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on Jun 11, 2009 | In Movies & Hollywood
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Adrianna Costa chats up Denzel Washington at the premiere of THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123. Denzel joked about missing his beloved Lakers for the premiere and reflected about co-star John Travolta's struggle after the death of his son Jett.
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| | | Michael Jackson''s body will be taken to his famous Neverland Valley Ranch, where public viewings will take place later this week -- according to media reports. |
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| | | In Nepal, supporters of the Maoist party in parliament take to the streets as tensions rise during efforts to form a government |
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| | | Patrick Kibangou is not your typical Polish politician. He is the country''s sole black candidate for next month''s European Parliament elections. A look at how he is putting that to his advantage. |
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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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | A newborn anteater debuts to the press in Tokyo before its official premier to the public next month. |
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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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| | | Royals'' outfielder Tug Hulett talks with FSN about his recent pinch hit, childhood and much more. |
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| | | Adam Lambert fans, take heart: At least your guy doesn''t have to sing the hokey "No Boundaries," this year''s much mocked "American Idol" ballad, ever, ever again. That dubious honor will go to winner Kris Allen |
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| | | New footage shows Jon Gosselin leaving her Pennsylvania house at 7:30 a.m. March 13 |
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The Egyptian government has unexpectedly released one of the country's most prominent dissidents, Ayman Nour, who was jailed more than three years ago despite widespread national and international objections. Eight other dissidents and Nour, head of al-Ghad Party, were released Wednesday for health reasons, according to a member of |
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who suffered a second stroke in June, is heavily sedated and is expected to remain in a French military hospital for a long time, Health Minister Brian Chituwo said. In a broadcast on state television on Friday night, Chituwo said Mwanawasa remained in a "stable but heavily sedated" condition in the |
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. |
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The United States is moving to suspend all non-humanitarian aid to Madagascar because it considers this week's forced departure of its president "tantamount to a coup d'etat," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Friday. Earlier in the day, the African Union announced it had suspended Madagascar's membership after |
The funeral for the wife of Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai, killed in a car crash on 6 March, is to take place on Wednesday, his party has said. Susan Tsvangirai will be buried at her rural home in Buhera, a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) official said. Mr Tsvangirai, who is in neighbouring Botswana for medical tests and rest, is expected to return to Harare on Monday. |
Insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul placed a bomb on a car carrying a local politician Sunday, wounding him in the blast, according to a Mosul police official. Talib Muhsen, a member of the Al-Hadbaa electoral list, survived with injuries, the official said. It was one of four separate attacks Sunday across Mosul that left two dead and four wounded, including Muhsen. |
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A baby ape born in the UK is settling into a new life in a German zoo after flying from Birmingham to Frankfurt -- monkey business class. The three-month old male bonobo -- who is to be fostered by a family of German apes after being rejected by his natural mother -- was considered too young and too fragile to travel cargo class, a |
A six-page rant to Virgin Atlantic's Sir Richard Branson about a woeful in-flight meal attracted so much attention on the Internet that it was rumored to be a clever marketing stunt. The author was reported to be Oliver Beale, a 29 year old art director who works at a London advertising agency. Both he and Virgin |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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. |
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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. |
A University of South Florida professor of archaeology wants students to know one thing: Archaeology is not just about dinosaurs. In her book "Archaeology for Dummies," Nancy Marie White explains what archaeology is all about. The book provides an overview of the field of archaeology and its different types. It covers prehistoric and historic archaeology |
A British driver has blamed his GPS navigation unit for leaving his car teetering on the edge of a cliff after he followed its instructions. Robert Jones said he trusted his navigational system and continued to follow it when it told him the steep, narrow footpath he was driving on was a road. Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, northern England, now has a court |
A University of South Florida professor of archaeology wants students to know one thing: Archaeology is not just about dinosaurs. In her book "Archaeology for Dummies," Nancy Marie White explains what archaeology is all about. The book provides an overview of the field of archaeology and its different types. It covers prehistoric and historic archaeology |
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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. |
British intelligence officers scoured hundreds of UFO sighting reports in the 1980s and 1990s looking for top-secret American stealth-plane projects, newly released files have shown. At the end of the cold war, the Ministry of Defense was worried that America was developing mysterious planes but not telling its closest ally. |
A fossil from famous shale deposits in Canada was thought to be unremarkable, but a new study finds that it's actually the remains of a 500-million-year-old monster-looking predator. The Burgess Shale (a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia) has yielded exceptionally well-preserved fossils that present a |
Recession or no, billionaire Charles Simonyi couldn't pass up another shot at space, even if it meant shelling out $35 million more. Besides, it may one of the last times the Russian government allows tourists to hitch a ride to the international space station. "It's now or never," said Simonyi, who has now spent $60 million for a couple of space vacations |
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Margrit Mondavi, wife of winemaker Robert Mondavi, is today the voice for her husband and a champion of wine, food and the arts in the Napa Valley in California. While her husband steered Napa winemakers toward competing with Old World rivals in the 1970s, Swiss-born Margrit launched the Great Chefs program at the Robert Mondavi Winery, |
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Looking for somewhere new to visit this year that is not going to break the bank? Frommers has released its list of top destinations for 2009, focusing on places that are affordable and interesting. Reuters has not endorsed this list: . Washington, D.C., USA There's the influx of new blood and governing energy from January 21 when Barack Obama is inaugurated as U.S. |
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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 |
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. |
Zeinab Salmanzadeh graduated from high school with stellar grades, but the university near her hometown in southwestern Iran repeatedly rejected her application. The only way she could continue her education was to study secretly with part-time tutors. The sole reason: her religion. Now a Kendall resident and a business |
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. |
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