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USATODAY:
It's your move, Mike

The basketball world will have to wait to find out if Michael Jordan is returning to the NBA. ''Michael is going to analyze the deal, see what Chicago wants to do and then make an informed decision,'' agent David Falk said Wednesday hours after agreement was reached to end the lockout. ''I'm not certain what his time frame is.'' Jordan, who led the Bulls to their sixth championship of the decade last June, had said he would wait until the end of the lockout to announce whether he will retire.
Jordan, 36, is a free agent although the Bulls can offer him far more money than anyone else. He made $33 million last season. Meantime, players in New York ratified the agreement 179-5, according to the union. The owners are expected to OK the deal on Thursday, with a 52-game season expected to start early next month.
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USATODAY:
U.S. relocates Manila offices

Officials have moved several embassy offices in Manila to tighten security there, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. According to a statement, the offices of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, Foreign Commercial Service, Office of the Asian Development Bank and U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership have been relocated to a residential compound. Police have increased protection of U.S. offices in the Philippines since the August bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Authorities have also recently been on alert for possible retaliation after U.S.-led missile strikes against Iraq last month.
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USATODAY:
Kenyan workers strike, demand back wages

At least 18,000 municipal workers went on strike in the Kenyan capital on Wednesday to demand two months in unpaid back wages. Workers gathered outside Nairobi's City Hall to press their demands, while the mayor, city council members and administrators met privately to discuss their response to the walkout. Union officials claim the city has the funds to pay its workers: Staff salaries are $2.1 million per month, and city revenues are nearly $8.3 million per month. City officials could not be reached to confirm those figures.
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SCMP:
McSorry, burger lovers told

McDonald's apologised yesterday for running out of Big Mac hamburgers after British fast food lovers sunk their teeth into a two-for-one promotion. "We expected the 25th anniversary Big Mac offer to be popular," the world's largest restaurant chain said in full-page advertisements in several British tabloids.
"However, the unprecedented demand has resulted in stock shortages in some of our restaurants, for which we sincerely apologise." Tabloids carried front-page reports of furious customers left empty-handed after flocking to McDonald's restaurants for the �1.99 (HK$25.57) two-for-one offer.
The Daily Star said "a near-riot erupted" in Leigh, near Liverpool, when a group of businessmen "went berserk" after being told they could not have their free Big Macs. "They pulled the manager over the counter and were screaming blue murder at him," it quoted one customer as saying. "I rang the head office later and someone told me they had closed 50 restaurants as they struggled to cope." Police were called in to control crowds at another restaurant, the Star said.
"Demand has been very high indeed and some restaurants have had to offer other products. A few had to close for a short time to restock," McDonald's spokesman Mike Love said.
"On a normal weekend we would expect to sell 500,000 Big Macs. We projected demand at two million last weekend because of the offer and it has actually been four million."
The Star tried to cheer up disappointed customers with a special recipe . . . "How to make your own Big Mac".
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