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Pakistani protesters burn tires to block the main highway in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
Fans celebrate the Washington Nationals as they clinched a playoff spot Thursday night with a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in a baseball game at Nationals Park, in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Customers celebrate as Apple Inc. started selling iPhone 5 at a store in Tokyo Friday morning, Sept. 21, 2012. Apple’s Asian fans jammed the tech juggernaut’s shops in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore to pick up the latest version of its iPhone. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Mallory Smith, left, of Rowlette, Texas, and Elliott Reed, second from left, and Jonathan Cortina, orange shirt, both of Dallas, talk as they and others camp outside an Apple store Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in Dallas. The trio will be amongst the first few outside the store that will purchase the iPhone 5 that goes on sale Friday in the U.S. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
1. IPHONE HYSTERIA GOES GLOBAL
Some Apple fans have been camping out for days to get their hands on the iPhone 5.
2. ANTI-ISLAM FILM PROTEST TURNS DEADLY
Pakistani police open fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against "Innocence of Muslims," killing one man.
3. WHERE THE CANDIDATES ARE STUMPING
Obama speaks to the AARP at 11:30 a.m., and then attends a rally in Woodbridge, Va., at 12:45 p.m. Romney courts voters in Las Vegas at 5:05 p.m.
4. GOING WHERE NO RESEARCH HAS GONE BEFORE
AP's Marilynn Marchione says the nation's largest cancer center in Houston is launching a massive "moonshot" effort against eight specific forms of the disease.
5. ENDEAVORING TO DO WHAT TOURISTS DO
The space shuttle will spend its last flying day taking in California's Capitol, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hollywood sign.
6. LAST 33,000 U.S. SURGE TROOPS LEAVE AFGHANISTAN
But deadly insider attacks and a reassessment of how NATO troops partner with Afghans raise questions about how well the military strategy is working.
7. ARENA MEANS REBIRTH IN BROOKLYN
After decades without a pro sports team, New York City's ascendant borough is entering the major leagues again — but this time it's basketball that's taking over.
8. NYC STRAPHANGERS WILL SEE ANTI-JIHAD ADS SOON
A conservative blogger wins a court order allowing her message equating some Muslim radicals with savages.
9. HOW THE TABBY GOT ITS DESIGN
Scientists identify the gene that sets the cat's common coat pattern — stripes or blotches.
10. FOR D.C. FANS, A LONG TIME COMING
Postseason baseball returns to the nation's capital for the first time since 1933 as the Washington Nationals clinch a playoff spot.