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Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal, returned to the Gaza Strip after more than thirty years in exile on Friday.

Meshal left the West Bank in 1967 and returned only once in 1975, according to the Washington Post.

Meshal survived an assassination attempt by Israel in 1997, said NPR.

The Hamas leader kissed the ground when he crossed the border from Egypt into his former home.

Janeé Harteau previously served as the assistant chief of police in Minneapolis and is the first woman and openly gay person to be appointed to the position, according to the Star Tribune.

Mayor R.T. Rybak praised Harteau for her "willingness to step forward for what is absolutely the toughest job in the city", said Advocate.com.

This is first major rewrite to the diagnostic manual in 20 years, according to the New York Times.

The manual determines what doctors consider symptoms of mental disorders and shape who gets what sorts of treatments.

The Huffington Post said that full revisions will be evident when the manual is published in May.

The United Nations voted Thursday to recognize Palestine as a 'non-member observer state'.

The 193-member U.N. body voted 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions, according to the Washington Post.

The vote was met with condemnations from the United States and Israel.

The New York Times said that the new status will give Palestine more freedom to oppose Israel in international legal forums.

The drawing for the Multi-State Lottery Association's prize has failed to come up with a winner after 16 consecutive drawings.

According to the Washington Post, the Powerball winnings have become the second-largest potential lottery payout in U.S. history.

The $550 million prize has been predicted to have a winner by Wednesday night, said Powerball officials.

The BBC reports the numbers that were drawn were numbers were 5, 23, 16, 22, 29 and 6 but there has yet to be a winner.

During the day on Wednesday tickets were selling at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide.

Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari died in his car in Gaza City when it was hit by fire from an Israeli air strike, said the BBC.

Al-Jabari was the most senior Hamas official to be killed by Israeli fire since the invasion of Gaza four years ago, according to the New York Times.

Principal Dave Adney of Minnetonka High School sent an email to parents asking them to talk to their children about current fashion trends and modesty.

Students once chose to pair tight fitting leggings with long tops that covered their hips but increasingly this season, shirts are being worn shorter, said the Pioneer Press.

The Minnetonka students handbook bans clothing that is disruptive, offensive or inappropriate and principals said that each year there are trends that become concerns for the administration, according to the Star Tribune.

Adney said earlier this month, "Cover your butts up -- I'm just going to say it straight up. We're seeing too much."

Pelosi said she wants to remain in a leadership position in order to work to resolve the fiscal crisis, to limit the amount of money in politics and to empower women in the workplace and government, regardless of the fact that the Democratic party has failed to regain majority in the House for two consecutive elections.

There are leadership election scheduled for after Thanksgiving and Pelosi is certain to win, according to the Washington Post.

CBS News said no Democrat has made a move to run against Pelosi for the position.

In the Associated Press story, Greek Parliament passes 2013 austerity budget with comfortable majority, numbers are used in three clear ways.

Firstly, numbers are used to show the vote (167-128 vote in the 300-member Parliament). These numbers are not overwhelming because the author balanced them with some background on what else the parliament has been voting on recently.

Secondly, the author describes the next loan payments Greece will receive. These numbers are overwhelming because they are listed first in Euros and then in the dollar amount. The author could have found a more readable way to write these statistics. However, the numbers are manipulated and converted correctly.

Thirdly, numbers are used to show the difference in the crowd gathered to protest the new budget as compared to a previous protest. This nears being too many numbers as there are two large numbers in one sentence but it makes enough sense to be readable because the article overall is not filled with number after number.

On Tuesday night, after President Obama was re-elected, Lorraine Rybak jumped into the arms of the crowd before her son joined her, said the Star Tribune.

The mayor's mother said before the election that if Obama won she wanted to crowd surf after her son said he was too old to repeat his stunt. She said if she was not too old, he was not, according to MinnPost.

A promoter of Lumberjack Days festival in Stillwater was charged with 10 felonies on Friday.

David W. Eckberg, 61, was charged with five counts of issuance of a dishonored check and five counts of theft by check after a year-long investigation by local law enforcement and prosecutors, according to the Star Tribune.

The bad checks totaled $54,859, according to criminal charges filed in Washington County District Court.

Eckberg allegedly deposited over $41,000 into personal bank accounts instead of paying money owed to beer suppliers, a lighting company, and a youth hockey booster club.

Eric Thole, Eckberg's attorney, said his client had no intention of swindling anyone and that the festival had financial problems because of the weather, said Minnesota Public Radio.

CIA Director David H. Petraeus resigned Friday after admitting to an extramarital affair.

An FBI investigation into a possible security breach discovered the affair when looking into Petraeus's emails.

The emails described an affair between Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and co-author of Petraeus's biography, according to the Washington Post.

Obama administration officials said the Petraeus met with President Obama on Thursday to say he intended to step down from his position because of personal reasons.

Petraeus wrote in his resignation letter that he showed "extremely poor judgment" and that having an extramarital affair is "unacceptable" for an person in his leadership position, said the Huffington Post.

In India, experts say millions of people in India are infected by the mosquito-borne plague and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated a travel advisory against India because of the epidemic on Nov. 2.

Government officials in India report close to 30,000 people with dengue fever but experts say there are closer to 37 million cases per year, said the New York Times.

Sri Lanka, a country with a populations 60 times smaller than India's, reported three times as many cases of dengue fever in 2011, according to the World Health Organization.

The disease in only life threatening for close to 1 percent of those infected but symptoms of fatigue and depression can last for months in even mild cases.

The President won 332 electoral votes while Mitt Romney lost the election with 206, said the Huffington Post.

"In the weeks ahead I am looking forward to sitting down with Gov. Romney to discuss how we can move this country forward," Obama said in his acceptance speech.

Both parties focused on key battleground states in the last weeks of the race, with Obama winning eight of nine states still fairly undecided shortly before the election.