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  • India successfully tested a long-range missile Thursday. The rocket is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead as far away as Beijing, and is seen as part of India's nuclear deterrent against the Chinese.
  • A battle-of-the-sexes comedy adapts Steve Harvey's self-help book Act Like A Lady, Think Like a Man, illustrating the comedian's words of wisdom with familiar dating situations and stereotypes. NPR's Bob Mondello says it's part rom-com, part infomercial, but with a pleasantly broad sitcom vibe.
  • The St. Cuthbert Gospel was buried alongside its titular saint in the late seventh century, making it Europe's oldest intact book. After a massive fundraising campaign, the British Library acquired the handwritten, leather-bound tome, which is in surprisingly good condition.
  • Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper division is accused of phone hacking and bribing police officers. That scandal has already cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Now News Corp. is fending off media reports that a specialized unit engaged in industrial espionage on behalf of the company's global satellite and cable TV operations.
  • Bob Marley, who was only 36 when he died in 1981, could be a dusty musical footnote by now. Instead, the enormous popularity of this transcendent reggae superstar shows no sign of going away, and Marley, a moving and authoritative new documentary, explains why.
  • Earlier this week, two women took a new approach to raising awareness about Syria's crackdown. The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the United Nations appealed directly to Syria's first lady with a video on YouTube. The narrator calls on Asma Assad to "stop being a bystander" — and to stop her husband and his supporters from continuing the conflict.
  • The Post published a photo of Gov. Chris Christie at a Bruce Springsteen concert. His head was back, his eyes closed and the Post said he fell asleep. The governor insists he was just listening.
  • Crop insurance is a sticky issue in the debate over the shape of the farm bill this year. But what if a simplified version of the program could save taxpayers billions of dollars? One economist says it could.
  • The plane reported had 127 people aboard and crashed in bad weather near the capital's international airport.
  • If bail is granted, Zimmerman's attorneys are likely to ask for him to be allowed to move out of the area for his own protection.
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