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Myanmar fetes 2013 with first public countdown
Myanmar rang in 2013 with its first public New Year's Eve countdown and a grand fireworks display, a celebration unprecedented in the former ...
Motion picture academy extends Oscars voting
Oscar voters will have an extra day to cast their ballots. The motion picture academy says it's extending the deadline for members to vote for the ...
How the AP analyzed football players' weight gain
For a sport with rabid fans, historic rivalries and trivia buffs, college football does not have a single, official repository of historic rosters.
'The Hobbit' holds on to first place with $32M
A tiny hobbit has a mighty hold on the box office, staying on top for a third-straight week and wrapping up a year that saw a record-breaking $10.
Review: 'Promised Land' doesn't dig deep
"Promised Land" offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections.
ESPN's Hannah Storm returns 3 weeks after accident
ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will return to the air on New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident ...
North Korea cracks down on knowledge smugglers
The warning came from Kim Jong Un, the North Korean ruler who sees his isolated nation, just across the border from this busy Chinese trading town, ...
Survey: Library websites get more mobile visits
A new Pew study reports that around 13 percent of Americans aged 16 and older used a mobile device to visit a library website during the past year.
Review: Novel draws on jazz legend's music
"Tiger Rag" (The Dial Press), by Nicholas Christopher Buddy Bolden is a jazz legend whose powerful, original sound at the turn of the last century was ...
'The Hobbit' stays atop box office for third week
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" continues to rule them all at the box office, staying on top for a third-straight week and capping a ...
It's a fight over fitness in Santa Monica's parks
Physical fitness is a way of life on the beautiful beachfront oasis of Santa Monica. From sunrise to sunset, there's huffing and puffing in the city's ...
NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage'
At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about ...
Vultures pick at visitors' cars in Fla. Everglades
Visitors to parts of Everglades National Park are getting tarps and bungee cords to make their vehicles less delectable to vultures.
Western character actor Harry Carey Jr. dies at 91
Harry Carey Jr., a character actor who starred in such Westerns as "3 Godfathers" and "Wagon Master," has died. He was 91. His daughter, Melinda ...
Animal rights group settles lawsuit with Ringling
An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle a lawsuit the circus filed after courts found that ...
Jean Harris, 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor killer, dies
Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor ...
Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan
Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in ...
Met gives 'Barber' a cut in English version
For the first time since Rossini's most famous work was given its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1883, "The Barber of Seville" is being presented by ...
Praying Hitler in ex-Warsaw ghetto sparks emotion
A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their ...
Ring sparks talk of Wozniacki-McIlroy engagement
Australian media reported Friday that Caroline Wozniacki arrived to play at the Brisbane International with a diamond ring on her left ring finger, ...
Katie Holmes' Broadway play 'Dead Accounts' closes
Katie Holmes' return to Broadway will be much shorter than she would have liked. The former Mrs. Cruise's play "Dead Accounts" will close within a ...
Terry Glover, Ebony managing editor, dies at 57
Terry Glover, the managing editor of Ebony magazine, has died of colon cancer at her Chicago home. She was 57. Ebony announced on its website that ...
NBC seizes ratings lead with football and 'Voice'
Powered by football and "The Voice," NBC took the lead in the ratings last week. But even football couldn't tackle CBS' indomitable "NCIS," which ...
Mexico City seeks beauty in public-space makeover
The plan is as big as this mammoth city: Turn a seedy metro hub into Mexico City's Times Square; clear swarms of feisty vendors and remodel the ...
South Africa president prefers people over pets
South Africa's president says a dog should not be man's best friend. President Jacob Zuma made critical remarks about pet care that touch on sensitive ...