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| Strange days and low expectations for new-look Lakers | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - These are very strange times for Los Angeles Lakers fans, with many of them holding surprisingly low expectations for this season after becoming accustomed to their team repeatedly reaching the NBA Finals. |
| Johnson Johnson to pay $2.2 billion to end U.S. drug probes | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In one of the largest health care fraud settlements in U.S. history, Johnson Johnson will pay $2.2 billion to end civil and criminal investigations into kickbacks to pharmacists and the marketing of pharmaceuticals for off-label uses, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday. |
| Pistons Beat Celtics 87-77 | | | Josh Smith, Andre Drummond and Josh Smith scored 15 points each Sunday night and the Detroit Pistons kept the Boston Celtics and first-year coach Brad Stevens winless with an 87-77 victory. |
| The Amazon's World Cup race | | | For the World Cup in 2014, the 42,618-seater Arena Amazonia will be one of the event's most striking stadiums. If it is finished on time..... |
| New Italian record for Roma | | | Even without injured club legend Francesco Totti, Roma keeps on ticking. When Roma beat Chievo 1-0, it became the first team to win its opening 10 games of a Serie A season. |
| Meet horse that upstaged Kylie | | | He has been ridden by pop star Kylie Minogue, actor Hugh Jackman has performed cabaret on him in a casino and he had his life saved by the last Australian Prime Minister. |
| Social change in Kenyan slums | | | African Voices meets Aggrey Otieno, a human rights activist who tackles high rates of maternal mortality in his hometown. |
| World Bank, EU pledge $8 bln in Sahel | | | DAKAR, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The World Bank and the European Union pledged on Monday more than $8 billion of investment for the Sahel region, a string of arid, weak states south of the Sahara threatened by poverty, insecurity and pockets of extremism. |
| At Least 55 Die as Rival Sects Clash in Yemen | | | The death toll in four days of clashes in northern Yemen rose, one of the clans said, as the government tried to broker a cease-fire in a region that is largely outside its control. |
| Gunfights kill 13 in Mexican city on U.S. border | | | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed in shootouts on Sunday around the northeastern Mexican city of Matamoros in one of the worst recent outbreaks of violence in an area ravaged by drug gangs. |
| Court rejects Bo Xilai appeal | | | A court in eastern China on Friday upheld the guilty verdict and life sentence against former high-flying politician Bo Xilai, effectively ending one of the messiest political scandals to hit the ruling Chinese Communist Party in decades. |
| Phys Ed The Marathon Runner as Couch Potato | | | On an average workday, runners training for a marathon reported sitting for more than 10 hours a day, raising provocative questions about the growing prevalence of sedentary behavior and its accompanying health risks. |
| BlackBerry calls off sale, spurring doubts and stock plunge | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd abandoned on Monday its plan to sell itself and said its CEO is stepping down, sparking a 16 percent dive in its share price and raising fears the struggling smartphone maker is running out of options. |
| Red Bulls Prepare for a Seasoned Rival | | | The Houston Dynamo, hosts in the opening game of an Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, have reached the M.L.S. title game four times in seven years. |
| Del Potro denies Federer again | | | Juan Martin Del Potro put on hold Roger Federer's hopes of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals by inflicting a second straight defeat on the Swiss maestro in the final of his hometown tournament in Basel. |
| Samsung edges Apple in tablet satisfaction | | | Samsung tablets have edged out iPads for the first time in JD Power's biannual customer-satisfaction survey, although some observers say the results don't quite add up. |
| New Details Emerge About Tainted Gallery | | | A newly amended complaint against Knoedler Company challenges declarations by that gallery, now shuttered, that it did everything possible to authenticate artworks. |
| Protests as Palestinians released | | | Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, part of an agreement that fueled new peace talks. But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said all prisoners must be released before any peace deal. |
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