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| | | Allie Grant, who plays Elisabeth Perkins'' long suffering daughter Isabella on WEEDS, talks about the shows new season and why her hometown of Tupelo Mississipi probably doesn''t have a huge fan base for the show. |
| | | The latest celebrity news including Phil Spector''s mug shot, Britney''s date book and Miley heading out on the road. |
| | | In this footage obtained by TMZ.com, David Hasselhoff says he was drinking the night he was allegedly hospitalized with alcohol poisoning, but says that reports were ''utterly exaggerated.'' |
| | | The Dallas Cowboys have unveiled a $40 million HDTV in their new stadium. It''s 72 feet high and 160 feet long and hangs high above the center of the field. |
| | | The NFL champion Pittsburgh Steelers were at the White House Thursday to meet with President Obama. The president and the players also put together care packages for troops serving overseas. Video essay by Matt Ford |
| | | Hear from Dexter Fowler after the Rockies'' win against the Tigers. Fowler scored two runs in Colorado''s 4-3 victory. |
| | | Federal judge orders the 4 men to remain in jail and charges them with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction |
| | | Prince Fielder and Corey Hart talk after the Brewers'' 4-3 win over the Astros. Fielder drove in two with a single and Hart had an RBI double in a three-run seventh. |
| | | Royals'' outfielder Tug Hulett talks with FSN about his recent pinch hit, childhood and much more. |
| | | 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 pharmacist accused of murder in the shooting death of a would-be robber is out on bail. Surveillance video captured the incident, and the case is already stirring debate. 05/29/09
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| | | Steven Tyler visits Rock ''n'' Roll Fantasy Camp and our Nikki Boyer gets the scoop on what turns him on. Also at Rock ''n'' Roll Fantasy Camp, Olympic skater Scott Hamilton |
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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 uncle of one four New York terror plot suspects says his nephew, Onta Williams, was brainwashed and changed after he became a Muslim in prison. He said his nephew had been shaken by his mother''s death in 2006 and a separation from his wife. |
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| | | A 27 year old woman accused of killing her pregnant friend is believed to have cut open the mother-to-be''s womb to take her baby and pass it off as her own. |
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| | | AMERICAN IDOL''s Matt Giraud talks about Adam being in the bottom two, the artists he hopes to work with and who he thinks will be in the finale! |
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| | | The popular dollhouse game gets a dose of personality in "The Sims 3." AP''s weekly Video Game Video finds cleptomaniacs and other wacky characters in the game, due out next month. |
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| | | Last month Iraq''s stock exchange introduced electronic trading, taking it one step towards modernity but with many leagues to go to rival other bourses. But 86 listed stocks continue to be |
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| | | Democrats still insist Malcolm Smith is the state Senate majority leader, even if Republicans beg to differ. |
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| | | Carsharing has seen enormous success in the U.S. and a handful of other European cities. Zipcar, a company that lets customers borrow cars straight from the parking lot, is becoming a way of life |
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| | | What are the Red Wings'' ''Black Aces''? Watch this clip to find out how hard work does pay off in Detroit. |
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Britain will push for tougher U.N. sanctions against Sudan if its government does not support international efforts to end the conflict in Darfur, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday. All sides in the Darfur conflict faced a choice of committing to the political process outlined by the African Union and United Nations or "face the |
Gen Lansana Conte has ruled in name only in recent years, preferring to spend time in his home village of Wawa. And the vacuum that has opened during the most recent phase of the president's illness risks being filled by the powerful, self-interested players that have come to dominate government during the president's long decline. |
A great white shark attacked on a teenage surfer at a Sydney beach early Sunday morning. Andrew Lindop, 15, is lucky to be alive after he was bitten on the leg while surfing with his father at North Avalon. His ordeal was the third shark attack in Sydney in as many weeks. All beaches from Newport to Palm Beach were closed and swimmers were ordered from the water at Maroubra after a shark was spotted circling offshore. |
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Ghanaian President John Kufuor has been involved in a car crash in the capital, Accra, but appears to have escaped unhurt, according to his office. Witnesses say they saw a vehicle crash into his car, causing it to roll over several times. When it came to a stop Mr Kufuor emerged holding his head. A presidential spokesman said he seemed fine but was seen by his doctor. |
The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Monday blamed ministry infiltrators for the 2006 killing of the sister of the Sunni vice president. The assertion was made to reporters by the head of the ministry's department of internal affairs and security, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abu Ragheef. Twelve members of a death squad, all but one of whom was working for the ministry, have been detained for kidnappings and killings, |
China dismissed a Taiwan accusation of buying diplomatic recognition in Africa with $250 million in aid and loans on Tuesday, saying it was like a burglar shouting 'stop thief!' Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province, said Beijing had offered five African nations aid, loans and debt write-offs during recent state visits, highlighting tit-for-tat accusations of checkbook diplomacy between the political rivals. |
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Kim Bouck is wary of the fine print on the "free" ticket offer by American Express. So she gets a few of the company's promises in writing. When the promises are broken, however, American Express backtracks -- and she's left ticketless. What now? Q: I recently found an American Express Business Gold Rewards credit card deal that promised that if I |
Americans hungry for feel-good fine dining are reaping the benefits of the struggling economy. Wine deals, bar menu specials and three-course, prix fixe meals for $25 to $40 are popping up in high-end eateries across the country to lure customers as business and leisure travel dips and diners stay closer to home and make |
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 |
Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place. Others are expected to be seen in coming decades. There are two ways to look at this: Either stay home (which might be less depressing and won't add more airline emissions) or get a move on it |
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Every year when I update my guidebook series, I find out what's new in Europe. Here's a review of what Americans can expect the next time they cross the Atlantic. Note that this is a continent-wide look at the latest in Europe. In upcoming columns, I'll cover what's new per major country. In 2009, it's not the "old Europe" anymore as |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
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 |
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. |
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 |
Two astronauts who were teaching math and science to middle school students just five years ago went on a spacewalk together Monday, but could not free a jammed equipment shelf no matter how hard they tried. Their path, at least, ended up clear of dangerous orbiting junk that had threatened the international space station and shuttle, and forced the |
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— 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 |
She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady. The world may be able to get a whiff of that ancient royal scent when researchers complete their investigation into the perfume worn by Hatshepsut, the powerful pharaoh-queen who ruled over ancient Egypt for 20 years beginning around 1479 B.C. |
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 |
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 |
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LIFE & LIVING» |
It is early afternoon, and the blazing sun blinds me as I keep pace with Noris Ledesma, moving swiftly between rows of small, bushy tropical trees. I am still recovering from a close encounter with a pair of noisy geese who think the Colombian-born horticulturist is their mother when a gust of wind, smelling of earth and mulch, blows off my hat. |
Tim Page finds solace in sounds that most would call dissonant. I'm one of the very few people in the world who rather enjoys having an MRI, says Page, a classical music critic in Los Angeles whose book Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider, a memoir of his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism, will be |
Travel can open your eyes to some of the world's most beautiful sights and buildings -- and to some of the ugliest. Web site VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) has come up with a list of "The World's Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments" according to their editors and readers. Reuters has not endorsed this list. |
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 |
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When out-of-work accountant Jim Ammon tires of scouring for scarce job listings, he takes out his frustrations by driving in nails for new houses he volunteers to build for the working poor. Laura Spelke volunteers at the United Way charity in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in part to escape the sting of losing her sales job: "Volunteering is a way to stay active |
Tim Page finds solace in sounds that most would call dissonant. I'm one of the very few people in the world who rather enjoys having an MRI, says Page, a classical music critic in Los Angeles whose book Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider, a memoir of his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism, will be |
An Australian school bus driver hit in the back of the head by a hard sweet has become a local hero after taking his unruly students to the police station to report their crime. Veteran driver Graham King had asked the primary grade students to buckle their seat belts and stay seated while he drove them back fromschool in a Brisbane suburb |
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, |
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