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Reuters – President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic imbalances and the future of the yuan.

AP – Kosovo’s prime minister urged minority Serbs not to boycott the country’s first elections since independence from Serbia, calling the Sunday vote a key test for his new nation.

Manny Pacquiao proved without a doubt he is boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighter.

AFP – Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday buried hopes a key UN meeting next month would forge a binding pact to combat climate change, saying talks would drag on well past the Copenhagen meeting.

There’s no doubt which team is the best outside the BCS conference. TCU answered that question loud and clear. Andy Dalton and the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs pummeled No. 16 Utah to stake their claim as the team waiting to slide into the national championship game should any of the three teams ahead of them slip

A fight this week on the Lufkin High School campus and a separate altercation at a local church’s youth outreach ministry leads some to wonder what’s wrong with today’s youth. The Lufkin church, which preferred not to be mentioned by name, said because of the incident on campus it will re-evaluate how the outreach program is done. “We see violence on our campus sometimes, but it doesn’t originate on our campus. It’s usually people who are already at odds with one another,” a youth pastor said

CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN effective immediately. The longtime host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” said Wednesday on his show that it would be his last. He said CNN had allowed him to be released from his contact, which would enable him “to pursue new opportunities.”

After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post as he struggles to deal with heavy government oversight and restrictions on what the bailed-out company wants to pay employees, according to a published report.

RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive power failure blacked out Brazil’s two largest cities and other parts of Latin America’s biggest nation for more than two hours late Tuesday, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline. Paraguay was also affected when the Itaipu dam straddling the two nations’ border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at least several other big Brazilian cities, Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said.