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Contract talks between Hollywood studios, actors fail; guild to seek strike authorization - Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation’s intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said Friday. The stock market soared on the news. Word of Geithner’s ...
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Miam i - The message OMG popped up next to the live webcam broadcast of Abraham Biggs laying motionless on his bed, followed by LOL and “hahahah.” But Biggs wasn't joking. The 19-year-old Broward College student really did commit suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live Internet ...
Read moreFlorida teen commits suicide with a live Web audience - New London Day
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine is commemorating the start of the 1930s famine that was engineered by Soviet authorities and killed millions of people. President Viktor Yushchenko is trying to win international recognition of the 1932-33 tragedy as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation. Ukraine ...
Read moreUkraine marks anniversary of 1932-33 great famine - Washington Post
NABLUS, West Bank— Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel will free 250 prisoners as a goodwill gesture before an upcoming Muslim holiday. Abbas said at a conference in the northern West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday that Israel will release the prisoners before Eid al-Adha, an ...
Read moreIsrael to free 250 prisoners before Muslim holiday - Boston Globe
BEIJING - A college student was attacked by a panda in a south China park after climbing a fence and trying to hug the endangered animal in its enclosure, state media reported. The student, identified only by his surname Liu, was in hospital recovering from multiple bites to his arms and legs after ...
Read morePanda attacks fence jumper - The Times
PHILADELPHIA -- The Clippers filled their void in the post Friday, acquiring forward Zach Randolph and guard Mardy Collins from the Knicks for Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas. The Clippers had been lacking an inside presence since Elton Brand left in July to sign with the 76ers. They were just 2-9 ...
Read moreForward Randolph traded to Clippers - Detroit News
PARIS -- The French Socialist Party said Saturday that the architect of France's 35-hour work week has won the party's leadership in an extremely tight race - an outcome quickly challenged by partisans of her rival. Former Labor Minister Martine Aubry edged out 2007 presidential candidate Segolene ...
Read moreAubry wins French Socialist Party leadership - Lexington Herald-Leader
ANCHORAGE: Oprah Winfrey wants her, and so do other US TV show hosts. Fresh from her political defeat, Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate that would be astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor ...
Read more'Celeb' Palin flooded with offers - Times of India
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint. As the crews of the orbiting shuttle-station complex focused on the greasy outdoor ...
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