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Real Madrid reduce Barcelona’s league lead to one point after returning to winning ways with a 2-0 victory against Getafe despite having a man sent off, with Gonzalo Higuain, above, netting both goals.

New world No. 1 Serena Williams, above, will take on her older sister and defending champion Venus in the final of the season-ending WTA Championships in Qatar on Sunday as injuries again took their toll on the world’s top women tennis players.

Last year’s world champion Lewis Hamilton claims pole position for Sunday’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix while his successor as Formula One’s top driver, fellow Briton Jenson Button, qualifies fifth.

The White House on Friday began releasing the names of visitors as part of a Barack Obama campaign promise to run a more transparent administration.

Defending champion Venus Williams reaches the semifinals of the $4.55 million WTA Championships in Qatar, where she joins sister Serena, without hitting a ball on Friday.

They’ve been called the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch and the Bling Ring. Now, five of the six young adults accused of burglarizing celebrity homes, including Lindsay Lohan’s, can be known as “booked.”

President Obama announced Friday that he will lift a 22-year-old ban on entry into the United States for people infected with HIV/AIDS.

Chances have increased slightly that the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will reopen in time for the Friday morning commute, transportation officials said Thursday evening.

A judge ruled Friday that there is probable cause to try Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors in an alleged conspiracy to provide drugs to a known addict.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai about 3,300 years ago, he couldn’t have seen these Jews coming.