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McCanns 'vow to stay'

The McCanns have vowed to stay looking in Portugal until there is 'no hope' of finding their daughter. » More

Emily Parr

New Big Bro racism storm

Contestant Emily Parr has been removed from the Big Brother house for using a racially offensive word. » More

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Property 'will reach 10 x pay'

Homebuyers could face house prices 10 times their salaries unless more homes are built, says new report. » More

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0870 'costs a fortune'

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Alcohol 'powder' invented

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Muddy brilliant!

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De-stress your first date

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Paris Hilton

Prison vets Paris cellmates

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Britney Spears

Splitting hairs

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Vexed by video?

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Boy and girl covered in mud

Muddy brilliant!

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Prince William

Diana's gift to Wills

Prince William is a year older and millions of pounds richer today thanks to a present from his late mother. » More

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Is this the end for Harry?

A computer hacker has posted what he says are key plot details from the final Harry Potter book. » More

Prince William

Diana's gift to Wills

Prince William is a year older and millions of pounds richer today thanks to a present from his late mother. » More

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Girl charged over Sian death

A teenage girl has been charged with the murder of A-level student Sian Simpson who was stabbed to death. » More

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Rent-a-goat

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World

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Water vanishes

A large lake in southern Chile mysteriously disappears.

Asia

'Iwo To'

Japan changes name of historic Iwo Jima island.

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Fashioning a name

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BOOKS

Potter's stolen plot

A hacker claims to have conjured up the ending of the boy wizard's series.

Politics

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Public support

Majority of Americans believe stem cell research may lead to cures.

Washington

Chartered flight

Bin Laden may have arranged for his family's U.S. exit after Sept. 11.

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iPhone mania nears

With so much hype, "iDay" could get hairy.

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Online privacy?

Marketers are tracking your every move online to predict what you'll buy.

Business

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CAREER

'Frenemy' lines

Socializing at work is more convoluted than ever before.

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Leadership lessons

Chris Bosh has some 'Franchise Player 101' advice for Greg Oden and Kevin Durant.

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A growing problem

Americans are shorter than any other industrialized nation.

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Kush-y find

A clue to Egypt's ancient gold source is discovered.

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Stroke's victims

A new study finds middle-aged women have a much higher risk.

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The dirty truth

A student proves toilets are cleaner than water fountains.

Travel

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Find out this summer's hot spots.

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Ready to fly?

Tips on how to get through the airport faster.

Commentary

Ann Coulter on Yahoo!

Nifong and Durham

This whole spectacle was revenge of the mediocre against the successful.

Pat Buchanan on Yahoo!

Democracy worship

Bush delivers his latest epistle on democracy as mankind's salvation.

Odd News

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Krump moves fast

Streets of L.A. give birth to a new style of raw self-expression.

Australia

Smuggling reptiles

Officials find snakes and lizards stuffed inside garden gnomes.


Robot hosting a wedding

Robot hosts wedding

A robot acted as master of ceremonies at a South Korean wedding in what its creators claimed as a world first. » More

Alan Johnston

Johnston to be released?

A Hamas official has said that kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston could be released within hours. » More

A cloned Rabbit

Inter-species clones backed

Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed according to experts. » More

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Third time lucky for Rod?

Rock star Rod Stewart has married model Penny Lancaster in a secret ceremony in Italy. » More

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Jun 17, 2007Kelly Clarkson (Getty)

Professional breakdown?

Kelly Clarkson may be in trouble after canceling her tour and "Never Again" falls to #21. » Message to Kelly

Jun 17, 2007LaRon Landry (AP)

When paintballs attack

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When paintballs attack

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Kelly Clarkson (Getty)

Professional breakdown?

Kelly Clarkson may be in trouble after canceling her tour and "Never Again" falls to #21. » Message to Kelly

Jun 17, 2007LaRon Landry (AP)

When paintballs attack

Redskins No. 1 draft pick LaRon Landry misses minicamp because of a paintball injury. » Is that possible?

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Three live-better tips

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Iraq bombers topple Samarra minarets

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BAGHDAD - In a bold blow to Iraqi hopes for peace, suspected al-Qaida bombers toppled the towering minarets of Samarra's revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, adding new provocation to old wounds a year after the mosque's Golden Dome was destroyed.


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    Conrad Black judge will not recall star witness
    By Andrew Stern Reuters

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The judge presiding over Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial refused a request from his lawyers on Wednesday to bring back to the stand and try to further discredit the star witness against the former media baron.  Judge Amy St. Eve of the U.S. District Court said she saw no reason to recall David Radler, Black's business partner of 30 years, who turned government informant, pleaded guilty and now faces jail time. Radler testified last month over a two-week period as prosecutors tried to show that he and Black worked closely together in orchestrating a scheme that allowed the two to eventually steal $60 million (30 million pounds) from Hollinger International Inc., the media giant they had built. But defence lawyers made Radler admit on the stand that he had lied in the past and suggested that his word still could not be trusted. Radler pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in exchange for a 29-month prison sentence and an agreement to testify against Black and his three co-defendants. During Radler's testimony Black's Canadian-based lawyer Edward Greenspan said his plea agreement would set him free after only six months in jail, perhaps spent at a prison with a "golf course therapy program" near his home in Vancouver.

    "You know that anyone who gets three years or less for a non-violent crime (in Canada) is out in six months?" Greenspan asked.

    "I did not know that ..." Radler replied.

    "Fine, I'll send you a bill," Greenspan quipped at that time. But in arguing that Radler be brought back, Black's lawyers said they found out later that Radler had hired a lawyer familiar with Canadian parole guidelines and probably knew he faced only six months in prison. In her ruling on Wednesday, St. Eve told the defence that she was rejecting "your desire to impeach him further" on matters "that you could have discovered much earlier." She added that she thought Greenspan's "cross-examination (of Radler) was effective on this point" as it stood.

    MISTRIAL DENIED

    St. Eve also refused to declare a mistrial for one of Black's co-defendants, Mark Kipnis, who was general counsel for Chicago-based Hollinger International. Kipnis' motion charged that prosecutors, in their opening arguments, had overstated his role in allegedly bilking funds from the corporation and had not backed it up with evidence. Had she granted the request, Kipnis would have walked free immediately. Kipnis faces charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion, but he is considered to have a less direct role in the accused scheme compared to the other three men on trial. Prosecutors contended he helped Black and his associates steal from the company, but his lawyer elicited testimony from Radler that $150,000 in bonuses Kipnis received were fair pay for legal work that had saved Hollinger International money. The judge told Kipnis' lawyer that he had very effectively demonstrated to the jury in an earlier cross-examination of Radler that the money Kipnis received was done for legitimate work and not directly related to the scheme, yet she refused to grant the mistrial. St. Eve said she was "very surprised by that testimony" and watched how the jury reacted to it. She also said prosecutors had anticipated what the testimony would be and had not unfairly characterized Kipnis. The judge has previously rejected other requests for mistrials from defendants in the case. Her ruling on Wednesday cast doubt on whether she would look favourably on pending requests to dismiss all the charges from Kipnis and the other three defendants that were filed after the government rested its case. Such motions to dismiss are common and usually fail, and the judge has indicated her doubts about only a few counts. With the trial in its 12th week, Wednesday's hearing was held to address motions without the jury present because defence lawyers were unable to schedule witnesses for the day. The case may go to the jury in two or three weeks. The 62-year-old Black, a Canadian-born member of the House of Lords, is charged with racketeering, mail and wire fraud, obstruction of justice and tax evasion. If convicted, he faces up to 101 years in prison, millions in fines and $92 million in forfeitures. Three co-defendants face lesser charges but all four are accused of defrauding Hollinger International, now known as the Sun-Times Media Group, in the course of selling hundreds of newspapers and other media properties the company once owned. In testifying for the prosecution, Radler, a Canadian, has described how money flowed from the sale of newspapers and other properties he and Black sold off. That included millions of dollars in non-competition payments the government says Black and the others pocketed instead of sending to Hollinger International for the benefit of its shareholders. Non-competition payments are designed to prevent a seller from re-entering the same market. But Black and the others are accused of using part of the numerous payments as tax-free bonuses for themselves.

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    Italians acquitted of "God's banker" murder
    By Stephen Brown Reuters - 54 minutes ago

    ROME (Reuters) - Two Italian mobsters, a bodyguard, a financier and his girlfriend were acquitted on Wednesday of the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, found hanging from a London bridge and known as "God's banker" for his Vatican links.

    The head of the collapsed Banco Ambrosiano was found dangling from a noose with $15,000 (7,500 pounds) in his pockets and weighed down with bricks under Blackfriars Bridge in central London.

    First ruled a suicide, the case was reopened in 2003 as a murder inquiry. The prosecution portrayed it as a Mafia revenge killing for Calvi's theft of Cosa Nostra money he was meant to launder, as well as money stolen from Licio Gelli of the P2 Masonic lodge. It presented forensic evidence that he was strangled and his suicide staged in a manner suggesting Mafia or Masonic ritual. Calvi's son Carlo, who never believed it was suicide and hired investigators to find evidence of foul play, said from Canada where he now lives he was disappointed but not surprised. "I never thought this was going to end today," he said. "But these are the individuals I consider responsible for organising his journey to London and his murder on the behalf of others." The court acquitted Mafia "treasurer" Pippo Calo, serving life for another murder; Sardinian financier Flavio Carboni; Rome crime boss Ernesto Diotallevi; and Calvi's bodyguard Silvano Vittor. Carboni's Austrian girlfriend Manuela Kleinszig was cleared of all suspicion, as the prosecution had requested. The private detective hired by Calvi's son, Jeff Katz, said by phone from London that the men acquitted "didn't put the rope around his neck or order it, they were just facilitators".

    NO RUST

    Despite a quarter of a century's wait, many questions have never been answered about Calvi, who has even been linked by authors to the untimely death of Pope John Paul I in 1978. Katz took on forensic experts to reconstruct the scaffolding from which Calvi was hanged. This showed his shoes would have had traces of rust had he climbed it to hang himself. "There was no trace on his shoes, so if he didn't walk on the scaffolding someone must have put him there," said Katz. Calvi's son, who intends to keep hunting his father's killers, hopes for closer cooperation between Italian and British investigators to shed light on Italian criminals working in the London underworld back in 1982. "Now that the British police have changed their view and say a crime was committed, I think they should tell us how it was committed," he said. Asked who he believed ordered the murder, Calvi said his father had meant to return to Italy to testify and restructure his bank, which was opposed by the Vatican and top politicians. Calvi's death cast a long shadow over the Vatican, which was implicated financially in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano. The Vatican Bank owned a small part of Ambrosiano and it was found partly responsible for the $1.3 billion in bad debts left by its failure. Calvi was appealing against a four-year sentence when he secretly flew to London in 1982 with a case of papers. Katz believes Calvi was lured onto a boat on the Thames with the promise of meeting shadowy financiers who could help him save Ambrosiano, when he was murdered and his suicide staged. The motive, Katzi believes, was that Calvi had threatened to squeal on his powerful clients if they let him go to jail.

    "Who could Calvi damage most in 1982? The political establishment had most to lose because of the payments being funnelled illegally to them by corporations," he said. "I think the powers that be were trying to send a very strong message."


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          Two men allegedly involved in a plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were in custody in Trinidad and Tobago and the police commissionersays they looking for a third. (June 2)

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          A witness captured the scene immediately after a small plane crashed in Wendover, Utah on Saturday afternoon. 3 were onboard but all survived. Kathryn May reports.

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          Univ. of Utah President Michael Young talked to Talkin' Sports about joining forces with BYU due to concerns that not enough of their football games are being broadcast on TV. David James reports.

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          A bear cub's mother died just before winter and was taken in by a wildlife center in Washington State. The cub was released into the wild Saturday, John Reger reports (0:38).

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          An Ohio man who knew he was too drunk to drive a car. That's the good news, the bad news is that he decided to take a spin anyway, John Reger reports (0:50).

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          Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez take to the streets. CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports

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          Some members of the Edina High School choir were caught with alcohol backstage at a recent performance, and were suspended for Saturday's concert, Darcy Pohland reports (2:07).

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          The Diamond Lake Road Bridge is nothing but a huge pile of rubble sitting on the Interstate and the intersection was drawing a crowd, James Schugel reports (2:54).

        • Austin Police Welcome Justice Investigation
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          CBS 42's Rebecca Taylor spoke with members of the community and police officers about the Department of Justice investigation into the Austin department.

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          Former Ranger great Rusty Greer played back when the Rangers were winning division titles in the mid to late 90s. Now, Greer coaches kids in the Texas Collegiate League --- including his own 7-year old son.

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          Airport security was very much on the minds of people flying in and out of JFK as they learned the details of this alleged terror plot. CBS 2's Elizabeth Hur reports

        • Homeland Security Committee Member Speaks On Airport Security
          Homeland Security Committee Member Speaks On Airport Security CBS 2 New York - Sat Jun 2, 11:31 PM ET

          Congressman Peter King knew about the investigation for more than year. The ranking member of the homeland security committee spoke to us about the plot and its effect.

        • No Signs Of Missing Newark Man
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          Police said there is no sign of a missing 69-year-old Willie Wilson of Newark, Delaware. Police said he suffers from dementia.

        • Radical Muslims Plotted To Kill Thousands
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          The FBI says the alleged terror cell hoped to paralyze Kennedy airport and kill thousands of people. CBS 2's Scott Weinberger reports.

        • Shark Attack Leaves N. Texas Woman With 40 Stitches
          Shark Attack Leaves N. Texas Woman With 40 Stitches CBS 11 Dallas - Sat Jun 2, 11:28 PM ET

          A North Texas woman wants to warn vacationers of a potential danger when venturing in shallow ocean water. Her South Carolina vacation took a painful turn when she was attacked by a shark.

        • Details Emerge On Local Terrorist
          Details Emerge On Local Terrorist CBS 2 New York - Sat Jun 2, 11:28 PM ET

          We're learning more about the man at the center of this terrorist plot. CBS 2's Dave Carlin reports.

        • Giuliani Talks Terrorism And Cuba During Dania Beach Appearance
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          Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani on Saturday used news of a plot to blow up a John F. Kennedy International Airport jet fuel line as another example of why he should be elected president.

        • Local Vets Push For Final Resting Place In Bucks County
          Local Vets Push For Final Resting Place In Bucks County CBS 3 Philadelphia - Sat Jun 2, 11:25 PM ET

          The Council Rock School District will vote on a deal that could bring a national cemetery to the green fields of Dolington. Congressman and Veteran Pat Murphy said the historic location is ideal.

        • Two Men Arrested In Case Of Murdered Gables Jogger
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          Two men have been charged with the murder of a Coral Gables jogger who arrived home last week to tell his wife he had been shot before collapsing.

        • Latest Alleged Terror Plot Has Airport Officials Concerned
          Latest Alleged Terror Plot Has Airport Officials Concerned CBS 3 Philadelphia - Sat Jun 2, 11:23 PM ET

          The latest alleged terror plot has many in the area concerned and very concerned with a similar jet-fuel pipeline at the Philadelphia International Airport. Robin Mackintosh has more on the story.

        A Community Mourns One of its Own

        A Community Mourns One of its Own CBS 2 Chicago - Sat Jun 2, 11:22 PM ET

        Three men have been arrested for the bank robbery on May 22, but the victim's father and community still mourn the death of Tramaine Gibson, as CBS 2's Rafael Romo reports.

      • Deadly Washington Co. Crash Under Investigation
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        Police are investigating a a deadly accident involving a minivan and tractor trailer in Hanover Township, Washington County; KDKA's Paul Martino reports

      • Maryland Prison System Rocked By Violence
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        At least 20 people have been stabbed over the past two days. Peggy Lee reports.

      • Saturday Storm Leaves Thousands In The North Shore Without Power
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        A strong storm on Saturday prompted two tornado warnings and several severe thunderstorm warnings in Massachusetts. The hardest his areas are in the North Shore, where several people are now in the dark. Paul Burton reports.

      • Mass. Turnpike Crash Kills 2
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        Two people are dead after the SUV they were driving in crashed on the Mass. Pike while trying to avoid hitting a dear.

      • Rudy Giuliani Makes Campaign Stop In Dania Beach
        Rudy Giuliani Makes Campaign Stop In Dania Beach CBS4 Miami - Sat Jun 2, 10:48 PM ET

        He was the special guest at a GOP function called "Lincoln Day Gala 2007", in remembrance of the principles of Abraham Lincoln at the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach (DCOTA).

      • Baby Remains Found In Pompano Resort Dumpster CBS4 Miami - Sat Jun 2, 10:44 PM ET

        Broward detectives are investigating the gruesome find of a newborn baby or fetus in the dumpster of a Pompano Beach hotel Saturday.

      • Canadian scam artist preys on the elderly
        Canadian scam artist preys on the elderly CBC.ca - Sat Jun 2, 10:36 PM ET

      • Botanic Gardens Offer Free Wildflower Hikes On Mt. Evans CBS4 Denver - Sat Jun 2, 10:31 PM ET

        Volunteers from Denver Botanic Gardens will lead free wildflower hikes on Mt. Evans during June.

      • Antero Reservoir Will Re-Open For Fishing In July
        Antero Reservoir Will Re-Open For Fishing In July CBS4 Denver - Sat Jun 2, 10:24 PM ET

        Fishermen know Antero Reservoir has been closed for several years. But the popular South Park lake will re-open July 17 this summer.

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          RENO, Nev. - Sen. Barack Obama vowed Thursday to restore environmental protections the Bush administration has rolled back through executive orders, especially at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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          SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Hillary Rodham Clinton wooed Silicon Valley campaign donors and voters Thursday with a plan to create more high-paying jobs and maintain U.S. dominance in technology.

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          RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - In Nevada, a state of mostly desert, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is quickly nurturing a grass-roots campaign, with a rally on Thursday showing such efforts are generating enthusiasm.

        • Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, center, talks with business owner Wendy Li, right, and  her son Brandon Li, left, about how rising gas prices affect their business during a visit to Stacks restaurant in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, May 31, 2007.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
          Edwards calls for probe of oil industry AP - Thu May 31, 8:15 PM ET

          MENLO PARK, Calif. - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Thursday called for a federal investigation into possible antitrust violations by the oil industry and criticized oil companies for raising gas prices.

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        • President Bush arrives to speak about immigration reform, Friday, June 1, 2007, in the Eisenhower Executive Office building across from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
          Bush heading to G-8 meetings in Europe AP - 2 hours, 27 minutes ago

          WASHINGTON - New penalties against Sudan — check. More dollars to fight AIDS in Africa — check. A respected internationalist to lead the World Bank — check. Friendly words about tackling global warming — check.

        • President Bush speaks about immigration reform at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
          Bush previews European trip initiatives AP - Sat Jun 2, 10:14 AM ET

          WASHINGTON - Europeans may bristle over President Bush's Iraq policy, yet he spent the week rolling out initiatives they can more easily embrace — ones that address global warming, AIDS and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

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        • This 1933 black-and-white handout photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and the National Archives, shows John F. Kennedy, right, and fellow Choate School 'Muckers' Club members, part of an exhibit at the National Archives entitled: 'School House to White House, The Education of the Presidents.' (AP Photo/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives)
          Even presidents get bad grades in school AP - Sat Jun 2, 3:16 AM ET

          WASHINGTON - Any kid can grow up to be president. Just look at their report cards. Lyndon Johnson got a D in his third-grade grammar class. John Kennedy scored a 55 in eighth-grade Latin. George H.W. Bush's high school transcript shows marks in the 60s and 70s for many classes.

        • President Bush smiles as he is introduced to speak at the New Jersey Republican State Committee reception in Edison, New Jersey, May 30, 2007. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
          Bush pressing hard on immigration bill AP - Fri Jun 1, 10:32 PM ET

          WASHINGTON - President Bush challenged lawmakers on Friday to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants despite the harsh criticism they're hearing from voters and interest groups on both sides of the issue.

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        • Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks about House Democrats' accomplishments prior to Memorial Day during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington in this May 25, 2007, file photo.   (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
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          WASHINGTON - Under a portrait of George Washington and a sign proclaiming "A New Direction," Democratic lawmakers boasted of their accomplishments their first five months running Congress.

        • Connecticut Senate leader arrested AP - Fri Jun 1, 11:26 PM ET

          HARTFORD, Conn. - A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to threaten someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.

        • Fred Thompson Begins Rehearsal for Expected White House Bid CQPolitics.com - Fri Jun 1, 5:00 PM ET

          Fred Thompson — the former Tennessee senator better known to many Americans from his acting role as District Attorney Arthur Branch on the hit NBC show “Law and Order” — on Friday took his first step toward a widely expected bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

        • House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses a news conference in Berlin May 28, 2007. Pelosi said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
          Pelosi wants to pass CO2 bill this year Reuters - Fri Jun 1, 12:33 PM ET

          WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.

        • Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd speaks during a 'kitchen table' session with firefighters in Las Vegas, April 13, 2007. The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on student loans and college affordability on June 6, the panel said on Friday. (Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus/Reuters)
          Senate panel sets hearing on student loans Reuters - Fri Jun 1, 10:38 AM ET

          WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on student loans and college affordability on June 6, the panel said on Friday.

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        • Former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby prepares to meet reporters outside federal court in Washington, after the jury reached a verdict in Libby's perjury trial. Libby was convicted in March of perjury and obstruction, becoming the highest-ranking White House official convicted since the Iran-Contra affair two decades ago. Sentencing is scheduled for June 5.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
          Libby learns sentencing outcome Tuesday AP - Sat Jun 2, 1:01 PM ET

          WASHINGTON - At his sentencing Tuesday, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will learn whether he will go to prison and, if so, whether it will be right away for his conviction in the CIA leak case.

        • GAO: US gives oil firms good deals AP - Fri Jun 1, 7:28 PM ET

          WASHINGTON - When it comes to taking oil and natural gas from government land and waters, the oil companies are getting a good deal, says a congressional report.

        • Former sex blogger files for bankruptcy AP - Fri Jun 1, 5:07 PM ET

          WASHINGTON - Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide whose online sex diary landed her a book deal and a Playboy photo spread but got her kicked off Capitol Hill, has filed for bankruptcy.

        • Adam Kokesh is photographed on Thursday May 31, 2007 in Washington. The Marine Corps wants to dismiss Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran, from the reserves for taking part in an anti-war protest and other misconduct, a move the veteran claims is punishment for his political views.  (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
          Vets back man in trouble over protest AP - Fri Jun 1, 2:42 PM ET

          WASHINGTON - The nation's largest combat veterans group on Friday urged the military to "exercise a little common sense" and call off its investigation of a group of Iraq war veterans who wore their uniforms during anti-war protests.

        • Former Defense worker gets prison time AP - Fri Jun 1, 2:12 PM ET

          WASHINGTON - A former Defense Department employee was sentenced to a year in prison Friday for accepting money and a job from a government contractor he had used his federal position to assist.

        World Politics News

        • German riot policemen arrest a protestor during clashes at an anti-G8 demonstration in Rostock June 2, 2007. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
          Protesters, police clash after Rostock anti-G8 demo Reuters - 36 minutes ago

          ROSTOCK, Germany (Reuters) - German police clashed with hundreds of protesters in the port of Rostock on Saturday following a much larger peaceful demonstration against next week's Group of Eight summit in a nearby Baltic resort.

        • A hooded demonstrators throws a stone towards German police officers during clashes after a protest march of tens of thousands of people against the upcoming G8 summit in downtown Rostock, northeastern Germany, Saturday, June 2, 2007. The demonstration turned violent when some of the protesters clashed with police officers, throwing stones and flagpoles at officers, a spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
          G-8 protesters clash with German police AP - 48 minutes ago

          ROSTOCK, Germany - Protesters with black hoods and bandanas covering their faces showered police with rocks and beer bottles Saturday, before the heavily armored officers drove them back with water cannon and tear gas during a rally against an upcoming Group of Eight summit.

        • People gather for a protest against poverty in London. Thousands of protesters gathered in central London Saturday to demand that Group of Eight (G8) leaders meeting at a summit in Germany next week keep past promises about fighting world poverty.(AFP/Shaun Curry )
          Thousands of protesters in London urge G8 fight poverty AFP - 53 minutes ago

          LONDON (AFP) - Thousands of protesters gathered in central London Saturday to demand that Group of Eight (G8) leaders meeting at a summit in Germany next week keep past promises about fighting world poverty.

        • US President George W. Bush, seeen here 01 June 2007, on Saturday praised US "global leadership and generosity" ahead of a Group of Eight summit in Germany expected to be marked by massive protests against the war in Iraq.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb )
          Bush highlights US 'global leadership' ahead of G8 summit AFP - Sat Jun 2, 1:06 PM ET

          WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Saturday praised US "global leadership and generosity" ahead of a Group of Eight summit in Germany expected to be marked by massive protests against the war in Iraq.

        • An anti-G8 protester walks past a burning car during unrest between riot police and anti-G8 protesters in Rostock. More than 150 police were injured in violent clashes with Molotov cocktail-throwing protestors here on Saturday at a demonstration ahead of next week's G8 summit.(AFP/John MacDougall )
          More than 150 police hurt in clashes at G8 demo in Germany AFP - Sat Jun 2, 11:59 AM ET

          ROSTOCK, Germany (AFP) - More than 150 police were injured in violent clashes with protestors at a demonstration on Saturday against next week's G8 summit, a police spokesman said.

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        • Deborah Jeane Palfrey (C), the woman accused of running an upscale prostitution agency for officials, military brass and executives in the US capital, appeared on television late Friday, vowing to defend herself against all charges but not revealing any new big names among her clients(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)
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        • Court limits lawsuits for pay bias AP - Tue May 29, 8:09 PM ET

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        • Study Evaluating Novel Combination of nab-paclitaxel and capecitabine for 1st Line Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer Presented at the American Soc U.S. Newswire - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

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        • Kucinich: New Hampshire Issues are National Issues U.S. Newswire - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

          Congressman Dennis Kucinich told delegates to the New Hampshire Democratic Convention Saturday that they should stand with members of their local communities on issues of water rights, communication infrastructure, and the privatization of public sector jobs because "the issues here in New Hampshire are national issues as well."

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        • On Eve of Deportation to Bangladesh District Court Imposes a Temporary Restraining Order Against Homeland Security U.S. Newswire - Sat Jun 2, 12:42 PM ET

          The US District Court Central District of California late Friday night, issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against US Department of Homeland Security, forcing them to stay the deportation of Mohiuddin "Din" Ahmed (www.freedin.org) a man who is being forced back to his homeland of Bangladesh, where he will face certain death upon his return.

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        • The vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington is seen in the Sept. 11, 2000 file photo. According to government documents, the Secret Service routinely destroyed five of eight categories of information relating to visitors to Vice President Cheney's residence.  (AP Photo/J Scott Applewhite)
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          WASHINGTON - In the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records.

        • Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives  Headquarters in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2007.  (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
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        • US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, seen here in May 2007, called on the international community Saturday to unite behind stronger sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, warning that a military solution "is in no one's interest."(AFP/File/Karen Bleier )
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        Andrei Lugovoy gestures during a news conference in Moscow May 31, 2007. Lugovoy, the man...Enlarge Photo

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        Lugovoy says MI6 real killers

        By Guy Faulconbridge Reuters

        MOSCOW (Reuters) - The man charged by Britain with murdering former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko denied involvement on Thursday, saying MI6 and a self-exiled Russian multi-millionaire were far more likely suspects. 

        In comments likely to deepen a Russian-British feud reminiscent of Cold War spy scandals, Britain's chief suspect Andrei Lugovoy rejected Litvinenko's deathbed charge the Kremlin had ordered his poisoning with highly radioactive Polonium 210. At a packed news conference in Moscow, Lugovoy said he suspected MI6, the mafia and Boris Berezovsky, a multi-millionaire Kremlin critic who fled Russia for London, could have been involved in Litvinenko's murder. "The main role was played by British secret services and their agent Berezovsky," a confident and combative Lugovoy, himself a former KGB agent, told a news conference aired live on state television. "The poisoning of Litvinenko could not have been but under the control of British secret services," he said. Asked whether he had firm proof of British intelligence involvement in the murder, Lugovoy replied: "Yes". But Britain hit back by saying its request for Lugovoy's extradition from Russia -- which Moscow said it could not meet -- had nothing to do with MI6. "This is a criminal matter and is not an issue about intelligence," a Foreign Office spokesman said. "A British citizen was killed in London and UK citizens and visitors were put at risk." Looking tanned and dressed in a dapper pink shirt, Lugovoy said the Kremlin's enemies and the Western press were portraying him as a "Russian James Bond" in a campaign to tarnish Russia's image. Private security guards were protecting Lugovoy at the news conference and sniffer dogs checked the room for weapons or explosives before he entered. Lugovoy portrayed a shadowy world of secret codes, hard drinking and meetings with British spies plotting to compromise Putin. "There was an open attempt to recruit me as an agent of British secret services," he said. "The British basically asked me to start collecting any compromising material on President Vladimir Putin and members of his family." Russia's Federal Security Service said in a statement it would investigate Lugovoy's statements.

        "KREMLIN CAMPAIGN"

        Berezovsky, who has said openly he wants to fund a revolution to change the government in Russia, denied he worked for MI6 and said the Kremlin was using Lugovoy as its mouthpiece. ugovoy spoke in a media centre where government officials often give news conferences and Russian television, which toes the Kremlin line, gave him extensive coverage. "Everything about Mr Lugovoy's words and presentation made it obvious that he is acting on Kremlin instruction," Berezovsky said in a statement. Speaking to Ekho Moskvy radio station, Berezovsky said: "This (Lugovoy's) statement makes everything clear, it has become obvious that the whole campaign the Kremlin is staging around Litvinenko's murder is a campaign of state lies." In a statement read out by friends after he died in a London hospital, Litvinenko, a former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer who obtained British citizenship, said Putin was behind his poisoning. The Kremlin has described the allegation as nonsense. "A real war has been stirred up against me and Russia in the western press," said Lugovoy, who once guarded the Kremlin elite and now runs a private security firm in Moscow. He said that Litvinenko had been recruited by British intelligence and may have annoyed his handlers. "Litvinenko was an agent who had gone out of control and they got rid of him." Lugovoy also alleged Litvinenko had obtained compromising material which could jeopardise the political refugee status of Berezovsky."In this regard I can suppose that he did not abandon these attempts to blackmail Berezovsky and it is quite possible this led to tragic consequences," Lugovoy said.

        (Additional reporting by Luke Baker in London)

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        • Group: Gaza students need freer travel AP - 3 minutes ago

          JERUSALEM - A group of internationally renowned Israeli authors and university presidents demanded Wednesday that Israel grant Palestinian students from the Gaza Strip free movement to superior universities in the West Bank.

        • U.S. soldiers patrol a village northwest of Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, May 29, 2007. (Stringer/Reuters)
          Forces search for 5 kidnapped Britons AP - 13 minutes ago

          BAGHDAD - Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops cordoned off sections of Baghdad's Sadr City slum Wednesday and conducted raids in an apparent effort to find five British citizens who Iraqi officials believed were abducted by the Shiite Mahdi Army militia.

        • Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, gestures towards Vice Premier Shimon Peres, right, at a meeting of the Kadima party at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Olmert's Kadima party nominated the Nobel Laureate Peres to be its candidate for the Presidency which will be decided by lawmakers June 13. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
          Peres to run for Israeli presidency AP - 18 minutes ago

          JERUSALEM - Elder statesman Shimon Peres on Wednesday declared his candidacy for the ceremonial post of Israeli president, telling supporters, "This may be my last chance to serve the country."

        • Iranian forces kill 10 militants AP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

          TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian troops Wednesday killed 10 militants in ongoing clashes in the country's northwest, near the border with Turkey, Iran's official news agency reported.

        • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party at the Parliament in Ankara, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. The head of Turkey's Constitutional Court Tulay Tugcu said in Ankara, Wednesday, May 30, 2007, it would ask prosecutors to file charges against Erdogan allegedly questioning the partiality of the court and exciding 'boundaries of respects.' Erdogan on Tuesday said a decision by the court to cancel a presidential vote earlier this month was a 'disgrace to the justice system.'(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
          Turkish court seeks charges against PM AP - 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

          ANKARA, Turkey - The head of Turkey's top court said Wednesday it would ask prosecutors to file criminal charges against the prime minister for allegedly questioning the court's neutrality and exceeding the "boundaries of respect."

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        • Senior Iranian envoy Ali Larijani talks to the media after arriving to Madrid Barajas airport, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Iran's nuclear negotiator arrived in Spain for a meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
          Diplomats: Iran hinted at suspension AP - 4 minutes ago

          MADRID, Spain - Iran recently hinted at willingness to discuss a partial suspension of uranium enrichment, but the West stuck to its demand for a full halt and Tehran withdrew its idea for getting talks going in the dispute over its nuclear program, diplomats said Wednesday

        • A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month, health officials said Tuesday. (AP GRAPHIC)
          Italians trace flights of man with TB AP - 9 minutes ago

          ROME - Italian officials said Wednesday they were tracing the movements of an American man infected with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis who honeymooned in Rome for two days despite being told to turn himself in to health authorities.

        • Violin bow plucked from endangered wood AP - 9 minutes ago

          THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.

        • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks with his counterpart from the U.S., Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, during a G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in Potsdam, Germany, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. (AP Photo)
          Russia resists missile defense plan AP - 17 minutes ago

          POTSDAM, Germany - Russia's top diplomat accused the United States of launching a new arms race as the two nations traded barbs Wednesday over U.S. plans to erect a missile defense system in countries formerly under Moscow's influence.

        • Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko speaks during a news conference in Kiev May 30, 2007.  REUTERS/Mykola Lazarenko  (UKRAINE)
          Ukraine's interior minister falls ill AP - 18 minutes ago

          KIEV, Ukraine - Interior Minister Vasyl Tsushko, a central figure in Ukraine's political standoff between the president and prime minister, has suffered a heart attack, a ministry official said Wednesday. She gave no information on his condition.

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        • Tropical Storm Barbara forms off Mexico AP - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

          MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Barbara formed Wednesday off the southwestern coast of Mexico and could strengthen to a hurricane within days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

        • A picture of Cuba's President Fidel Castro hangs on a window in Havana April 30, 2007. Cuba expects to sign deals worth $150 million with American food producers at talks starting on Monday that point to sustained U.S. interest in the Cuban market despite political hurdles. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)
          Castro lambasts Bush on G-8 agenda item AP - Wed May 30, 5:29 AM ET

          HAVANA - Convalescing Fidel Castro lambasted President Bush on Tuesday for opposing the European Union's goal for an agreement on carbon emissions at next week's Group of Eight summit.

        • Police: Nicaraguan girl killed American AP - Tue May 29, 8:07 PM ET

          MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A pregnant Nicaraguan teenager allegedly shot her 53-year-old American lover and enlisted her siblings to help dismember the body, police said Tuesday.

        • A student aims his slingshot toward a formation of riot police, unseen, in Caracas, Tuesday, May 29, 2007, during clashes at a protest against Venezuela's President Chavez's decision to shut down opposition-aligned television station Radio Caracas Television, RCTV, and replace it with a new state-funded channel.  (AP Photo/Howard Yanes)
          Venezuela's Chavez defends TV decision AP - Tue May 29, 7:13 PM ET

          CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his decision not to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television network and warned Tuesday he might crack down on another TV station, accusing it of trying to incite attempts on his life.

        • Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007, poses just moments before falling during the evening gown competition of the Miss Universe 2007 pageant in Mexico City, Monday, May 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
          Mexicans boo Miss USA, showing discord AP - Tue May 29, 3:03 PM ET

          MEXICO CITY - Many here south of the border reveled in her disastrous evening: First Miss USA Rachel Smith slipped and fell on her bottom during the Miss Universe evening gown competition. Then she was booed by hundreds in the Mexican audience.

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        • Photo released by the United Nations shows refugees at the Kalma Camp in south Darfur, in 2005. New US sanctions on Sudan are "too little, too late," according to activists and experts who argue that the victims of the Darfur bloodshed are being sacrificed on the altar of global diplomacy.(AFP/UN-HO/File/Evan Schneider)
          US sanctions on Sudan lack teeth without UN action: experts AFP - 8 minutes ago

          WASHINGTON (AFP) - New US sanctions on Sudan are "too little, too late," according to activists and experts who argue that the victims of the Darfur bloodshed are being sacrificed on the altar of global diplomacy.

        • Residents of the populous Cairo district of Qalet al-Kabsh demonstrate near the Egyptian National Assembly compound, demanding relocation after a fire devoured their neighborhood on 20 March 2007.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)
          Homeless Egyptian protesters clash with police AFP - 14 minutes ago

          CAIRO (AFP) - Dozens of Egyptians left homeless after a fire ripped through their neighbourhood two months ago, clashed with police on Wednesday during a protest to demand housing, witnesses told AFP.

        • Nigerian state files criminal suit against Pfizer Reuters - 45 minutes ago

          KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian state has filed criminal charges against Pfizer Inc. for its alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic, court papers showed on Wednesday.

        • British Prime Minister Tony Blair waves as he arrives at Lungi Airport in Sierra Leone, May 30, 2007. (Leon Neal/Pool/Reuters)
          Blair urges West to back African peackeeping force Reuters - 54 minutes ago

          FREETOWN (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair called on Western countries on Wednesday to finance, train and equip African peacekeeping troops so they could intervene to end conflicts on the continent like the one in Sudan's Darfur.

        • Britain backs U.S. on Darfur sanctions AP - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago

          LUNGI, Sierra Leone - Britain supports a U.S. proposal to impose U.N. sanctions against the government of Sudan for its role in Darfur's bloodshed, a spokesman for Tony Blair said Wednesday as the prime minister arrived in Sierra Leone.

        Asia News

        • Acting Thai Rak Thai party leader, Chaturon Chaisang gives a traditional greeting to the press as he arrives at the Constitutional Court in Bangkok. The Thai Rak Thai party was dissolved Wednesday and its executives, including ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, banned from politics after a court found them guilty of electoral fraud.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
          Thailand's Thai Rak Thai party dissolved, executives banned AFP - 9 minutes ago

          BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's Thai Rak Thai party was dissolved Wednesday and its executives, including ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, banned from politics after a court found them guilty of electoral fraud.

        • Pork prices trigger crisis in China AP - 11 minutes ago

          SHANGHAI, China - Crisis has been in the air in China the past week — over pork.

        • Google chairman dismisses privacy issue AP - 16 minutes ago

          SEOUL, South Korea - Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that U.S. regulatory approval of his company's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will not be hindered by concerns over privacy.

        • Explosion in East Timor wounds 4 AP - 46 minutes ago

          DILI, East Timor - Foreign peacekeepers fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse gangs battling each other Wednesday after an explosion wounded four people, officials said.

        • Cargo carrier Transmile, whose shareholders include Malaysia's richest man Robert Kuok, may have overstated its consolidated revenues by 157 million dollars over the past two years, the company said Wednesday.(Transmile)
          Malaysian firm may have overstated revenues by 157 million dollars AFP - 53 minutes ago

          KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A cargo carrier whose shareholders include Malaysia's richest man Robert Kuok may have overstated its consolidated revenues by 157 million dollars over the past two years, the company said Wednesday.

        Canada

        • Canada's Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor (L) speaks during a news conference with Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier at the Department of National Defence headquarters in Ottawa May 30, 2007. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
          Canada accused of skimping on Afghan funeral costs Reuters - 27 minutes ago

          OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, trying to tackle another controversy involving its military mission to Afghanistan, ordered a probe on Wednesday into reports that Ottawa had broken promises to pay the funeral costs of those killed in action.

        • Schwarzenegger, Ontario premier in stem cell deal Reuters - 11 minutes ago

          TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario and California will work together to develop new stem cell therapies to help conquer cancer, and will cooperate on curbing greenhouse gas emission, the leaders of the two regions said on Wednesday.

        • Conrad Black enters the Dirksen Federal Court Building for his fraud and racketeering trial in Chicago, Illinois, May 17, 2007. Jurors at Black's trial watched video tapes on Tuesday showing the former media baron and his chauffeur removing boxes from his Canadian offices the same day U.S. securities regulators say they told Black's lawyer he would have to surrender some records. REUTERS/Stephen J. Carrera
          Tax agent details impact of bonuses at Black trial Reuters - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

          CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. government agent who analyzed the tax returns of Conrad Black's former company testified on Wednesday that the firm would have had nearly $24 million more in income over two years if money had not been diverted by the former media baron and his associates.

        • Trucks, trains entering U.S. from Canada to pay: USDA Reuters - 2 hours, 36 minutes ago

          WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commercial trucks and rail cars entering the United States from Canada will pay a fee and face more stringent inspections starting June 1 as U.S. officials work to prevent plant and animal pests from entering the country, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

        • Canada targets movie piracy as Governator visits Reuters - 11 minutes ago

          OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will bring in a new law to curb movie piracy, the federal government said on Wednesday in a move intended to coincide with a visit by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

        Australia/Antarctica News

        • Undated family photo of Folole Muliaga, who died when New Zealand power company, Mercury Energy cut power to her house in Mangere, south Auckland, New Zealand Tuesday, May 29, 2007. The mother of four who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home due to an unpaid bill, her family claimed Wednesday, May 30, 2007. (AP Photo/NZPA)
          Woman on oxygen dies after power cut AP - 8 minutes ago

          WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A 44-year-old woman who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home because of a $122 unpaid bill, her family claimed Wednesday.

        • Explosion in East Timor wounds 4 AP - 46 minutes ago

          DILI, East Timor - Foreign peacekeepers fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse gangs battling each other Wednesday after an explosion wounded four people, officials said.

        • A map of East Timor locating the town of Balibo. The killing of five journalists in East Timor in 1975 returned to haunt Indonesia and Australia Wednesday as an inquest into their deaths drew to a close with a call for war crimes charges to be laid.(AFP/Graphic)
          War crimes charges urged over journalists' Timor deaths AFP - Wed May 30, 11:13 AM ET

          SYDNEY (AFP) - The killing of five journalists in East Timor in 1975 returned to haunt Indonesia and Australia Wednesday as an inquest into their deaths drew to a close with a call for war crimes charges to be laid.

        • Australian inquest war crimes plea over journalists' Timor deaths AFP - Wed May 30, 4:03 AM ET

          SYDNEY (AFP) - The killing of five journalists in East Timor in 1975 returned to haunt Indonesia and Australia Wednesday as an inquest into their deaths drew to a close with a call for war crimes charges to be laid.

        • 84-year-old faces extradition to Hungary AP - Wed May 30, 2:54 AM ET

          PERTH, Australia - An Australian court on Wednesday refused to halt extradition proceedings for an 84-year-old Hungarian immigrant accused of torturing and killing a Jewish teenager during World War II.

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        • A gold bathtub worth 120 million yen ($988,100), which was stolen from a hotel near Tokyo May 30, 2007, is seen in this photo taken June 2005. Japanese police are scratching their heads over how the bathtub weighing some 80 kg was stolen from a shared bathroom for men on the 10th floor of the hotel. REUTERS/Kyodo
          $1M gold tub stolen from hotel in Japan AP - Wed May 30, 4:20 AM ET

          TOKYO - A glittering bathtub made of gold worth nearly $1 million has been stolen from a resort hotel, an official said Wednesday.

        • In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI blesses a photograph of missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann as her mother Kate McCann , right, touches his hands during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. The pope spoke a few words with the parents, and blessed them and the photograph as he greeted dignitaries in the front row during his audience. Madeleine went missing on May 3, 2007 while vacationing with her family in Portugal. Man at center is an unidentified . (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
          Parents of missing girl meet the pope AP - 30 minutes ago

          VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI clasped the hands of the parents of Madeleine McCann and blessed a photo of the missing 4-year-old, telling them Wednesday he would pray for the safe return of the little girl who disappeared a month ago in Portugal.

        • Two black Labradors, Lucky and Flo, sit next to a shipment of boxes containing pirated optical discs after the 'Operation Double Trouble' demonstration at the main air cargo complex in Sepang, Malaysia in this Tuesday, March 13, 2007 file photo.    (AP Photo/Andy Wong, FILE)
          Malaysia to form canine anti-piracy unit AP - Wed May 30, 2:49 AM ET

          KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia hopes to obtain special dogs trained in Ireland to sniff out bootlegged DVDs as part of growing efforts to combat movie piracy in a country accused of being among the world's top producers of illegal discs, officials said Wednesday.

        • A closed subway entrance in Berlin in a file photo. A German mistook a subway entrance for an underground car park and her vehicle got stuck on the stairs, police said on Wednesday. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
          German mistakes subway for underground car park Reuters - Wed May 30, 8:03 AM ET

          BERLIN (Reuters) - A German mistook a subway entrance for an underground car park and her vehicle got stuck on the stairs, police said on Wednesday.

        • This video frame grab image taken from an al-Qaida propaganda video released Tuesday May 29, 2007 and provided by the IntelCenter, shows Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, as he delivers a statement in English with Arabic subtitles, laying out al-Qaida's justifications for conducting future attacks against the United States. The video appeared on a Web site often used by Islamic militants and carried the logo of al-Qaida's media wing, as-Sahab. Gadahn is an American originally from California. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)
          Al-Qaida video threatens attacks on U.S. AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

          CAIRO, Egypt - An American member of al-Qaida warned President Bush on Tuesday to end U.S. involvement in all Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11 suicide assault, according to a new videotape.

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        • Film details infamous 1950s NYC crime AP - 9 minutes ago

          NEW YORK - Dan Klores still remembers his first case of heartbreak.

        • Lindsay Lohan arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in New York, in this  May, 7, 2007 file photo. Lohan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday, May 26, 2007, after her convertible struck a curb, and investigators found what they believe is cocaine at the scene, police said.  (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, file)
          Lohan is photographed slumped in car AP - Tue May 29, 12:44 PM ET

          NEW YORK - Lindsay Lohan, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif., was photographed less than 48 hours later slumped in the passenger seat of a car.

        • Cannes Makes Date with 4 Months, Fonda(E! Online)
          Cannes Makes Date with 4 Months, Fonda E! Online - Tue May 29, 9:45 AM ET

          Los Angeles (E! Online) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days...and one winner.

          After 12 days of black-tie screenings, Brangelina and Michael Moore, the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival wrapped by bestowing the coveted Palme d'Or on Romanian director Cristian Mungui's abortion film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

          The naturalistic drama following two students who must contend with an unwanted pregnancy in the waning days of the Ceausescu regime, beat out 21 other films in competition, including Wong Kar-Wai's Cannes opener My Blueberry Nights, Emir Kustirica's Promise Me This, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, the Coen brothers No Country for Old Men and Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra.

          Mungui, who received the fest's top prize from Jane Fonda (in town to accept a lifetime achievement award), said he was humbled that his entry, made on a fairly low budget, was singled out amid works from some of the world's top filmmakers.

          "It looks a little bit to me like [a] fairytale," he said during Sunday's awards ceremony, adding that "you don't need big budgets and big stars to make stories."

          Earning Cannes' runner-up trophy, the Grand Prize, was Japanese director Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, about the journey of a caregiver and her elderly patient who wind up stranded in the woods after setting out on a drive in the country.

          Best Director went to Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the harrowing story of a 43-year-old French journalist whose entire body was paralyzed by a massive stroke except his left eye, which he subsequently used to blink out a memoir composed entirely in his head.

          Cannes' third-place award, the Jury Prize, was a tie between Persepolis, an animated feature by first-time French-Iranian director Marjane Satrapi, and Silent Night by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas. The former is the filmmaker's autobiographical account of growing up under fundamentalist rule in Iran and features voice work by French acting goddess Catherine Deneuve. The latter explores a father's faith after he falls for another woman.

          Russia's Konstantin Lavronenko as named Best Actor for his role in The Banishment, while South Korean Jeon Do-yeon was named Best Actress for he comedy romance Secret Sunshine.

          Gus Van Sant, a Palme d'Or winner in 2003 for his high school drama Elephant, was given a special 60th Anniversary Prize for Paranoid Park, about a Portland skateboarder whose life is turned upside down after he accidentally kills a security guard.

          Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, who won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival with the hard-hitting love story Head On, scored Best Screenplay Award for his latest, The Edge of Heaven.

          Walking away with the Camera d'Or, which honors a first-time filmmaker, was the Israeli husband and wife team of Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen for Meduzot. The short film prize went to Watching It Rain by Elisa Miller of Mexico.

          As for Fonda, Cannes festival head Gilles Jacob paid tribute to her status as a film icon and her anti-war activism by bestowing her with a surprise Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement. Fonda is just the fourth recipient of the honor, following French filmmakers Alain Resnais and Gérard Oury and French actress Jeanne Moreau.

          "I never imagined that the Cannes film festival would honor a person who was spied on and tracked by the FBI, a person who has a 20,000-page file," Jacob said, noting the Georgia Rule star's stance against the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  "You are a woman who fights and wins."

          In a nod to her famous father, the award was handed out following a screening of Sidney Lumet's classic courtroom melodrama 12 Angry Men, starring her Oscar-winning dad, Henry Fonda.

          The 69-year-old Jane Fonda was accompanied by daughter Vanessa, whom she had with French helmer Roger Vadim.

          "I have the feeling my father is with me tonight. The whole Fonda family thanks you," she said in French, then commented on the influence the elder Fonda had on her. "He loved progressive films and those films taught me the important things: justice, democracy...I feel inspired by and proud of the heritage he left us."

          While last year's Cannes helped to launch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, 2007 will likely go down as the year of Sicko, Michael Moore's latest polemic on the current health-care crisis in the U.S.

          The firebrand filmmaker debuted Sicko out of competition and the exposé received a standing ovation from the Croisette crowd. Moore has always been a hit, with 2002's Bowling for Columbine winning the 55th Anniversary Prize and 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11 becoming the first doc ever to win the Palme d'Or.

          As always, the  was thick with A-listers, among them George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle, who used their Ocean's Thirteen screening and a benefit to put the spotlight to raise more than $8 million (with a $1 million donation from Steven Spielberg) to aid victims of the genocide in Darfur.

          Pitt also coproduced A Mighty Heart, featuring a star turn by wife Angelina Jolie. The Michael Winterbottom-helmed film dramatized the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Al Qaeda terrorists and the strength of his widow, Mariane, played by Jolie.

          This year's jury was headed by Oscar-nominated British director, Stephen Frears (The Queen), and the jury included Aussie actress Toni Colette, Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung, French screen star Michel Piccoli and Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.

          Get more E! Online Cannes coverage from Reel Girl and check out the hottest pics from the Croisette in our Cannes photo gallery.

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          A Pirates Holiday E! Online - Tue May 29, 7:17 AM ET

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        • Review: `Gracie' a formulaic sports film AP - Tue May 29, 4:53 AM ET

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        • Prosecution witness Dr Louis Pena, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on actress Lana Clarkson, testifies about the path of a bullet from a gun directed inside a mouth, during the Phil Spector murder trial at Los Angeles Superior Court, in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Spector is charged with murdering actress Lana Clarkson in his Los Angeles home Feb. 3, 2003. (AP Photo/Robyn Beck, Pool)
          Coroner: Clarkson's death was a homicide AP - 11 minutes ago

          LOS ANGELES - The barrel of a gun may have been forced into actress Lana Clarkson's mouth, bruising her tongue before she was fatally shot, a coroner testified Tuesday in music producer Phil Spector's murder trial.

        • Britney Spears takes the stage to present an award at the 2006 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, in a Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006 photo. Britney Spears says she was 'lost' after her divorce and 'hit rock bottom.' In a message to her fans posted on her Web site, Spears calls rehab 'a very humbling place' and denies that it was 'alcohol or depression' that sent her there. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)
          Britney Spears pens personal Web message AP - 13 minutes ago

          LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears says she "hit rock bottom," in a message posted on her Web site about the end of her marriage and her time in rehab.

        • U.S. singer Britney Spears watches the Houston Rockets play the Los Angeles Lakers during their NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, March 30, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
          Britney Spears says she "hit rock bottom" in rehab Reuters - 30 minutes ago

          NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Britney Spears says she "truly hit rock bottom" during a stint in rehabilitation this year but told fans she did not blame her behavior on alcohol or depression.

        • This photo provided by Richard Danielpour shows Atlanta Braves batboy Richard Danielpout, 12, shares a moment in the Atlanta dugout with baseball legend Hank Aaron in March 1968. Three of baseball?s all-time legends?Josh Gibson, Jackie Robinson, and Henry Aaron?will be honored on May 31,2007, when the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Music Director Robert Spano perform the Atlanta premiere of ' Pastime, 'composed by Danielpour.  Danielpour, a life-long New York Yankee fan, had been a batboy for the Braves in spring training despite his love of the Yanks. (AP Photo/courtesy Richard Danielpour)
          Composer takes them out to the ball game AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

          NEW YORK - Composer Richard Danielpour has always loved baseball.

        • Composer's ode to baseball a grand slam AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

          NEW YORK - Hank Aaron has only faint recollections of the bat boy who would become a composer and write a composition about the home run king and two other towering black baseball heroes — Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson.

        Television News

        • NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly answers a question during 'A Conversation with the Network Chiefs' luncheon in Beverly Hills, California October 19, 2006. NBC Universal is in talks to sever ties with Kevin Reilly, president of its entertainment division and the network's chief programmer, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
          NBC names new entertainment execs in overhaul Reuters - 22 minutes ago

          NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC Universal on Tuesday named two executives to lead its entertainment division, replacing current head Kevin Reilly in a management shake-up it hopes will help reverse the ratings slump at its television network.

        • NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly speaks during the company's press tour, in a Sunday July 24, 2005 file photo in Beverly Hills, Ca. Struggling NBC is expected to oust Reilly, and replace him with Ben Silverman, the man who helped bring 'The Office' and 'Ugly Betty' to American television, an executive close to the talks said Monday, May 28, 2007. (AP Photo/ NBC Universal, Chris Haston, File)
          Reilly out as NBC entertainment chief AP - 53 minutes ago

          NEW YORK - Fourth-place NBC, suffering one of its worst springs in the network's history, fired chief entertainment executive Kevin Reilly Tuesday only three months after giving him a new three-year contract.

        • This 2006 file photo, originally provided by ABC, shows Elisabeth Hasselbeck, left, and fellow co-host of ABC's  morning talk show 'The View,'  Rosie O'Donnell in New York. The pair squabbled on the show Wednesday, May 23, 2007, and the two co-hosts traded accusations and personal digs. (AP Photo/ABC, Yolanda Perez)
          ABC's `The View' goes on without Rosie AP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

          NEW YORK - Elisabeth Hasselbeck is trying to patch things up with Rosie O'Donnell, her former co-host on ABC's "The View," after last week's on-air spat.

        • This undated photo, provided by USA Network, shows actress Debra Messing as Molly Kagan in the six-part miniseries 'The Starter Wife,' debuting on USA at 9 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 24. (AP Photo/USA Network, Paul A Broben)
          Grazer's `The Starter Wife' comes to TV AP - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

          LOS ANGELES - Gigi Levangie Grazer is a Hollywood insider who writes clever, sharply observed novels about the promised land of big money and bigger egos.

        • Row grows over Dutch organ donor show Reuters - Tue May 29, 1:39 PM ET

          AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government criticized plans to air a reality television show during which a dying woman chooses a recipient for her kidneys, saying on Tuesday that the show was unethical.

        Entertainment Industry News

        • NBC names new entertainment execs in overhaul Reuters - 22 minutes ago

          NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC Universal on Tuesday named two executives to lead its entertainment division, replacing current head Kevin Reilly in a management shake-up it hopes will help reverse the ratings slump at its television network.

        • Conrad Black enters the Dirksen Federal Court Building for his fraud and racketeering trial in Chicago, Illinois, May 17, 2007. Jurors at Black's trial watched video tapes on Tuesday showing the former media baron and his chauffeur removing boxes from his Canadian offices the same day U.S. securities regulators say they told Black's lawyer he would have to surrender some records. (Stephen J. Carrera/Reuters)
          Conrad Black jury sees tapes of him removing box Reuters - 29 minutes ago

          CHICAGO (Reuters) - Jurors at Conrad Black's fraud trial watched videotapes on Tuesday showing the former media baron and his chauffeur removing boxes from his Canadian offices the same day U.S. securities regulators say they told Black's lawyer he would have to surrender some records.

        • Singer Justin Timberlake performs during his concert marking the first British leg of his European tour at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 24, 2007. Timberlake has joined forces with a rival music company to launch his own label, Tennman Records. (Andrew Paton/Reuters)
          Justin Timberlake forms record label Reuters - Tue May 29, 12:58 PM ET

          LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Justin Timberlake has joined forces with a rival music company to launch his own label, Tennman Records.

        • "Blind Date" host coloring GSN's "Camouflage" Reuters - Tue May 29, 4:39 AM ET

          LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Roger Lodge, best known for hosting the syndicated show "Blind Date," will take the reins of GSN's upcoming hidden-word game show "Camouflage."

        • Curtain rises on "Reel Talk" in most of U.S. Reuters - Tue May 29, 4:34 AM ET

          LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The weekly movie review series "Reel Talk" has been cleared in more than 85% of the United States for its September debut in national syndication, said distributor NBC Universal Domestic Television.

        Reviews

        • Review: `Gracie' a formulaic sports film AP - Tue May 29, 4:53 AM ET

          If you competed in high school athletics, you might be able to overlook the fact that "Gracie" is just another formulaic, if well-intentioned, sports movie.

        • Australian Actor Eric Bana (2nd L) and director Richard Roxburgh talk as photographers prepare to shoot them after a news conference for their new film 'Romulus, My Father' at the Sydney Theater Company, May 29, 2007. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)
          Emotional "Romulus" somber but never grim Reuters - Tue May 29, 4:28 AM ET

          SYDNEY (Hollywood Reporter) - No one could accuse Aussie actor Richard Roxburgh of being a chicken.

        • Joy Division movie "Control" a disappointment Reuters - Tue May 29, 4:25 AM ET

          CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Any biography of a fringe performer with a cult following must give the uninitiated some clue as to what the fuss was about or it will never appeal beyond a small circle.

        • "Mr. Brooks" stretches plausibility at every turn Reuters - Mon May 28, 8:24 PM ET

          LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Pushing coincidence and exaggeration to the point of near comic absurdity, "Mr. Brooks" begins as a steely cool examination of an unlikely serial killer, but it quickly tumbles into a quagmire of plot gimmicks and writer's tricks.

        • Farrell's "Ultra Payloaded" free-spirited Reuters - Sun May 27, 11:29 PM ET

          NEW YORK (Billboard) - There's something very likable about "Ultra Payloaded," maybe nothing more so than the fact that it's not trying to be cool. In some sense, frontman Perry Farrell dispensed with any perceived notions of "cool" when he formed the band with former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, who adds tempered crunch, pretty atmospherics and slinky melodies here.

        Books/Publishing News

        • Orhan Pamuk attends a news conference at the 60th Cannes Film Festival May 16, 2007. Pamuk, threatened by a suspect in the murder of a journalist, said on Tuesday he had recently been in Turkey and did not consider himself a writer in exile. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
          Pamuk says he's not a writer in exile Reuters - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

          HAY-ON-WYE (Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, threatened by a suspect in the murder of a journalist, said on Tuesday he had recently been in Turkey and did not consider himself a writer in exile.

        • Inspector Rebus to retire but may return: author Reuters - Mon May 28, 2:39 PM ET

          HAY-ON-WYE (Reuters) - Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, creator of the acclaimed Inspector Rebus series, said on Monday his hard-drinking detective hero must retire this year but might well be back to tackle unsolved cases.

        • Books burn in a protest fire at Prospero's Books in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, May 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
          Mo. man burns books as act of protest AP - Mon May 28, 7:19 AM ET

          KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Wayne has amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books.

        • 'Mister Pip' wins Commonwealth Prize AP - Sun May 27, 5:03 PM ET

          KINGSTON, Jamaica - New Zealand's Lloyd Jones won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Mister Pip," a novel about a teacher who uses literature to help children endure chaos on a war-torn Pacific island.

        • Book offers glimpse into Turkmenistan AP - Sat May 26, 10:06 PM ET

          ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Children are required to study it every day. Mosques are adorned with its words. Quotations are inscribed on fountains, monuments and government buildings.

        Arts News

        • "Acquaintance" will be renewed after 66 years Reuters - Tue May 29, 4:21 AM ET

          NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Previews begin Friday on the Roundabout's revival of John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," best known today for the 1943 movie version that famously pitted Bette Davis against her archrival Miriam Hopkins.

        • Cast member Charles Nelson Reilly, a guest star in the television series 'The X-Files,' poses upon arriving during the show's finale wrap party at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, California, in this April 27, 2002 file photo. Reilly has died in Los Angeles, a representative for the actor said on Monday. (Jim Ruymen/Files/Reuters)
          Broadway actor Nelson Reilly dies Reuters - Mon May 28, 3:35 PM ET

          LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Charles Nelson Reilly, a lauded Broadway performer and campy game show guest in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Los Angeles, a representative for the actor said on Monday.

        • Not Yet Open, '10 Million Miles' Musical Gets Extension by Atlantic Playbill - Thu May 24, 8:21 PM ET

          Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere musical, 10 Million Miles, featuring music and lyrics by singer-songwriter Patty Griffin and book by Keith Bunin, will play two weeks longer than originally announced.

        • Musical 'Gauguin/Savage Light' Returns to NYC, in Intimate Venue Playbill - Thu May 24, 8:21 PM ET

          George Fischoff's musical Gauguin/Savage Light, which had two earlier non-Equity engagements in Manhattan, is reopening June 12 for a run to July 8 at the 25-seat Roy Arias Mini Theater in New York City.

        • Recent Show Art from Arena Stage Gets NYC Exhibit Playbill - Thu May 24, 8:21 PM ET

          Illustrators whose artwork has helped sell, explain or capture the essence of productions at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., are getting a showcase in New York City by the Society of Illustrators May 24-June 23.

        Gossip/Celebrity News

        • Britney Spears, seen  here in 2006, has thanked fans in a message posted on her website, for their support during "the trying time" that has included the end of her marriage, a bizarre public meltdown and a spell in rehab.(AFP/Getty Images/File)
          Britney Spears says she "hit rock bottom" in rehab Reuters - 30 minutes ago

          NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Britney Spears says she "truly hit rock bottom" during a stint in rehabilitation this year but told fans she did not blame her behavior on alcohol or depression.

        • Hasselbeck communicating with O'Donnell AP - 33 minutes ago

          NEW YORK - Elisabeth Hasselbeck is trying to patch things up with Rosie O'Donnell, her former co-host on ABC's "The View," after last week's on-air spat. On Tuesday's show, Hasselbeck said she and O'Donnell were "in communication a lot," though Hasselbeck didn't say whether they had talked on the phone or exchanged e-mails. Their confrontation last Wednesday led to O'Donnell's early departure from the daytime chatfest.

        • Pamuk says he's not a writer in exile Reuters - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

          HAY-ON-WYE (Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, threatened by a suspect in the murder of a journalist, said on Tuesday he had recently been in Turkey and did not consider himself a writer in exile.

        • Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, seen here in Oxford 28 May 2007, were the guests of honour at a dinner with Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, at the end of a three-day visit to Britain.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza)
          Japanese emperor dines with Britain's queen AFP - 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

          LONDON (AFP) - Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko were the guests of honour at a dinner with Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, at the end of a three-day visit to Britain.

        • Actress Cameron Diaz poses next to a person dressed as Shrek during a news conference before the premiere of "Shrek the Third" in Tokyo May 28, 2007. The animated film features the voices of Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas and Justin Timberlake. REUTERS/Michael Caronna (JAPAN)
          Justin Timberlake forms record label Reuters - Tue May 29, 12:58 PM ET

          LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Justin Timberlake has joined forces with a rival music company to launch his own label, Tennman Records.

        Fashion News

        • Gucci Names Bonnin as CEO of Sergio Rossi Fashion Wire Daily - Tue May 29, 1:47 PM ET

          Paris - Gucci Group has appointed Didier Bonnin as the new CEO of Sergio Rossi, succeeding Isabelle Guichot, who was made CEO of Balenciaga two weeks ago.

        • File photo of Paul McCartney posing for media before a signing session in London. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)
          Paul McCartney debuts video on YouTube AP - Thu May 24, 1:27 PM ET

          NEW YORK - Paul McCartney snagged Natalie Portman to star in his new music video — thanks to his fashion designer-daughter, Stella.

        • Demi Moore arrives at the "Mr. Brooks" premiere in Hollywood, Calif., on Tuesday, May 22, 2007.(Fashion Wire Daily/Maria Ramirez)
          Mr. Costner Takes It to the Dark Side in "Mr. Brooks" Fashion Wire Daily - Wed May 23, 12:21 PM ET

          Los Angeles - Looking at the red carpet for the "Mr. Brooks" premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Tuesday night, one might think that the new film starring Kevin Costner is a family film. He brought Christine Baumgartner, his second wife, and Lily and Anne, his grown-up daughters from his first marriage. Demi Moore, one of the movie's big-name co-stars, came with her second husband Ashton Kutcher, and daughter Tallulah Belle Willis.

        • Model poses at the "Tulips and Pansies - The Headdress Affair" benefit event for Village Care of New York on Monday, May 21, 2007 in New York.(Fashion Wire Daily/Grant Lamos IV)
          Floral Fete Fashion Wire Daily - Tue May 22, 4:39 PM ET

          New York - Guests mingled high atop the South Street Seaport at Bridgewaters Monday night to dance and donate to Village Care of New York's sixth annual spring event.

        • Vionnet Appoints Marc Audibet; Kokosalaki Out Fashion Wire Daily - Mon May 21, 12:54 PM ET

          Paris - The legendary Paris fashion house of Madeleine Vionnet has appointed Marc Audibet as its new Artistic Advisor, a somewhat novel title in fashion

        Dear Abby

        • MAN WHO CATCHES WOMAN'S FANCY IS SLOW ON THE UPTAKE Dear Abby - Mon May 28, 10:56 AM ET

          DEAR ABBY: What is the inside secret to men? I'm a 25-year-old, attractive woman, and I'm confused. There's this guy I'm interested in, and although I believe he's flirting with me, I still have no number or date. (This guy is single.)

        • MEMORIAL DAY SHOULD MEAN MORE THAN JUST OPEN POOLS Dear Abby - Sun May 27, 10:45 AM ET

          DEAR ABBY: When I asked a group of schoolchildren what Memorial Day meant to them, they replied, "That's the day the pools open!" Too many older Americans would have similar responses. There can be no argument that we, as a nation, need to refresh our memories and put "memorial" back into Memorial Day.

        • TODDLER HAS STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT ABSENT DAD Dear Abby - Sat May 26, 10:07 AM ET

          DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are in our 60s and raising our 4-year-old grandson. His mother is incarcerated, and the father signed away his rights a couple of years ago.

        • SON IS IRKED HIS DAD'S NAME IS BEING USED ILLEGITIMATELY Dear Abby - Fri May 25, 7:57 PM ET

          DEAR ABBY: My dad's first wife, "Peggy," got pregnant while he was overseas in World War II. When he came home, he divorced her and tried without success to get custody of their two kids. Peggy went on to have three more kids out of wedlock with three different men. She had sex in front of the kids, misspent their child support money -- you name it. She also put Dad's name on all of their birth certificates.

        • WITTY ANSWER TO 'HOW ARE YOU?' MAKES SOME PEOPLE FEEL FINE Dear Abby - Thu May 24, 7:57 PM ET

          DEAR ABBY: Like "Fine, Thank You in Gastonia, N.C." (March 23), I, too, was annoyed when people greeted me with the mindless, "How are you?" "How ya doin'?" etc., which required me to respond to someone who clearly had no interest in a real response. (I understand their feigned interest is more automatic than rude.)

        Dear Margo

        • The Old "What Does She See in Him?" Dear Margo - Fri May 25, 2:00 AM ET

          05/25/2007 - DEAR MARGO: Our 20-year-old daughter has been involved for two years with a young man who smokes, drinks too much, is controlling, quit school and can't hold down a job. He has no car, so our daughter has to do all the driving back from college to see him every weekend.

        • This Only Happens to Other People Dear Margo - Thu May 24, 2:00 AM ET

          05/24/2007 - DEAR MARGO: Not many people believe me when I tell them why I'm going through a divorce. "Clara," my wife of five years, with whom I have three children, is leaving me for an inmate on death row whom she met through a pen pal website.

        • Life Is Choices Dear Margo - Fri May 18, 2:00 AM ET

          05/18/2007 - DEAR MARGO: My husband fell into a new job that pays very well, but he's never home anymore. I was OK with this for his first year and a half on the job, but we've decided to try for a baby soon. I've expressed my desire for him to find a job that allows him to come home every night so we can raise a baby together, but he refuses to leave the money behind.

        • Not Exactly Polygamy, but Sort Of Dear Margo - Thu May 17, 2:00 AM ET

          05/17/2007 - DEAR MARGO: I have gone through the worst event of my entire life. Just when I believed everything was fine, I find out my supposed husband is still married to his first wife. A mutual friend mentioned her, but my husband never did.

        • Not May-December, but Maybe July-November Dear Margo - Fri May 11, 2:00 AM ET

          05/11/2007 - DEAR MARGO: I am a 37-year-old woman who was divorced two years ago. My husband, the man I had been with since I was 21, no longer wanted to be married to me. I look quite young for my age, and most people mistake me for being in my 20s. I keep fit, am very successful in my career and have a youthful outlook on life. I've dated quite a bit since the divorce, mostly younger men.

        Humor

        • Get A Life! Peter McKay - Tue May 22, 3:00 AM ET

          Creators Syndicate - I didn't watch all of them (I'm not that much of a geek), but the "Matrix" movies took place in a depressing future world where people only thought they were living real lives.

        • G.O.P. Hopefuls Clash Over Who is the Whitest Andy Borowitz - Sat May 19, 3:00 AM ET

          Creators Syndicate - In a nationally televised debate last night, the 10 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination engaged in a battle royal, with each candidate staking his claim to the title of the whitest white male in the G.O.P. race.

        • Leader Of The Band Peter McKay - Tue May 15, 3:00 AM ET

          Creators Syndicate - The other day, my 13-year-old son came to me out of the blue and informed me that he had to buy a bass guitar, and right away. Some friends were forming a band, he said, and they needed a bass player.

        • Wolfowitz's Girlfriend Resigns as Wolfowitz's Girlfriend Andy Borowitz - Sat May 12, 3:00 AM ET

          Creators Syndicate - In yet another setback for the embattled World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend Shaha Riza announced today that she was resigning as Mr. Wolfowitz's girlfriend, "effective immediately."

        • A Brain Swarm Leads To A Barn Swarm Peter McKay - Tue May 8, 3:00 AM ET

          Creators Syndicate - Over the last eight months, I've spent most of my spare time out in our garage at the back of our lot. No, I wasn't in trouble (at least not very often), and no, I wasn't out there secretly drinking (at least not all the time). I was working to turn our garage into a home office.

        Most Popular Entertainment News

        • Doctors carry out an operation. A European Commission spokesman has criticised a planned television reality show in which a terminally ill woman decides to whom to donate a kidney as being in "rather bad taste."(AFP/File/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
          Dutch show has kidney donation contest AP - Tue May 29, 10:31 AM ET

          AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors said Tuesday it would go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys.

        • A tour bus on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 slowly passes the location, right foreground, where actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday, May 26, after her convertible struck a curb at Sunset Boulevard and Foothill Road in Beverly Hills, Calif. The actress and two other people were riding in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 when it crashed around 5:30 a.m., police said. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
          Lohan is photographed slumped in car AP - Tue May 29, 12:44 PM ET

          NEW YORK - Lindsay Lohan, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif., was photographed less than 48 hours later slumped in the passenger seat of a car.

        • Watchdog backs off 'Teletubbies' comment AP - Tue May 29, 12:29 PM ET

          WARSAW, Poland - Poland's watchdog for children's rights was quoted as saying she would ask psychologists to investigate whether the TV "Teletubbies" character Tinky Winky is gay. On Tuesday, she backed away from the comments.

        • Young Jeezy is photographed in New York, Nov. 22, 2006. An argument at a suburban Atlanta strip club netted a disorderly conduct charge for him and some friends, authorities said. The rapper, whose given name is Jay Jenkins, was arrested after the incident early Thursday, May 24, 2007, at Strokers Club in Clarkston, said DeKalb County police spokesman Michael Payne. (AP Photo/ Jim Cooper)
          Young Jeezy arrested at Ga. strip club AP - Tue May 29, 12:53 PM ET

          ATLANTA - An argument at a suburban Atlanta strip club netted a disorderly conduct charge for Young Jeezy and some friends, authorities said.

        • Riyo Mori, Miss Japan 2007, right, reacts as Zuleyka Rivera, Miss Universe 2006, crowns her Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City Monday, May 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
          Miss Japan crowned Miss Universe 2007 AP - Tue May 29, 1:54 AM ET

          MEXICO CITY - A 20-year-old dancer from Japan was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday night, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.



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        Composer's ode to baseball a grand slam

        AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

        NEW YORK - Hank Aaron has only faint recollections of the bat boy who would become a composer and write a composition about the home run king and two other towering black baseball heroes — Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson.


           
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          U.S.: 10 Memorial Day deaths in Iraq

          AP - 21 minutes ago

          BAGHDAD - Ten American soldiers died in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash on Memorial Day, the military reported Tuesday, making May the deadliest month of the year for U.S. troops in Iraq.

        • EU, Asia set 2009 climate pact deadlineAP 
        • Russia says new ICBM can beat any systemAP
        • New clashes in northern LebanonAP
        • Israeli, Palestinian leaders to meetAP

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          Middle East News

          • Iraqis ride past a damaged Sunni mosque in Baghdad May 29, 2007. At least 24 people were killed and 68 were wounded when a truck bomb exploded near Baghdad's largest Sunni Muslim mosque on Monday, police said. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz (IRAQ)
            U.S.: 10 Memorial Day deaths in Iraq AP - 21 minutes ago

            BAGHDAD - Ten American soldiers died in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash on Memorial Day, the military reported Tuesday, making May the deadliest month of the year for U.S. troops in Iraq.

          • Haleh Esfandiari, the director of the U.S. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Middle East program, in an undated file photo. The United States dismissed on Tuesday as "absurd" Iranian suggestions that the U.S.-based academic imprisoned in Iran sought to undermine the Islamic state. REUTERS/Woodrow Wilson Center/Handout
            3 Iranian-Americans accused of spying AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

            TEHRAN, Iran - Three Iranian-Americans, including U.S. academic Haleh Esfandiari, have been charged with endangering national security and espionage, Iran's judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.

          • Arabs fear U.S-Iran talks cut them out AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

            DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Arab officials and commentators said Tuesday they feared the budding dialogue between Washington and Iran could cut them out of the debate over the future of Iraq, one of the region's most important countries.

          • A Palestinian gunman from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group linked to the Fatah Movement, talks on his phone as children look on at a rally calling for the release by Israel of Jamal Tirawi, 41, who serves as the Fatah spokesman in the Palestinian parliament, in the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday, May 28, 2007. Tirawi has been wanted by Israel for his alleged militant activity since the start of the violent Palestinian uprising in 2000. Israeli troops nabbed him early Tuesday in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus along with four of his bodyguards, his brother Said Tirawi said. (AP Photo / Nasser Ishtayeh)
            Israeli, Palestinian leaders to meet AP - 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

            GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet to try to halt two weeks of violence that has seen southern Israel battered by rockets and Gaza pummeled by airstrikes.

          • Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdel-Majid announces at a press conference that Syrian President Bashar Assad was re-elected for a second seven-year term in office after he won 97.62 percent of the votes in Sunday's  national referendum on Tuesday May 29, 2007 in Damascus.  Syrians voted in a referendum Sunday to endorse President Bashar Assad, the only candidate, for a second term(AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).
            Syrian president easily wins referendum AP - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

            DAMASCUS, Syria - President Bashar Assad won another seven years in office, getting 97 percent of the vote in a referendum on his leadership in which he was the only candidate, according to results announced Tuesday.

          Europe News

          • Pedophile case prompts outrage in Portugal Reuters - 6 minutes ago

            LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's highest court cut the jail sentence on a convicted pedophile, causing outrage on Tuesday in a country sensitive to the plight of children after the abduction of a 4-year-old British girl.

          • Embattled England manager Steve McClaren suffered two injury blows on Tuesday ahead of Friday's friendly with Brazil and next week's crucial Euro 2008 qualifier with Estonia as both Rio Ferdinand, seen here in February 2007, and Michael Dawson withdrew because of groin injuries.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)
            McClaren hit by defensive injury woes AFP - 12 minutes ago

            LONDON (AFP) - Embattled England manager Steve McClaren suffered two injury blows on Tuesday ahead of Friday's friendly with Brazil and next week's crucial Euro 2008 qualifier with Estonia as both Rio Ferdinand and Michael Dawson withdrew because of groin injuries.

          • Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates speak during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the West of double standards on human rights and used colorful language to make a point about a dispute that has blocked talks on a new partnership deal with the European Union. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Presiential Press Service, Dmitry Astakhov)
            Russia says new ICBM can beat any system AP - 17 minutes ago

            MOSCOW - Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region into a "powder keg."

          • German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Foreign ministry in Berlin.  Steinmeier Monday said Berlin will battle with Washington "to the last minute" to win US backing for a strong stand on climate change at the G8 summit.(AFP/DDP/Nigel Treblin)
            EU, Asia set 2009 climate pact deadline AP - 17 minutes ago

            HAMBURG, Germany - European and Asian foreign ministers agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases, diplomats said Tuesday.

          • Socialist Segolene Royal, left, and her companion Secretary General of the Socialist Party Francois Hollande acknowledge supporters during a meeting in Paris, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Polls shows that the Socialists could face a drubbing by French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling party in the two-round French parliamentary election June 10 and June 17. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
            France's defeated Royal signals she will battle on Reuters - 37 minutes ago

            PARIS (Reuters) - A combative Segolene Royal took the stage on Tuesday for the first time since her presidential poll defeat, promising to fight for a Socialist success in parliamentary elections but staying quiet about her own future.

          Latin America

          • Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007, poses just moments before falling during the evening gown competition of the Miss Universe 2007 pageant in Mexico City, Monday, May 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
            Mexicans boo Miss USA, showing discord AP - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

            MEXICO CITY - Many here south of the border reveled in her disastrous evening: First Miss USA Rachel Smith slipped and fell on her bottom during the Miss Universe evening gown competition. Then she was booed by hundreds in the Mexican audience.

          • Venezuelan high school students shout slogans against President Hugo Chavez's decision to shut down the opposition-aligned TV station Radio Caracas Television, RCTV In Caracas, Tuesday, May 29, 2007.(AP Photo/Howard Yanes)
            Chavez defends decision on TV station AP - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

            CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez defended his decision not to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television network on Tuesday and warned he might crack down on another critical TV station, accusing it of trying to incite attempts on his life.

          • Brazil's Federal Senate president, Senator Renan Calheiros, shows documents during his deposition in the Federal Senate, in Brasilia, Monday, May 28, 2007. Calheiros is accused of receiving money from a lobbyist in exchange for favors for a construction company. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
            Brazil senate leader vows to stay on AP - 2 hours, 27 minutes ago

            BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazilian Senate President Renan Calheiros said Tuesday that he won't resign over accusations he accepted payoffs from one of the country's top construction companies.

          • Youths play snooker in Salcaja, Guatemala,  Wednesday, May 16, 2007.  According to local authorities, money sent by relatives living in the US discourage youth from seeking employment, as a great number of them rely on money sent from the US. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
            Some Guatemalans loaf in U.S. cash flow AP - 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

            SALCAJA, Guatemala - Working and going to school have become optional in this highland Guatemalan town, thanks to a flood of U.S. dollars sent home by migrants living in the United States.

          • In this handout picture from the Miss Universe 2007 organization, Riyo Mori, Miss Japan 2007, pre-tapes her introduction for the 2007 Miss Universe pageant in her national costume in Mexico City, Thursday, May 24, 2007.  She will compete for the title of Miss Universe 2007 in  Mexico City May 28. (AP Photo/Patrick Prather, Miss Universe L.P., LLLP)
            Miss Japan crowned Miss Universe 2007 AP - Mon May 28, 11:35 PM ET

            MEXICO CITY - Riyo Mori, a 20-year-old dancer from Japan who hopes to someday open an international dance school, was crowned Miss Universe 2007 Monday night.

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          • In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Liu Guijin , second right, Chinese special representative for African affairs, shakes hands with a local man at a market in al-Fashir, Sudan Tuesday, May 22, 2007.  Chinese investment in Sudan can help stop the bloodshed there while sanctions and pressure advocated by some other countries will only complicate the situation, China's special envoy on Darfur said Tuesday, May 29, 2007.  'The Darfur issue and issues in eastern Sudan and southern Sudan are caused by poverty and underdevelopment. Only when poverty and underdevelopment are addressed will peace be there in Sudan,' said Liu Guijin, who took up the new post of Special Representative to African Affairs earlier this month.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Shao Jie)
            Sudan: U.S. sanctions over Darfur unfair AP - 12 minutes ago

            KHARTOUM, Sudan - The Sudanese government condemned a new set of U.S. economic sanctions aimed at pressuring it to halt the bloodshed in Darfur, describing them Tuesday as "unfair and untimely" and calling on the rest of the world to ignore them.

          • President Bush delivers a statement on Darfur from the Diplomatic Room of the White House, May 29, 2007. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
            Bush tightens sanctions on Sudan over Darfur Reuters - 58 minutes ago

            WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush imposed new U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for an international arms embargo out of frustration at Sudan's refusal to end what he called a genocide in Darfur.

          • Fifteen killed in gang clash in Nigeria oil delta Reuters - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

            PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gun battles between rival gangs in Nigeria's southern oil-producing state of Rivers erupted on Tuesday in violence linked to a change of governor, killing 15 people, local rights activists said.

          • Visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair listens to an interpreter during a news conference in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad May 19, 2007. Blair wants to use a farewell trip to Africa this week to build momentum for a rich nation summit that will focus on Africa and to push for a world trade deal, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)
            Blair hails Libya ties Reuters - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

            SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed what he called Britain's transformed relations with Libya after meeting Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday, while BP sealed a major energy deal with the once isolated North African state.

          • Nigerian chiefs from the oil rich Niger Delta area attend the swearing in of Nigeria's new president Umaru Yar'Adua, 56, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. A reclusive former governor hand-picked by departing President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as Nigeria's new leader Tuesday in the first transfer of power from one elected government to another in Africa's most populous country. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
            Nigerian leader seeks to calm oil region AP - 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

            ABUJA, Nigeria - President Umaru Yar'Adua used his inaugural address Tuesday to appeal for an immediate end to the violence that has slashed crude production in Nigeria's oil heartland, and the largest militant group said it would consider the overture.

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          • EU, Asia set 2009 climate pact deadline AP - 17 minutes ago

            HAMBURG, Germany - European and Asian foreign ministers agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases, diplomats said Tuesday.

          • Turkish sailors stand guard on the deck of naval ship Salih Reis during the Sea Wolf-2007 Military Exercise in the Aegean, off Turkey's coastal city of Izmir May 26, 2007. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)
            Turkey asks U.S. not to violate its airspace again Reuters - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

            ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey asked the United States formally on Tuesday to avoid another violation of its airspace after an incident that exposed tensions between the NATO allies.

          • Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, seen here in Oxford 28 May 2007, were the guests of honour at a dinner with Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, at the end of a three-day visit to Britain.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza)
            Japanese emperor dines with Britain's queen AFP - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

            LONDON (AFP) - Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko were the guests of honour at a dinner with Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, at the end of a three-day visit to Britain.

          • Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivers his speech during the 53rd meeting of the National Development Council in New Delhi. India's prime minister Tuesday announced a six billion dollar package to help poor farmers who have been hit by a combination high debt and low crop yields, a government spokesman said.(AFP/Prakash Singh)
            India offers six billion dollars to jack up agriculture AFP - 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

            NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's prime minister Tuesday announced a six billion dollar package to try and help poor farmers hit by a combination of high debt and low crop yields, a government spokesman said.

          • Indonesia: 7 foreigners sentenced to die AP - 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

            JAKARTA, Indonesia - Nine men, including Chinese, French and Dutch nationals, were sentenced to death by Indonesia's Supreme Court on Tuesday for producing millions of pills of the illegal recreational drug Ecstasy.

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          • Stewart Copeland, founding member of The Police, poses for Reuters as he walks at Main Street in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival in this file photo from January 23, 2006. Copeland wants "the rules to be completely different" for the reunited Police at its upcoming Bonnaroo performance, including possible guest appearances from other artists. REUTERS/Sam Mircovich
            Reunited Police begin world tour Reuters - Tue May 29, 11:50 AM ET

            VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Playing loud and loose like they had never been away, the Police kicked off their first world tour in more than 20 years on Monday, delivering a two-hour set for 20,000 fans in Canada.

          • Minister says strong C$concerns industry Reuters - Tue May 29, 11:07 AM ET

            OTTAWA (Reuters) - The strong Canadian dollar is a concern for Canadian industry and makes it imperative that the government have policies to help business compete, Industry Minister Maxime Bernier said on Tuesday.

          • Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands to speak in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 28, 2007. Environmental group Friends of the Earth Canada launched a lawsuit against the Canadian government on Tuesday for not meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
            Green group sues Canada over greenhouse gases Reuters - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

            OTTAWA (Reuters) - Environmental group Friends of the Earth Canada sued the Canadian government on Tuesday for not meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

          • Conrad Black enters the Dirksen Federal Court Building for his fraud and racketeering trial in Chicago, Illinois, May 17, 2007. Jurors at Black's trial watched video tapes on Tuesday showing the former media baron and his chauffeur removing boxes from his Canadian offices the same day U.S. securities regulators say they told Black's lawyer he would have to surrender some records. REUTERS/Stephen J. Carrera
            Conrad Black jury sees tapes of him removing box Reuters - 18 minutes ago

            CHICAGO (Reuters) - Jurors at Conrad Black's fraud trial watched videotapes on Tuesday showing the former media baron and his chauffeur removing boxes from his Canadian offices the same day U.S. securities regulators say they told Black's lawyer he would have to surrender some records.

          • Afghan shepherds led a herd of sheep past damaged Darullaman palace in Kabul May 28, 2007. European Union experts will from next month start training police forces across Afghanistan, including southern provinces which have borne the brunt of insurgent violence, EU officials said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
            EU sees Afghan police trainers covering hotspots Reuters - Tue May 29, 12:42 PM ET

            BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union experts will from next month start training police forces across Afghanistan, including southern provinces which have borne the brunt of insurgent violence, EU officials said on Tuesday.

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          • Protesters demonstrate outside the Philippines' consulate in Sydney. Human rights activists Tuesday protested a visit to Australia by Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, accusing her government of carrying out political killings and abductions.(AFP)
            Protests herald Arroyo's Australian visit AFP - Tue May 29, 11:04 AM ET

            SYDNEY (AFP) - Human rights activists Tuesday protested a visit to Australia by Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, accusing her government of carrying out political killings and abductions.

          • Australia's Prime Minister John Howard speaks during a joint news conference with his Greek counterpart Kostas Karamanlis at Parliament House in Canberra May 23, 2007. Australia's conservative government is preparing a major advertising campaign on climate change as it tries to win back voter support ahead of looming elections, Howard confirmed on Tuesday. (Mark Nolan/Pool/Reuters)
            Australian PM confirms new ad campaign on climate Reuters - Tue May 29, 4:14 AM ET

            CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's conservative government is preparing a major advertising campaign on climate change as it tries to win back voter support ahead of looming elections, Prime Minister John Howard confirmed on Tuesday.

          • Australia veterans want apology from Japan PM Abe Reuters - Tue May 29, 2:40 AM ET

            CANBERRA (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set for a rocky appearance before Australia's parliament with war veterans on Tuesday calling for an apology over Japanese war crimes and environmentalists demanding an end to whaling.

          • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seen in the picture, will become the first Japanese leader to address Australia's parliament when he visits in September, his Australian counterpart John Howard said Monday.(AFP/POOL/Koichi Kamoshida )
            Japanese, Canadian PMs to address Australian parliament AFP - Mon May 28, 12:35 PM ET

            CANBERRA (AFP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become the first Japanese leader to address Australia's parliament when he visits in September, his Australian counterpart John Howard said Monday.

          • Toddlers rescued from Aussie wilderness AP - Mon May 28, 8:42 AM ET

            PERTH, Australia - A pair of 2-year-olds who wandered out of a vacation home and into the Australian wilderness were found Monday — scratched and dirty but unhurt — after spending more than 24 hours outdoors.

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          • Russia says new ICBM can beat any system AP - 17 minutes ago

            MOSCOW - Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region into a "powder keg."

          • An elderly man smokes his cigarette at a stock exchange in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province January 4, 2007. About 100,000 Chinese die annually from diseases associated with passive smoking while more than half a billion on the mainland suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes, according to the Xinhua news agency. (Sean Yong/Reuters)
            100,000 Chinese die annually from passive smoking Reuters - Tue May 29, 9:21 AM ET

            BEIJING (Reuters) - About 100,000 Chinese die annually from diseases associated with passive smoking while more than half a billion on the mainland suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes, according to the Xinhua news agency.

          • A general view of Mexico City during early morning January 18, 2007. Mexico plans to set targets for emissions of carbon dioxide by early next year as part of an effort to stop global warming, but could reduce them by 13 percent in a decade, the environment minister said on Tuesday. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)
            U.S. rejects EU-Asia emissions reduction AP - Tue May 29, 12:25 PM ET

            BERLIN - The United States rejects the European Union's all-encompassing target on reduction of carbon emissions, President Bush's environmental adviser said Tuesday.

          • Nigeria's new president Umaru Yar'Adua, 56, right, stands during the national anthem after he was sworn in, Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. A reclusive former governor hand-picked by departing President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as Nigeria's new leader Tuesday in the first transfer of power from one elected government to another in Africa's most populous country. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
            Nigerian leader seeks to calm oil region AP - 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

            ABUJA, Nigeria - President Umaru Yar'Adua used his inaugural address Tuesday to appeal for an immediate end to the violence that has slashed crude production in Nigeria's oil heartland, and the largest militant group said it would consider the overture.

          • Maj. Gen. Michael Oates, commander of the 10th Mountain Division, left,  presents the parents of Army Cpl. Christopher E. Murphy, Rosemary Balian, second from left, and Darryl Balian, an American flag, during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Murphy, 21, of Lynchburg, Va., a member of the 431st infantry battalion stationed out of Fort Drum, N.Y., was one of four American soldiers killed in an ambush May 12 south of Baghdad, in Iraq.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
            U.S.: 10 Memorial Day deaths in Iraq AP - 21 minutes ago

            BAGHDAD - Ten American soldiers died in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash on Memorial Day, the military reported Tuesday, making May the deadliest month of the year for U.S. troops in Iraq.

           




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          • Assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian poses with his 'suicide machine' in Michigan, in this Feb. 6, 1991, file photo. Kevorkian will leave prison June 1 after serving more than eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence in the death of a Michigan man. (AP Photo/Richard Sheinwald, file)
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          • **FILE PHOTO** Vincent Brothers, center, walks past television cameras after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, July 11, 2003, in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Rene Macura)
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          • Rep. Parren Mitchell, D-Md., talks to reporters following a meeting with President Carter at the White House in this Aug. 31, 1977 file photo. Former Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, an eloquent but soft-spoken founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and champion of civil rights, died on Memorial Day. He was 85. (AP Photo/file)
            Former Md. Rep. Parren Mitchell dies AP - Tue May 29, 1:09 PM ET

            BALTIMORE - Former Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, an eloquent but soft-spoken founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and champion of civil rights, died on Memorial Day. He was 85.

          • Whaling activists cross a street in downtown Anchorage, Alaska as they encouraged an end to commercial whaling at the outset of the International Whaling Commission's four-day meeting Sunday, May 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)
            Whaling extended for Alaska Eskimos AP - 2 hours, 4 minutes ago

            ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The International Whaling Commission on Tuesday approved extending bowhead whaling quotas for Alaska Eskimos for subsistence hunting.

          • **FILE PHOTO** Allison Lamont Norman, left, of Seaford, Del., is escorted by a sheriff's deputy as they leave the Wicomico County Sheriff's office in Salisbury, Md., April 7, 2005. Police say Norman, 22, of Seaford, Del., has been charged with murder and handgun violations in the Maryland-Delaware shooting spree that left two people dead. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)
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            GEORGETOWN, Del. - A man accused in a deadly, two-state shooting rampage was trying to prevent space aliens from abducting his daughter, his attorney said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.

          • An inmate stands on a balcony overlooking the Hudson Valley in a dementia unit at Fishkill State Prison in Fishkill, N.Y., Wednesday, May 16, 2007.  New York prison officials faced with a graying inmate population have created the system's first cognitively impaired unit, providing a relative peace and safety within the prison for the men with faded faculties.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
            New York prison creates dementia unit AP - Tue May 29, 11:57 AM ET

            FISHKILL, N.Y. - In the day room, white-haired men in robes watch "The Price is Right." Out on the balcony, another looks through bars as he fidgets from side to side.

          • Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of James Earl Chaney, one of the three civil-rights workers killed in the 'Mississippi Burning' case in 1964, testifies in the Edgar Ray Killen civil rights murder trial in Philadelphia, Miss., June 18, 2005. Fannie Lee Chaney died Tuesday, May 22, 2007, her son, Ben Chaney said Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Neshoba Democrat, Kyle Carter, Pool, File)
            Mom burial next to civil-rights worker AP - Tue May 29, 10:36 AM ET

            MERIDIAN, Miss. - The mother of a civil-rights worker killed in the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" case will be buried next to her son on Saturday, more than 40 years after she left the state because of death threats.

          • Michael Roberts poses with the bust of Benedict College founder Bathsmeba Benedict  outside the administration building,  Wednesday, May 9, 2007, in Columbia, S.C. Roberts has learned about more than just finance while studying for his business degree at Benedict College. He's played football for the school, joined a black fraternity and proposed to his girlfriend, too. Pretty typical, except that Roberts is one of the few white students at the historically black college.    (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
            At black colleges, door open for whites AP - Tue May 29, 8:44 AM ET

            COLUMBIA, S.C. - Michael Roberts has done more than study finance at historically black Benedict College. He's played football for the college, joined a fraternity and proposed to his girlfriend.

          • Nathan Koozer, right, shows Johnstown Flood Museum communications director Shelley Johansson,  an entry in one of the 60 journals, 28 written during and after the 1889 Johnstown flood, by Rev. David J. Beale, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, in Johnstown, Pa. The collection will be presented to the public for one day on May 31, the 118th anniversary of the devastating flood. It will later be turned into part of the Johnstown Flood Museum's permanent exhibit in 2009, the 120th anniversary of the disaster, one of the worst in American history. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
            Diaries add insight on deadly Pa. flood AP - Tue May 29, 8:19 AM ET

            JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - To the Rev. David J. Beale, it looked like an avalanche: an enormous wall of water thundering down the mountain into the valley community, carrying debris, livestock, train cars and human beings.

          • **FILE PHOTO** Robert F. Spencer, 37, is escorted from the Grant County Courthouse in Marion, Ind., Sept. 7, 2006, following a preliminary hearing where he was formally charged with five counts of reckless homicide. Spencer, a Michigan truck driver, is accused of falling asleep at the wheel of his rig and causing a highway crash that killed five people. Authorities said that before the April 26 crash, Spencer fell asleep at the wheel after having driven at least nine hours more than what is allowed under federal rules. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
            Trucker pleads in deadly univ. van crash AP - Tue May 29, 1:21 PM ET

            PORTLAND, Ind. - A Michigan truck driver pleaded guilty to reckless homicide Tuesday for a highway wreck that killed five Taylor University students and staff last year.

          • A Mount Laurel police officer talks to some men outside a Circuit City store in Mount Laurel, N.J., in this May 9, 2007 file photograph, as hewhere clerk Brian Morganstern is being credited with tipping off authorities in January 2006 after a man asked him to transfer a video to DVD that showed 10 men shooting weapons at a firing range and calling for jihad. Six men were arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base. Morganstern said Tuesday, May 29, 2007, in his first media interview, that it took a day of pondering before he made the tip. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
            Ft. Dix tipster doesn't feel like a hero AP - 2 hours, 41 minutes ago

            MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - An electronics store clerk credited with providing the tip that broke up an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix went public Tuesday, saying he spent a day pondering his suspicions before going to authorities.

          • Laura Mallory, of Loganville, Ga., presents her case to have the Harry Potter book series removed from Gwinnett County classrooms and school libraries due to it's references to witchcraft, during a hearing in front of a state board of education officer, in this Oct. 3, 2006, file photo taken in Atlanta. Mallary, who believes the best-selling Harry Potter books promote witchcraft. said Tuesday, May 29, 2007, she may take her quest to ban the writings from her county schools to federal court after a state judge rejected her latest effort. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
            Ga. judge: Keep Potter books in school AP - Tue May 29, 12:53 PM ET

            LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - The adventures of boy wizard Harry Potter can stay in Gwinnett County school libraries, despite a mother's objections, a judge ruled Tuesday.

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