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• 7. URUGUAY'S CONGRESS OK'S GOVERNMENT-RUN MARIJUANA MARKET
• The plan now awaits the signature of the country's president, who says he's convinced the global drug war is a failure.
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• 8. SCIENTISTS PLAN TRICKY RENDEZVOUS WITH COMET
• The European Space Agency is planning to land an unmanned spacecraft on a comet next year in an unprecedented mission.
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• 9. FAMILY DISPUTES POLICE CLAIMS IN SHOOTING DEATH
• The parents of a San Antonio university student shot and killed by a campus officer say the official account is inconsistent with their son's character.
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• 10. WHO WON'T BE SKATING AT SOCHI
• America's Evan Lysacek, the reigning Olympic figure skating champ, announces that a hip injury will keep him from competing.
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AP News in Brief
World leaders bow and pray before Nelson Mandela's flag-draped casket as he lies in state
• PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- World leaders bowed and prayed Wednesday before the flag-draped casket containing the body of Nelson Mandela, having a final look at the anti-apartheid icon in the amphitheater where he was sworn in 19 years earlier as South Africa's first black president.
• Some made the sign of the cross, others simply spent a few moments gazing at Mandela's face through a glass plane atop the coffin at the Union Buildings in South Africa's capital, Pretoria. Leaders like Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, South African President Jacob Zuma and others passed by the casket in two lines. Four junior naval officers in white uniforms kept watch. Celebrities like singer Bono of the band U2 also paid their respects. So did F.W. de Klerk, the last president of white rule who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela for ending the apartheid era.
• Mandela 's widow Graca Machel, his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and other family members also viewed his body.
• Some appeared lost for a moment looking down at Mandela. South Sudan's (Continued on page 26)
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