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AP - Libya wants to open a new chapter in relations with the United States by investing some of its $100 billion sovereign wealth fund in U.S. companies and sending thousands of students to study in America, the son of Libya's leader said Friday.

AFP - A UN body on Friday expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.

AP - Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday.

AP - Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The lavishly ornamented four-wheel chariot dates back to the end of the second century A.D.," Veselin Ignatov told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the site, near the southeastern village of Karanovo.

AFP - Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez will be a Real Madrid player next season, the Marca sports daily reported on Friday.

AFP - A Rwandan government official accused of conspiracy to a political murder which sparked the 1994 genocide said Friday she was "very surprised" by her recent arrest in Germany on a French warrant.