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• 6. WHERE CULTURE OF "ANYTHING GOES" ON THE ROAD IS BEING REINED IN
• Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is installing stoplights, road signs for the first time in effort to end traffic lawlessness.
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• 7. WHAT IS WORSE THAN SNOW FALLING FROM THE SKY
• City dwellers dealing with icicles, chunks of frozen snow raining down from skyscrapers. Architects say energy-efficient new buildings may be the worst.
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• 8. NEW PRESIDENT WANTS TO SAVE IRAN'S BIGGEST LAKE
• The tourist attraction and rest stop for birds has shrunk 80 percent in a decade because of expanded irrigation and construction of dams.
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• 9. READ OUR 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT POWERBALL JACKPOT
• Here's one: The odds of winning tonight's $400 million drawing, which are 1-in-175 million, don't change as the jackpot grows.
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• 10. JIMMY FALLON'S DEBUT A RATINGS WINNER FOR NBC
• "The Tonight Show" drew 11.3 million viewers Monday night, but fell short of the 14.6 million when Jay Leno signed off Feb. 6
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AP News in Brief
Ukraine Health Ministry: 25 killed, 241 hospitalized after night of clashes in Kiev
• KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- As thick black smoke rose from the barricades encircling the protest camp in central Kiev on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president blamed opposition leaders for the deadly violence that erupted between riot police and protesters in the capital in which at least 25 people died and 241 were injured.
• Thousands of defiant protesters faced rows of riot police who have squeezed them deeper into the Kiev's Independence Square, known as the Maidan, which has been a bastion for protesters, after overnight clashes that set buildings on fire and brought sharp rebuke from both the West and Russia.
• The violence on Tuesday was the worst in nearly three months of anti-government protests that have paralyzed Ukraine's capital in a struggle over the identity of a nation divided in loyalties between Russia and the West, and the worst (Continued on page 33)
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