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| | | Former NBA star Dave Bing is now the mayor of Detroit. Bing won a special election Tuesday. He takes the place of Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned after a sex scandal. |
| | | Watch Albert Pujols of the St. Louis knock out the lights in the "I'' in McDonald''s Big Mac sign. |
| | | Connie Culp, an Ohio mother of two, thanked the medical staff at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and the deceased donor whose nose, upper lip and check bones are now hers. Health officials voice |
| | | The U.N. General Assembly demanded the immediate restoration of Honduras'' ousted president, but the man who replaced him said Manuel Zelaya could be arrested if he returns home. |
| | | Crab industry in turmoil as N.L. processors refuse prices |
| | | Youngster Li Tianqi can read and recognize over 2,000 Chinese characters, impressive for a child who has yet to reach her second birthday. |
| | | Ashley Greene arrives at LAX and shows off a ring on her left hand. When asked if she was planning on getting married, the Twilight actress said she didn''t know if she will ever wed. Greene also had a drawing of a heart with the initials "KJ" inside. |
| | | Clay Zavada picked up a win in his major league debut after pitching a perfect seventh inning. Hear from Zavada after Arizona''s 4-3 victory over Florida. |
| | | UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew over Sri Lanka''s last battlefield and urged the government to let more aid reach displaced Tamils complaining of hunger and separation from their families. |
| | | The Supreme Court declared Monday that white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide. |
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The stars came out in droves to raise money for a children's charity.
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| | | Television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack in his sleep, but further tests are needed to be sure of the cause of death, a medical examiner said Monday |
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| | | LOST Executive Producer Carlton Cuse offers insight into next season''s series finale, news on Juliet''s fate, and, who are THEY? |
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| | | A British Benedictine monk is using his holy hands to make organic beauty products from beeswax. |
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| | | Teri Hatcher fluffs her lines when she does a promo clip for E! Entertainment. Hatcher was being interviewed about her charity work with the Band From TV who performed later that night. |
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| | | The Boston Globe and its largest union have reached a tentative agreement to keep the paper operating. The Globe''s website reports employees will be forced to take pay cuts and unpaid |
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| | | Comedian Gallagher runs late to catch his flight out, but still takes some time to pose for some photos as he carries along his trademark "Sledge-O-Matic," a large wooden mallet used in his show. |
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| | | A vehicle bomb has killed at least 10 people when it exploded in a wholesale vegetable market in southern Baghdad. |
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| | | British singer, Louise Griffiths, had a wardrobe malfunction today while she played in the surf with her actor boyfriend Jesse Spencer. The couple had been body surfing in the rolling waves when Louise''s bikini slipped revealing her breasts. |
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| | | A British Benedictine monk is using his holy hands to make organic beauty products from beeswax. |
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| | | At least 12 people have drowned after a tourist boat in the the central Philippines overturned and sank. |
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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 |
The Indian government Wednesday launched a last-ditch attempt to block the sale of Mahatma Gandhi’s wire-rimmed spectacles and other iconic personal effects linked to the freedom fighter, who famously eschewed material possessions. In Delhi, the High Court issued an injunction outlawing the planned auction of memorabilia that also includes |
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Butler County has been downgraded to a Level One snow emergency as of 11 a.m. today, Feb. 4. "The snow has finally subsided and we are seeing some sunshine which is helping; however, at this point we would still recommend that motorists exercise extreme caution and stay off the roads if it is not necessary to go out," said Butler County Engineer Greg Wilkens Drivers |
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JOSÉ Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, has proposed a pan-European regulatory system which would cover the City of London and all other financial centres. He wants to see changes to how banks, insurers and markets are supervised to apply lessons from the credit crunch. The commission has not caught up with what is happening inside the European Union (EU). The member |
Police say a fight between inmates at a prison in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has left at least 20 prisoners dead. Chihuahua state police spokesman Carlos Gonzalez says a fight broke out between three different gangs at about 6 a.m. Wednesday at the state prison in the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. |
Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in China's southwest, rights groups and officials said. It was the latest resistance to Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries in Tibet. Tensions are high over harsh security measures set up before the new year, which began Feb. 25. The Monlam |
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Lower Occupancy Rates Brought On By Recession Mean Lower Prices For Travelers "Now is probably the best season to travel," said Roger Dow, the president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association. In big tourist destinations, hotels have resorted to slashing room rates. Stays in Las Vegas, New York and Honolulu dropped by at least 20 percent, |
The "crime scene cookies", "baaji custard" and "sponge shafts" depicted in Oliver Beale's letter of complaint to Virgin Atlantic struck a chord worldwide. The missive he sent to Virgin chairman Sir Richard Branson about a meal he received on board a Virgin flight from Mumbai to London in December spread across the web and email with a vengeance. |
The title on Chris Doyle's business card reads "mad scientist," but he's not crazy, he's just crazy about snowboarding. Doyle decided one snowy day in New York to quit his job as a bank accountant and chase his dreams on the snowy slopes of Vermont. Eventually, that spur-of-the-moment decision led to his job as senior product development specialist |
Some passengers on a diverted Aeromexico flight finally reached their destination in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday after spending 16 hours in limbo. The plane was scheduled to fly from Mexico City, Mexico, to Seattle on Tuesday, but was diverted to Portland, Oregon, because of thick fog, said Kara Simonds, |
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Gas prices nationwide jumped a bit over the past two weeks, according to a survey published Sunday. A gallon of self-serve regular cost, on average, $1.86, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey. That's a rise of nearly 8 cents over the past two weeks. After breaking all-time-high records over the summer, prices |
U.S. Airways has sent a check for $5,000 to each passenger who was on the plane that crashed in the Hudson River last week, saying it will be months before they receive any of their possessions that were on the plane and are recoverable. "The National Transportation Safety Board has now begun their investigation |
Mumbai is extreme India. In this booming metropolis all the wealth, inequalities, colors, flavors and passions of India are magnified to an almost unbearable degree. Somewhere between 13 and 20 million people are squeezed into the city that is India's leading financial and industrial center and the home of the Bollywood movie. |
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. |
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Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They're concerned about how the milder winter freeze may |
You, too, can be a hero. For 99 cents, iPhone and iPod Touch users can now download a flight simulator called "Sully's Flight" which lets you recreate this past January's "Miracle on the Hudson." Based on the "X-Plane" flight simulator, also available at Apple's App Store, the game takes you through takeoff, hitting a flock of |
Astronaut Garrett Reisman spent three unforgettable months living in space, but after landing he ended up on a different mission of sorts aboard the fictional spaceship Battlestar Galactica. Just weeks after his return from the International Space Station to Earth last summer, Reisman found himself on the set of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica |
Animals obviously hook up, at least during mating season. But do they like it? According to experts, there are two answers: "yes" and "it is impossible to know." "Mosquitoes, I don't know," hedged Mark Bekoff, a University of Colorado biologist and author of "The Emotional Lives of Animals" (New World Library), "but across mammals, they enjoy sex." |
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Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted six times, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust fell Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage. "It's coming down," Rita Jackson, 56 |
— 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 |
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. |
New tremors at Alaska's Mount Redoubt are prompting speculation that the volcano could be in a phase that will lead to more instability. The 10,200-foot volcano erupted six times Sunday and Monday, spewing clouds of gritty ash high into the sky. A volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Tuesday that Redoubt was |
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In her bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi writes of a beloved friend and advisor who tells her, Lady, we do not need your truths but your fiction -- if you're any good, perhaps you can trickle in some sort of truth, but spare us your real feelings. Fiction is all well and good. Reading Lolita in Tehran, after all |
Fifteen years after Miami's Pedro Zamora became a national symbol for living with HIV -- and dying of AIDS -- a new drama about his life will soon debut on the network that made him a reality TV star. Pedro, a film written by Dustin Lance Black, who won an original-screenplay Oscar for Milk, |
King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will appear at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival's gala ¡Viva España! celebration of Iberian cuisine and wines at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. The event benefits Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Fundación España-Florida. For information and |
Inauguration Day will belong to President Barack Obama, but that night will be wife Michelle's turn in the spotlight, as all eyes will be on her -- and her choice of ball gown. Throughout U.S. history, and especially in the post-World War II era, first ladies have made statements about themselves and the times they live in with their inaugural wardrobes. |
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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. |
American diva Thelma Houston, whose 1977 hit No. 1 song "Don't Leave Me This Way" became one of the major songs of the disco era, is back -- with her first new album in 17 years. Houston, 61, who lives in Los Angeles, says the gap wasn't planned as she has continued working during that period, touring incessantly and performing about 200 shows a year. |
Lights went out at tourism landmarks and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change. From the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London's Houses of Parliament, lights were dimmed as part of a campaign to |
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. |
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