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Who says you need a fancy gym to get a good workout? Hollywood 411's Adrianna Costa hangs with the man who gets the girls from THE HILLS in shape, Jarett Del Bene, who teaches how to get ripped with the aid of a single chair!
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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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| | | PUBLIC ENEMIES premieres with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale walking the red carpet to talk about John Dillinger''s story. |
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| | | Royals'' outfielder Tug Hulett talks with FSN about his recent pinch hit, childhood and much more. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | U.S. soul singer John Legend visits Mexico to promote album "Evolver" released last year and gives intimate charity concert in benefit of Casa de la Amistad for children with cancer. |
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| | | Probation officers have visited suspended NFL star Michael Vick''s Virginia home to outfit him with an electronic monitoring device. Vick arrived home Thursday morning from federal prison in Kansas to start two months of home confinement. |
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| | | Adam Wainwright struck out seven as the Cardinals completed a three-game sweep of the Cubs with a 3-1 victory. Hear from Wainwright after the win. |
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| | | Sales of Michael Jackson merchandise and memorabilia has spiked since the King of Pop''s death. As AP''s Haven Daley reports, everything from t-shirts to CD''s are flying off store shelves |
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| | | AP''s Haven Daley talked to aspiring singers who showed up at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to audition to become the next American Idol. The hopefuls say the late Michael Jackso |
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| | | Gaspar Noe''s ''Enter the Void'' tells the story of Oscar and his sister Linda, respectively small drug dealer and nightclub stripper, wandering through Tokyo. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom. Trailer of film. |
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A homicide bomber stalked members of a police intelligence unit, waiting for their night shifts to end, then attacked them outside a Baghdad restaurant Wednesday, killing three. The blast was one of a spate of attacks around Iraq — including a homicide car bombing at a police checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul and the ambush-slaying of a Sunni sheik and his family north of Baghdad. |
A bomb blast exploded outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding several people, a U.S. official said. An Afghan governor blamed the attack on a suicide car bomber, and the Taliban claimed responsibility. The blast outside the main base at Bagram did not appear to kill anyone, according to early reports, said Capt. Elizabeth Mathias |
The U.N. nuclear agency said it found traces of uranium from samples retrieved at a Syrian site suspected to be the location of a nuclear site, according to a report posted Thursday on the Institute for Science and International Security Web site. The site was bombed by Israeli aircraft in September 2007, and the report said Syria says the missiles that destroyed the building at the site |
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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 |
If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order. Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Ministry's |
A homicide bomber stalked members of a police intelligence unit, waiting for their night shifts to end, then attacked them outside a Baghdad restaurant Wednesday, killing three. The blast was one of a spate of attacks around Iraq — including a homicide car bombing at a police checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul and the ambush-slaying of a Sunni sheik and his family north of Baghdad. |
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Allison Rupp worked at Yellowstone National Park's historic Old Faithful Inn in 2004. Three simple letters could inspire the "Hallelujah" chorus: DND, or do not disturb. One sign hanging on a doorknob, and the day's work was shortened by half an hour. Two signs? Pure heaven, but only if they remained there until my eight-hour shift ended |
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? |
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 |
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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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 |
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 |
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 |
Deals Abound Amid Recession; Lower Gas Prices Than Last Year Will Mean More Car Trips And Fewer Flights Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of the summer travel season, but if you think this might be the year you don't sit in traffic because Americans decide to stay home during a recession marked by record unemployment and high foreclosure rates, think again. |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
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." |
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. |
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 |
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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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 |
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 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 |
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. |
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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 |
OK, so: kissing. Here's what we know. It has major evolutionary advantage. Only the hottest and highest species do it. Yet among current humans, the future of kissing seems an open question. In our liberated era, have we become so quick to get past the kiss and further into lovemaking that we have devalued the icons, wisdoms and traditions of the ancestors? |
Daily coffee consumption in the United States was steady this year compared to 2008, while the number of people making their coffee at home rose, the National Coffee Association of U.S.A. said on Saturday. Data from the 2009 National Coffee Drinking Trends survey, which polled more than 3,000 adults in the United States by |
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 |
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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. |
Barbara Theodosiou stayed home for nearly two decades to raise her four children, an accomplishment she describes as profoundly fulfilling but also lonely and limiting. After the birth of her youngest nine years ago, she returned to school to earn a master's degree in family counseling, and along the way founded two organizations -- Mommy |
London is home to the most expensive property in the world, followed by Monaco, New York and Hong Kong, a new report shows. Prime property in the British capital costs 2,300 pounds ($4,585) per square foot, just above Monaco, playground of the rich and famous, at 2,190 pounds, according to estate agent Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank's "Wealth Report 2007". |
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. |
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