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Japanese girl makes her pitch for pro team (AP)

Japanese high school student Eri Yoshida, 16, smiles as she poses for photographers after being drafted by an independent leagueAP - The knuckleball — the fluttering, hard-to-hit pitch that's rare in the major leagues — is propelling a 16-year-old girl to the pros in Japan.
A photo of 2 little girls and a reunion in Congo (AP)

In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, Protegee carries her niece, Reponse, left, as she looks for her parents in the village Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo. When photographed on Nov. 6, Protegee was in a crowd of thousands in the town of Kiwanja, having walked for three days by herself after being separated from her mother as they fled on foot from her town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Protegee finally found her mother, Esperance Nirakagori, in Kiwanja at a makeshift refugee camp six days after they were separated. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)AP - Eleven-year-old Protegee carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives in a sea of people in eastern Congo.
Ships diverted after Saudi oil tanker hijacked (AP)

This undated picture made at an unknown location shows the the MV Sirius Star a Saudi oil supertanker which has been hijacked by Somali pirates. The owner of a Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates over the weekend said the 25 crew members are safe and the ship is fully loaded with crude — a cargo worth about US$100 million at current prices. Dubai-based Vela International Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of Saudi oil company Aramco, said in a statement Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, that company response teams have been set up and are working to ensure the release of the crew and the vessel. (AP Photo/Fred Vloo)AP - A major Norwegian shipping group on Tuesday ordered its more than 90 tankers to sail around Africa rather than use the Suez Canal after Somali pirates seized a Saudi supertanker carrying $100 million in crude.
Tanker capture raises alarm over Somali piracy (AP)

This undated picture made at an unknown location shows the the MV Sirius Star a Saudi oil supertanker which has been hijacked by Somali pirates. The owner of a Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates over the weekend said the 25 crew members are safe and the ship is fully loaded with crude — a cargo worth about US$100 million at current prices. Dubai-based Vela International Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of Saudi oil company Aramco, said in a statement Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, that company response teams have been set up and are working to ensure the release of the crew and the vessel. (AP Photo/Christian Duys)AP - It seems inconceivable: Somali pirates in speedboats foil warships from the world's most powerful navies to prey on shipping lanes crucial to the oil supply.
Congo rebels to pull back to allow talks (AP)

Displaced people lower the body of Rebecca Yalala, who died the previous day of complications from diabetes and malaria, into the earth in a grove of banana trees near a camp for displaced people, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 in Bulengo, near Goma, in eastern Congo. The family of five had fled their home in Kanyabayonga three months before, when fighting began. Dozens of fresh, unmarked graves surrounded her grave in the grove of banana trees and attendees said they were also camp inhabitants who had recently died of disease. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - Rebels were pulling back their forces from the frontlines to allow talks with the army, their spokesman said Tuesday, as retreating army soldiers battled mobs of spear-wielding militiamen.
Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP)

In this image released by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, a procedure used to cover and line a donor windpipe with the recipients cartilage and epithelial cell is seen illustrated in a graphic. European doctors have performed a windpipe transplant with tissue grown from the patientAP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

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