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• Legends from Paul McCartney to The Who sang to benefit Sandy victims, repeating performances from a 9/11 concert in 2001.
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• 6. INTERN IN U.S. SENATOR'S OFFICE ARRESTED
• Federal officials say the 18-year-old Peruvian is in the country illegally -- and is a registered sex offender.
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• 7. AN AILING PRESIDENT
• Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez may not recover from cancer surgery in time for his inauguration in January.
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• 8. CHANGING DIRECTION ON IPHONE
• Apple returned Google Maps' app to the iPhone after Apple's own mapping software caused widespread complaints.
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• 9. THE MOST QUAKE-PRONE TOWN
• More than 170 tremors were felt in five weeks in Navidad on the Chilean coast.
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• 10. HOW A FAN BUILT A HOUSE FOR BILBO BAGGINS
• Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's "Hobbit" books, a lifelong fan's Pennsylvania cottage uses 18th-century stone and a Spanish cedar, iron-hinged door.
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AP News in Brief
South Korea: North Korea's satellite orbiting normally after launch that drew condemnation
• PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A satellite North Korea launched aboard a long-range rocket is orbiting normally, South Korean officials said Thursday, following a defiant liftoff that drew a wave of international condemnation.
• Washington and its allies are pushing for punishment over the launch they say is nothing but a test of banned ballistic missile technology.
• The launch of a three-stage rocket -- similar in design to a model capable of carrying a nuclear-tipped warhead as far as California -- raises the stakes in the international standoff over North Korea's expanding atomic arsenal. As Pyongyang refines its technology, its next step may be conducting its third nuclear test, experts warn.
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