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[00:00.16]The hashtag #COP21 started trending over the weekend
[00:06.24]ahead of the United Nations' conference on climate change.
[00:11.04]What is COP21?
[00:14.48]It stands for the 21st Conference of the Parties
[00:18.24]to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
[00:23.76]World leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama
[00:27.68]and Chinese President Xi Jinping
[00:30.76]spoke about this year's conference as a new beginning.
[00:34.92]Xi called the summit "a new starting point."
[00:38.68]Obama said, "Our generation may not even live
[00:42.40]to see the full realization of what we do here."
[00:46.59]But it's a tweet from outer space that has received all the attention.
[00:52.84]American astronaut Scott Kelly wrote,
[00:56.02]"From space, we are privileged to see the beauty of Earth,
[01:00.32]but also our impact on its environment."
[01:04.32]The tweet was liked over 4,000 times in seven hours.
[01:09.20]Kobe Bryant makes retirement plans
[01:10.68]Basketball star Kobe Bryant has been grabbing headlines his entire career.
[01:16.92]Bryant was a teenager when he entered the NBA draft straight out of high school.
[01:22.56]He won five NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers.
[01:27.96]He even scored 81 points in one game in 2006
[01:33.48]¨C the second-highest single-game total ever.
[01:37.40]On Sunday night, Bryant announced he would retire at the end of this season.
[01:44.36]Bryant made the announcement with a poem on the website The Players' Tribune.
[01:50.92]Bryant wrote, "This season is all I have left to give.
[01:55.80]My heart can take the pounding. My mind can handle the grind.
[02:01.16]But my body knows it's time to say goodbye."
[02:05.44]By Monday morning in the U.S.,
[02:08.40]the word "Kobe" was the subject of over one million tweets.
[02:13.92]Bryant will retire after 20 seasons in the league.
[02:18.32]He missed almost all of the last two seasons due to major injuries.
[02:24.00]Bryant will finish his career with the third-most career points in NBA history.
[02:30.08]Cyber Monday after Black Friday
[02:31.35]This is the time of year retail businesses in the U.S. look to start making money.
[02:37.36]Businesses offer customers discounts and incentives
[02:41.76]to make them come to stores and shop.
[02:45.32]The day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday."
[02:50.00]It refers to the first time all year businesses are "in the black" or making profit.
[02:57.08]With more businesses selling their goods online,
[03:00.56]the Monday after Thanksgiving has the name "Cyber Monday."
[03:05.16]There were over two million Google searches with the term "Cyber Monday"
[03:10.36]on Sunday alone for discounts on computers, clothes and shoes.
[03:16.68]Perhaps some businesses hyped the big day too much.
[03:22.24]Target's website could not handle the traffic and had to slow down.
[03:27.64]Some users got the message
[03:30.24]"So sorry, but high traffic's causing delays."
[03:34.80]One Twitter user was a little disappointed
[03:37.68]that he could not access the sales on Target's website.
[03:42.11]The website CNBC.com said
[03:45.08]PayPal had trouble keeping up with demand, too.
[03:49.44]I'm Jonathan Evans.