Scoreboard today in the third one-day international between Sri Lanka and England at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium:
Kusal Perera c Morgan b Finn 0
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Buttler b Finn 23 Kumar Sangakkara c Ali b Jordan 63
Thilina Kandamby c Jordan b Woakes 0
Angelo Mathews c Buttler b Jordan 37
Lahiru Thirimanne not out 62
Jeevan Mendis c Finn b Root 12
Thisara Perera c Ali b Woakes 8
Dhammika Prasad st Buttler b Bopara 21
Rangana Herath not out 2
Extras: (4lb, 10w) 14
TOTAL: (for 8 wickets) 242
Overs: 35
Did not bat: Ajantha Mendis.
Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-30, 3-31, 4-118, 5-150, 6-175, 7-202, 8-233
Bowling: Steven Finn 7-0-42-1, Chris Woakes 7-0-41-3, Moeen Ali 7-0-36-0, Chris Jordan 7-0-46-2, Ravi Bopara 3-0-24-1, Ben Stokes 2-0-28-0, Joe Root 2-0-21-1.
England: Alastair Cook (captain), Moeen Ali, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Jos Buttler, Chris Woakes, Ravi Bopara, Ben Stokes, Steven Finn, Chris Jordan.
Umpires: Simon Fry, Australia, and Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Sri Lanka.
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A Palestinian stabbed two Israelis today in a supermarket in the West Bank before a private security guard shot him, Israeli police said.
	Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a 16-year-old Palestinian entered the supermarket in Mishor Adumim, east of Jerusalem, and stabbed two Israeli shoppers. Samri said the two shoppers, in their 50s, were moderately wounded and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem.
	The security guard shot the attacker in the legs and police later arrested him, Samri said.
	The stabbing attack continues Israel's worst-sustained bout of violence in nearly a decade.
	Over the past month, 11 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks, including five people who were killed with guns and meat cleavers in a bloody assault on a Jerusalem synagogue.
	Most of the violence has occurred in Jerusalem, though there have been other attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank.

Israeli police: Palestinian stabs 2 in West Bank

Kumar Sangakkara and Lahiru Thirimanne scored half centuries as Sri Lanka posted a formidable 242-8 in 35 overs against England in a rain-shortened third one-day international today.
	Electing to bat first, Sri Lanka lost Kusal Perera for a duck in the second over, just before rain interrupted the match, which was shortened to 35 overs per side at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium.
	Sangakkara made 63 off 62 deliveries after Sri Lanka was reduced to 31-3. With his second half-century of the series, he and captain Angelo Mathews, 37, added 87 for the fourth wicket.
	Thirimanne upped the run rate in the death overs with 62 off 47 deliveries, as 62 runs were plundered off the last five overs. It was his third half-century in his last five ODIs.
	Tailender Dhammika Prasad hit 21 off eight deliveries. Seamer Chris Woakes was the pick of the bowlers with 3-41.

SLanka post tough 242-8 vs England in 3rd ODI

After only two months in office, Sweden's prime minister today said he will call for new elections to be held on March 22 next year.
	Social Democrat Stefan Lofven announced the decision after lawmakers rejected his left-leaning minority government's first budget proposal.
	A far-right party sided with the center-right opposition to vote against the budget with the aim of toppling the coalition that took office in October. 182 lawmakers voted against the budget in Parliament today, while only 153 voted in favor.
	Lofven needs to wait until December 29 to officially call for the new elections according to rules set out in Sweden's Constitution.
	The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats' move to rebel against the budget proposal was considered a major political breakthrough for the group that became the country's third-largest party in the 349-seat Parliament in September's general elections.
	Lofven became prime minister in October as head of a coalition with the Greens, promising to ...

Swedish premier to call for new vote on March 22

The UN nuclear agency says it will need an extra USD 5.7 million from members to fund extended intensive monitoring of Iran's nuclear program.
	The International Atomic Energy Agency specifies that amount in a confidential note dated today and shared with The Associated Press.
	IAEA chief Yukiya Amano is expected to ask the agency's 35 board members during a December 11 meeting for contributions to pay for further policing of Iran's compliance with an interim agreement capping nuclear programs that could be turned to military uses.
	A comprehensive accord will replace that deal signed a year ago by Iran and six world powers. But newly extended talks failed to reach agreement last month, and the interim deal was extended.
	Iran denies any interest in nuclear arms.

IAEA needs millions more for Iran monitoring

The head of UNESCO says she's calling on the UN Security Council to adopt a ban on the illicit trafficking of cultural objects from conflict zones in Iraq and Syria.
	Irina Bokova told The Associated Press the trafficking of objects obtained through illegal excavations in both countries is an industry worth between USD 7 billion and USD 15 billion. Bokova hosted an international conference Wednesday at the Paris headquarters of the UN cultural agency to find solutions to preserving endangered heritage, attended by the UN's representatives for Syria and Iraq.
	She says that it's critical to stop artifacts being sold in world auction houses since "extremists (are) using this money to fund their activities."
	She listed Syria's Aleppo and Iraq's Sufi Sheiks tombs as particular concerns.

UNESCO wants ban on Iraq, Syria art trafficking

With temperature data showing 2014 currently tied for the hottest year on record, the UN weather agency today rejected claims that global warming has paused.
	The World Meteorological Organisation said the global average temperature in January-October was 0.57 Celsius (1.03 Fahrenheit) above average, the same as in record hot year 2010.
	The ocean temperature set a new record in the nine-month period, while land temperatures were the fourth or fifth highest since record-keeping began in the 19th century, the WMO said in a report released at UN climate talks in Lima and at its headquarters in Geneva.
	"The provisional information for 2014 means that 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said in a statement. "There is no standstill in global warming."
	Climate skeptics point to a perceived hiatus in the temperature rise since 1998, an exceptionally hot year, to support their claims that man-made warming is not a 

UN weather agency: 2014 on track for hottest year

An American couple cleared of charges in their adopted daughter's death left the Gulf Arab nation today, leaving behind them a nearly two-year saga that climaxed with a court ruling absolving them of any wrongdoing.
	The Los Angeles couple, Matthew and Grace Huang, caught international attention after they were arrested in January 2013 on murder charges following the death in Qatar of their 8-year-old daughter Gloria, who was born in Ghana.
	Throughout the case, the family's representative continuously expressed concern that there were cultural misunderstandings underpinning the charges against them.
	Western-style adoptions and cross-cultural families are relatively rare in Qatar, which hosts an important American military air operations center near Doha that is involved in airstrikes against the Islamic State group.
	The Huangs, of Asian descent, have two other African-born adopted children who left the Qatar during the trial to live with relatives in the US.
	The case drew ...

US couple cleared in daughter's death leave Qatar

Thirty-five cities from Accra, Ghana, to Wellington, New Zealand, are being recognised by the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation for their ideas on physical, social and economic resilience.
	The foundation announced the latest winners of its 100 Resilient Cities contest in conjunction with a summit today in Singapore. The foundation has committed USD 100 million to the effort, with the idea that the 100 eventual winners will become models for other cities around the world.
	Chosen from nearly 350 applications spanning over 90 countries, this year's winners are as far north as Montreal and as far south as Sydney. The United States is most represented, with six cities in the continental US and one in Puerto Rico, but there also are multiple selections in China and India.
	The foundation will finance a "chief resilience officer" position for each city to address challenges that could range from increasing threats of flooding to growing strains on health systems. The cities also will ..

35 'resilient cities' named in foundation contest

International Criminal Court judges today ordered prosecutors to indicate within a week whether the trial of Kenya's president can start or if all charges against him should be dropped.
	The order could signal the impending end of the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is charged with involvement in deadly violence that erupted after his country's 2007 presidential elections.
	Prosecutors have, in the past, acknowledged that their evidence is not strong enough to proceed to trial and have accused Kenyan authorities of failing to cooperate with their investigations.
	Kenyatta is charged as an "indirect co-perpetrator" with murder, deportation, rape, persecution and inhumane acts allegedly carried out during violence that left more than 1,000 people dead after the 2007 election. Kenyatta insists he is innocent.
	The case against him has been beset by problems and delays, with prosecution witnesses refusing to testify or recanting their statements.
	The prosecution asked judges ..

ICC judges issue ultimatum in Kenya president case

A car bomb planted by al-Qaida militants today exploded near the home of Iran's ambassador to Yemen, killing two people amid a Shiite power grab in the impoverished Arab country believed to be supported by the Islamic Republic.
	Iran's ambassador to Yemen, Hossein Niknam, was not at home when the bomb exploded at the residence in the capital, Sanaa, killing a security guard and his son, security officials said.
	The blast heavily damaged several nearby buildings and punched a hole into the residence. An Iranian flag later lay on the debris.
	The Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief journalists.
	Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that the ambassador was unharmed.
	"The Sanaa explosion didn't harm any Iranian diplomats. Only material damage was inflicted," Tasnim quoted Abdollahian as saying.
	Niknam is new to the post and only presented his credentials to the Yemeni ...

2 killed in bombing by home of Iran's Yemen envoy

A defiant Takata Corp. Told a US safety agency that its demand for a nationwide air bag recall isn't supported by evidence, and the government doesn't have authority to tell a parts maker to do a recall.
	The company laid out its position in a letter yesterday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration obtained by The Associated Press that rejected the agency's demand for a recall.
	It sets the stage for a confrontation at a House subcommittee hearing on the matter this morning.
	In a statement, NHTSA called Takata's response "disappointing" and said it will review the response to determine the agency's next steps.
	A week ago, the agency threatened civil fines and legal action if Takata didn't declare the driver's air bag inflators defective and agree to the recall. It can impose fines of up to USD 35 million.
	The inflators can explode with too much force, spewing shrapnel into the passenger compartment. At least five deaths and dozens of injuries have been linked to the .

Takata: Evidence doesn't support national recall

A railway linking landlocked Central Asia with the Persian Gulf was officially inaugurated today in a ceremony at a remote train station on the border of Iran and Turkmenistan.
	The the presidents of Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan attended the official opening of the line in the Turkmen frontier village of Ak-Yayla. Children handed white gloves to the leaders, together bolted a final golden-colored segment of track into place.
	The 928-kilometre route, which runs from western Kazakhstan to the northern Iranian city of Gorgan, will substantially speed the movement of cargo between a long-isolated region and markets in the Middle East and Asia.
	The railway fits into a broader multinational effort to build a network of transportation links to ease the movement of freight in Western Europe, Russia, South Asia and the Far East.
	A video presentation illustrated the point by explaining that travel time between the ports of Lianyungang in China and Bandar Abbas in Iran will be shortened .

Rail linking Central Asia to Persian Gulf opened

The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains about half of the specimens the university had in a collection of brains preserved in jars of formaldehyde.
	One of the missing brains is believed to have belonged to clock tower sniper Charles Whitman.
	"We think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure," psychology Professor Tim Schallert, co-curator of the collection, told the Austin American-Statesman.
	His co-curator, psychology Professor Lawrence Cormack, said, "It's entirely possible word got around among undergraduates and people started swiping them for living rooms or Halloween pranks."
	The Austin State Hospital had transferred the brains to the university about 28 years ago under a "temporary possession" agreement.
	Schallert said his psychology lab had room for only 100 brains, so the rest were moved to the basement of the university's Animal Resources Center.
	"They are no longer in the basement," Cormack said.
	The university said 

About 100 brains missing from University of Texas

IBM has engineered a way for everyone to join the fight against Ebola by donating processing time on their personal computers, phones or tablets to researchers.
	IBM has teamed with scientists at Scripps Research Institute in southern California on a project that aims to combine the power of thousands of small computers, to each attack tiny pieces of a larger medical puzzle that might otherwise require a supercomputer to solve.
	"This could let us do in months what it would otherwise take years and years to do," said Erica Ollmann Saphire, a biomedical researcher at Scripps.
	The idea isn't new: Several universities and research institutes have used so-called distributed computing to tackle complex problems.
	For the last 10 years IBM has sponsored a project called World Community Grid, in which volunteers agree to download software that takes advantage of unused processing capacity on their devices. About 680,000 individuals in 80 countries have enrolled in the IBM program, said IBM .

IBM helps you donate computer power to fight Ebola

The nominee to become the next commander of US forces in the Pacific says the time isn't right to expand nascent military ties with Myanmar as the Southeast Asian nation remains "firmly under military control."
	That's an unusually stark assessment from a US official of the state of reforms in Myanmar. Adm Harry Harris Jr was responding in writing to policy questions posed for his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday.
	Myanmar's shift from direct military rule toward a more democratic system was meant to be a crowning foreign policy achievement for President Barack Obama. Restrictions have eased in the past three years, but there's been no change to a junta-era constitution. Obama acknowledged on a visit last month that reforms have slowed or even moved backward.
	The administration has argued that US military engagement with Myanmar officers could encourage them to submit to civilian rule, but interaction has been very limited to date, going little beyond seminars on rule of law and 

Myanmar 'under military control' says US admiral

Mexico's most corruption-plagued municipal police forces would be replaced by state police within two years under a bill President Enrique Pena Nieto has submitted to Congress.
	Municipal police in the states of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Jalisco and Michoacan would be placed under state control quickly, because "these are the states most urgently in need of attention," according to the bill submitted late Monday.
	In September, a drug cartel-infiltrated municipal police force in the Guerrero state city of Iguala detained 43 students and turned them over to the gang, which reportedly killed them.
	The city's mayor and many of his police officers have been arrested. In the northern border state of Tamaulipas, many municipal police forces have already been effectively dissolved, because they were unable to face up to warring drug cartels or had been coopted by them.
	In Michoacan, civilian vigilantes were invited to join a state rural police force that has taken over security duties in many .

Mexican president submits police reform bill

NASA has a new state-of-the-art space capsule on the launch pad and a new high-tech countdown clock to go with it.
	The multimedia display was lit up today and counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until Thursday morning's liftoff of Orion on an unmanned orbital test flight. It's the nation's first new spacecraft intended for true outer-space travel by humans since the Apollo moon program.
	What better way to usher in this new era of exploration, NASA reasoned, than with the latest flat-screen gizmo.
	So last week, down came the countdown clock that dated back to the Apollo 12 moon shot in 1969 and signaled every space shuttle launch for 30 years. And up went the new display in the same exact spot at the Kennedy Space Center press site that, along with the nearby flag pole, had once earned national historic designation.
	The new clock is just as long at 26 feet (almost 8 meters), but a foot taller at 7 feet (2 meters).
	NASA spokesman George Diller said the old clock, while ...

NASA gets new countdown clock just in time

NATO nations today agreed to bolster its defenses against Russian aggression, continuing the military alliance's return to its founding mission by focusing on nearby threats as it steps back from more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan.
	The 28 member countries approved a new interim quick-reaction military force to protect themselves from Russia or other threats, with an initial unit to be up and running on Jan. 1, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. The interim force will be supplanted in 2016 by a permanent one, Stoltenberg said.
	"We are protecting our allies and supporting our partners," Stoltenberg told reporters at an annual meeting of NATO's foreign ministers.
	US Secretary of State John Kerry urged diplomats from other nations to contribute their fair share to the alliance, noting "we can't have 21st century security on the cheap."
	It was likely to be the last meeting of foreign ministers who oversaw the International Security Assistance Force, made up largely .

NATO steps up to Russia, but back from Afghanistan

A Kenyan court has jailed a paraplegic American man for 50 years after he pleaded guilty to charges of sexual abuse of minors and child pornography.
	Magistrate Joseph Karanja delivered the sentence to Terry Ray Krieger, 59, describing Kreiger's actions as depraved and horrific. Karanja says Krieger robbed his victims of their childhood.
	Krieger had previously served a 13-year jail term in the US after on similar charges.
	Krieger was found guilty of abusing a three-year-old boy and six- year-old girl who were his neighbors in Kenya. He then distributed the images.

US man jailed for 50 years in Kenya for pedophilia

Rolling Stones' saxophone player Bobby Keys, who also performed on recordings with John Lennon and Eric Clapton, has died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 70 years old.
	Michael Webb, who played keyboard with Keys, said Keys died today after a lengthy illness. Keys had been out on tour with the Stones earlier this year before his health prevented him from performing.
	"The Rolling Stones are devastated by the loss of their very dear friend and legendary saxophone player, Bobby Keys," the band said in a statement. "Bobby made a unique musical contribution to the band since the 1960s. He will be greatly missed."
	Originally from Texas, Keys started playing with Buddy Holly and The Crickets and went on to become a top session and touring musician.

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