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| | | 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. |
| | | The latest entertainment and celebrity headlines including Michael Jackson rehearsal photos, Janet Jackson''s statement and Spinal Tap on the shortlist. |
| | | Reds minor league manager Rick Sweet has big league potential. Hear why he thinks he''s ready for the majors. |
| | | 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. |
| | | 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 |
| | | The three-month suspension given Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps has ended. Speaking exclusively with The Associated Press, Phelps says he didn''t even realize his suspension ended today |
| | | In northern France runs the river "La Crise" (The Crisis). The ongoing world economic crisis has inspired locals to cash in on the pun, with one entrepreneur offering tourists "Crisis weekends" |
| | | American actress, journalist and television presenter Maria Menounos arrives at Miami International Airport after a flight into Miami, FL. |
| | | A Somali teen pleads not guilty of holding hostage a US ship captain after an attempted hijacking, while his lawyers describe the Somali teenager''s time in the US court system as heart-wrenching |
| | | Almost extinct, the old tradition of the ''tiger dance'' is kept alive in eastern India. |
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on Jun 10, 2009 | In Anti-Aging & Beauty
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The Fashion Team shows you how to get your skin ready for the summer, with a little help from Jamie Yee of the exclusive Kate Somerville Salon! Jamie shares the same secrets the salon uses on some of Hollywood's top stars!
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| | | 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. |
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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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| | | As Will Smith gets honored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center with the 2009 Humanitarian Award - his wife and kids get in on the act and praise their family man |
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| | | We now know the recipient of the country\\u2019s first near-total face transplant. 46-year old Connie Culp made her first public appearance, five months after undergoing a 22-hour procedure, where surgeons used donor tissue to help rebuild her face. |
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| | | 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. |
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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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| | | New footage shows Jon Gosselin leaving her Pennsylvania house at 7:30 a.m. March 13 |
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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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| | | Wildlife officials have captured a one-year old moose in Connecticut. Officials knocked the moose out with a tranquilizer dart and then relocated it. Officials were worried about the moose getting involved in an accident. |
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Saudi King Abdullah has appointed a woman to the council of ministers for the first time as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, networks including Saudi state-run Channel One reported Saturday. King Abdullah announced a new supreme court chief, minister of health, justice minister and information minister as part of the reshuffling, according to Channel One. King Abdullah appointed Noor Al-Fayez to the |
Four members of the peacekeeping force in the Sudanese region of Darfur have been injured in an ambush. It is the first attack on the Darfur peacekeepers since the International Criminal Court indicted President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes last week. One of the soldiers is in a serious condition following the assault by unknown |
Attackers detonated a landmine near Mogadishu port on Friday, hours after two people were killed trying to bury another mine in the dangerous Somali capital, an official said. "This morning an automatic remote-controlled landmine was detonated near the port. The blast was targeting government troops driving along a road," Mogadishu's deputy mayor Mohamed Osman told Reuters. |
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The notorious Iraq prison once called Abu Ghraib has reopened under Iraqi government control. And the Ministry of Justice has launched a public-relations campaign to show it has changed since the days when prisoners were tortured there -- first under Saddam Hussein, and later by American troops. It is now called Baghdad Central Prison, and has water fountains, a freshly planted garden and a |
The National Assembly in the Democratic Republic of Congo has adopted a new constitution for the country. The text is intended to end years of war and political instability in the country and has been agreed by all the former warring factions. The constitution limits the powers of the president, who will now serve a maximum of |
Refugees in Sudan's troubled Darfur region have freed all of the 34 aid workers they had earlier seized. It appears the refugees were demanding the release of one of their leaders arrested by police at the weekend. The kidnappings took place on Sunday at the Kalma camp - the largest camp in Darfur, housing almost 90,000 people. |
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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 |
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 |
When it comes to travel, forbidden is in. Cuba, Iran and North Korea -- long off-limits to most American visitors -- might be added to the "allowed" list under an Obama administration. Other destinations that were considered too dangerous or hostile to Americans are becoming fashionable again, as travelers jettison boring "staycations" for something more exotic. |
Steven Olson wants his $200 deposit back from Princess Cruises, but the company isn't budging. The problem: he canceled the credit card through which he made the purchase. Princess will only refund it to the canceled card. After hours on the phone and promises of a check, Olson is no closer to getting his money. What now? |
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Two young Iranian parents smiled at me, showing mock desperation as their little boy and girl eagerly dragged them into a shop famous for its pistachio ice cream sandwiches. Around the corner, filling the side of a 15-story building, a government-sponsored propaganda mural showed a perverted American flag, with skulls for stars and falling bombs for stripes. |
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. |
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, |
Steven Olson wants his $200 deposit back from Princess Cruises, but the company isn't budging. The problem: he canceled the credit card through which he made the purchase. Princess will only refund it to the canceled card. After hours on the phone and promises of a check, Olson is no closer to getting his money. What now? |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
A teenage hacker from New Zealand who helped a criminal network to infiltrate more than 1 million computers worldwide and skim millions of dollars from bank accounts has been hired as a cybersecurity consultant by the country's second-largest telecommunications company. Owen Thor Walker has skills that can help senior executives and |
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 |
The Conficker Internet worm could strike at infected computers around the world on April 1, a security expert warned Monday. Conficker is a sophisticated piece of malicious computer software, or malware, that installs itself on a Windows PC's hard drive via specially written Web pages. It then conceals itself on a computer. |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
Blockbuster Inc. plans to rent and sell its movies and TV shows through TiVo Inc.'s digital video recorders in the second half of this year. The Dallas-based video rental company is playing catch-up to rival Netflix Inc., which already offers free instant streaming of its movies and TV shows through TiVo DVRs and other devices with its "Watch Instantly" service. |
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 |
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LIFE & LIVING» |
After a recent chicken slaughtering workshop in the Redland, Justine Raphael took away the basics of butchering a bird. She also took away the chicken livers, hearts, gizzards, heads and feet. No one wanted them except me, said Raphael, who used the chicken bits for soup stock. More food for us, she added with a shrug. |
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, |
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 |
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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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. |
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 |
Meet the latest targeted consumers of tattoo art: the pacifier set. Four artists from the Love Hate Tattoo studio who came to fame through TLC's Miami Ink reality series have launched Ruthless & Toothless, a fashion line for tots. The Love Hate guys have put fire-breathing dragons and peevish samurais on pint-size |
Ann Parsons, the new director of The Kampong in Coconut Grove, once spent a summer in Canada teaching Cree-Ojibway Indians to plant potatoes. She lived in a house without running water and was warmed by a wood-burning stove. She followed a boyfriend to Hawaii and, while that didn't work out, she made such good friends |
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