AN Irish bookie is offering odds on phrases that may be used by US President-elect Barack Obama in his inauguration speech.
In a range of inauguration-themed bets, punters can place bets on the duration of Mr Obama's speech, the TV ratings and what "cliche" he will first mention during his address tomorrow.
The best odds on offer for the content of his speech are 8-1 for "Change has come", 10-1 for "Yes We Can" and 12-1 for "Fundamental belief", "As I stand here today", "Defining moment" and "God Bless America".
At the other end of the spectrum, long shots include 500-1 for "Always bet on black!" and 250-1 for "Let's get ready to rumble" and "Life is like a box of chocolates", said bookmakers Paddy Power.
Punters can also lay bets on the colour of his tie and who will be the designer of the ball gown worn by Obama's wife Michelle and what colour it will be.
The breed of puppy promised for Mr Obama's daughters when they move into the White House can also be bet on - the favourite being a Portuguese water hound.
Last year Paddy Power paid out over 1 million ($1.97 million) on the former Illinois senator winning the 2008 presidential race, about three weeks before the vote.
A Pakistani student was murdered on Sunday in a fight involving 20 men outside a local restaurant in the East London district of Bethnal Green. British police have appealed for information and witnesses. The deceased was identified as Syed Qamar Islam, a 28-year-old Pakistani national studying Information Technology who was working as a part-time waiter at the restaurant, the police said. Three men suffered head injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital where Islam died. A post-mortem was due late on Sunday. Seven men, arrested in connection with the death, were admitted to the hospital. The police had yet to identify them but said all were Asians.
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Mexico's organized-crime unit formally accused 21 Tijuana law enforcement officers, including five commanders, of providing protection to the Arellano Félix cartel, the federal Attorney General's Office announced yesterday. and that's how you co-opt the coppers in Messico
The officers, 19 of them from the municipal police department and two of them state agents assigned to Tijuana, were suspended in mid-November and taken to Mexico City while they were under investigation.
Yesterday, a federal court approved the government's request to formally arrest the officers. They were transferred to a penitentiary in Tepic, in Nayarit state, where the case against them is to begin, the Attorney General's Office said.
The five municipal commanders included Rosalba Gonzalez Molina, the special forces chief, and Javier Enrique Cardenas Salgado, a longtime liaison to U.S. law enforcement authorities. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you?
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They say all cats are gray in the dark and Mexico just keeps getting darker.
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Corrupt cops in Tijuana?
Johnson! Stop the presses!!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A Pakistani student was murdered on Sunday in a fight involving 20 men outside a local restaurant in the East London district of Bethnal Green. British police have appealed for information and witnesses. The deceased was identified as Syed Qamar Islam, a 28-year-old Pakistani national studying Information Technology who was working as a part-time waiter at the restaurant, the police said. Three men suffered head injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital where Islam died. A post-mortem was due late on Sunday. Seven men, arrested in connection with the death, were admitted to the hospital. The police had yet to identify them but said all were Asians.
