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The government's road map for GM would send it into bankruptcy, erase most of its debt and eventually have it emerge leaner and stronger, largely owned by the taxpayers. Mark Carlson reports from Flint, Michigan. 05/29/09
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| | | Mariah Carey shooting her latest video for ''Obsessed'', a not-so-subtle dig at Eminem. |
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| | | Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Jim Nantz answers fan-submitted questions about his 30-year career in broadcasting |
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| | | ''LEAD'' helps inner city kids prepare for the future through baseball. Hear what students have to do to qualify for the program and more. |
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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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| | | 5-21 (AP) 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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| | | Good Charlotte''s frontman Joel Madden stops for a chat about the band''s forthcoming album. Mr Nicole Richie was attending the Sports Spectacular at Century City''s Hyatt Regency. |
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| | | Rays third baseman Evan Longoria speaks with FSN after picking up two hits and three RBIs in a come-from-behind win over the Orioles |
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| | | Democrats may have to resort to using dead voters to make up for the illegals going back to Mexico. |
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| | | Up to 62,000 people are homeless because of floods and mudslides in northeastern Brazil. At least 14 people have also died in the last month. Five states in Brazil have declared |
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| | | Sofia Vassilieva leaves MTV studios in central New York to after appearing on "It''s On With Alexa Chung". |
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A woman is over the moon at the prospect of marrying notorious Australian serial killer James Vlassakis. Bianca Roberts told the latest edition of Australia's That's Life magazine she would marry Vlassakis on Sept. 2 - even though he will not be eligible for parole until 2025, Adelaide Now reports. "We've been together for almost seven years," Roberts told That's Life. "I wish we could be |
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The father of American journalist Roxana Saberi said he has not heard from his daughter since she was arrested and detained in Iran almost a month ago. “Roxana called on February 10 to say that she had been arrested on January 31,†Reza Saberi told FOX News. “She did not say why she had been arrested or what for. She could not even say where she was when she was calling.†|
A man who allegedly held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children said his family led a "completely normal family life," the Daily Mail reported. Josef Fritzl told an Austrian psychologist he was trying to protect his daughter Elisabeth from herself. 'It was in the summer of 1984 that I found my daughter lying totally apathetic in bed," he told the doctor |
A young girl was sexually assaulted in broad daylight while visiting the South Australian Museum in Adelaide. The four-year-old was in the rear courtyard of the museum's ground floor when the incident occurred Sunday afternoon. Child Exploitation Section detectives are hunting for a clean-shaven Caucasian man in his late 20s to early 30s with short dark hair.\r\n |
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Bollywood superstar Anil Kapoor has been catapulted into the global spotlight for his award-winning performance as creepy quiz show host Prem Kumar in the smash hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire." Kapoor talks to CNN's "My City, My Life" about "Slumdog", his hometown of Mumbai, his own rags to riches rise to stardom and how the recent terror attacks affected 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. |
What would it cost to stay in a three-bedroom house in the heart of the nation's capital for Barack Obama's inauguration? Absolutely nothing, for those who don't mind bunking and bonding with perfect strangers. Members of a social hospitality network are opening their doors to inauguration-goers this week and |
When Stefanie Rasimowicz finds out the pool at her resort hotel will be closed during her vacation, she faces the prospect of a ruined honeymoon. The hotel is apologetic, but offers her no alternative except to use another nearby pool. Can it do better? Should it? Q: My fiance and I booked our honeymoon at the Westin Aruba through a |
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Actor and producer Anil Kapoor has long been a Bollywood luminary, but after his award-winning performance in global hit "Slumdog Millionaire," he is set to become an international star. Kapoor says that "Slumdog," a love story about a boy from a Mumbai slum who wins a fortune on quiz show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?," |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex took a congratulatory call from the White House on Tuesday and told President Barack Obama and schoolchildren all about their adventures in space. Obama got a big laugh in orbit and on the ground when he told the 10 space travelers that at a cruising speed of 17,500 mph, "We're glad that you are using the hands-free phone." |
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 |
Officials trying to determine how the 150-pound cat got out of its enclosure Officials at a Kansas zoo are trying to figure out how a 150-pound mountain lion escaped from its enclosure. The 14-year-old female was shot and killed by police at the Great Bend Zoo on Sunday evening. Zoo director Mike Cargill tells KAKE-TV the mountain lion escaped |
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 |
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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 |
Monitors say Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano has erupted again with an ash plume shooting about 15,000 feet high. The blast shortly after 5 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time (9 a.m. EDT) Wednesday was considered small and brief at 10 minutes. The plume appeared to be drifting north to northwest. Tom Murray, scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory |
It may have been a fashion first, but supermodel Naomi Campbell has nothing to fear. The HRP-4C humanoid robot showed off her stormtrooper-like silver and black frame and bowed to a fashion-savvy audience at the start of the annual Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo Monday but even her creators admit the mechanical model needs more work. |
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 |
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Scottish doctors came within a whisker of passing a motion calling for a "fat tax" on chocolate last week, and the doctor behind the move said chocolate was a root cause of increasing obesity. "Certainly the U.S. and the UK are affected by rising levels of obesity," David Walker, a family doctor in Airdrie, western Scotland, who proposed the motion, said. |
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, |
Designer Jil Sander's fashions are making a comeback, not on the runways of Milan or Paris but on the shelves of Japanese budget clothing retailer Uniqlo, which is thriving in the recession. Uniqlo's owner, Fast Retailing, said it had hired Sander as design consultant and to oversee its collection for the next fall and winter seasons, plus possibly create her own line. |
A French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal. Romain Mesnil, who won a silver medal at the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, used to be sponsored by U.S. sports brand Nike but says his contract expired last year and was not renewed. |
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As dawn breaks over a small village in the easternmost corner of Hungary, thousands gather for the country's biggest pig slaughter festival and butchery contest. This is the seventh year that the village of Napkor near Hungary's Ukrainian border has hosted the event. This time 40 teams will participate in a bloody contest that becomes a huge feast by midday. |
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. |
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 |
King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will appear at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival's gala Viva Espaa! 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 Fundacin Espaa-Florida. For information and |
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