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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 |
| | | Teri Hatcher fluffs her lines when she does a promo clip for E! Entertainment. Hatcher was being interviewed about her charity work with the Band From TV who performed later that night. |
| | | George Chamberlin answers a question on the mind of many Calaway Golf stock holders. |
| | | Almost extinct, the old tradition of the ''tiger dance'' is kept alive in eastern India. |
| | | 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. |
| | | Patrick Kibangou is not your typical Polish politician. He is the country''s sole black candidate for next month''s European Parliament elections. A look at how he is putting that to his advantage. |
| | | Prime Ticket discusses the Dodgers'' potent lineup. Does Los Angeles have the best set of bats in the Major Leagues? Find out. |
| | | Crab industry in turmoil as N.L. processors refuse prices |
| | | American actress, journalist and television presenter Maria Menounos arrives at Miami International Airport after a flight into Miami, FL. |
| | | 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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The Colorado Rockies can set a club record for consecutive wins Tuesday night with a victory over visiting Tampa Bay.
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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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| | | A British Benedictine monk is using his holy hands to make organic beauty products from beeswax. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | Adam Lambert fans, take heart: At least your guy doesn''t have to sing the hokey "No Boundaries," this year''s much mocked "American Idol" ballad, ever, ever again. That dubious honor will go to winner Kris Allen |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | Seven plucky amphibians are released into the Mediterranean after rehabilitation in Israel. |
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| | | Moto-taxi drivers in Nigeria are playing cat and mouse with the police after the introduction of a new law requiring them and their passengers to wear helmets |
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| | | An anonymous source tells the Associated Press that a Justice Dept. draft report does not recommend criminal charges against Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos approving harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects |
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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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| | | The Western Conference final is tied at one game apiece, after Denver''s 106-103 win over the Lakers. Carmelo Anthony led Denver with 34 points. |
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A sixteen-year-old Canadian girl was allegedly abducted outside her own home by a man posing as a police officer, complete with flashing lights on his car and a gun, officials said Monday. A 56-year-old man was charged Monday with aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping with a firearm and posing as a police officer. The girl is not being named because she is an alleged victim of a sexual assault. |
The first shipment of U.S. supplies crossing through Russian territory is on its way to Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday, as NATO scrambles to open up new supply routes for alliance forces. The shipment most likely contained construction supplies, the embassy press office said. It refused to say when the shipment entered Russia or how far it had traveled. |
Senegal's capital, Dakar, is home to thousands of rap groups, most of whom have no hope of ever getting onto CD. But Daara J are one of the success stories - the Senegalese rap group have just played the UK's Glastonbury and Womad festivals and won a BBC World Music award. A good year then, and the message from Faada Freddy, Ndongo D |
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Tokyo is considering deploying both its ballistic missile interceptor warships to the Sea of Japan ahead of a possible test launch of North Korea's longest-range missile, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday. The U.S. military is closely monitoring activities in North Korea from its bases in Japan, officials said Tuesday. |
North Korea is continuing preparations to test-fire a missile but a launch does not appear imminent, Seoul's unification minister said Wednesday as a new U.S. envoy warned against such a test. Pyongyang stepped up its provocative rhetoric of recent weeks, warning of a "merciless" retaliation against any invasion — though both |
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday formally rescinded the promotion of an ultraconservative priest who came under fire for suggesting that God punished New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina. The Vatican announcement confirmed a previous decision by the priest, Rev. Gerhard Maria Wagner, to give up the promotion. In January, Benedict promoted the 54-year-old Wagner to the |
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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 |
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 |
New York City's mayor helped Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his four crewmates from US Airways Flight 1549 celebrate a weekend of press conferences, television interviews and grateful reunions by presenting them with the keys to the city Monday. The keys went to flight attendants Doreen Welsh, Sheila Dail and |
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. |
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New York City's mayor helped Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his four crewmates from US Airways Flight 1549 celebrate a weekend of press conferences, television interviews and grateful reunions by presenting them with the keys to the city Monday. The keys went to flight attendants Doreen Welsh, Sheila Dail and |
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 |
Kay Pratt's rental car gets a ticket when she stays in a San Francisco hotel. Problem is, the car was under the care of the property's valet services. Now she wants the $85 ticket refunded, but the hotel is stringing her along. Is she stuck with the ticket.? Q: I'm having a problem with a hotel's valet parking service, and could use a little help |
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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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
Chinese authorities have blocked access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube -- the latest victim of a politically motivated Internet crackdown. Authorities in Beijing have not explained why the site has been targeted for censorship. There is widespread speculation, however, that YouTube has been targeted because of a video showing Chinese police taking |
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 |
Jonathon Porritt, one of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's leading environmental advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt's call will come at this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron. |
You, too, can be a hero. For 99 cents, iPhone and iPod Touch users can now download a flight simulator called "Sully's Flight" which lets you recreate this past January's "Miracle on the Hudson." Based on the "X-Plane" flight simulator, also available at Apple's App Store, the game takes you through takeoff, hitting a flock of |
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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. |
April 15, 1912: White Star oceanliner sinks 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland after striking iceberg on maiden voyage. More than 1,500 passengers and crew die. 1916: Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., Titanic's owner, pays $664,000 to settle all legal claims. Sept. 1, 1985: Titanic wreck discovered by joint expedition, including Robert |
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 |
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 |
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LIFE & LIVING» |
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. |
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 |
As dawn breaks over a small village in the easternmost corner of Hungary, thousands gather for the country's biggest pig slaughter festival and butchery contest. This is the seventh year that the village of Napkor near Hungary's Ukrainian border has hosted the event. This time 40 teams will participate in a bloody contest that becomes a huge feast by midday. |
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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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 |
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 |
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 |
Designer Jil Sander's fashions are making a comeback, not on the runways of Milan or Paris but on the shelves of Japanese budget clothing retailer Uniqlo, which is thriving in the recession. Uniqlo's owner, Fast Retailing, said it had hired Sander as design consultant and to oversee its collection for the next fall and winter seasons, plus possibly create her own line. |
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