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B Snow and ice are playing havoc with holiday travel plans across the U.S., disrupting traffic in the air and on the roads. BC?News?with?Jerry?Smit A?judge?in?the?United?States?has?ruled?that?the?heavily?indebted?city?of?Detroit?is?eligible bankruptcy.?Judge?Steve?Rhodes?told?a?packed? courtroom?that?the?city?was?clearly?insolvent when?bankruptcy?was?declared?in?July,?the?largest? such?municipal?filing?in?the?US?history. Unions?and?creditors?had?challenged?the?move,? arguing?Detroit?had?not?negotiated?withcreditors?in?good?faith.?The?ruling?clears?the?way?for?the?city?to?come?up?with?a?plan?to?shed$18bn?in?debt.?The?citys?mayor?Dave?Bing?said?it?was?a?tough ?day?for?Detroits?citizens. The?judge?has?spoken?and?its?a?tough?day?for?all?of?us?here?in?Detroit.?I?believe?with?the?crisis that?we?have,?this?was?inevitable.?I?dont?think? anybody?necessarily?wanted?to?go?in?this direction.?But?now?that?we?are?here,?it’s?more?important?that?we?work?together?as?opposed?to continuing?to?fight?each?other. The?Vatican?has?refused?to?provide?information? requested?by?the?United?Nations?on?the?sexual abuse?of?Children?by?priests.?Robert?Piggott?has?more. The?UN?Committee?on?the?Rights?of?the?Child?put?a?wide-ranging?questionnaire?to?the?HolySee?last?July,?asking?for?detailed?information?about?the?particulars?of?all?sexual?abuses?notifiedto?the?Vatican?since?1995. The?questions?included?whether?priests,?nuns?and?monks?guilty?of?sexual?crime?were?allowed ?To remain?in?contacts?with?children.?In?its?response,?the?Holy?See?insisted?it?was?separated?and distinct?from?the?Roman?Catholic?Church?and?that?it?was?not?its?practice?to?discloseinformation?unless?specifically?asked?to?by?the?authorities?in?the?country?where?they?wereserving. A?team?of?judges?appointed?by?the?French?courts?to?investigate?the?death?of?Yasser?Arafat near?Paris?nine?years?ago?has?dismissed?a?theory?that?he?was?poisoned.?The?judges?say?the Palestinian?leader?died?of?natural?courses.?Here’s?Christian?Fraser. Yasser?Ar