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| | | Lou Ferrigno, a bodybuilder who played ''The Incredible Hulk'' on TV, talks about physical training with Michael Jackson as Jackson prepared for his comeback tour. |
| | | A 27 year old woman accused of killing her pregnant friend is believed to have cut open the mother-to-be''s womb to take her baby and pass it off as her own. |
| | | Reds minor league manager Rick Sweet has big league potential. Hear why he thinks he''s ready for the majors. |
| | | Sean Penn withdraws divorce petition; Jay-Z confirms split with Def Jam records; Green Day lashes out at Wal-Mart policy. |
| | | Tony Stewart won his first All-Star race and first as a team owner. The NASCAR on FOX crew gives their grade on Stewart-Haas Racing''s 2009 season. |
| | | Eleven-year old Oy dreams of becoming a famous musician while studying at Bangkok''s School for the Blind. But it''s an uphill struggle for Thailand''s half a million blind citizens. |
| | | Tom Hanks is back as Dr. Robert Langdon from the DA VINCI CODE for the prequel ANGELS & DEMONS. We''ve got the cast and crew in Rome for the premiere. |
| | | THE CLOSER star Kyra Sedgwick sits with Hollywood 411 and talks about the evolution of Brenda Johnson, family and what we can expect from the show''s all-new season. Be sure to catch THE CLOSER, Mondays at 9/8c on TNT. |
| | | U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh says that the president ought to avoid the trap that caught one of his predecessors. |
| | | What are the Red Wings'' ''Black Aces''? Watch this clip to find out how hard work does pay off in Detroit. |
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China requires PC makers to install software to filter Internet content.
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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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| | | Hundreds of reporters from around the world are camped outside the Jackson family home. |
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| | | Reds minor league manager Rick Sweet has big league potential. Hear why he thinks he''s ready for the majors. |
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| | | Tony Stewart won his first All-Star race and first as a team owner. The NASCAR on FOX crew gives their grade on Stewart-Haas Racing''s 2009 season. |
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| | | Thousands of Rio de Janeiro residents flock to the city''s beaches to see a flying saucer designed by a U.S. artist. |
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| | | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE''s Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy talk about Season 5''s new styles, funky moves, and, yes, the return of Sex! |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | Youngster Li Tianqi can read and recognize over 2,000 Chinese characters, impressive for a child who has yet to reach her second birthday. |
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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. |
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| | | A British Benedictine monk is using his holy hands to make organic beauty products from beeswax. |
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Suspected Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush on Wednesday, officials said, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years. Rising violence has already forced aid agencies to restrict humanitarian work at a time when drought and high prices are putting more people under pressure. |
A bombing in one of the Egyptian capital's busy tourist districts killed a French tourist Sunday and wounded 23 other people, including 18 Europeans, Egyptian authorities reported. The French tourist killed was a 17-year-old girl. The blast wounded 17 other French nationals, one of whom was in critical condition Sunday evening, and one German, Health Ministry spokesman |
THE Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (Breef) is hosting His Majesty King Hamad Showjumping Championship starting on Thursday at the Mounted Police Centre grounds in Budaiya. The four-day event, to be held under the guidance of its president Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, is one round of the Arab League. |
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President Raul Castro shook up Cuba's top leadership on Monday, replacing key figures tied to his brother Fidel Castro with others apparently closer to him. The abrupt shakeup came a year after Fidel Castro handed the presidency to his younger brother because of poor health. It was announced at the end of the midday news, after the weather and sports. |
Indian police detained more than two dozen Kashmiri activists on Sunday demanding the remains of a separatist, hanged and buried in a New Delhi jail 23 years ago, during a demonstration to mark his death anniversary. Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, founder of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a prominent separatist group, was executed on February 11, 1984 on the charge of killing an Indian intelligence officer. |
The United Arab Emirates has refused to grant a visa to a female Israeli tennis player, preventing her from competing in the Sony Ericsson World Tennis Association Tour in Dubai, the WTA said in a statement Sunday. Shahar Peer would have been the first Israeli athlete to participate in a professional sporting |
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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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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. |
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 |
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 |
Mumbai is extreme India. In this booming metropolis all the wealth, inequalities, colors, flavors and passions of India are magnified to an almost unbearable degree. Somewhere between 13 and 20 million people are squeezed into the city that is India's leading financial and industrial center and the home of the Bollywood movie. |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
A University of South Florida professor of archaeology wants students to know one thing: Archaeology is not just about dinosaurs. In her book "Archaeology for Dummies," Nancy Marie White explains what archaeology is all about. The book provides an overview of the field of archaeology and its different types. It covers prehistoric and historic archaeology |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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Two astronauts who were teaching math and science to middle school students just five years ago went on a spacewalk together Monday, but could not free a jammed equipment shelf no matter how hard they tried. Their path, at least, ended up clear of dangerous orbiting junk that had threatened the international space station and shuttle, and forced the |
Monitors say Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano has erupted again with an ash plume shooting about 15,000 feet high. The blast shortly after 5 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time (9 a.m. EDT) Wednesday was considered small and brief at 10 minutes. The plume appeared to be drifting north to northwest. Tom Murray, scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory |
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 |
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. |
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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 |
Fifteen years after Miami's Pedro Zamora became a national symbol for living with HIV -- and dying of AIDS -- a new drama about his life will soon debut on the network that made him a reality TV star. Pedro, a film written by Dustin Lance Black, who won an original-screenplay Oscar for Milk, |
Dr. Arthur Agatston, cardiologist and South Beach Diet developer, talks about diet, exercise and Miami's new status as the nation's fattest city: Q: In your newest book, The South Beach Diet Supercharged, you write that the diet debates are over. What do you mean? A: The consensus is that we're beyond low-fat versus low-carb debates . . . The answer is |
If you are trying to save money by scaling back on your beauty products, chances are you'll find some inexpensive treatments -- just like the ones your mother or grandmother swore by -- in your own kitchen. Many of us get caught up in the excitement of new products, said Cheryl Kramer Kaye, beauty director for Redbook magazine. |
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British supermodel Naomi Campbell walked down the ramp in Mumbai on Saturday to pay tribute to the victims of last November's Mumbai attacks. Along with a host of Indian celebrities, the 39-year-old Campbell helped raise funds for the city's emergency medical services in a charity show called "Mai Mumbai." Campbell heads a charity called "Fashion |
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 |
A small piece of Florida hammock near the Redland sat untended for many years. Battered by Hurricane Andrew, it was disfigured by tossed trees and a tangle of jasmine, wood rose and air potato -- three of the meanest invasive exotic plants that would challenge the most skilled professional forester. In 1996, Gladys Chern and her son Danny Reyes |
American diva Thelma Houston, whose 1977 hit No. 1 song "Don't Leave Me This Way" became one of the major songs of the disco era, is back -- with her first new album in 17 years. Houston, 61, who lives in Los Angeles, says the gap wasn't planned as she has continued working during that period, touring incessantly and performing about 200 shows a year. |
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