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| | | Palestinian director Elia Suleiman enters the Cannes competition on Friday with ''The Time that Remains'', a semi biographic film, divided in four historic episodes, running from 1948 until recent times. Excerpts of film. |
| | | Palestinian director Elia Suleiman enters the Cannes competition on Friday with ''The Time that Remains'', a semi biographic film, divided in four historic episodes, running from 1948 until recent times. Excerpts of film. |
| | | Hundreds of reporters from around the world are camped outside the Jackson family home. |
| | | The Black Eyed Peas leave their hotel in the West Village of NYC, closely followed by their luggage. Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap and Taboo jump into their waiting SUV, ignoring the fans who gathered to see them |
| | | Senate Democrats strip apostate Sen. Specter of all committee seniority. Judiciary Committee top Republican says he''ll not allow Schumer-style political filibustering of Obama judicial picks |
| | | Matt Mitovich brings you the latest news and scoop on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and GLEE. |
| | | 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. |
| | | Thousands of bees have swarmed outside a New York City game store, trapping employees inside for hours. |
| | | A Swedish political party - the Pirate Party - which seeks to deregulate copyright on the Internet appears on course to win a seat in the European elections |
| | | A federal prosecutor says the four men accused of a New York bombing plot were disappointed the World Trade Center wasn''t around any more to attack. The men are accused of planning to blow up two synagogues and fire missiles at military planes. |
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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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| | | 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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| | | Tim Furlong visits Betty''s speakeasy in Philadelphia for a delicious fudge treat! |
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| | | Gar Ryness is known as the ''Batting Stance Guy''. He does impressions of major leaguers in their batting stances. Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez loved his mimickry |
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| | | A Texas woman who lived near a popular border crossing was confirmed as the first U.S. resident and the second person outside Mexico to die after contracting swine flu |
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| | | Hear from the Penguins after a 7-4 win over the Hurricanes. Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals against Carolina. |
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| | | UPDATED: Video from inside court shows San Diego police officer Frank White on the stand as he describes the moment he realized he had shot a child. |
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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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| | | Palestinian director Elia Suleiman enters the Cannes competition on Friday with ''The Time that Remains'', a semi biographic film, divided in four historic episodes, running from 1948 until recent times. Excerpts of film. |
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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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| | | A vehicle bomb has killed at least 10 people when it exploded in a wholesale vegetable market in southern Baghdad. |
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An Iranian woman living in Spain said Wednesday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid. Ameneh Bahrami, 30, told Cadena SER radio, "I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated." Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man — identified only as Majid |
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 |
Iran's leader said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama is pursuing the same "wrong path" as his predecessor George W. Bush in supporting Israel and described the Jewish state as a "cancerous tumor." The comments by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are likely to frustrate the new U.S. administration which has been seeking to engage |
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The U.S. embassy in Yemen said on Monday it had received a threat of a possible attack and urged Americans to be cautious in the Arab country that has been the scene of al Qaeda attacks on Western interests. Twin suicide car bombings killed 16 people outside the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Sanaa in September, in an attack later claimed by al Qaeda. |
Security forces have killed 120 militants linked to Al Qaeda in Algeria over the past six months and arrested 322, the government said Sunday. Speaking at a police academy diploma ceremony in the capital, Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni attributed the results to increased security efforts in the North African country since August, when Al Qaeda's local offshoot claimed responsibility |
Israel's attorney general notified Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday that he plans to indict him on suspicion of illicitly taking cash-stuffed envelopes from a Jewish-American businessman — a sensational case that turned public opinion so sharply against the Israeli leader that he was forced to resign. Olmert would become the first Israeli prime minister ever |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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Days after thick snow brought London to a standstill, the traditional drizzle has returned and it is business as usual in the bustling British capital. The pavement might be slippery with ice but the resumption of the bus and rail services means that you'll at least be able to move around the city. All airports in the south are operating normally |
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 "crime scene cookies", "baaji custard" and "sponge shafts" depicted in Oliver Beale's letter of complaint to Virgin Atlantic struck a chord worldwide. The missive he sent to Virgin chairman Sir Richard Branson about a meal he received on board a Virgin flight from Mumbai to London in December spread across the web and email with a vengeance. |
The title on Chris Doyle's business card reads "mad scientist," but he's not crazy, he's just crazy about snowboarding. Doyle decided one snowy day in New York to quit his job as a bank accountant and chase his dreams on the snowy slopes of Vermont. Eventually, that spur-of-the-moment decision led to his job as senior product development specialist |
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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. |
Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters. Triceratops were ceratopsids, herbivorous dinosaurs that lived until the the very end of the Cretaceous Period. |
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 |
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 |
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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." |
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 |
Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters. Triceratops were ceratopsids, herbivorous dinosaurs that lived until the the very end of the Cretaceous Period. |
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 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, |
A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS. The Lancet in an editorial called on the Pope to retract the comments made last week, saying anything less would be an immense disservice to the public and |
Sixty-two years have passed since her masterwork, The Everglades: River of Grass. Fifteen years since her last significant statement as an activist, an upbraiding of Gov. Lawton Chiles for affixing her name to a Big Sugar pollution law she found sorely wanting. Almost 11 years since her death at 108 in her Coconut Grove cottage. |
The chiffon is exquisite, the 17th century Paris chateau grandiose in a new documentary about fashion designer Valentino Garavani. But not all is well in the House of Valentino. Valentino: The Last Emperor kicks off the Miami International Film Festival Friday. A treat of a film, it captures the Italian designer at the end of his spectacular |
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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 |
Parents wanting to instill good eating habits in their children, particularly teenagers, should make sure they eat meals together. In one of the first long-term studies to look at the benefits of family meals, researchers at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota found that family meals have a big impact on |
Enter George Zima's tiny photo shop prepared for a stroll down memory lane -- and a comprehensive lesson in the history of photography. The second-floor office space in a nondescript Palmetto Bay building is chockablock with cameras, lenses, slide projectors and accessories for the tried-and-true 35 mm buff. Aptly named Forever 35, Zima's cozy |
With Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson vying for the best supporting actress Oscar it is a banner year for black actresses at the Academy Awards. Despite more than a dozen nominations, only three black actresses, Hattie McDaniel for "Gone With the Wind" in 1939, Whoopi Goldberg for "Ghost" in 1990 and Jennifer Hudson in 2006's "Dreamgirls," |
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