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| | | Get a sneak peak at TV Guide''s inFANity: Wipeout as Lisa Joyner braves the obstacle course (well, sorta) from ABC''s breakout summer hit! Then catch the full show on TV Guide Network Tuesday, May 26th at 8pm. |
| | | Are there little things that you think ALL guys should know? Brett Cohen goes over a few basics from his book about the little things that men should know how to do. |
| | | 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. |
| | | 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 |
| | | Mark Lester, godfather to Michael Jackson''s kids, says Jackson was ''bubbly'' with excitement about his upcoming shows, that he never saw Jackson abuse drugs and that the entertainer |
| | | Pakistani troops fought street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley''s main urban center Saturday, a critical phase in the effort to wrest the region out of insurgent hands. |
| | | 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. |
| | | A Somali teen pleads not guilty of holding hostage a US ship captain after an attempted hijacking, while his lawyers describe the Somali teenager''s time in the US court system as heart-wrenching |
| | | 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. |
| | | A newborn anteater debuts to the press in Tokyo before its official premier to the public next month. |
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a grilling from opposition leader David Cameron in the wake of woeful results in local and European elections.
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| | | Thousands of Michael Jackson fans converged on Harlem''s famed Apollo Theater Tuesday for a public tribute to the performer, clutching photographs and dancing to his music at the legendary |
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| | | Get a sneak peek at the hottest movie stars the summer has as TV Guide checks out Gerard Butler and Olivia Wilde from the SUMMER''S SEXIEST MOVIE STARS special, airing Sunday, May 24th at 8pm on the TV Guide Network! |
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| | | Italy''s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has made his first public appearance since his second wife Veronica Lario called for a divorce after delivering a disparaging attack in the media |
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| | | Pakistani troops fought street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley''s main urban center Saturday, a critical phase in the effort to wrest the region out of insurgent hands. |
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| | | UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew over Sri Lanka''s last battlefield and urged the government to let more aid reach displaced Tamils complaining of hunger and separation from their families. |
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| | | Robert Pattinson continues working on his latest film, Remember Me |
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| | | Marlins General Manager Michael Hill offers his take on his team so far this season. Find out which two members of the team have made improvements. |
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| | | The Angels will head up I-5 to face the Dodgers in the Freeway Series. Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler have a preview of this weekend''s matchup. |
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| | | We now know the recipient of the country\\u2019s first near-total face transplant. 46-year old Connie Culp made her first public appearance, five months after undergoing a 22-hour procedure, where surgeons used donor tissue to help rebuild her face. |
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| | | A NY prosecutor is ending a criminal probe into last year''s trampling death of a Wal-Mart employee because the company has agreed to implement better safety measures |
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The leader of Liberia's transitional government, Gyude Bryant, has promised to use the death penalty against anyone found guilty of sacrificial killings. During an address on state radio Mr Bryant said people were killing in the belief it would make them successful, rich, or the next president. A BBC correspondent in Liberia says the |
A Spanish official says 17 people were slightly injured when a cable of a ski chairlift snapped in the southern Sierra Nevada ski resort. An Interior Ministry spokeswoman says the injured, all adults, were in cable chairs that fell several meters to the ground in the accident Monday. The official says the injured have been treated mostly for cuts and bruises at a medical center in\r\n |
Dragon's Head, a 20-year-old Barry Trupin Estate on Meadow Lane in Southampton, is expected to be demolished. Dragon's Head, the massive oceanfront estate in Southampton Village, is going to be torn down, the final chapter in a decades-old story of high-profile extravagance and the lust by its builder to be accepted in the Hamptons. The last red tape |
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Two people searching for treasure beneath an old Mexican hacienda died in a gas-filled tunnel, and two neighbors and two emergency workers who tried to rescue them also perished, authorities said Tuesday. "It appears they were looking for some treasure, from the era of the hacienda," said Jose Luis Cruz, a police officer in the central Mexican town of San Jose |
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 |
President Robert Mugabe has told hundreds of mourners at a mourning service for Susan Tsvangirai the crash that killed her was the "hand of God". The veteran leader also said political violence should be a thing of the past. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife died on Friday in a collision with an aid lorry in which he was injured. |
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A six-page rant to Virgin Atlantic's Sir Richard Branson about a woeful in-flight meal attracted so much attention on the Internet that it was rumored to be a clever marketing stunt. The author was reported to be Oliver Beale, a 29 year old art director who works at a London advertising agency. Both he and Virgin |
The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies. The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. |
Allison Rupp worked at Yellowstone National Park's historic Old Faithful Inn in 2004. Three simple letters could inspire the "Hallelujah" chorus: DND, or do not disturb. One sign hanging on a doorknob, and the day's work was shortened by half an hour. Two signs? Pure heaven, but only if they remained there until my eight-hour shift ended |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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New tremors at Alaska's Mount Redoubt are prompting speculation that the volcano could be in a phase that will lead to more instability. The 10,200-foot volcano erupted six times Sunday and Monday, spewing clouds of gritty ash high into the sky. A volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Tuesday that Redoubt was |
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 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, |
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. |
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The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex took a congratulatory call from the White House on Tuesday and told President Barack Obama and schoolchildren all about their adventures in space. Obama got a big laugh in orbit and on the ground when he told the 10 space travelers that at a cruising speed of 17,500 mph, "We're glad that you are using the hands-free phone." |
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. |
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. |
A British driver has blamed his GPS navigation unit for leaving his car teetering on the edge of a cliff after he followed its instructions. Robert Jones said he trusted his navigational system and continued to follow it when it told him the steep, narrow footpath he was driving on was a road. Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, northern England, now has a court |
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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 |
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. |
Parents play a key role in shaping young eating habits and attitudes about food, nutritionists say. But, too often, they're sending mixed signals. There's the mom who demands that her kids eat breakfast, then skips the meal herself. There's the dad who bans chips and candy, elevating the forbidden food to tempting levels. And there are |
At Smart Style Family Hair Salon in Hallandale, haircuts are a wonderfully cheap $14.95. Even so, the salon used to send out discount coupons twice a year that knocked two bucks off the price. Those were the good times. Now we're doing it every month, said manager Alma Elvir. With so many people pinching pennies these |
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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. |
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 |
OK, so: kissing. Here's what we know. It has major evolutionary advantage. Only the hottest and highest species do it. Yet among current humans, the future of kissing seems an open question. In our liberated era, have we become so quick to get past the kiss and further into lovemaking that we have devalued the icons, wisdoms and traditions of the ancestors? |
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 |
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