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| | | Matt Mitovich brings you the latest news and scoop on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and GLEE. |
| | | THE OFFICE star John Krasinski returns to the big screen in the critically acclaimed AWAY WE GO. |
| | | Being a new mom at 40 used to be almost unheard of, but some very famous women are proving it''s never too late to start a family. TV Guide Network looks at Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Madonna and others who had children later in life. |
| | | Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation''s first face transplant. Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months |
| | | 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. |
| | | Jonathan Togo & the cast of CSI: MIAMI undergo a bomb scene investigation. We go on set to talk with co-star Megalyn Echikunwoke and check out dangerous explosions and on-set antics. |
| | | Atlanta firefighter Bobby Stewart describes the scene of a four-level parking deck collapse at a office building at Georgia Tech''s Research Park. Several cars were crushed but there |
| | | Crab industry in turmoil as N.L. processors refuse prices |
| | | Rory Sabbatini displays support for Amy Mickelson''s battle with breast cancer at the Byron Nelson Championship. |
| | | Family and friends attend a private funeral for actress Farrah Fawcett, who died June 25 at the age of 62. |
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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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| | | 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. |
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| | | Robert Pattinson continues working on his latest film, Remember Me |
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| | | Legendary restaurant pioneer Norman Brinker has died at the age of 78 |
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| | | The release of 53 prisoners from a Mexican jail is being branded by authorities as an ''inside job'' carried out by suspected members of a drugs gang. |
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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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| | | Chelsea and German footballer Michael Ballack takes a quick dip in the ocean while his wife Simone Lambe looks on as she enjoys the warm South Florida sun. The two packed up and headed back into their luxury hotel shortly afterwards. |
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| | | 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. |
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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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| | | 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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| | | The U.N. General Assembly demanded the immediate restoration of Honduras'' ousted president, but the man who replaced him said Manuel Zelaya could be arrested if he returns home. |
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WORLD» |
Israel's centrist Kadima is maintaining its one-seat lead over right-wing Likud but with about 100,000 ballots yet to be counted the result is not yet official, the Central Elections Committee said Thursday. About 99 percent of the vote has been counted and the parties have already begun negotiations to form a ruling coalition in the 120-seat Knesset. |
South Africa's powerful COSATU trade union federation said on Thursday it would back controversial politician Jacob Zuma in a leadership race for the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The ANC will choose a new leader at a party congress in December. Here are some key facts about the ANC. In January 1912 the South African Native National Congress was |
Saudi Arabia's top diplomat urged Arabs on Tuesday to stand up to Iran's ambitions in the region, including its nuclear program. Prince Saud al-Faisal told a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo that non-Arab countries should not interfere in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territoriests. |
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Vietnam is privatizing businesses ranging from banks to energy and telecoms firms into a booming stock market, but a plan for the first flotation of shares in a state hospital is deadlocked. Social organizations have objected to the plan to partially privatize one Ho Chi Minh City hospital on a trial basis, even though the state would still hold a majority stake of 60 percent. |
German police in the northern city of Bremen say they have evacuated more than 100 homes and apartments to carry out the controlled-detonation of a 500-pound World War II-era bomb. The American bomb was found earlier Wednesday during construction in the area. The evacuations were carried out in a 300-yard radius of the bomb, though police warned |
British officials have admitted a "serious error of judgement" after a disturbed teenager was placed with a foster family and sexually abused their children. Social workers failed to tell them the teen — who cannot be named for legal reasons — had a history of sexual behavior involving youngsters. He then went on to attack |
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TRAVEL» |
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. |
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 |
British naturalist Charles Darwin shocked Victorian society when he suggested that humans evolved from animals over millions of years, and his theories still spark controversy. February 12 marks the scientist's 200th birthday and 2009 is the 150th year since he published the pivotal "On the Origin of Species." Expedition organizers |
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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. |
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 |
Steven Olson wants his $200 deposit back from Princess Cruises, but the company isn't budging. The problem: he canceled the credit card through which he made the purchase. Princess will only refund it to the canceled card. After hours on the phone and promises of a check, Olson is no closer to getting his money. What now? |
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 |
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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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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LIFE & LIVING» |
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. |
This summer, daintily-clad toesies are morphing into so-called ``caged feet. Leather straps are radiating over arches, thrust forward by towering, heavy heels and thick shanks. Platforms made of punishing wood are back and in abundance. Heels come shaped like inverted triangles or hefty cylinders. |
With Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson vying for the best supporting actress Oscar it is a banner year for black actresses at the Academy Awards. Despite more than a dozen nominations, only three black actresses, Hattie McDaniel for "Gone With the Wind" in 1939, Whoopi Goldberg for "Ghost" in 1990 and Jennifer Hudson in 2006's "Dreamgirls," |
King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will appear at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival's gala Viva Espaa! celebration of Iberian cuisine and wines at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. The event benefits Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Fundacin Espaa-Florida. For information and |
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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 |
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 |
Looking for somewhere new to visit this year that is not going to break the bank? Frommers has released its list of top destinations for 2009, focusing on places that are affordable and interesting. Reuters has not endorsed this list: . Washington, D.C., USA There's the influx of new blood and governing energy from January 21 when Barack Obama is inaugurated as U.S. |
After writing 16 books in his company, Randy Wayne White has every reason to be weary of Doc Ford. Sure, the Sanibel Island marine biologist -- who on occasion performs dangerous hush-hush work for the government -- is likable, capable, manly. He knows his way around a marina and the ladies. He's Travis McGee, only smarter. |
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