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There were hugs and handshakes all around on Friday as teams of older U.S. and Cuban softball players ended a "friendship" tournament they hope will set an example for their respective governments.

A Canadian court ordered a new refugee hearing on Friday for a U.S. Army deserter who claimed she would face persecution because of her homosexuality if returned to the United States.

New York, Nov.20 (ANI): A special edition issue of UNICEF's flagship The State of the World's Children report, tracking the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the challenges that remain, was released on Thursday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Convention's adoption by the UN General Assembly.

London, Nov. 20 (ANI): America's first and only legal marijuana coffee shop has been opened in Portland, Oregon.

The United States-China joint statement that has rankled India by its mention of relations between India and Pakistan has underscored the major issue that American President Barack Obama will face when he meets with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Washington next week ? renewing the sense of trust that had been developed when George W Bush was in office.

When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water and build a new farm.

Gap Inc posted a 25 percent rise in quarterly profit as sales rebounded at its Old Navy chain and the company recorded its highest margins in a decade.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday named two former military officials to lead a review of the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage, saying it was important to do everything possible to prevent such a thing from happening again.

A computer glitch caused widespread delays and cancellations on Thursday to flights along the U.S. East Coast, a local Washington radio station said.

The nation's richest top their Chinese counterparts when it comes to the size of their fortunes.

Kalanithi Maran has built Sun TV into one of Asia's hottest media outfits and made himself worth more than $2 billion in the process.

In May 2007 a newspaper owned by Kalanithi Maran published the results of a survey, which named M.K. Stalin as a more popular potential successor to his father, M. Karunanidhi, Tamil Nadu's powerful chief minister, than his older brother M.K. Azhagiri.

U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in South Korea on Wednesday and will hold a summit with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday, with North Korea and a trade deal topping the agenda of their talks.

The United States will take in "substantial" numbers of Iraqi refugees next year, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz said on Wednesday.

The United States expects to complete a review on how to spend $7.5 billion in proposed aid for Pakistan by the end of this month, with an early focus on the country's decrepit energy sector, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

U.S. ethanol production could eventually top 14.5 billion gallons a year, up 16 percent from output capacity at the beginning of 2009 and enough to blend 10 percent of the fuel into every gallon of the nation's gasoline, the U.S. government said on Wednesday.

Some of U.S. President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats urged him on Wednesday to abandon the Doha round of global trade talks and start over with an agenda to protect labor rights and environmental standards.

U.S. Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday strongly defended the top advisers from his 2008 presidential campaign in the face of sharp criticism from his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin.

Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.

Susan Adams, Forbes.com
In 1961, when Joe Navarro was 8, the Bay of Pigs invasion happened six miles from his home in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and his family fled to Miami. The boy knew no English, so he relied on careful observation of his peers, neighbors and teachers to figure out how things were done in his new country.