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• Obama has 'complete confidence' in Clinton
  President-elect Barack Obama today announced Sen. Hillary Clinton as his pick for secretary of state, calling her an "American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence." Obama also confirmed that he is keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post.
  
• Commentary: Why Bill Clinton is smiling
  Many observers use historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's term, "A Team of Rivals," to describe the cabinet that President-elect Barack Obama is assembling.
  
• Pakistan: Mourning India talking out of anger
  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told Pakistan it expects complete cooperation in finding the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks in neighboring India.
  
• Boy, 13, hasn't been told many kin died
  As the boy, 13, looks up from his Mumbai hospital bed, his adult brother rests his hand on the boy's forehead, almost shielding him from the pain he does not yet know -- much of his family was killed in Wednesday's terrorist attacks.
  
• Commentary: Mumbai inspired by al Qaeda?
  The Indian media have described the Mumbai terrorist siege as India's 9/11.
  
• Papers: U.S. let Saddam gas Kurds for farm deal
  They share a deep sorrow: an idealistic American who tried to protect the Kurds of Iraq, a Canadian general who refused to follow orders in Rwanda, a French priest who fought for the soul of Cambodia. Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem.
  
• Player who shot himself surrenders to police
  New York Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress was charged Monday with criminal possession of the weapon he shot himself in the leg with last week.
  
• DNA links man to TV anchor's death, police say
  DNA evidence links a man in custody to the killing of a 26-year-old Arkansas television news anchor, police say.
  
• Luxury cruise ship outruns pirates
  A 30,000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend, the ship's owner said Monday.
  

• Holidays challenges for those with eating issues
  Kris Shock pulled a tray of sugar cookies from the oven and sat down with her son to frost them. Then, she did something that might have been unthinkable for her a few years ago: she took a bite. Shock, like millions of people across the country, is recovering from an eating disorder; long holiday seasons often present a mine-field of challenges. But there are strategies to get through them.
  
• AIDS in 2008: Much accomplished, much to do
  When we commemorated the first World AIDS Day on December 1, 1988, we had little to celebrate.
  
• Robots that fetch could help disabled at home
  It took Norma Margeson a few minutes to learn to control the skinny metal robot. But instead of viewing it as a machine, she soon warmed up to it as a companion.
  
• FDA sets 'safe' melamine levels in baby formula
  After first saying that they could not determine a threshold for the safe amount of certain toxic chemicals in infant formula, Food and Drug Administration officials said Friday that trace amounts are safe.
  
• 7 ways to help your baby fall asleep
  Naptime at our house used to be a recurring mystery: When would Lucy go down today? When I could no longer stand the suspense, I'd plop her in her car seat, where she'd anticlimactically drift off like it was no big deal. I was willing to do whatever worked. If you've ever experienced naptime drama, Parenting.com brings you mom and expert help.
  
• Hand gels: Are they replacing soap and water?
  If you've ever shaken someone's hand, only to watch them slather themselves with hand sanitizer afterwards, you're not alone.
  
• Barbara Bush out of ICU after surgery
  Former first lady Barbara Bush was moved out of the intensive care unit of a Houston, Texas, hospital into a regular room Thursday after surgery to repair and seal a perforated ulcer, a hospital spokeswoman said.
  
• Newer heart test may not be better
  An expensive CT scan that uses multiple X-rays to produce spectacular 3-D images of the heart can't replace tried-and-true coronary angiography for finding blocked blood vessels in chest-pain patients, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  

• Review: Britney's 'Circus' needs more truth
  Britney Spears is making a habit of putting out albums with titles that promise more self-revelation than she's ultimately able to provide. "Circus," her latest, could use some of the bracing honesty she brings to some songs.
  
• De Niro bites the hand that feeds him
  Hollywood producer Art Linson wrote a book about his experiences in Tinseltown. Robert De Niro thought it was hilarious. The film, "What Just Happened?", rips the film industry mercilessly.
  
• Red Carpet Close-up: Jonases in Vegas?
  
  
• 'Four Christmases' debuts in No. 1 slot
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• What's next for 'Twilight'?
  The first movie to be adapted from Stephenie Meyer's breakout hit -- about the chaste romance between rebel vampire Edward and a shy high school girl named Bella -- left many, if not all, of the author's fans in a state of religious ecstasy. Plans for the next installment, "New Moon," are under way.
  
• Il Divo spreads 'popera' across the world
  Yet another scale Il Divo has mastered: scaling the heights of success. The group is the brainchild of "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, who saw a potential market for an international, "popera"-style act after the success of the Andrea Bocelli-Sarah Brightman duet "Time to Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro)."
  

• Making your family trips greener
  Travelers say they want to travel greener, even if it costs them more. That resolve seems to crumble the minute they're in a hotel, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here are tips to make your vacation "green."
  
• Luxury cruise ship outruns pirates
  A 30,000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend, the ship's owner said Monday.
  
• Snapshots: Dazzling national parks
  iReporters submitted their favorite vacation photos from national parks, and we chose 25 great shots. Please submit your snapshots for next week's visual tour of New York City.
  
• Rental car delay, charged for extra day
  When Larry Chan returns his Hertz rental car late, he doesn't expect the $66 charge that he finds two weeks later on his credit card bill. But there it is: an extra day's rental charge. What now? Should he appeal the decision? And what about the reason he was late in the first place -- is that relevant at all?
  
• Witnessing the power of faith in Portugal
  In what might be mistaken for a God-forsaken corner of central Portugal, tens of thousands witnessed an apparition -- and the lonely little town of Fatima became a major pilgrimage site for Catholics.
  
• Native Americans fighting ignorance at Plimoth
  Modern-day pilgrims to Plimoth Plantation have much curiosity about life in the re-creation of an English village from the 1600s and a Native American homesite. But some of the thousands of people who visit daily to get a glimpse of how the first colonials existed and created the Thanksgiving tradition bring with them misconceptions about the Native people.
  
• Five ways to avoid germs while traveling
  That sneezing lady in Seat 15B -- what's she got? And how many sick people have touched that escalator handrail before you? Welcome to the busiest travel season of the year -- and the germiest, since it happens to fall during cold and flu season. In this week's Empowered Patient, CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen gives you holiday season germ survival tips.
  

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