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• 7. PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR BLASPHEMY
• A court convicted the man and sentenced him to execution in a case that sparked a riot last year in the eastern city of Lahore.
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• 8. US GOVERNMENT: AUTISM UP 30 PERCENT
• Much of the increase is believed due to the fact that doctors are diagnosing autism more frequently, especially in children with milder problems.
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• 9. MAN WHO SHOT SAILOR WAS CONVICTED FELON
• The Virginia truck driver served prison time for manslaughter and drugs, but it's still unclear what led him onto the Navy base earlier this week.
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• 10. TIGERS AGREE TO RECORD SALARY FOR MIGUEL CABRERA
• The Detroit team will pay the Triple Crown winner $292 million over the next 10 years, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
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AP News in Brief
Australia says planes now searching in new area for signs of Malaysian airliner
• PERTH, Australia (AP) -- The search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner moved 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast on Friday, as Australian officials said a new analysis of radar data suggests the plane had flown faster and therefore ran out of fuel more quickly than previously estimated.
• That means searchers have concluded that hundreds of floating objects detected over the last week by satellite, previously considered possible wreckage, weren't from the plane after all. But there are advantages to the new search area: It's closer to land and has calmer weather than the old one.
• Nine planes were to fly over the new search area Friday and six ships were headed there, said John Young, manager of Australian Maritime Safety Authority emergency response division. "We have moved on" from the previous search area, he said.
• AMSA said the change in search areas came from new information based on continuing analysis of the radar data received soon after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (Continued on page 36)
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