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The FedEx Cup Playoffs begin with The Barclays this week and will conclude in three weeks with the Tour Championship.

HTC has released a new low-end, budget friendly smart phone called HTC Desire U, which is scheduled to arrive only in China and Taiwan for now.

Stanford University has appointed an atheist “chaplain” to serve its non-believing students. Chaplain John Figdor counsels those in need and visits the sick, according to reports. And he works with Stanford students under the Office of Religious Life, joining 17 other chaplains and individuals that reach out to students of various faiths.

China’s capital and 32 other cities suffered “Hazardous” air this weekend, local media reported. Choking smog has blanked Beijing, city of 20 million people, and hospitals were floods with patients seeking help for heart and respiratory ailments.

Students and leaders, who participated in the 2013 Passion Conference, gave more than $3.3 million to fund 23 causes with 19 partner organizations in the fight against modern-day slavery that affects 27 million people today.

The Messengers of Life Pastor Ming-Kin Hui organized an evangelistic event with the theme “Seeing God’s Grace through Suffering” in Shenzhen Bo-An Church at the end of last year. China’s “Father of Chinese McDonald's”, James Yuan-He Chu gave his life testimony, which provided a desperately needed message to the Chinese crowd.

“Surrender your plans and allow God to surprise you. God’s invitations may be unexpected,” said Tom Lin, Urbana conference director and InterVarsity’s vice president. “You and I are called to share God’s Kingdom news not just for our campuses, not just for our cities, but also for the ends of the earth – the unfamiliar places, the unfamiliar cultures, and for unfamiliar friends.

Thousands of people came to Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the Van Nuys Masonic Temple to exchange their guns for Ralphs gift cards.