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| | | Swimmer Michael Phelps'' three-month suspension is over. In an interview with the Associated Press, the Olympic Gold Medalist said he will swim in a meet next week |
| | | 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. |
| | | Pakistani troops fought street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley''s main urban center Saturday, a critical phase in the effort to wrest the region out of insurgent hands. |
| | | Bystander beaten before dying in gang shooting, Calgary police reveal |
| | | 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 |
| | | An ex-soldier convicted of rape and murder in Iraq has been spared the death penalty and will get a life sentence after jurors couldn''t agree unanimously on a punishment |
| | | Hollywood stars made their way up to Harlem in order to honor Bill Clinton for his humanitarian efforts. See what Jessica Alba, Adrian Grenier and others had to say about the former president. |
| | | Thousands of Michael Jackson fans converged on Harlem''s famed Apollo Theater Tuesday for a public tribute to the performer, clutching photographs and dancing to his music at the legendary |
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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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A physical education teacher told the AP her Chicago school only has enough resources and gym space to hold classes once a week for each student. Betty Hale said that's not enough to make a real difference in childhood obesity.
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| | | Rory Sabbatini displays support for Amy Mickelson''s battle with breast cancer at the Byron Nelson Championship. |
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| | | Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be sworn in for a second term on Friday, following the resounding election victory of his Congress-led alliance. |
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| | | DANCING WITH THE STARS'' Melissa Rycroft came back from injury and nailed a perfect score! See what she had to say about the competition, her injury and this week''s ousted contestant Lil'' Kim |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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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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| | | 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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| | | 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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| | | The U.N. General Assembly demanded the immediate restoration of Honduras'' ousted president, but the man who replaced him said Manuel Zelaya could be arrested if he returns home. |
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| | | Television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack in his sleep, but further tests are needed to be sure of the cause of death, a medical examiner said Monday |
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The organiser of "The Rumble in the Jungle", one of the world's greatest boxing fights, says he would like a similar contest in Africa again. Don King made the famous fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974 happen, in what was then called Zaire."Without a question of a doubt I have to go back to the motherland," the US boxing |
Afghan political leaders on Sunday accused President Hamid Karzai of trying to "sabotage" the country's presidential election after he asked the election commission to explore moving the vote up four months. Karzai released a decree Saturday directing the commission to set an election date that adheres to the Afghan constitution, which calls for a vote 30 to 60 days before May 22, |
An Iranian-American journalist, whose family has not heard from her for three weeks, was arrested for engaging in “illegal†activities because she continued to work after the government revoked her press credentials Iran said Monday. Roxana Saberi moved to Iran six years ago and had previously reported for NPR, the BBC and FOX News. |
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The Rolling Stones, from left, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood, who has a history of alcohol abuse, was told by guitarist Keith Richards to sober up or risk being dumped from the group's upcoming U.S. tour, according to British press reports. But apparently it didn't stop Richards from drinking the night away with friends at Plunge |
Pablo Amador was a "regular dad" who made music with his children and shared his gift teaching kids to play piano, a man known for a friendly wave and lending a hand to jump-start a car. And those who knew him say they can't understand why he apparently shot and killed his two daughters, wife and then himself. TV |
An Israeli airstrike after sundown Wednesday killed two militants in northern Gaza, Gaza officials and the Israeli military said. Hamas security said the two dead belonged to Islamic Jihad. Palestinian health ministry official Moaiya Hassanain said five bystanders were wounded. The Israeli military said the target |
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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. |
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. |
A baby ape born in the UK is settling into a new life in a German zoo after flying from Birmingham to Frankfurt -- monkey business class. The three-month old male bonobo -- who is to be fostered by a family of German apes after being rejected by his natural mother -- was considered too young and too fragile to travel cargo class, a |
When Stefanie Rasimowicz finds out the pool at her resort hotel will be closed during her vacation, she faces the prospect of a ruined honeymoon. The hotel is apologetic, but offers her no alternative except to use another nearby pool. Can it do better? Should it? Q: My fiance and I booked our honeymoon at the Westin Aruba through a |
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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 |
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, |
Mumbai is always colorful and dynamic but if you're lucky enough to be in town for one of the city's major festivals you'll witness Mumbai erupting into glorious Technicolor. This two-day event takes place in the caves on the island of Elephanta, some 10 km from Mumbai harbor. The caves themselves, filled with carvings, sculptures |
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, |
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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. |
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. |
It may have been a fashion first, but supermodel Naomi Campbell has nothing to fear. The HRP-4C humanoid robot showed off her stormtrooper-like silver and black frame and bowed to a fashion-savvy audience at the start of the annual Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo Monday but even her creators admit the mechanical model needs more work. |
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 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 |
After eight days together, space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the international space station Wednesday, ending a successful effort to boost electrical power and science research at the orbiting outpost. The two spacecraft went separate ways as they soared above the Indian Ocean. The undocking puts Discovery and its seven-member crew on course |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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Rhonda Barnett remembers her husband Marc's proposal as if it were yesterday, she says. Actually, it was 1994 when her then-beau enlisted the help of her co-workers -- and one large ladder truck -- at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, where she worked as public information manager, to ask for her hand. Knowing my sweetheart was going |
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 |
Insurers are prepared to pay a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of gems stolen from a luxury Paris jewelers last week in one of the biggest hold-ups in French criminal history. "We're hoping to hear from someone who has heard something and we will pay the first person who brings us valid information that allows |
Looking for somewhere new to visit this year that is not going to break the bank? Frommers has released its list of top destinations for 2009, focusing on places that are affordable and interesting. Reuters has not endorsed this list: . Washington, D.C., USA There's the influx of new blood and governing energy from January 21 when Barack Obama is inaugurated as U.S. |
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