MONTREAL – Flamboyant middleweight (Filthy) Tom Lawlor stole the show Thursday at public workouts for UFC 154, staging a mock sumo tournament wearing an adult diaper.
Analysis: Both sides talk compromise on fiscal cliff, without significant new concessions yet
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama greets congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, an elaborate set of postelection rituals will be complete. Yet divided government’s ability to attack the nation’s economic woes is no clearer now than it has been for months.
Juanes, Juan Luis Guerra poised to shine at 13th annual Latin Grammy Awards
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Colombian rocker Juanes could become the most decorated Latin Grammy winner when the 13th annual Latin Grammy Awards are presented in Las Vegas. He’s up for four awards, and three victories would break the record held by Calle 13.
Israel and Hamas battle on social media as well
The hostilities between Israel and Hamas have found a new battleground: social media. Myanmar's Thein Sein, junta henchman to radical reformer
BANGKOK (Reuters) – There is a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality to President Thein Sein, the bookish-looking former general Barack Obama will meet on Monday during the first visit by a U.S. president to Myanmar. Thein Sein has been both a dictator's henchman and a man widely seen as a Nobel Peace Prize contender. He rose to power in a rabidly anti-American military junta, yet spearheaded its efforts to build better relations with the United States. His past remains opaque, even as he leads Myanmar into a new era of transparency after nearly five decades of dictatorship. … UK's Cameron urged to follow Harper's lead on Sri Lanka rights abuses
OTTAWA – British Prime Minister David Cameron is being urged to follow Stephen Harper’s example and threaten to boycott next year’s Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Sri Lanka.
London black cab maker resolves steering defect
LONDON (Reuters) – PricewaterhouseCoopers, administrators to Manganese Bronze Holdings Plc, said on Thursday it had found a solution to the steering box defect affecting its new TX4 model. The maker of London's black taxi, which has been reporting lo sses since 2008, recalled about 400 TX4 London taxis last month after it found a defect in a steering box that was introduced in February. PwC said it had secured supply chain availability and logistics from a UK supplier to begin replacing the faulty steering boxes, which it aims to have completed by mid-December. … Egypt Islamist leader cautious on Gaza crisis
Egypt's Islamist president may hail from the fiercely anti-Israeli Muslim Brotherhood, an a lly of Gaza's Hamas rulers. But in his first major crisis over Israel, he is adopting a stance not unlike that of his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak, Israel's longtime friend. Marijuana law introduced to Uruguay congress
Uruguay is one step closer to turning the government into the country's leading pot dealer. 
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