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Around this time of year, wanderlust travelers raise a Champagne glass and spin the globe in search of the next great destination for the coming year. What will be the top destinations in 2012? Have a look:

A federal judge in Anchorage Tuesday terminated BP Exploration's probation years after an oil pipeline rupture took place this past decade.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon received a nice Christmas present when the military arrested Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, a top lieutenant in the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Will it lead to the arrest of Shorty Guzman?

Santa Fe Gold Corp. said Tuesday it obtained financing for its purchase of Columbus Silver Corp., expanding its holdings near an operating mine and mill in southwestern New Mexico.

Sony Corp has agreed to sell its nearly 50 percent stake in an LCD joint venture with Samsung Electronics to the South Korean company for $940 million, as it struggles to reduce huge losses at its TV business.

Both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have been ousted from the primary after failing to collect enough valid signatures to run, and while Perry's campaign has been over for months, the loss of Super Tuesday state Virginia for Gingrich is a devastating blow. Months after he was declared dead-on-arrival, is Gingrich's comeback already over?

The automotive industry faces a tougher year in 2012 than it has done this year, Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler told Reuters in an interview for release on Sunday.

Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas for the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics on Saturday, urging humanity to see through the superficial glitter and commercialism of the season and rediscover the real significance of the humble birth of Jesus.

NORAD, the folks that keep the upper atmosphere safe by tracking everything that is up there so we can shoot down the bad guys, is tracking Santa this year, and you can follow him on his cheerful rounds here. Santa will also be able to tell who has been naughty and who has been nice thanks facial-recognition software tied to the information in the cloud. Ho...Ho...Ho.

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Before that, it wasn't a popular Christmas plant in the U.S. at all. But, after Poinsett introduced the plant to the U.S., it slowly gained popularity and took the name of the ambassador, becoming known as the poinsettia.

Refineries in the Northeast are closing their doors, and as a result, more than half of the area's petroleum refining capacity will be reduced. The reduction is likely to be problematic for ultra-low sulfur diesel, gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel supplies.

In order to keep the American people updated on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill restoration, BP will be launching its new advertising campaign immediately after Christmas.

In the coming year, doomsday tourists will head to Mexico's Mayan heartland in record numbers anticipating the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012.

More than 900 police officers will be fired.

Nigerian officials said they expect oil leaked from a Royal Dutch Shell offshore well to reach the country's shores Thursday. Shell officials suspect half of the estimated 40,000 barrels of oil leaked in the Atlantic this week have already naturally dissipated or evaporated.

Interest in arctic oil has climbed in recent years when industry, government and third party researchers independently made realizations that the amount of recoverable world-class oil deposits was greater than previously thought. That has yet to be properly tested with a drill bit.

Airbus is on course to end 2011 with well over 1,600 orders.

Following the House of Representatives' rejection of legislation to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months, on Tuesday the White House took to social media asking people to comment on what the rejection meant to them. For an average taxpayer earning $50,000 a year, terminating the tax cuts could mean an extra $1000 in Social Security tax from Jan. 1, 2012. When broken down that is about $40 for a pay period of two weeks.

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld an order to extradite to Mexico a former producer for the TV show Survivor to face charges he killed his wife while on holiday in the resort town of Cancun.

Which areas of the United States are likely to receive a White Christmas and which are not?