Friday, November 8, 2013

10 Things to Know for Friday

Cameramen film as the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off Thursday from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)







Cameramen film as the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off Thursday from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)







Twitter signage is draped on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 in New York. Twitter set a price of $26 per share for its initial public offering on Wednesday evening and will begin trading Thursday under the ticker symbol "TWTR" in the most highly anticipated IPO since Facebook's 2012 debut. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)







Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin talks to the media before Billy Graham's 95th birthday party at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C., Thursday Nov. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/The Asheville Citizen-Times, Erin Brethauer) NO SALES







Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. SAY GOODBYE TO TRANS FATS

The FDA announces that it is requiring the food industry to phase them out.

2. WHAT'S A SIGN THAT IRAN TALKS ARE PROGRESSING

Kerry is flying to Geneva to join the negotiations aimed at restricting the Iranians' nuclear activities.

3. TYPHOON SLAMS THE PHILIPPINES

It's one of the strongest such storms ever recorded, with the U.S. Navy measuring wind gusts up to 235 mph.

4. OBAMA SAYS HE'S SORRY PEOPLE ARE LOSING HEALTH INSURANCE

He pledges the government will do everything it can to help those "in a tough position."

5. TWITTER STOCK SOARS

Shares go on sale to the public and immediately climb more than 70 percent above the offering price.

6. WHO'S LIKELY TO BE SUSPECTED IN ARAFAT'S DEATH

Besides Israel, the Palestinians could fall under a cloud, since he was holed up in his West Bank compound for months before he died, surrounded by staff.

7. MILITANT WHO PLOTTED ATTACK ON TEEN TO LEAD PAKISTANI TALIBAN

Mullah Fazlullah, the ruthless commander behind the shooting of activist Malala Yousafzai, is chosen unanimously. The previous chief was killed by a U.S. drone.

8. WHY OUTRAGE IS SPREADING IN KENYA

A 16-year-old girl is reportedly gang-raped and thrown into a pit latrine. Her alleged attackers' only punishment: Being told to mow grass.

9. BILLY GRAHAM MARKS A MILESTONE

The evangelist, joined by hundreds at his North Carolina home, celebrates his 95th birthday.

10. OLYMPIC TORCH GETS RIDE TO SPACE STATION

The Sochi symbol of peace will be taken on a spacewalk Saturday.

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