Beckham leaving LA Galaxy after title game

(CNN) -- Los Angeles Galaxy star David Beckham will be leaving the team after its MLS Cup game December 1, team officials announced Monday.

The famed English midfielder joined the Galaxy in 2007, raising the profile of Major League Soccer in the United States and helped lead the team to the league title in 2011. Monday's announcement comes 10 months after he signed a new two-year contract with the team, turning his back on a number of offers from leading European clubs.

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10 dead in Yemeni military plane crash

SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials say a military plane has crashed during training over the capital, Sanaa, killing all 10 people on board.

The officials say the Russian-made aircraft plunged from the sky and crashed Wednesday into an empty market in the heart of the Yemeni capital, destroying several shops.

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India executes last gunman from Mumbai attacks

New Delhi (CNN) -- India on Wednesday executed Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the last surviving gunman from the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 160 people, a government official said.

Kasab, a Pakistani, was hanged at Yerwada Jail in Pune, a city southeast of Mumbai, said K.S. Dhatwalia, a spokesman for the Indian home ministry. It was the first use of capital punishment in India in 12 years.

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Calm elusive as rockets rain in Gaza, Israel

Near the Israel-Gaza border (CNN) -- Hopes were briefly raised then dashed Tuesday for an imminent calm between Israel and Hamas as diplomats fervently sought a way to stop the deadly violence.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the region, where she met for more than two hours with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She is expected to meet later with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, who is working to broker a cease-fire.

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Gaza crisis: Israel to end attacks, says Egypt's Mursi

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, who is leading mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, says he expects Israel to end attacks on Gaza shortly.

A Hamas spokesman told the BBC a truce would come into effect late on Tuesday, following six days of Israeli air strikes and rocket attacks from Gaza.

Israel says it has put plans for a land invasion of Gaza on hold.
But it has also told villagers in north, south and east of Gaza to move to central areas for their own safety.

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Malaysian Police have 124 speed cameras worth RM23.5m, says Hisham

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 — The police have 124 units of speed trap cameras with each unit costing hundreds of thousands of ringgit, the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has told Parliament.

“...since 1995, PDRM has been supplied with speed trap cameras in stages. Up till now, the total of such cameras is 124 units.

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Anonymous leaks personal information of 5,000 Israeli officials

Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online.  ­The group used their Anonpaste.me site to address a message to the Israeli government before linking to the page with names, ID numbers and personal emails of 5,000 officials.

The message said: "It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and mistreating its own citizens and those of its neighboring countries." 

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Why Facebook's about to slow down (and that's probably good)

Your Facebook page is likely about to slow down. Good news: The change will help keep online thieves away. According to a recent blog post, Facebook is in the process of moving all of its users in North America -- and soon the rest of the world -- to a type of Internet connection that is more secure but also tends to slow down Web browsing a bit.

Called HTTPS, as opposed to less-secure HTTP, it's the connection you see on online retail sites when you're about to enter credit card information or a password. Sometimes a little lock icon appears in the browser window when you're connected to a site with HTTPS. (The "s," by the way, stands for "secure.")

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Pakistani court throws out blasphemy charges against Christian girl

A Pakistani court on Tuesday dismissed blasphemy charges against Rimsha Masih, a Christian teenager whose case prompted international outrage.

"She is a free woman, like any ordinary citizen," said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of Rimsha's lawyers. The high court in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad found that the accusations against her were legally unsound, he said.

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Rebels seize control of Goma amid clashes in Democratic Republic of Congo

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo took control Tuesday of the city of Goma, including its airport and the border with Rwanda, after days of clashes, a Congolese reporter on the ground said.

The M23 rebel group, which has been engaged in heavy fighting with Congolese army forces, has also taken control of the government radio station, said the reporter, who can't be named for security purposes.

 

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