Amid rising unemployment and growing unpopularity for his health care reform plan, Barack Obama’s job approval rating has gone below 50 percent for the first time in his presidency, a Gallup survey has found.
After dropping to 49 percent in the national survey conducted this week, Obama has joined the club of three other presidents who [...]
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Venice holds mock funeral
November 15th, 2009 |
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It was the scene of Thomas Mann’s famous work, “Death in Venice” but now Venetians have held a mock funeral to highlight the Italian city’s sinking population. Carrying a coffin through Venice’s historic canals the event’s organizers say the watered city has become a ghost town, flooded with tourists.