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November is a month stuffed with good TV (USA Today) - Special guests, special events, weddings, funerals and a few awards must besweeps time, those quarterly competitions when the broadcast ratings race heatsup. USA TODAY walks you through the November highlights.

Kenya: The Super Weddings (AllAfrica.com) - Many of the current weddings in Kenya, especially in Nairobi and major towns of Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru, seem to have one thing in common: The more money spent on them, the more successful they are perceived to be.

Downtown business affable for weddings, events (The News Herald) - Andrew Wardlow / The News Herald Phala Jenkins, owner of A Unique Affair By Phala, stands in the business on Harrison Avenue in Panama City on Thursday. The business offers a chapel-like setting for nontraditional weddings, as well as meeting space for other events.

Making up for a waning tradition (The Star Online) - The making of the bunga telur, gifts presented to guests at Malay weddings, has lost many of its age-old significance, says 28-year-old bunga telur stylist Farah Hafizah Khalid.

Weddings and engagements (Hartselle Enquirer) - Butch and Sharon McMeans of Athens announce the engagement of their daughter, Jaime McMeans, to Brandon Emerson, son of Mark and Cam Emerson of Somerville.

Thirty years and 1,500 weddings later, Nielsen family sells business (Tahoe Daily Tribune) - The first wedding The Entertainer produced was at Valhalla. No one spoke English, owner Jackie Nielsen said. When she hung up the bells around the wedding cake, they fell and crushed parts of the cake.

Home base: Inspirion (The Kansas City Star) - Owner: Jennifer Granger The business: Inspirion is an event-planning business that assists with weddings and social and corporate events.

Business promotes state as spot for destination weddings (Morristown Citizen Tribune) - Weddings are a multi-million dollar business around the globe, but in recent years a lot of that economic impact has left Tennessee. One Dandridge couple believe, however, they can bring the vows back to Tennessee—and the dollars the bring with each "I do."

City Moves To Shutter East Side Church Catering Hall (The New York Sun) - Facing pressure from elected officials and residents, the Bloomberg administration is moving to halt the use of a private catering hall in an Upper East Side church. In recent months, the Third Church of Christ Scientist at 583 Park Avenue has rented out its space to a catering company, hosting Oscar de la Renta fashion shows and weddings, among other events, in an attempt to raise cash for ...

Former Hamas spokesman decries group's extremism (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News) - RAFAH, Gaza Strip— For more than 25 years, Ghazi Hamad has been a reliable champion for Hamas and its hard-line Islamist ideology, first as a leader of Palestinian street protests, then as an editor of a pro-Hamas newspaper and most recently as the chief spokesman for deposed Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.