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HENLY-ON-KLIP, South Africa, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey is set to open a new academy for girls in South Africa, and fielding questions about its $40 million price tag by saying the kids deserve it.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. officials questioned the political wisdom and the justice of expediting the execution of Saddam Hussein, officials in Baghdad told The New York Times.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Sirius and XM satellite radio services, which saw increases in their subscription bases in 2006, are reportedly in talks to merge.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A leading Senate Republican said Sunday he does not support escalating the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.

CRAWFORD, Texas, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war reached 3,000 Sunday with the death of a soldier at a military hospital in Crawford, Texas, CNN reported.

BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union at midnight New Year's Day, celebrating with rock music and traditional dancing.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Mourners gathered Sunday at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, some as early as 5 a.m., to pay their respects to former President Gerald Ford.

LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Labor Party leader in Britain says new laws to encourage "cafe-style" drinking have failed because Britons are a nation of boozers.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A 3-year-old boy was found running on the interstate in Indiana and was saved by what Troy Crady figures was a guardian angel.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Will Jones, the first curator for the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., began work 25 years ago on plans for Ford's burial ceremony at the museum.

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MIAMI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Efforts by Florida officials to use federal disaster aid to produce entertaining activities as a means of recovery has gotten federal criticism.

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