Text: professional basketball players should undergo mandatory drug testing , philippine senator robert jaworski said on wednesday .

Summary: philippine senator asks mandatory drug test for basketball players


Text: hostage takers freed a french oil worker captive in nigeria 's volatile southern oil region , releasing the last-known expatriate taken in a spate of seizures this year , officials said friday .

Summary: last known foreign hostage freed in southern nigeria officials say


Text: president vladimir putin on monday hailed an agreement that ended a bitter oil dispute with neighboring belarus , saying it meant a reduction in subsidies by moscow for the ex-soviet ally .

Summary: putin hails oil agreement with belarus as reasonable compromise


Text: authorities in australia warned people to stay home sunday as sydney residents flocked to mountains west of the city for a glimpse of a rare weather phenomenon _ snow .

Summary:
sydney residents flock to mountains to get a glimpse of rare weather phenomenon _ snow