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(Reuters) – The best medical innovations for next year include an almond-size device that’s implanted in the mouth to relieve severe headaches and a hand-held scanner resembling a blow dryer that detects skin cancer, the Cleveland Clinic said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Some people liken a bad day at work to being in a war zone but for the photojournalists chronicled in HBO’s upcoming documentary series “Witness,” that’s not an exaggeration.

NEW YORK/SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.,  (Reuters) – Rescuers searched flooded homes for survivors, drivers lined up for hours to get scarce gasoline and millions remained without power yesterday as New York City and nearby towns struggled to recover from one of the biggest storms to hit the United States.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a rare if symbolic concession to Israel yesterday, saying he had no permanent claim on the town from which he was driven as a child during the 1948 war of the Jewish state’s founding.

BEIRUT – Rebels killed 28 Syrian army soldiers on Thursday in an attack on three checkpoints around the town of Saraqeb, which straddles the country’s main north-south highway, an opposition-linked group said.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown was given the go-ahead to carry out his European tour after a Los Angeles judge said yesterday that the entertainer was “in compliance” with probation imposed for his 2009 assault on former girlfriend Rihanna.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – With the future of thousands of immigrants at stake, the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York City and the sodden U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat in parliament yesterday after Conservatives rebelled over Europe, an issue that has divided his party for decades and helped bring down previous leaders.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, (Reuters) –  Authorities in the Dominican Republic yesterday arrested a former police colonel accused of being a “powerful drug trafficker” responsible for sending tons of cocaine to the United States.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. free trade agreement with Panama went into force yesterday, five years after it was originally negotiated, opening the way for increased U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Millions of people faced epic flooding and lengthy power outages yesterday after the massive storm Sandy wreaked havoc in much of the eastern United States with high winds and heavy rains.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.,  (Reuters) – In the first inventory of minerals on another planet, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity found soil that bears a striking resemblance to weathered, volcanic sand in Hawaii, scientists said yesterday.

ROCKAWAYS, New York,  (Reuters) – Just before dinner on Monday night, 75-year-old Bruce Bavasso was slugging back sambuca with his neighbors in a private beach community in the Rockaways in New York City.

(Reuters) – John F. Kennedy International and Newark Liberty Inter-national airports, two of the three main flying hubs for the busy New York City area, will reopen today morning with limited service, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said yesterday.

NEW YORK/REHOBOTH BEACH, Del (Reuters) – Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, roared ashore with fierce winds and heavy rain yesterday near the gambling resort of Atlantic City, forcing evacuations, shutting down transportation and interrupting the presidential campaign.

BEIRUT/AMMAN – Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus yesteday in what residents said were the capital’s fiercest air raids yet, at the end of what was supposed to be a four-day truce.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Sandy, which could become the largest storm ever to hit the United States, is set to bring much of the East Coast, including New York and Washington, to a virtual standstill in the next few days with battering winds, flooding and the risk of widespread power outages.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma intends to drop a four-year-old lawsuit claiming nearly $600,000 in damages from a cartoonist who depicted him poised to rape “Lady Justice”, his office said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – One-time British pop star Gary Glitter was arrested yesterday as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, the BBC said.