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AOL relaunches Games.com site for online games
AOL relaunched Games.com, a site with more than 5,000 free games, designed to attract a large online gaming audience online and on mobile and tablet ...
Police: More than 20 girls may be Savile victims
British police say the late children's television host Jimmy Savile may have sexually assaulted more than 20 girls over a 40-year period.
'Jackass' star didn't mean harm with puppy prank
"Jackass" star Bam Margera says he condemns animal abuse and didn't mean any harm by a photo posted online showing him holding his pit bull puppy with ...
Ohio park selling pieces of troubled coaster
An Ohio amusement park is selling off pieces of a troubled roller coaster that is now being torn down. The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://bit.
Eric Lomax, ex-POW who forgave captor, dies at 93
It's an unusual man who can forgive his wartime torturer — or whose quest to do so can touch so many people around the world. Eric Lomax, a former ...
Dunham, Rushdie among big names at New Yorker fest
A year ago, not many people had heard of Lena Dunham. This year, in a sign of her stunningly swift path to major fame, the young creator and star of ...
In looking to 'NOW!,' Marvel's changes no reboot
It's not a reboot or relaunch. Instead, Marvel Comics' new "NOW" initiative aims to recharge the publisher's heroes and villains, the publisher's ...
Alaska Airlines: Operations returning to normal
Alaska Airlines said flights were running close to normal late Monday after a fiber-optic outage shut down its ticketing system for more than four ...
China art auctioneers face off with foreign rivals
Chinese and international auction houses are encroaching on each other's territory in Hong Kong and Beijing for the first time as they step up the ...
Skydiver eyes record-breaking jump over NM
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner's attempt at the highest, fastest free fall in history Tuesday is more than just a stunt. His planned 23-mile dive from the ...
Review: Ambitious 'Argo' one of year's best films
A movie about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis probably doesn't sound like it would be a laugh riot — or should be — but that's just one of the many ...
Nickelodeon TV says Romney skipped kids' questions
Mitt Romney may want to reconsider his campaign strategy involving the pint-size voters of tomorrow. The Republican presidential candidate skipped the ...
Jim Lehrer: No regrets for debate moderating
Jim Lehrer said Monday that he accomplished precisely what he wanted to while moderating the first presidential debate: get Mitt Romney and Barack ...
Woman on 'Wife Swap' as teen to plead not guilty
A former teen pageant princess featured in an eyebrow-raising episode of the TV show "Wife Swap" getting spray-tanned by her father and pitying the ...
Massive "dry cleaner bag" to lift skydiver
It's described as a "40-acre dry cleaner bag," that, when first filled, will stretch 55 stories high. On Tuesday, this special ultra-thin helium ...
What you'll see during supersonic skydive
When Felix Baumgartner makes his 23-mile supersonic skydive over southeastern New Mexico Tuesday morning, more than two dozen high-definition and ...
Oscars have record 71 foreign-language submissions
Academy Awards organizers have received submissions from a record 71 countries for this season's foreign-language prize. The entries include Austria's ...
Neeson's back in action with $49M 'Taken 2' debut
Liam Neeson has taken over the weekend box office with his action sequel "Taken 2," which debuted at No. 1 with $49.5 million. The top 20 movies at U.
Dreaming up Sandman for 'Rise of the Guardians'
Within the dimly lit halls of DreamWorks Animation, past the character sketches lining the walls, inside the eccentrically decorated cubicles and ...
Wanna sell a cookbook? Become a popular QVC host
It's a Sunday afternoon, and David Venable is in his element: on the air, in one of the kitchens at the QVC home shopping network, chatting a mile a ...
Warhol Foundation takes on cosmetics with Nars
Francois Nars had Andy Warhol coffee table books in his living room and Yves Saint Laurent in his closet growing up in the '70s in the south of France
'Girls' star Lena Dunham gets 7-figure book deal
"Girls" creator Lena Dunham has a seven-figure book deal with Random House. The 26-year-old Dunham, who received Emmy nominations as producer, ...
A month before vote, 'eclectic' county deliberates
When the recession cost Jerry Krone his longtime accounting job several year ago, he turned to his hobby — making gourmet jam in his Fountainville ...
Correction: Michigan ArtPrize story
In a story Oct. 5 about the fourth annual ArtPrize international competition in Michigan, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the first name of ...
Freeze, drought take bite out of fall tourism
Devastating spring freezes and a historic drought have stripped some charm from rustic fall destinations, leaving some corn too short to create mazes, ...