A look at the new terminal at Los Angeles airport

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Features of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles airport, which partially opens in August:

—Nearly 1.2 million square feet of useable space, twice the size of the previous terminal.

—60 restaurants and retailers, including Bulgari and Gucci.

—When fully completed in 2015, there will be 18 gates, including nine that can handle the massive Airbus A380.

—Can process 4,500 passengers an hour through customs, 62 percent more than the old facility.

—To save electricity, escalators and walkways go into sleep mode when not in use.

—A 72-foot "Time Tower" features an elevator and interactive surface that reacts to the movements of passengers.

—50 percent of seating in boarding gate areas will have electrical outlets to charge electronic devices.

—A destination board features two side screens that show images and information on a destination when flight information changes for that city.

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#Alicesbucketlist: 15-Year-Old With Terminal Cancer Trends on Twitter (Time.com)

When Alice Pyne created a blog to post her bucket list, she had no idea that people all over the world soon would know what she wants to do before she dies. The 15-year-old Brit who suffers from terminal Hodgkin's Lymphoma penned her first entry Monday, and just a few days later #alicesbucketlist was a trending topic on Twitter.

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"The cancer is now spreading through my body," she wrote in her first post. "It's a pain because there's so much stuff that I still want to do." At the suggestion of her mother, she decided to turn her ideas into a bucket list.

The hashtag drew widespread attention to her story. Tweeters publicized her list, which includes things like, "to make everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor," and "to go to Cadbury World and eat loads of chocolate."

Though Alice wrote in her first post, "I'm not expecting to do everything on it. Some of the things are just not going to happen," she may be surprised at how much users touched by her courage want to help her accomplish. One of the items on her list was "To meet Take That." Thursday, in a post titled, "It's Manic," she broke "mega exciting news": she will get to socialize with the popular British music group this weekend. Early Friday, she announced that, "we just hit ?10,000 for cancer research by you sponsoring my little sister for her run this weekend."

This poignant story reminds us that despite recent events, there's still some hope for the Internet community.

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3 guards killed at NATO terminal in N.W. Pakistan

By Mohammad Sajjad, AP

Pakistan army soldiers cordon off the area after a suicide bomb attack near Peshawar on Friday.

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Pakistan army soldiers cordon off the area after a suicide bomb attack near Peshawar on Friday.

The militants killed the guards by slitting their throats, said government administrator Akbar Khan. The attack took place in the town of Landi Kotal, close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Much of the non-lethal supplies for the war effort in Afghanistan come via Pakistan after being unloaded at the Arabian Sea port of Karachi in the south. Taliban militants often attack NATO supply trucks in Pakistan, though the vast majority of the goods are untouched.

Later Friday, a suicide bomber killed a young boy in the northwestern town of Darra Adam Khel after being chased into a house, said Khalid Khan, the top official in the area.

Residents spotted the bomber suspiciously roaming around a mosque before Friday prayers. They fired shots at him after he ran into a house and then heard a loud explosion.

It was unclear if the bomber detonated his explosives himself or if they were triggered by the gunfire, said Khan. The blast killed a young boy in the house and wounded five other people, he said.

No group has claimed responsibility for sending the bomber, but Taliban militants have staged attacks in Darra Adam Khel in the past.

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