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Stories for January 18th 2009

• Sunday, January 18th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Descendents of Shackleton's team reach South Pole

  

  Three men with links to Sir Ernest Shackleton have reached the South Pole. Lt Col Henry Worsley, from Hereford, Will Gow, from Kent, and Henry Adams, from Suffolk, arrived on Sunday.

• Sunday, January 18th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Bird strike confirmed in US Airways crash

  

  It has been confirmed that a collision with a flock of birds caused a US airliner to lose power and ditch in a New York river just after take-off.

• Sunday, January 18th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  US President-elect Obama: 'Anything is possible in America'

  

  US President-elect Barack Obama has told a huge crowd of supporters at a pre-inauguration rally in Washington that “anything is possible in America”.