The International Basketball Federation has reinstated Lebanon's membership, inviting the country to resume international competition after a 10-month ban.

In a letter addressed to Walid Nasser, the president of the Lebanese Basketball Federation, FIBA says the LBF is "reinstated with full rights" and "teams may take part in all FIBA competitions and activities."

Investigators were continuing to process the scene of a fire at a million dollar Florida home owned by former tennis star James Blake where the bodies of two adults and two teenagers were found.

Officials say the early Wednesday fire inside the home in Tampa's exclusive Avila neighborhood was intentionally set.

Germany coach Joachim Loew made several surprise inclusions in his preliminary 30-man World Cup squad on Thursday, with established regulars such as Mario Gomez missing out.

Loew named relatively unknown players such as Genoa defender Shkodran Mustafi, Borussia Dortmund defender Erik Durm, Augsburg attacking midfielder Andre Hahn, Hoffenheim striker Kevin Volland and Schalke's 19-year-old midfielders Max Meyer and Leon Goretzka. None have made any appearances for the senior side.

Saying she's back on top form, Miley Cyrus resumed her Bangerz tour in London after a series of canceled shows.

The 21-year-old pop star delayed her U.S. dates until August after treatment for a sinus infection went awry and last week postponed two European shows. Cyrus says she suffered a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics.

One of eight circus acrobats who plunged to the ground during a hair-hanging act in the U.S. says she wants to get back in the ring, and she's hopeful her fellow acrobats will someday return, too. But their medical team said Wednesday that two have spinal cord injuries, and only time will tell if they can ever walk again.

"I'm hoping to join back up with the tour and show the world that I'm OK, and I'm hoping some of the other girls will do the same," Samantha Pitard told The Associated Press after being released from a hospital Tuesday.

Nintendo isn't allowing gamers to play as gay in an upcoming life simulator game.

The publisher of such gaming franchises as "The Legend of Zelda" and "Mario Bros." said Tuesday it wouldn't bow to pressure to allow players to engage in romantic activities with characters of the same sex in English editions of "Tomodachi Life." This follows a social media campaign launched by fans last month seeking virtual equality for the game's characters, which are modeled after real people.

Standing among the towering shelves in his bookstore in the small Texas town where he grew up, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry says he has a need to be among books.

"I'm very attached to the books. I need them. I need to be among them," said McMurtry, 77, whose rare and used bookstore in Archer City contains about 200,000 volumes, while the library in his nearby home holds about 28,000.

The Norton Simon Museum has agreed to return a 10th century statue that may have been looted from a Cambodian temple during that country's genocidal civil war in the 1970s.

"Temple Wrestler," a sandstone figure missing its hands and feet, has been displayed at the museum for nearly four decades. The 5-foot (1.52-meter)-high work depicts Bhima, a heroic figure in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in a fighting pose.

An Oregon police affidavit says a robber at the Home Federal Bank two weeks ago demanded money by giving the teller a note written on the back of a grocery receipt.

It was only part of the receipt, Bend Detective Jeff Frickey said in the affidavit, but it had the last four digits of a food stamp account and the account balance — enough to get investigators going.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari announced his World Cup squad on Wednesday without any major surprises, choosing most of the players who won last year's Confederations Cup.

Scolari's 23-name list includes 16 players who were in the team that won last year's warm-up tournament by beating world champion Spain in the final.