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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP)—Ed Wang(notes) wants to make it big in China. To do so, the Buffalo Bills rookie offensive tackle knows he first has to make his mark in the NFL. At 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds, Wang is already turning heads and upending stereotypes by becoming the first player with direct Chinese ancestry to be selected in the NFL draft last month. The son of former athletes in the Chinese Olympic program was selected in the fifth round out of Virginia Tech, realizing a childhood dream instilled by his disciplinarian parents growing up in Virginia. They prepared him well...

When EMTs arrived at Michael Jackson's home yesterday, the medics wanted to pronounce him dead on the scene -- but Michael's personal doctor refused to let them "call it" -- this according to sources close to the situation. When EMTs arrived there was evidence someone had been performing CPR on Michael for "quite some time." There was evidence of Lidocaine -- an old-school drug that can be used to treat disturbances in the heart's rhythm. Medics took over performing CPR but determined Jackson was lifeless -- and wanted to call the coroner to pick up the body. We're told Jackson...

For the past month the United States has worked urgently to end the violence that Hezbollah and its sponsors have imposed on the people of Lebanon and Israel. At the same time, we have insisted that a truly effective cease-fire requires a decisive change from the status quo that produced this war. Last Friday we took an important step toward that goal with the unanimous passage of U.N. Resolution 1701. Now the difficult, critical task of implementation begins.

The issue of Tibet is no longer a problem between China and India though Beijing wants the Dalai Lama to give up his "separatist movement" and the desire to "govern", Chinese Ambassador Sun Yuxi has said. Interacting with media persons, Ambassador Sun said a joint declaration made during then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to China in 2003 had resolved the Tibet issue by recognising it "as an integral part of China". Noting that "Tibet used to be an issue between China and India", Sun said the joint declaration had also asserted that the "Indian government will not allow...