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Paula Kerger, the president of PBS, said in Pasadena, Calif., that the British series Downton Abbey will continue to begin its new seasons on PBS in January, despite airing months earlier in the United Kingdom.

U.S. Rep. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican first elected to Congress in 2010, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat left open by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, who is battling cancer and said last week that he will resign at the end of this congressional session.

Earl Ray Tomblin, the Democratic governor of West Virginia, and Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin proposed tighter regulations for chemical storage facilities after a spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 people.

Frankie Valli, 79, the 1960s singer famed for his falsetto, has canceled a concert in Bangkok this week because of Thailand’s political unrest, the event’s promoter announced.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada was heckled by two Arab lawmakers ato Israel’s parliament as Harper was condemning efforts to boycott the Jewish state and denouncing people who “disgracefully” call it an apartheid state.

Yoshihide Suga, a Japanese government spokesman, defended an annual dolphin hunt after U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy tweeted that she was deeply concerned by the inhumanity of the practice.

Chris Rennard, 53, a member of the House of Lords in Britain, was suspended from the Liberal Democrats party after he refused a suggestion that he apologize to women who have accused him of sexual harassment.

Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean who turns 90 next month, attended a memorial service for his 78-year-old sister, Bridget, who died after being critically ill for several years.

Mary Carmen Garcia, 27, and Daniel Guardiola Dominguez, 28, both of Monterrey, Mexico, were arrested at the Texas border with 96 fraudulent credit cards, said McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez, who added the cards were used to spend thousands of dollars at stores such as Best

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