divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/55508?ns=guardianpageName=Life+and+style%3A+Leopard-print+clothing%3A+a+warningch=Life+and+stylec3=The+Guardianc4=Fashion%2CLife+and+stylec5=Fashion+and+Beauty%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Hadley+Freemanc7=2008_12_01c8=1126607c9=articlec10=GUc11=Life+and+stylec12=Fashionc13=c14=h2=GU%2FLife+and+style%2FFashion" width="1" height="1" //divpLike Slade and spice-"enhanced" liqueurs, leopard print is one of those things that for 364 days of the year is obviously an assault on the senses, but, come Christmas, is perceived as "jolly", "festive" and "a bit of fun". "A sensible but chic cover-up for a Christmas party," as one current fashion magazine would have it. (Perhaps I should add that such advice is aimed only at the female of the species. Not even Christmas can stop leopard print turning a man into anything other than Jonathan Ross.)/ppPerhaps it is the association between Christmas and soap operas that explains why dressing like Bet Lynch to mark the birth of the Messiah suddenly makes perfect sense. True, Christmas is not known for subtlety on any level, from the food, to TV schedules to the fondness for tinsel and sequins. But dressing like something in a David Attenborough documentary does not make you look like animalistic sexuality unleashed. It does not even make you look like a 60s wannabe starlet (and that comment is directed at yoo-hoo, Madame Kate Moss). It makes you look like a half-cut barmaid, desperately hoping for a bit of mistletoe. And as everyone knows, no one from a soap opera has a happy ending at Christmas./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/fashion"Fashion/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GxtbtFYOq0eWizXq4uT22mwMv68/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GxtbtFYOq0eWizXq4uT22mwMv68/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/31933?ns=guardianpageName=Technology%3A+Britney+Spears+pushes+Obama+aside+in+internet+search+tablech=Technologyc3=The+Guardianc4=Internet%2CYahoo+%28Technology%29%2CBritney+Spears%2CBarack+Obama+%28News%29%2CBig+Brother%2CReality+TV%2CTelevision+industry+%28Media%29%2CCulture+section%2CUS+news%2CWorld+news%2CTechnology%2CMusicc5=Pop+Music%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CUS+Elections%2CTechnology+Gadgets%2CCorporate+IT%2CTelevision+Mediac6=Sam+Jonesc7=2008_12_01c8=1126572c9=articlec10=GUc11=Technologyc12=Internetc13=c14=h2=GU%2FTechnology%2FInternet" width="1" height="1" //divpBarack Obama's epochal victory in the US presidential election may have transfixed and gladdened the world but the British public, it seems, is more preoccupied with the life and times of another American colossus - a 26-year-old singer by the name of Britney Jean Spears./ppDespite, or perhaps because, she has endured yet another turbulent year, Spears has topped a list of the UK's 10 most searched-for subjects on Yahoo./ppThe huge appetite for information on Big Brother and The X Factor pushed them into second and third place on the search list, while the US election had to make do with the seventh spot, sandwiched between High School Musical 3 and Amy Winehouse. Oasis, who released their seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, last month, came in at number four. Kate Moss, whom the sculptor Marc Quinn immortalised in a pound;1.5m gold statue displayed in the British Museum, claimed ninth place, just ahead of EastEnders./ppAlso on the most-searched list was Heath Ledger, who died in New York in January. The Australian star of the latest Batman film was placed eighth. His performance as the psychopathic Joker in The Dark Knight generated speculation that he may win a posthumous Oscar next year./ppA spokesman for Yahoo Europe said: "It is fascinating to look back over the last year and see the stories, personalities and subjects that have captured our imagination ... some of which continue to be the hot topics of today."/ppSpears has crammed a remarkable amount into the past 12 months. As well as facing trial for driving without a valid Californian licence, having her father granted indefinite control of her assets and spending two days in a psychiatric ward, the singer has managed to confound many by launching a comeback. /ppLast week she was named best international pop star at an awards ceremony in Germany. On Saturday, the singer made her first UK television appearance for four years when she sang her new single, Womanizer, on The X Factor. Her performance brought in the highest ratings for the show, attracting a peak of 12.8 million viewers. Today sees the launch of her sixth studio album, Circus./pp"I've been through a lot and there's a lot that people don't know," she told MTV this year. "I look back and [think]: 'I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?'"/ppDespite her impressive showing in the list, however, Spears' new record has not captivated all the critics. "Circus isn't bad as pop albums go," wrote the Guardian's Alexis Petridis. "But ... it's less edgy and exciting than its predecessor."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet"Internet/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/yahoo"Yahoo/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/britneyspears"Britney Spears/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barackobama"Barack Obama/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bigbrother"Big Brother/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/realitytv"Reality TV/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/television"Television/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VSGno8P-8b3WyoKLATQa3Gq8PkQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VSGno8P-8b3WyoKLATQa3Gq8PkQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Further to the interview and news item on the Journalism.co.uk main page, here is the Peyton family#8217;s official statement, made following the conclusion of the inquest investigating the circumstances of BBC journalist Kate Peyton#8217;s death in Somalia in 2005. The Coroner#8217;s verdict can be read here, as reported at the Guardian. #8220;We are gratified that, after [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/27708a6/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Official statement from family of BBC journalist, Kate Peytonlink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/29/official-statement-from-family-of-bbc-journalist-kate-peyton/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Official statement from family of BBC journalist, Kate Peytonlink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/29/official-statement-from-family-of-bbc-journalist-kate-peyton/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193115515/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/41355430/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193115515/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/41355430/a2.img" border="0"//a