story of Assembly polls

Dec 09, 2013

The results of the Assembly elections for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi — with the BJP getting the better of the Congress in a telling fashion overall — must send the country’s ruling party scurrying back to the drawing boards if it plans to make a fight of it in the next Lok Sabha election in a few months’ time.

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