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| | | 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. |
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| | | In Nepal, supporters of the Maoist party in parliament take to the streets as tensions rise during efforts to form a government |
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| | | Lovers of luxury across the decades have sojourned in the mythic La Mamounia hotel in Marrakesh. While the Moroccan landmark undergoes renovation, ahead of a reopening in September 2009, it is selling some 5,000 items from the hotel at auction. |
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Canadian-Austrian car parts group Magna appears to be the early favourite to acquire General Motors' German unit Opel, ahead of Italy's Fiat.
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| | | WatchMojo.com takes a look at an easy and quick method to keep your gardening tools working like new. |
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| | | 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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| | | South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he''s not quitting despite intense scrutiny and criticism over his affair with a woman from Argentina. He tried to get back to governing Monday |
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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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| | | 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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| | | 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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| | | Almost extinct, the old tradition of the ''tiger dance'' is kept alive in eastern India. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | Robert Pattinson continues working on his latest film, Remember Me |
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| | | New footage shows Jon Gosselin leaving her Pennsylvania house at 7:30 a.m. March 13 |
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An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Wednesday targeted Islamic Jihad militants, including a senior commander, following an attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon |
One of Iran's most powerful political and religious figures — former President Hashemi Rafsanjani — began talks Monday with Iraqi leaders in the latest high-level contacts between the neighboring countries. Rafsanjani's visit to Iraq comes three days after President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. military would end its combat mission in Iraq in August 2010 but |
Thousands of parents who claimed that childhood vaccines caused their children to develop autism are wrong and not entitled to federal compensation, a special court ruled Thursday in three decisions with far-reaching implications for a bitterly fought medical controversy. The long-awaited decision on three test cases is a severe blow to a grass-roots movement that has argued -- predominantly through books |
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Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo swept to power in 1999, promising far-reaching democratic reforms in a country devastated by decades of military rule. His answer to the massive communal and religious unrest across the country has been to use the army to control localised disturbances As a former military ruler himself in the late 1970s, he had already handed power |
I was totally rooting for last Sunday's Oscar telecast, from the moment host Hugh Jackman said hello to the moment the deliriously happy Slumdog Millionaires waved goodbye, because finally, the show focused on something that I've always liked about Hollywood - something I always feel when I'm there, though, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Last Tycoon, it can be understood "only dimly and in flashes." And |
A U.S. freelance journalist detained about a month ago is being held in a prison north of Tehran, Iran's judiciary spokesman said. Ali Reza Jamshidi says 31-year-old Roxana Saberi is being held in Evin prison on a court order. He refused to provide further details in Tuesday's press conference. An Iranian-American journalist, whose family has not heard |
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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 |
There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
Gas prices nationwide jumped a bit over the past two weeks, according to a survey published Sunday. A gallon of self-serve regular cost, on average, $1.86, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey. That's a rise of nearly 8 cents over the past two weeks. After breaking all-time-high records over the summer, prices |
There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
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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. |
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 |
There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
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, |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
Scientists are to dig up ice dating back more than 100,000 years in an attempt to shed light on how global warming will change the world over the next century. The ice, at the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, was laid down at a time when temperatures were 3 top 5 degrees Celsius (5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than they are today. |
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 |
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 |
The dewy-eyed innocence of baby harp seals has prompted a rare burst of environmental activism in Russia that has moved Vladimir Putin to end their slaughter. The annual spring cull in the northern White Sea region has been scrapped after Putin condemned the clubbing of baby seals for their fur as a "bloody trade." |
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British intelligence officers scoured hundreds of UFO sighting reports in the 1980s and 1990s looking for top-secret American stealth-plane projects, newly released files have shown. At the end of the cold war, the Ministry of Defense was worried that America was developing mysterious planes but not telling its closest ally. |
Animals obviously hook up, at least during mating season. But do they like it? According to experts, there are two answers: "yes" and "it is impossible to know." "Mosquitoes, I don't know," hedged Mark Bekoff, a University of Colorado biologist and author of "The Emotional Lives of Animals" (New World Library), "but across mammals, they enjoy sex." |
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 |
NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year. NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins |
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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 |
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, |
Val LaFrance ditched the packed New York theater scene to seek Miami stardom. For 13 years in the late 1940s and 1950s, he produced and acted in plays in the subtropics, earning good reviews -- and a steady girlfriend who wanted to marry. So when a nun in the theater department at Barry College (now University) suggested he turn his |
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, |
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Meet the latest targeted consumers of tattoo art: the pacifier set. Four artists from the Love Hate Tattoo studio who came to fame through TLC's Miami Ink reality series have launched Ruthless & Toothless, a fashion line for tots. The Love Hate guys have put fire-breathing dragons and peevish samurais on pint-size |
Inauguration Day will belong to President Barack Obama, but that night will be wife Michelle's turn in the spotlight, as all eyes will be on her -- and her choice of ball gown. Throughout U.S. history, and especially in the post-World War II era, first ladies have made statements about themselves and the times they live in with their inaugural wardrobes. |
An Australian school bus driver hit in the back of the head by a hard sweet has become a local hero after taking his unruly students to the police station to report their crime. Veteran driver Graham King had asked the primary grade students to buckle their seat belts and stay seated while he drove them back fromschool in a Brisbane suburb |
Knut the polar bear celebrated his second and perhaps final birthday in Berlin on Friday with hundreds of well-wishers who sang "happy birthday." The cuddly orphan cub who once captivated animal lovers around the world has grown into a strapping 200 kg (441 lb) adolescent predator with a need for more space and a mate. |
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