Bill Sharpe, attorney for the family of Linda Adams, responds to a question during a news conference in Orlando, Fla. Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. A member of the Adams family made the 911 call after golfer Tiger Woods was involved in a car accident early Friday morning in the Isleworth community of Windermere, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS WOULD COST $21,465

It will cost you a whole lot less to sing the “12 Days of Christmas” this holiday season than it will to buy all of the items in the song.

Philadelphia’s PNC Bank Monday released the “Christmas Price Index,” which aggregates the song’s literal cost — a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling [sic] birds, five gold(en) rings, six geese, seven swans, eight maids, nine dancing ladies, ten leaping lords, eleven pipers, and twelve drummers — each year.

NEW DELHI: Rajiv Gandhi Foundation chairperson Sonia Gandhi flagged off the Red Ribbon Express Phase-II from the Safdarjung station here to mark World AIDS Day on Tuesday.

She said the Red Ribbon Express Phase-I showed that “we are on the right track because of the appreciation we got from the people.”

FRANCE and Germany refused US requests to immediately promise more troops for Afghanistan, frustrating President Barack Obama's hopes that allies would match his troop surge.