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| | | The Marlins'' Dan Uggla and Steve Foster visit a local 4th grade class. See highlights of an afternoon that included turkey calls, a lesson on perseverance and more. |
| | | BA reveals its worst ever losses on Friday as oil prices steady above $61 and the UK economy shrinks further. |
| | | May is the official start of the summer movie season, and this year promises to be a big one. Chris Harrison chats with Ellen Fox from Rotten Tomatoes and AP''s movie critic Christy Lemire about what we can expect at the movies. |
| | | "American Idol" contestant Mishavonna Henson gives us her verdict on the latest series and talks about her superstitions. |
| | | Tim Furlong visits Betty''s speakeasy in Philadelphia for a delicious fudge treat! |
| | | Connie Culp, an Ohio mother of two, thanked the medical staff at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and the deceased donor whose nose, upper lip and check bones are now hers. Health officials voice |
| | | People attending a Cinco de Mayo celebration on Olvera Street in Los Angeles say attendance is noticeably down from last year. Some say it''s because the festivities fall on a weekday. |
| | | Dr. Lori Chap tells Lori how to effectively do a self examination and the importance of understanding that going through cancer is more about thriving than surviving. |
| | | 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. |
| | | We''ve got all the stars at the Kentucky Derby! Paris Hilton & BF, Drew & Nick Lachey, Danica Patrick & Eli Manning at Barnstable Brown Gala. At the Mint Jubilee we caught Marg Helgenberger |
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A woman directing traffic near the waterfront in Southwest D.C. was killed after she was struck by a street sweeper Friday night.
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| | | At least 12 people have drowned after a tourist boat in the the central Philippines overturned and sank. |
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| | | Anthony Swarzak talks with FSN after the Twins beat the Brewers 6-2. Swarzak threw seven shutout innings in his major league debut. |
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| | | 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 |
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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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| | | Atlanta firefighter Bobby Stewart describes the scene of a four-level parking deck collapse at a office building at Georgia Tech''s Research Park. Several cars were crushed but there |
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| | | Asian markets remained largely unchanged after Bank of America said it may sell Chinese stakes, tempered by optimism Chinese manufacturing would spur growth in regional exporters |
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| | | Chelsea and German footballer Michael Ballack takes a quick dip in the ocean while his wife Simone Lambe looks on as she enjoys the warm South Florida sun. The two packed up and headed back into their luxury hotel shortly afterwards. |
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| | | Pakistan''s military is continuing its offensive against Islamists militants in the northwest -- but some militants in the Swat valley are calling for revenge. |
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| | | Famous siblings Samantha and Mark Ronson prowl about New York''s SoHo with their posse, including rapper Q-Tip. The group ate lunch at Bar Pitti. |
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| | | Hollywood is at it again . . . this time playing fast and loose with WWII facts |
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WORLD» |
Australia mourned the victims of deadly bushfires at church services across the country on Sunday while the government vowed to create an early warning system to try to avoid a repetition of the disaster. The fires in the state of Victoria, the worst natural disaster to hit the country in more than a century, have left at least 181 people dead, a death toll |
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, on his first visit to Africa, called on Friday for more development aid to help curb emigration and threw his support behind a peace process in war-divided Ivory Coast. Speaking in Mali's capital Bamako on the first leg of his tour, the former aid worker said that sending people to work in France |
"I won!" Tzipi Livni said. My party got the most votes. "Today, the people decided -- Kadima," Livni announced at a victory rally Tuesday night. "I won!" Benjamin Netanyahu said. My party showed the biggest gains. "In the old Knesset (parliament), the national camp had only 50 seats," the Likud party leader told his own victory rally. "Today, without a doubt, it has increased to a decisive majority." |
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The Indonesian island of Bali kicked off an eight-day yoga festival Tuesday despite the country's top Muslim clerics issuing a fatwa against the exercise that is viewed as a threat to Islam, Agence France-Presse reported. The Indonesian Council of Ulemas issued the fatwa in January, saying Indonesian Muslims were forbidden to practice yoga that involves |
The second-highest ranking official in Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's political party resigned Saturday, along with four other high-ranking Kurdish politicians, officials said. Khosrat Rasul, the vice president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, resigned, along with four other members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), according to Kurdish lawmakers. |
Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has become synonymous with torture, abductions and killings "They tied me and laid me down. They told me not to cry. Not to make any noise. Then one man sat on my chest, men held my arms, legs, and one held my neck". "Another picked up an axe. First he chopped my left hand, then my right. Then he chopped my nose, my ears and my mouth with a knife." |
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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 |
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. |
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?," |
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The Economist Intelligence Unit will publish a report -- The Austere Traveller -- in February that will show that business travelers' expectations are changing. Economic pressures mean executives now care less about luxury. Instead they are going back to basics. In 2009 we will be traveling less, for shorter periods and trading down in hotels, airlines and restaurants. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
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 |
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. |
The dewy-eyed innocence of baby harp seals has prompted a rare burst of environmental activism in Russia that has moved Vladimir Putin to end their slaughter. The annual spring cull in the northern White Sea region has been scrapped after Putin condemned the clubbing of baby seals for their fur as a "bloody trade." |
Confronted with orbiting junk again, NASA ordered the astronauts aboard the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris Sunday. Discovery's pilots fired their ship's thrusters to reorient the docked spacecraft to avoid a small piece from a 10-year-old Chinese rocket body that was due to pass uncomfortably |
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The dewy-eyed innocence of baby harp seals has prompted a rare burst of environmental activism in Russia that has moved Vladimir Putin to end their slaughter. The annual spring cull in the northern White Sea region has been scrapped after Putin condemned the clubbing of baby seals for their fur as a "bloody trade." |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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LIFE & LIVING» |
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". |
Federal judges on Monday tentatively ordered California to release tens of thousands of inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next three years to stop dangerous overcrowding. As many as 57,000 could be let go if the current population were cut by the maximum percentage considered by a three-judge panel. Judges said the move |
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 |
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. |
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Sotheby's will offer a sculpture of a cat by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti at auction in New York in May and expects it to fetch $16-22 million. The 1951 bronze sculpture "Le Chat" has been in a private European collection since the 1960s, and the last time a cast of it appeared at auction in May 1975, it sold for $130,000, Sotheby's said on Friday. |
A small piece of Florida hammock near the Redland sat untended for many years. Battered by Hurricane Andrew, it was disfigured by tossed trees and a tangle of jasmine, wood rose and air potato -- three of the meanest invasive exotic plants that would challenge the most skilled professional forester. In 1996, Gladys Chern and her son Danny Reyes |
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 |
Royals and celebrities joined Princes William and Harry to honor their mother Princess Diana on Friday, the 10th anniversary of her death in a high-speed limousine crash in Paris. Hundreds of mourners lined the streets outside a chapel near Buckingham Palace where the Queen, Diana's ex-husband Prince Charles, her brother Charles |
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