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6. HYUNDAI TO OFFER VEHICLE THAT RUNS ON HYDROGEN
The automaker plans to start selling the zero-emissions Tucson SUVs in Southern California next year and eventually spread to other areas as filling stations are built.
7. GETTYSBURG MARKS 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN ADDRESS
Historians and everyday Americans are revisiting the meaning of the speech and honoring the men who fought in the Civil War.
8. HOW MUCH THE DUELING DINO FOSSILS COULD FETCH
The nearly complete skeletons of a smaller relative of T. rex could be sold for up to $9 million in a New York City auction.
9. WHICH BROADWAY MUSICAL IS PACKING UP TO VEGAS
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which had a two year run, is the most expensive show ever in New York City history.
10. 2013's WORD OF THE YEAR: 'SELFIE'
The name for a smartphone self-portrait has burst from the confines of Instagram and Twitter into the mainstream, says Britain's Oxford University Press.
AP News in Brief
Twin suicide bombings near Iran Embassy in Beirut kill 23, including Iranian cultural attache
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two suicide bombings struck Tuesday near the Iranian Embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attachι.
The mid-morning blasts hit Beirut's upscale neighborhood of Janah, a stronghold of the Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group. One explosion blew out the large black main gate of the Iranian mission, damaging the three-story facility.
It was not immediately clear if the attack was related to the conflict next door in Syria, but attacks have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in recent months in what many see as retaliation by Sunni extremists for the militant Shiite group's role in the Syrian civil war.
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