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Los Angeles  - Rajon Rondo picked the right time to snap out of scoring slump.

New York  - German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung promised UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assistance in the fight against piracy off the Somalia coast during a meeting Thursday in New York.

Washington  - US Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech in Washington Thursday evening and was rushed to a hospital, US media reported.
The US television network ABC quoted a lawyer in the room as saying Mukasey, 67, “started struggling with [his] speech, slurring” just before he collapsed.
He had been giving a speech to [...]

Washington  - The economic and political clout of the United States will decline by 2025, the spread of nuclear weapons and cyber- terrorism will emerge as the most potent global threats, and new wars are likely to be fought over water and food scarcity.

Washington  - Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday completed a second spacewalk on their construction mission to the International Space Station, which was marking its 10th anniversary.

Los Angeles  - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is ready to take a job at the White House if president-elect Barack Obama feels he can be of service.

Los Angeles  - Sales at Dell Inc dropped 3 per cent in the quarter, but the company said Thursday that it increased its earnings per share by cutting jobs.

Washington  - It’s known as “America’s attic,” but the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington has shed its dusty image.

Washington  - Chief executives from the United States’ iconic Big Three automakers faced a skeptical audience this week as they took their plea for a 25-billion-dollar bail-out to US lawmakers.

San Francisco  - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would hear legal challenges to the recent voter initiative that banned same-sex marriage.