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Also: New budget battle looms as the sequester takes effect; Secretary of State Kerry arrives in Saudi Arabia for talks on Syria; Catholic cardinals meet to decide when to vote for a new pope; the Iditarod sled dog race is underway.

Also: The Senate passes Sen. McCaskill's bill about sexual assaults in the military; author Joe McGinniss dies; and in Venezuela, a student leader is killed in anti-government clashes.

Also: Russia and U.S. hold "brainstorming session" on Syria; European Union officials accept Nobel Peace Prize; Barcelona's Lionel Messi sats new calendar-year record for goals.

Also: In video, commander of Syria's military police says he has defected; Egypt has a new constitution; gunman in Western New York left note saying that killing is "what I like doing best;" actors Jack Klugman and Charles Durning have died.

Also: A German magazine alleges the NSA infiltates some technology companies' data; a very strong cyclone will hit Australia; the home of the German ambassador to Greece is hit by gunfire; and Justice Sonia Sotomayor will push the ball drop in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Also: School clerk in Georgia credited with persuading gunman to surrender; Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to be sentenced; and a judge approves Kodak's exit from bankruptcy.

Also: Janet Yellen, nominated to head the Federal Reserve, speaks to a Senate panel today; a published report alleges misconduct by two Secret Service agents; a bomb partially explodes outside a federal office in Oregon; and a huge pink diamond is auctioned for $83 million.

Also: Ohio prison officials will investigate the suicide of kidnapper Ariel Castro; Tropical Storm Gabrielle forms south of Puerto Rico; judges in Chile apologize for "state abuse" under the Pinochet regime; and surprising cars that can be folded.

Also: Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez faces a hearing on a murder charge; a massive undersea volcano is discovered in the Pacific; and a British firm is sorry for making job applicants dance in their interviews.

Also: China launches a mission to the moon; officials in the Philippines increase the typhoon's death toll; Thailand's prime minister won't resign in face of continued protests; and the 12 Days of Christmas are more expensive thanks to the pricey "nine lords-a-leaping".