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| | | Asian markets remained largely unchanged after Bank of America said it may sell Chinese stakes, tempered by optimism Chinese manufacturing would spur growth in regional exporters |
| | | Tim Furlong visits Betty''s speakeasy in Philadelphia for a delicious fudge treat! |
| | | People attending a Cinco de Mayo celebration on Olvera Street in Los Angeles say attendance is noticeably down from last year. Some say it''s because the festivities fall on a weekday. |
| | | Democrats may have to resort to using dead voters to make up for the illegals going back to Mexico. |
| | | Royals'' outfielder Tug Hulett talks with FSN about his recent pinch hit, childhood and much more. |
| | | A NY prosecutor is ending a criminal probe into last year''s trampling death of a Wal-Mart employee because the company has agreed to implement better safety measures |
| | | Anthony Swarzak talks with FSN after the Twins beat the Brewers 6-2. Swarzak threw seven shutout innings in his major league debut. |
| | | Atlanta firefighter Bobby Stewart describes the scene of a four-level parking deck collapse at a office building at Georgia Tech''s Research Park. Several cars were crushed but there |
| | | With a few items found in almost any desk or tool drawer, you can make your very own mini hovercraft capable of gliding over any flat surface. |
| | | TV Guide Network sits down with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the dynamic duo tabbed to play Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in STAR TREK! See what the two had to say about adding their |
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South Korean actress Jeon Ji-hyun promotes her first Hollywood film in Taipei.
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| | | THE CLOSER star Kyra Sedgwick sits with Hollywood 411 and talks about the evolution of Brenda Johnson, family and what we can expect from the show''s all-new season. Be sure to catch THE CLOSER, Mondays at 9/8c on TNT. |
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| | | The Phillies took the best road record in the majors into New York Wednesday for their game with the Mets. The Phils were 21-9 away from home prior to the game. |
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| | | Are there little things that you think ALL guys should know? Brett Cohen goes over a few basics from his book about the little things that men should know how to do. |
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| | | Tim Furlong visits Betty''s speakeasy in Philadelphia for a delicious fudge treat! |
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| | | He was a fierce competitor but in the end came up just short. Hollywood 411''s Megan Tevrizian chats up DANCING WITH THE STARS finalist Gilles Marini! |
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| | | In the Dakhla refugee camp in the middle of the Algerian desert, refugees from Western Sahara have found a way to feel less isolated. New technology allows them to communicate via Internet video with family in Europe |
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| | | TV Guide Network sits down with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the dynamic duo tabbed to play Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in STAR TREK! See what the two had to say about adding their |
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| | | Lovers of luxury across the decades have sojourned in the mythic La Mamounia hotel in Marrakesh. While the Moroccan landmark undergoes renovation, ahead of a reopening in September 2009, it is selling some 5,000 items from the hotel at auction. |
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| | | He was a fierce competitor but in the end came up just short. Hollywood 411''s Megan Tevrizian chats up DANCING WITH THE STARS finalist Gilles Marini! |
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| | | The head of bankrupt automaker General Motors told a judge business is doing better as the company tries to speed through bankruptcy. |
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A U.S. freelance journalist detained about a month ago is being held in a prison north of Tehran, Iran's judiciary spokesman said. Ali Reza Jamshidi says 31-year-old Roxana Saberi is being held in Evin prison on a court order. He refused to provide further details in Tuesday's press conference. An Iranian-American journalist, whose family has not heard |
Israel's centrist Kadima is maintaining its one-seat lead over right-wing Likud but with about 100,000 ballots yet to be counted the result is not yet official, the Central Elections Committee said Thursday. About 99 percent of the vote has been counted and the parties have already begun negotiations to form a ruling coalition in the 120-seat Knesset. |
Suspected Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush on Wednesday, officials said, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years. Rising violence has already forced aid agencies to restrict humanitarian work at a time when drought and high prices are putting more people under pressure. |
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Zimbabweans have been mourning Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife, Susan, who was killed in a car crash four days ago. Brian Hungwe joined those paying their respects. Inside the Malbereign Methodist Church in Harare, a beige gleaming coffin held the body of Mrs Tsvangirai, wearing a red and white church uniform. |
The U.S. military says the number of detainees it is holding in Iraq has dropped to 13,832 from a peak of 26,000 two years ago. The prisoners are being released or transferred to Iraqi custody to meet the requirements of a security agreement that took effect on Jan. 1. American forces in Iraq can no longer hold suspects without charge as they have done since the U.S.-led 2003 invasion |
UBS AG now says it had about 47,000 accounts held by Americans who didn't pay U.S. taxes on their assets, but Switzerland's biggest bank isn't providing the names of any more of them to the U.S. government. A Justice Department official said if UBS is found in contempt by a federal judge for refusing to identify the rest of its U.S. clients, the |
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The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies. The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. |
Deepa, 40, was born in Mumbai, where she is now a banking technology consultant, as well as running a company that offers "offbeat sightseeing tours" of six Indian cities, including Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur. Deepa's Mumbai tours take in the city's bazaars, backstreets and culture and her blog, Mumbai Magic, is a personal view of life in the city. |
Deepa, 40, was born in Mumbai, where she is now a banking technology consultant, as well as running a company that offers "offbeat sightseeing tours" of six Indian cities, including Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur. Deepa's Mumbai tours take in the city's bazaars, backstreets and culture and her blog, Mumbai Magic, is a personal view of life in the city. |
Days after thick snow brought London to a standstill, the traditional drizzle has returned and it is business as usual in the bustling British capital. The pavement might be slippery with ice but the resumption of the bus and rail services means that you'll at least be able to move around the city. All airports in the south are operating normally |
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New York City's mayor helped Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his four crewmates from US Airways Flight 1549 celebrate a weekend of press conferences, television interviews and grateful reunions by presenting them with the keys to the city Monday. The keys went to flight attendants Doreen Welsh, Sheila Dail and |
Allison Rupp worked at Yellowstone National Park's historic Old Faithful Inn in 2004. Three simple letters could inspire the "Hallelujah" chorus: DND, or do not disturb. One sign hanging on a doorknob, and the day's work was shortened by half an hour. Two signs? Pure heaven, but only if they remained there until my eight-hour shift ended |
British naturalist Charles Darwin shocked Victorian society when he suggested that humans evolved from animals over millions of years, and his theories still spark controversy. February 12 marks the scientist's 200th birthday and 2009 is the 150th year since he published the pivotal "On the Origin of Species." Expedition organizers |
Growing up in America, Joshu Harris was captivated by the mystique, music and history of Cuba. So before Harris started law school, he traveled to Santiago in southeastern Cuba -- something very few Americans can do today. While there, he played his trumpet with a local dance band, touring across the Cuban countryside. I wanted to see and experience the country |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
Scientists are to dig up ice dating back more than 100,000 years in an attempt to shed light on how global warming will change the world over the next century. The ice, at the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, was laid down at a time when temperatures were 3 top 5 degrees Celsius (5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than they are today. |
How many ways can the world end? We can think of at least five. But before we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet. Global warming is bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth has been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine. |
— April 15, 1912: White Star oceanliner sinks 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland after striking iceberg on maiden voyage. More than 1,500 passengers and crew die. — 1916: Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., Titanic's owner, pays $664,000 to settle all legal claims. — Sept. 1, 1985: Titanic wreck discovered by joint expedition, including Robert |
After eight days together, space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the international space station Wednesday, ending a successful effort to boost electrical power and science research at the orbiting outpost. The two spacecraft went separate ways as they soared above the Indian Ocean. The undocking puts Discovery and its seven-member crew on course |
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Princeton undergraduate Xiaohang Quan was working on her senior thesis when she found a miscalculation in the hardware of the world's largest particle accelerator. Quan, a physics concentrator, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, in mid-March with Princeton physics professors Christopher Tully, Jim Olsen and Daniel Marlow for the annual meeting |
Some students will go without fast food, alcohol or watching television, but a growing number of students are going without status updates and friend requests during Lent. The 40-day Lenten period for penance, which came about after Christ's 40 days in the desert, begins Ash Wednesday and continues until Easter. |
NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year. NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins |
NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year. NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins |
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These amazing appliances made a lot of promises. With their bullet shapes, rounded corners and horizontal bands signifying speed, the blenders, juicers, alarm clocks, coffee pots, hair dryers and vacuum cleaners created in the Streamline Style of the 1930s stood for progress. They made housework seem dynamic, futuristic, even sexy. In |
This summer, daintily-clad toesies are morphing into so-called ``caged feet. Leather straps are radiating over arches, thrust forward by towering, heavy heels and thick shanks. Platforms made of punishing wood are back and in abundance. Heels come shaped like inverted triangles or hefty cylinders. |
Global auction house Christie's sold HK$31.54 million ($4.07 million) of fine wine at a Hong Kong auction on Saturday, capitalizing on the growth of Asian demand for top vintages. Sales at the auction, which was buoyed by a rare collection of vintages sourced from Chateau Latour's reserve cellars, topped a pre-sale estimate of $3.2 million, with 94 percent of lots sold. |
Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported on Monday. Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically altered poplar trees to pull toxins out of contaminated ground water, offering a cost-effective way of cleaning up environmental pollutants. |
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A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS. The Lancet in an editorial called on the Pope to retract the comments made last week, saying anything less would be an immense disservice to the public and |
Sixty-two years have passed since her masterwork, The Everglades: River of Grass. Fifteen years since her last significant statement as an activist, an upbraiding of Gov. Lawton Chiles for affixing her name to a Big Sugar pollution law she found sorely wanting. Almost 11 years since her death at 108 in her Coconut Grove cottage. |
A New York funeral director hoping to barter a free funeral for construction work on his patio was forced to scrap the idea due to the media frenzy that followed. Peter Dohanich, 51, posted an ad for the exchange on the online classified site Craigslist last week. Intense media interest in the story prompted his landlord, |
In a sparkling new kitchen in the Biltmore Hotel's conference center, five teary-eyed home cooks compared tips for no-cry onion chopping. I heard it helps if you breathe through your mouth, one said. My mother told me to put bread on the cutting board while you do it, offered another. Lourdes Castro chuckled. 'I say, `Chop faster.' |
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