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Houston Rockets players Jeremy Lin, James Harden, and Chandler Parsons met up with Rocket’s prized offseason acquisition Dwight Howard in Los Angeles for practice and introduction. The young team is getting a head start in building “team chemistry” in preparation for their highly anticipated 2013-14 season.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that a joint UK-US task force is being formed to lead a global alliance with tech industry leaders, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, to stamp out online child pornography and pornographic images of rape that promote violence against women.

Mandela has been a Methodist Christian and has consistently proclaimed his commitment to Christ as his Lord throughout his adult life. His fight against racial inequality as well as leadership in reconciling the white South Africans, Afrikaners, with the black South Africans have reflected the ideals of Christian principles of justice, forgiveness and reconciliation, forming the bedrock for his political and social motivations.

Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela has spent his 95th birthday in hospital in Pretoria as millions of children in South Africa began school Thursday singing “Happy Birthday” to Madiba or “Father of the Nation.”

Jeremy Lin broke his silence on Sunday through an interview with Los Angeles Times. The interview came a day after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey emphasized again at the Dwight Howard’s Houston Rockets introduction that he is not looking to trade Lin and Asik. James Harden and Dwight Howard have expressed their desire to play together with the first Chinese-American NBA player and Asik, the GM announced.

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said again on Saturday that he is not looking to deal Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik and gave another convincing reason: “The reality is James (Harden) and Dwight (Howard) want to play with Jeremy and Omer,” Morey told Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle. “I’ve been kicked down to assistant GM. They’re going to be here.”

YouVersion Bible App reached its 100 million downloads milestone Sunday evening. Just five years ago, it was among the first 200 apps available on iTunes, but today there are over 900,000 available. For three consecutive years, Apple has ranked the Bible App, available for virtually every mobile device, among the top 100 free apps.

Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale has revealed his confidence in the current team roster, saying he feels really comfortable that the team can now “compete with anybody.”

Of the 77 Chinese aboard Asiana Airlines flight 214, thirty-five Chinese students, including two teen girls who died in the crash in San Francisco on Saturday, were on route to a Christian school in Los Angeles for a three-weeks summer program, the school said on its website.

Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh and Peng Shuai of China won the Wimbledon women’s doubles title on Saturday with a 7-6 (7/1), 6-1 win over Australian Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua.

Free-agent Dwight Howard confirmed his decision to join Houston Rockets on Twitter and interviews with ESPN and said that Rockets gave him the best chance at winning his first NBA title.

Dwight Howard tweeted his decision to join Houston Rockets and thanked the fans in Los Angeles. The over 20 months of speculation is officially over.

Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, shared how Christians should pray for America on July 4. He said to pray for those who fought and died for our freedom and for the soldiers, for those in authority, and for remembering the freedom we have as Christians, purchased by Christ's death on the cross.

Dwight Howard met with Kobe Bryant in a meeting on Tuesday, where Bryant challenged the free agent center to not do things his way, but just listen, learn, and make it so that it fits him.

New England Patriorts backup quarterback Tim Tebow tried to keep Aaron Hernandez out of trouble during a 2007 bar argument while both were playing at the University of Florida. Tebow was not able to stop then-17 year old Hernandez from punching the restaurant manager, who subsequently loss hearing for 4-6 weeks.

Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey said that he is not looking to deal Jeremy Lin or Omer Asik, because both remaining on Houston would provide great match up for All-Star Dwight Howard.

Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin will once again return to Taiwan in August to share his life testimony with youths in his parent’s country of birth; this time, he will be preaching to over 18,000 people in Taipei.

U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on Wednesday that part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has been struck down and the appeal for California's Proposition 8 was dismissed. As the gay-marriage advocates celebrate, proponents of Prop 8 said that as of today California's Prop 8 still stands as the legal law of the state.

Given Jeremy Lin’s subpar performance last year, doubters have all the more reasons to discredit his ability to play as lead point guard for Houston Rockets and in the league; however, the subject of Linsanity is proving himself again in reaching a three-point shooting accuracy rate of 78 percent during his offseason practices, according to his shooting coach and a picture posted on his Facebook page.

Famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda took 22 minutes to walk across the Little Colorado River Gorge that was the length of five football fields on a two-inch thick steel cable - with no safety net or harness.

Nik Wallenda succeeded Sunday evening in crossing the Grand Canyon gorge on two inches of wire, setting the Guinness World Record in the longest and tallest tightrope walk ever.

Most people have walked across a balance beam at least once in their lifetime and have probably felt the sense of accomplishment after, but none can be compared to what Nik Wallenda will feel in his attempt to walk across the gorge just east of the Grand Canyon right now without using a tether or a safety harness.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in Ecuador after departing Hong Kong on Sunday for Moscow. His departure came just a day after the U.S. Justice Department filed an extradition request to the Hong Kong government for his arrest.

Tightrope-walking daredevil Nik Wallenda, who considers faith as the most important part of his life, will cross the Grand Canyon on Sunday with no harness or safeguards in place.

A 29-year-old cook ‘miraculously’ survives two days at the bottom of the sea after a shipwreck 20 miles off the coast of Nigeria. Many calls him the 'modern day Jonah.'