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BANGKOK — Two mobile service providers paid record prices for spectrum licenses to offer next-generation service, according to state telecom regulators.

MUNICH — The German Teachers' Association said Friday that it would incorporate a new edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf into its lesson plan after copyright on the work expires, while booksellers grappled with their approach to selling reprints.

UBON RATCHATHANI — A court spokesman has refuted reports the Supreme Court handed down a death sentence to a Redshirt leader convicted of setting fire to a provincial city hall as widely reported earlier this week.

BANGKOK — Family and friends of a comatose celebrity were upset this morning by a forged news article announcing his death.

KUALA LUMPUR — Amir Pakiam was talking over the phone animatedly with a disc jockey of a popular FM radio station in Kuala Lumpur while he lay lazily on his bed.

BEIJING — Beijing issued a red alert for smog, urging schools to close and residents to stay indoors for the second time in 10 days.

LOS ANGELES — An Australian couple got married yesterday as they waited in line for the first U.S. public showings of "Star Wars; The Force Awakens," while movie theaters around the United States held marathons of the previous films in the franchise.

SURAT THANI — An army sergeant said he tracked down his cheating wife last night to a motel room where he caught her in the act with a school teacher, who then shot at him.

WELLINGTON — New Zealand has granted permission to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, originally a satirical protest group, to perform marriages in the country.

BANGKOK — A sure sign of winter? It better not go away too soon.