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• 8. 'TWILIGHT' FINALE EVEN DRAWS GUYS
• The movie sucks up $141.3 million domestically, $340.9 million worldwide and the biggest male crowds in the series.
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• 9. WHO JUSTIN BIEBER'S DATE WAS AT THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
• The 18-year-old's mother was there to watch him win artist of the year and two other trophies.
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• 10. A BIG THANKSGIVING WEEKEND FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL
• Notre Dame needs only to beat Southern California to secure a BCS title game spot.
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AP News in Brief
In historic visit, Obama tells Myanmar US will befriend any nation that respects human rights
• YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- In a historic breakthrough, President Barack Obama on Monday stepped onto the soil of long-shunned Myanmar and into the flag-waving embrace of its once repressed people. "You gave us hope," he declared, the first U.S. president to visit what not long ago had been an international outcast.
• Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to welcome Obama to a place still learning its basic freedoms.
• Speaking to a national audience from the University of Yangon, Obama offered a "hand of friendship" and a lasting U.S. commitment, yet a warning as well. He said the new civilian government must nurture democracy or watch it, and U.S. support, disappear.
• The visit to Myanmar was the centerpiece of a four-day trip to Southeast Asia that began in Bangkok and will end Tuesday in Cambodia, where Obama will attend an East Asia Summit.
• Obama seemed to revel in the history of what he was witnessing in Myanmar -- a nation shedding years of military rule, and a relationship between two nations changing fast.
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