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Black Friday is one of the few — if only — days of the year when Apple acts like a normal retailer. So as in years past, the electronics maker is offering one-day deals to kick off the holiday shopping season.

But instead of price cuts on iPads and MacBooks, as Apple has done on Black Fridays of yore, it took a different tact in the U.S. this year. Apple is including Apple Store Gift Cards valued between $25 and $150 with the full-priced purchase of various products. You can see all the deals on the company’s website, but we’ve listed out the very best Apple Black Friday deals below.

Some things, though, haven’t changed. As was the case in 2012 and in 2011, Apple is offering absolutely no deals on its best-selling product: the iPhone.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russia has freed the last of 30 people detained after a Greenpeace protest in Arctic waters.

Australian Colin Russell walked free from a St. Petersburg jail on Friday, one day after being granted bail of 2 million rubles ($61,500) in an appeal hearing.

Russell was the first to be brought to court when bail hearings started last week, and was denied bail. All the others were released.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Elvis Presley items including his ID bracelet, some of his rings and his wallet-size Army induction portrait are going on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

The exhibit was opening Friday in conjunction with Elvis Presley Enterprises. The exhibit includes more than 40 artifacts loaned by Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn.

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Nov 29 (Reuters) – A 30-inch (75-cm) natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded in Missouri just before midnight on Thursday, with no injuries or fatalities reported and no impact to customers shipping gas on the line, a spokeswoman for Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co said on Friday.

The release of natural gas occurred at approximately 11:55 p.m. on Thursday (0555 GMT) just north of the rural community of Hughesville, Missouri, forcing the evacuation of some area families as a precaution, the spokeswoman said.

The cause of the explosion was under investigation. Gas supplies have been rerouted to avoid delivery disruptions to customers.

New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures prices reached a five-month high of $3.939 per million British thermal units early Friday and were last trading 2.2 cents higher at $3.917 at 9:30 a.m. EST.

Initial media reports said the explosion happened overnight.

Witnesses said flames from the fire about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Kansas City could be seen from miles (km) away, according to local media reports.

Panhandle Eastern operates a 6,500-mile (10,500-km) natural gas pipeline system that supplies East Coast and Midwest markets with up to 2.8 billion cubic feet of gas per day, according to the company’s website.

The Panhandle Eastern line supplies some of the largest industrial users and power plants in the Midwest with natural gas, the website said.

Panhandle is a subsidiary of Southern Union Co., which is owned by Energy Transfer Partners.

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Fish tends to spoil fast, even when kept on ice. So to ensure that farm-raised salmon remain at peak of their freshness (read: still swimming) for whole trip to back to shore for processing, Rolls-Royce is building the world’s largest mobile aquarium/meat wagon.

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