AP - A new exhibit of Greek and Roman antiquities at Berlin's Pergamon museum puts 170 sculptures, vases and other works on display in Germany for the first time in six decades.

Politico - On the same day Lawrence Summers was announced as President-elect Barack Obama’s top White House economics adviser, the veteran economist said he would resign as the part-time managing director of one of the nation’s largest and most successful hedge funds, D.E. Shaw & Co.

AP - American lives are still at risk in the Indian city of Mumbai, where two U.S. citizens were killed in terrorist attacks and at least two others wounded, the State Department said Friday.

AP - The British government is investigating whether some of the attackers in the deadly India shootings could be British citizens with links to Pakistan or the disputed territory of Kashmir but there was no such evidence yet, officials said Friday.

AP - A team of FBI agents was ordered to fly to India to investigate the militants who killed four Americans and injured at least two others during a wave of assaults that ripped through a commercial center of Mumbai.

AP - Historically stingy with granting pardons, President George W. Bush is facing a flood of requests for get-out-of-jail cards or wiping criminals' records clean on his way out of the White House.

AP - Among the many challenges Michelle Obama will face as first lady, the biggest may be defining the job.

AP - A former British army interpreter in Afghanistan who was convicted of espionage was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday.

AP - The government ordered FBI agents Friday to fly to India to investigate the bloody Mumbai attacks that killed two American travelers and a former New York couple. U.S. citizens still in the city were warned their lives remain at risk.

AP - President Bush says his administration is working with the Indian government and other nations to learn about those responsible for the attacks in India and ensure the safety of those still under threat.

AP - The United States says it is 'deeply concerned' about thousands of protesters who have occupied Thailand's airports in an anti-government campaign that marks the country's worst political crisis in decades.

AP - For years, scientists have held out hope that the rapidly evolving field of genetics could transform medical diagnosis and treatment, moving beyond a trial-and-error approach as old as the Hippocratic Oath.

AP - The late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's home town has stripped him of the title of honorary mayor.

AP - An adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign who was forced to resign earlier this year after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a 'monster' is now working on the transition team for the agency Clinton is expected to lead.

Politico - Samantha Power, the foreign-policy scholar who was banished from the Obama campaign for referring to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as a 'monster' during the Democratic primaries, is working on President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team studying State Department personnel, operations and policy.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Friday attended a funeral for a friend's relative.

AFP - The European Union condemned Friday China's execution of a scientist accused of spying for Taiwan, warning of damaging consequences for dialogue with Beijing on human rights.

Politico - Barack Obama’s picks for cabinet and other senior posts are many things: centrists, veterans, rivals. Most of all, though, they’re big: Big names, big intellects, and big egos.

Reuters - The United States and the European Union said on Friday they were disturbed by apparent Syrian efforts to 'sanitize' sites U.N. inspectors want to examine in a probe into alleged covert nuclear activity.

AP - The government ordered FBI agents Friday to fly to India to investigate the bloody Mumbai attacks that killed at least five Americans. U.S. citizens still in the city were warned their lives remain at risk.

AP - It's a modern day scarlet letter only it's bright orange.