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| | | SOPRANOS star and multiple Emmy winner Edie Falco talks to Hollywood 411 about her return to TV on Showtime''s NURSE JACKIE. |
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| | | The corruption trial of former Congressman William Jefferson starts Tuesday. Jefferson is accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes to use his influence to help broker deals in Africa. |
| | | 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. |
| | | South Carolina''s top prosecutor on Tuesday called on the chief executive of popular online site Craigslist to take down ads related to prostitution and pornography or face prosecution himself |
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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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Amazon.com hopes a bigger version of its Kindle electronic reading device can be a hit, even if it's more expensive, and the company is aiming it in part at college students who are eager to save money on their textbooks.
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| | | New footage shows Jon Gosselin leaving her Pennsylvania house at 7:30 a.m. March 13 |
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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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| | | 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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| | | Hundreds of reporters from around the world are camped outside the Jackson family home. |
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| | | Thousands of bees have swarmed outside a New York City game store, trapping employees inside for hours. |
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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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| | | Got video files on your computer? Watch them on your big-screen TV – using your Xbox! |
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| | | China''s Zhao Liang may soon earn the title of world''s tallest man. |
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| | | As Will Smith gets honored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center with the 2009 Humanitarian Award - his wife and kids get in on the act and praise their family man |
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| | | Police in Calif. Are searching for a killer after a pregnant mother and her husband were killed inside their home. The bodies of the two victims were found by the couple''s 11-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son. |
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WORLD» |
Iranian missiles can now reach Israeli nuclear sites, a top Iranian military commander said on Wednesday, but another official held out the prospect of progress in talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program. |
A man was crushed to death Wednesday by a herd of wild elephants on Indonesia's Sumatra island, AFP reported. About 30 elephants surrounded the 83-year-old man and trampled him until his body was torn into pieces, a local conservation agency told AFP. The man's son was also surrounded, but escaped. |
Turkish voters elect a new parliament on Sunday for a five-year term amid increased tensions between the AK Party government, which has Islamist roots, and the country's powerful secular establishment. The AK Party is widely expected to win the election but possibly with a reduced majority in the 550-seat assembly. Here is an outline of the main political parties |
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General Motors Corp. is seeking new concessions from the Canadian Auto Workers union worth an estimated $150 million in order to meet the conditions for winning a $3-billion emergency loan from the governments of Canada and Ontario, a senior union leader said. "My understanding is that General Motors has already laid out a list of demands that obviously are pretty big," Rick... |
Reading Japanese isn't easy — even for the Japanese. Take Prime Minister Taro Aso. He's made so many public blunders that an opposition lawmaker tried to give him a reading test during a televised session of parliament. The Japanese leader bungled the word for "frequent," calling Japan-China exchanges "cumbersome" instead. Another time, he |
If you want to draw fire from Tennessee bloggers, especially those of the Libertarian ilk, then post a link to the Tennessee Handgun Carry Permits on the state’s Web site. That’s what some of them discovered last week on the Web site of our sister newspaper, the (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, Blount County’s SayUncle fired the first shot, saying, “Perhaps someone should publish a list of their reporters’ names and home... |
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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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place. Others are expected to be seen in coming decades. There are two ways to look at this: Either stay home (which might be less depressing and won't add more airline emissions) or get a move on it |
Wary of blowing your travel budget on another characterless hotel room? Hoping for a trip with a certain 'je ne sais quoi'? Check out these weird and wonderful hotels to ensure a touch of travel sparkle, even when the purse strings have been tightened. A must for aviation enthusiasts, the Jumbo hostel is the first aircraft in the |
Some passengers on a diverted Aeromexico flight finally reached their destination in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday after spending 16 hours in limbo. The plane was scheduled to fly from Mexico City, Mexico, to Seattle on Tuesday, but was diverted to Portland, Oregon, because of thick fog, said Kara Simonds, |
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 |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
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 |
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 |
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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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, |
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 |
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 |
She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady. The world may be able to get a whiff of that ancient royal scent when researchers complete their investigation into the perfume worn by Hatshepsut, the powerful pharaoh-queen who ruled over ancient Egypt for 20 years beginning around 1479 B.C. |
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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 |
Delia Smith is one of Britain's best-loved cookery writers, a firm believer in bringing the nation back to basics through teaching classic cooking techniques. Her influence and popularity has led to 'The Delia effect', a phenomenon now enshrined in the English dictionary after her use of eggs led to a 10 percent rise of egg sales in Britain. |
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. |
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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A French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal. Romain Mesnil, who won a silver medal at the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, used to be sponsored by U.S. sports brand Nike but says his contract expired last year and was not renewed. |
Malaysia may require women to obtain family consent before allowing them to travel alone outside the mainly Muslim country, state news agency Bernama reported on Saturday, quoting the foreign minister. he foreign and home ministries are considering the idea in response to a string of cases where women traveling alone were used by |
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 |
After a recent chicken slaughtering workshop in the Redland, Justine Raphael took away the basics of butchering a bird. She also took away the chicken livers, hearts, gizzards, heads and feet. No one wanted them except me, said Raphael, who used the chicken bits for soup stock. More food for us, she added with a shrug. |
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