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Los Angeles  – Newly-acquired Stephon Marbury went back to work and it worked out well.

Beijing  – China’s nominal parliament on Saturday approved a new food safety law designed to stem a recent tide of scandals over tainted food products.

Los Angeles  – US pop star Rihanna, 21, reunited with her boyfriend R&B singer Chris Brown, 19, less than three weeks after an alleged assault by Brown left the singer injured, news reports said.

Manila  – US tourist Claudia was all agog as she went through boxes and boxes of pirated DVDs of top Hollywood movies and music for sale at a stall in a Manila shopping mall.

Washington  – The United States will boycott a UN conference on racism over concerns about a document being prepared for the event that singles out Israel.

Washington  – Think about how much time you spend switching from one application to another, searching for windows that are hidden behind other windows, or opening and re-opening applications.

Los Angeles  – Stephon Marbury went green on Friday after the Boston Celtics signed the just-turned free agent guard.

Washington  – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will arrive in Israel and the West Bank next week on her first trip to the region aimed at feeling out ways to revive the peace process.

Washington  – Republican legislators slammed President Barack Obama’s economic agenda on Friday for mimicking the ideals of socialist European governments, one day after the president revealed his 3.6-trillion-dollar budget for 2010.

San Francisco  – After three exceptionally dry years, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday declared a state of emergency amid a prolonged drought.