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Cyber Monday

Monday after US Thanksgiving. Coined by the National Retail Federation in 2005 to describe the post-weekend e-commerce surge when shoppers returned to faster work-broadband connections. Now the biggest online shopping day of the year in the US.

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A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (aftermath pictured) hit Anchorage, Alaska, causing 117 injuries.

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