Dear CT and CSF, Today, at about 11:00am our time or 8:00pm on Christmas night in Portland, a lot of Southeast Asia was hit with an 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami.

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Walsh had been drinking when she turned up at Maire Rankin's door that Christmas Eve night in 2008.

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An investigation is under way after a teenage schoolboy was found dead in a police cell on Christmas night.

BBC: Schoolboy cell death inquiry

Every night we have a celebration - there are Christmas carols, singing in the square and inside the church.

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Bob Metcalfe sat across from me in his Beacon Hill home on a Friday night just before Christmas.

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On another occasion, shortly before Christmas, the busiest time of the year, a burglar broke in during the night, smashed display cabinets and stole thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry.

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