AP 2011-12-26(在线收听

 1. House Republicans have backed down. Speaker John Boehner says there's now an agreement to accept the Senate's bipartisan two-month payroll tax cut. President Barack Obama congratulated lawmakers for ending what he calls a bipartisan stalemate.

 
 
 
2. Days after American forces leave Iraq, a wave of violence in Baghdad. Officials say some blasts went off in eleven neighborhoods around the capital. 
 
 
 
3. The handover of power in North Korea to Kim Jong Il's young son appears to be going smoothly. There is mourning in the capital, but so far no protests and no unusual military movements by North Korea along its borders.
 
 
 
4. And Guinness World Records has a new entry - oldest yoga teacher. Bernice Bates is 91 and has a flexibility of a woman less than half her age. She's been practising and teaching yoga since 1960.
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