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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. |
| | | Democrats still insist Malcolm Smith is the state Senate majority leader, even if Republicans beg to differ. |
| | | 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. |
| | | AMERICAN IDOL''s Matt Giraud talks about Adam being in the bottom two, the artists he hopes to work with and who he thinks will be in the finale! |
| | | 05/22/09 The high level of foreclosures is a hurdle toward economic recovery and a new bill in Washington may do little to help. |
| | | Michael Jackson''s body will be taken to his famous Neverland Valley Ranch, where public viewings will take place later this week -- according to media reports. |
| | | The head of bankrupt automaker General Motors told a judge business is doing better as the company tries to speed through bankruptcy. |
| | | The screams of two young children who landed in the cold Willamette River early Saturday led to a massive search and the arrest of their mother, now accused of killing her 4-year-old son and trying to kill her 7-year-old daughter. |
| | | 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. |
| | | Mariah Carey shooting her latest video for ''Obsessed'', a not-so-subtle dig at Eminem. |
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Two students studying at the American University in Cairo have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, according to the academic authorities.
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| | | Davidson''s star player Stephen Curry talks with the New York media after working out at the Knicks Training Center |
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| | | Democrats still insist Malcolm Smith is the state Senate majority leader, even if Republicans beg to differ. |
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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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| | | China''s Zhao Liang may soon earn the title of world''s tallest man. |
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| | | Former Royals teach a group of future Royals the game of baseball. Check out the words of wisdom Les Norman, Dennis Leonard and others had for a group of young people |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | Got video files on your computer? Watch them on your big-screen TV – using your Xbox! |
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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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| | | Laila Ali talks about how she clashed with her father as a young girl. The boxing daughter of the legendary Muhammad Ali was attending the Sports Spectacular at Century City''s Hyatt Regency. |
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| | | Jessica Alba, Jimmy Fallon, Jennifer Connelly and Jessica Biel host the Revlon Run/Walk in New York City. Catch the stars launch the runners into Times Square |
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 22-year-old son Jean, who has launched his own political career, married a member of the family that founded one of France's biggest retailers on Wednesday. Jean Sarkozy has become a household name in France since he played an important role in supporting and then abandoning the main centre-right party's candidate to succeed his father as mayor |
The double assassination of President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira and his military rival, Gen. Batiste Tagme na Waie, shocked Guinea-Bissau and clouded |
Interpol has issued a rare global security alert for 85 suspected al Qaeda-linked terrorists wanted by Saudi Arabia. The "orange alert," issued on Tuesday, comes after Saudi Arabia asked for Interpol's help last week in apprehending the 83 Saudis and two Yemenis. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said the alert is unprecedented. "Never before has Interpol been asked to alert the world about so many dangerous fugitives |
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Cologne's six-story city archive building groaned then collapsed in a pile of rubble Tuesday as people inside fled in panic. All managed to escape safely but police said three people were feared missing in other damaged buildings nearby. The archive building collapsed about 2 p.m., ripping open and dragging down parts of two adjacent |
Somalia's presidential spokesman was shot twice at close range in the latest assassination attempt on government officials in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said on Tuesday. "He was shot in the neck and near the jaw," a security source speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters. "I think the gunman was aiming for the head. He wanted to eliminate him." |
Laura Davies saved her best golf for the weekend, going 11-under-par over the final two rounds to win the Women's Australian Open on Sunday for the second time. Davies, the 2004 champion, shot a final-round 5-under 68 to go with a 67 on Saturday for a one-stroke victory over Spain's Tania Elosegui at Metropolitan Golf Club. |
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Deepa, 40, was born in Mumbai, where she is now a banking technology consultant, as well as running a company that offers "offbeat sightseeing tours" of six Indian cities, including Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur. Deepa's Mumbai tours take in the city's bazaars, backstreets and culture and her blog, Mumbai Magic, is a personal view of life in the city. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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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 |
Deepa, 40, was born in Mumbai, where she is now a banking technology consultant, as well as running a company that offers "offbeat sightseeing tours" of six Indian cities, including Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur. Deepa's Mumbai tours take in the city's bazaars, backstreets and culture and her blog, Mumbai Magic, is a personal view of life in the city. |
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 |
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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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 |
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 |
How many ways can the world end? We can think of at least five. But before we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet. Global warming is bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth has been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine. |
Two Komodo dragons mauled a fruit-picker to death in eastern Indonesia, police and witnesses said Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks on humans by the world's largest lizard species. Police Sgt. Kosmas Jalang said 31-year-old Muhamad Anwar was attacked on Komodo, one of four islands where the giant reptile is found in the wild, |
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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. |
How many ways can the world end? We can think of at least five. But before we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet. Global warming is bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth has been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine. |
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 |
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. |
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Tim Page finds solace in sounds that most would call dissonant. I'm one of the very few people in the world who rather enjoys having an MRI, says Page, a classical music critic in Los Angeles whose book Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider, a memoir of his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism, will be |
Global auction house Christie's sold HK$31.54 million ($4.07 million) of fine wine at a Hong Kong auction on Saturday, capitalizing on the growth of Asian demand for top vintages. Sales at the auction, which was buoyed by a rare collection of vintages sourced from Chateau Latour's reserve cellars, topped a pre-sale estimate of $3.2 million, with 94 percent of lots sold. |
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 |
Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger says that if he had not ended up making clothes he probably would have made movies. Known for a style that evokes the American East coast with his New England-inspired designs, Hilfiger says he could imagine himself on the West coast, behind or in front of the camera. Hilfiger was in Stockholm for a promotional |
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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 |
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 |
Tim Page finds solace in sounds that most would call dissonant. I'm one of the very few people in the world who rather enjoys having an MRI, says Page, a classical music critic in Los Angeles whose book Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider, a memoir of his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism, will be |
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". |
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