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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown had his probation revoked yesterday by a judge in Los Angeles after he was charged in a hit-and-run traffic accident last month.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – A US Army general pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he sexually assaulted a subordinate, the latest in a string of sexual misconduct allegations in the US military.

DEHRADUN, India,  (Reuters) – The pilgrims came seeking salvation and a place in heaven, but now their faces stare from banners and tatty flyers tacked to gates and walls of Indian villages and hill-towns.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper brought new, younger faces into his cabinet today after an expenses scandal dented the Conservative government’s popularity, but kept senior players such as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in place.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese police today accused British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc of channelling bribes to Chinese officials and doctors through travel agencies for six years to illegally boost sales and to raise the price of its medicines in the country.

SANFORD, Fla., (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called for calm yesterday after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, as thousands of civil rights demonstrators turned out at rallies to condemn racial profiling.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the army toppled the country’s elected president will hold high-level talks today in Cairo, where thousands of supporters of the ousted Islamist leader are expected to take to the streets.

 (Reuters Health) – Eating fewer than five servings of fruit and vegetables each day is linked with a higher chance of dying early, according to a large study from Sweden.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actress Halle Berry and French actor Olivier Martinez were married over the weekend in France, her representative said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Canadian actor Cory Monteith, 31-year-old heartthrob of Fox’s musical comedy television series “Glee”, was found dead on Saturday in his Vancouver hotel room, police said.

 (Reuters) – Bollywood’s most famous villain Pran died in a Mumbai hospital on Friday after prolonged illness.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The mighty minions of “Despicable Me 2” beat human comedy star Adam Sandler’s new “Grown Ups 2” at the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling secretly posed as a retired military policeman to write a crime novel that has been hailed as one of the best debut detective stories in years.

SANFORD, Fla.,  (Reuters) – A Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman on Saturday for the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, setting free a man who had become a polarizing figure in the national debate over racial profiling and self-defense laws.

PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) – Dozens of people were trampled at Spain’s San Fermin bull run on Saturday when they were trapped at the narrow entrance to the bullring with the bulls that had been chasing them.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt announced a criminal investigation yesterday against deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, with prosecutors saying they were examining complaints of spying, inciting violence and ruining the economy.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Fugitive former US spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States’ “worst nightmare” if revealed, a journalist familiar with the data said in a newspaper interview.

(Reuters) – Violence flared for a second night around traditional Orange Day parades in Northern Ireland, with police coming under attack from petrol bombs, fireworks, stones and bottles and responding with water cannon.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has abruptly cancelled plans to build its largest uranium processing plant in a southern Chinese city, a day after hundreds of protesters took to the streets demanding the project be scrapped, a local government website said yesterday.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Seven peacekeepers were killed and 17 wounded when they came under heavy fire from gunmen in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region today, the peacekeeping force said, the worst toll from a single incident since their deployment in 2008.