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NEW YORK (AP) — Stores have opened their doors this morning, ushering in Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. But many stores got the jump on today. Macy's, Walmart and Target opened yesterday evening, right after the turkey dinner was finished. There were deals like a 55-inch, $500 TV for about $300 at Walmart. Thirty-year-old Bree Colley of Missouri got one, but she's a really smart shopper. She had a friend fight through the crowd to pick her up one of those bargain TVs.
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say they're detaining 13 people following yesterday morning's collapse of scaffolding at a power plant construction site that killed at least 74 workers. Most of the dead had been working on the interior concrete wall of a massive circular cooling tower 230 feet up. Authorities are not saying who's in custody, but they say the focus of the investigation has turned to the power plant's operator and a major engineering firm, which has a history of workplace fatalities.
BEIJING (AP) — A man armed with a knife has wounded seven children outside a primary school in northern China. Two adults were also injured in today's attack. State broadcaster CCTV says the 58-year-old man apparently wanted to take "revenge against society" after being prosecuted for theft.
BERLIN (AP) —Lufthansa says it has canceled 830 short- and medium-haul flights affecting 100,000 passengers as a pilots' strike enters its third day. The pilots union is in a long-running dispute over wages. Germany's largest airline says since the pilots walked out on Wednesday, it's had to cancel more than 2,600 flights, affect about 315,000 passengers.
PARIS (AP) — A prosecutor in France says a man wanted in the stabbing death of an elderly woman at a retirement home has no apparent link to Islamic terrorism. But authorities are still trying to figure out why the masked man, believed to be armed with a shotgun and a knife, attacked the woman Thursday evening at the retirement home for Catholic missionaries. He's still on the loose. The woman's body was found gagged and tied up outside the building. She had three stab wounds.
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