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LeBron James becomes youngest player to score 11,000 points
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - Cleveland's LeBron James became the youngest player to score 11,000 career NBA points in Tuesday's game against the New Jersey Nets.
U.S. says food, drug inspection access in China improving
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. officials opened the first overseas Food and Drug Administration office in Beijing on Wednesday as they gear up for a long battle to ensure the quality of food, drug and feed imports from China.
NASA's high-tech lube job on to-do list for spacewalk
Two NASA astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station today for a high-tech lube job, aiming to replace and grease joints that keep the outpost's solar panels facing the sun.
Price of Southern California homes falls 41% from peak
The median sales price drops to $300,000 in October, dragged down by the large number of foreclosed homes on the market. With the price of Southern California homes down more than 40% from its peak, the housing market has now slid further than most economists expected.
2,000 riot in China's Gansu province
The demonstrators, angered over a plan to raze a city center in Longnan, burn cars and battle police with rocks, iron bars and axes. A Communist Party office is overrun and 60 officials are injured. An angry crowd of about 2,000 rioted in China's impoverished Gansu province over a government plan to demolish a downtown area, torching cars and attacking a local Communist Party office, injuring 60 officials, state-run media reported Tuesday.
Pirates hijack another ship off Africa
The Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship Delight and 25 people aboard are captured, a day after suspected Somali pirates commandeered the Saudi-owned oil tanker Sirius Star. Reporting from Beirut Edmund Sanders and Nairobi, Kenya -- Pirates prowling the treacherous waters off the Horn of Africa hijacked another merchant ship Tuesday -- at least the second in four days -- amid growing international concern about a 21st century version of an ancient security threat.
Retreat by Barclays fails to end revolt
Barclays was facing renewed shareholder anger in spite of moves aimed at heading off a revolt over its plans to raise more than £7bn in fresh capital from Middle Eastern investors
Northwestern warns students of robbery attempts
2 students approached on separate occasions Northwestern University officials are advising students to be careful when walking at night after the second attempted robbery of a student in less than a week.
Obama wants Holder for attorney general
Obama is said to 'conditionally' offer post to Justice veteran WASHINGTON—President-elect Barack Obama would like to nominate former top Justice Department official Eric Holder Jr. to be his attorney general, and his transition team is now trying to gauge whether there is sufficient bipartisan support for him in the Senate, sources close to the transition confirmed Tuesday.
Officials say bonfire sparked the 'Tea Fire'
Authorities say a devastating California wildfire that destroyed more than 200 structures -- including a monastery and several mansions in a community where celebrities own homes -- was sparked by a bonfire built by a group of young adults.
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