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Former CEO of HP 'Expects to Make a Full Recovery' after Breast Cancer Surgery
The former Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, had breast cancer surgery...
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New Yorkers, You Are All Invited to “Play Safe” on Valentine’s Day!
In an attempt to reduce the number of sexually transmitted diseases, the New York City Department...
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Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary
February 12 marks the 200th birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin and scientists and...
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A Lesson of Black History
This January the world witnessed and watched the first black president of the United States...
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Celebrating Black History Month
In February, the time has come to remember and honor the accomplishments of African Americans and...
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A Healthy 6 Fingered Baby Was Born. Probably A Great Future Pianist?
According to doctors at Saint Luke's Hospital, a baby born in San Francisco has six perfectly...
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Couple Pays $155,000 to Clone Dog
Nina and Edgar Otto, a couple from Boca Raton, paid $155,000 to have their dog cloned from...
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PETA Super Bowl Add Not Approved
An ad that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) hoped to air during the Superbowl was...
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First Commercially Cloned Puppy Arrives Home
A Florida couple missed their dead dog so much they paid $155000 to have it cloned and shipped to...
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American Painter Andrew Wyeth Passed Away
Andrew Wyeth, probably the most significant painter of the 20th century in the United States,...
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Police Fatal Shooting at BART Station Fuels Violent Protests in Oakland
The video footage of two police officers forcing an unarmed black man to the ground and shooting...
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Grim mood at US tech-fests
San Francisco/Las Vegas - With bad news shooting from every sector of the economy, the fact...
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Steve Jobs, Macworld And Health Rumors
More than two decades have passed since the first Macworld Expo, and the future doesn’t seem...
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“Waltz With Bashir” Honored by The National Society of Film Critics
The National Society of Film Critics named Sean Penn, from “Milk,” best actor, and...
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What the Next “American Idol” Season Will Bring
Fox network has recently revealed their plans for the eighth season of the televised contest...
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Apple Shares Take A Dive On Steve Jobs Macworld’s Absence
As you might already guessed, Apple’s announcement that its CEO, the famous Steve...
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Heavy Snorers Burn More Calories at Rest than Non-snorers
People who snore heavily burn more calories
than those who snore lightly, a new research shows....
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Immunity – Stronger at Night
New study highlights once again, if necessary, the benefits of a good night’s sleep suggesting that...
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“American Idol” Sways on New Rhythms
When “American Idol” returns with a new season in January,
it will reveal several format changes...
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New Genetic Test May Predict Better Breast Cancer Risk
Researchers present Friday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas said a new genetic...
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The Kirov Ballet Presents the “Nutcracker”
Beginning
Wednesday, the Kirov Ballet will be offering the American audience a version of
the...
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1950s Bondage Model Betty Page Dies
Betty Page, one of the most famous pin-up stars in the 1950, passed away on December 11 from...
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Bettie Page, Bona Fide 1950s Pin-Up Queen, Passes Away
Bettie Page, one of entertainment’s original sex kittens,
the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit...
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ANALYSIS: Bad tidings for news industry as Tribune goes bankrupt
Los Angeles - "Black Monday." That's how the trade magazine Editor & Publisher chose...
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Hawaii Will Soon Become A Better Place
In the near future, Hawaii will provide car battery exchange
stations for electric vehicles....
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Odetta’s Voice and Humanism Will Always Be Remembered
One of the great folk singers of late-20th-century America, Odetta Holmes known as Odetta, died of...
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YouTube Plays Up Classical Music
YouTube is moving to bring classical music to a larger
audience by holding an online contest where...
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Odetta Holmes, Civil Rights Force, Passes Away At 77
Odetta Holmes, singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, and
human rights activist, passed away...
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YouTube To Bring Carnegie Hall On Your Very Computer
Monday,
sharing website YouTube announced they were planning to roll out a new feature,
called...
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Couple Arrested For Abusing 17-Year-Old Boy for a Year
A tragic event shocked Tracy, San Francisco after a 17-year-old boy, severely bruised and beaten,...
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U.S.
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California bus crash kills five; French tourists on board
San Francisco - Five people were killed and dozens were injured when their tourist bus...
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Case of Craigslist killer captivates America
San Francisco (dpa) - A medical student who allegedly targeted women advertising erotic services on...
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Decade after Columbine, gun laws lax as ever
San Francisco - Ten years ago, two teenaged misfits walked into their high school in Columbine,...
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Mexico City prepares for rare visit from US president
Mexico City - Only five US presidents have visited Mexico City in the past 100 years, but one more...
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Reclusive Swiss architect wins coveted Pritzker Prize
San Francisco - Reclusive Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on Sunday won the coveted Pritzker Prize,...
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Schwarzenegger returns art stolen by Nazis
San Francisco - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday returned artwork stolen by the...
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California to return looted Holocaust art
San Francisco - California is to return three 16th-century Italian paintings from...
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Six killed in Silicon Valley shooting
San Francisco - Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an...
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Alaska volcano spewing ash over Anchorage
San Francisco - Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted twice Thursday in what the Alaska...
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Twenty years after Exxon Valdez, oil spills still threaten coasts
San Francisco - Few lessons have been learned from Exxon Valdez, as oil spills are a regular...
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Mt Redoubt volcano erupts in Alaska
San Francisco - The Mt Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupted for the first time since 1989...
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Natasha Richardson critically injured in ski accident
San Francisco - Actress Natasha Richardson was in serious condition at a Montreal hospital Tuesday...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer stops the presses
San Francisco - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper will print its last edition on...
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Pilot Involved in 2007 San Francisco Oil Spill Pleads Guilty
The pilot behind the massive oil spill in the San Francisco Bay in a November 2007 incident pleaded...
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Gay Couples Protest before Marriage Bureaus Nationwide
Hundreds of gay couples, wearing signs that said “Just Not Married,” showed up today at...
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Obama Administration Has Same Stance in Rendition Case
Surprisingly, the Obama administration is supporting the controversial anti-terrorism policy of the...
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Flight 1549 Pilot Receives Hero’s Welcome in Hometown
Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III, the pilot who had what it took to save the 155 passengers aboard...
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Head of the CDC to Step Down
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping down, according to an...
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Director of Disease Control Centers, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Resigns
Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned. Dr....
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Roland Burris' Senate Seating Denied, Tainted by Blagojevich
The members of the Senate took their oaths for the 111th Congress and San Francisco Rep. Nancy...
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Winter Storm, ‘Hazardous’ Traveling Conditions Make Victims
A powerful winter storm hit the US West Coast painting all landscapes in white. The storm featured...
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1950s Pin-Up Queen Bettie Page Dies At 85 From Pneumonia
Bettie Page, one of entertainment’s original sex kittens,
the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit...
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Fourth Suspect Arrested in Case of Tracy Tortured Teen
Police authorities announced the arrest of a fourth person
in the case of the kidnapped teen who...
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Facing "disaster" Schwarzenegger calls California fiscal emergency
San Francisco - Saying that California was facing a "fiscal disaster," Governor Arnold...
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Bay Area to Become Electric Cars Capital
Thursday, San
Francisco Bay Area cities announced they were planning to build the electric
car...
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Teenage blogger streams own suicide online
San Francisco - A Florida teenager who broadcast his suicide over a live internet video stream was...
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Sex-Offender Law Overturned By Court
A voter-approved law, numbered as Proposition 83 on the
ballot, and which prohibits sex offenders...
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Forget Detroit, America's Car Future Is In California
Los Angeles - These days the big news in the US auto industry seems to be coming from Washington...
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California Supreme Court to hear gay marriage appeal
San Francisco - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would hear legal challenges to...
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Americans spend big on Obama souvenirs
San Francisco/Los Angeles - The US economy may be deep in the doldrums, but there's one sector...
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World
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On The Tracks Of Villa And Zapata In Mexico City
Mexico City - Whoever follows in the footsteps of Francisco "Pancho" Villa...
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Golden Gate Bridge, Soon Suicide Free?
The Golden Gate Bridge,
besides being a wonderful piece of architecture and a real landmark for...
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Samba for Obama echoes fundraising rhythm
San Francisco - The wine was flowing, the band was blaring, and on the dance floor a Brazilian lady...
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Scientists to test bone as search continues at Fossett wreck site
San Francisco - About 70 searchers combed the area around the crash site of adventurer Steve...
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Fossett searchers find plane wreckage
San Francisco - The enigma of the disappearance of adventurer Steve Fossett moved closer to...
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Fossett search resumed after artifacts found
San Francisco - A new search was launched Wednesday for missing and presumed-dead adventurer Steve...
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Fossett items yield new clues about missing adventurer
San Francisco - A new search was launched Wednesday for missing and presumed-dead adventurer Steve...
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California 1st State to Require Restaurant Chains to Detail Nutrition
California became the first American state that requires restaurant chains to inform clients on the...
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Schwarzenegger bans texting while driving
San Francisco - Movie stars might be able to perform incredible car manoeuvres while talking on the...
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New museum reveals wonders of science, secrets of planet
San Francisco - Science museums are often a collection of stodgy exhibits and isolated experiments...
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San Francisco woman sentenced to 15 years to life in dog attack
San Francisco - A woman whose two dogs attacked and killed her neighbour in the hallway of their...
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NSA, Bush, Cheney Sued by EFF over Illegal Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit on
Thursday against the National Security...
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US Campaign Rhetoric Shows Resurgent "Culture Wars"
San Francisco - The United States might be fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but back on home...
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Rescuers search for missing people after Grand Canyon flood
San francisco - Rescuers in Arizona were searching Monday for 11 people who went missing after...
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Schwarzenegger Ordered to Testify,Kelso Seeks $8 Billion for Calif. Prisons
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and two of his aides were ordered to take part in a...
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Federal Receiver Demands $8 Billion For California Medical Facilities
J. Clark Kelso, the federal receiver responsible of bringing California’s prison health system in...
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Unabomber Opposes Cabin Display at Washington Newseum
“Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a
three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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US’ Fight against HIV – Successful Overseas, But Not within Its Borders
The number of people being infected with HIV virus in the US is about 40 percent higher than...
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The Wildfire near Yosemite Is Giving Firefighters a Hard Time
A wildfire has already burned 32,000 acres and more than 20
residences 10 miles away from Yosemite...
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5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern California
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Southern
California since 1999, struck 35 miles east of...
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Blaze Near Yosemite Doesn’t Affect Tourists
Monday, a blaze burning about 12 miles of Yosemite Valley
has damaged 12 homes and forced...
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San Francisco Mayor Marries For The Second Time
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who is hoping to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger as California’s...
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Angry State Workers Protest Against Governor’s Cut Plan
Hundreds of state workers in California held a rally on the
west steps of the Capitol Thursday, to...
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San Francisco’s Mayor Can Finally Be at Ease: He Got the Codes
On Monday, following a secret meeting between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and imprisoned IT...
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California: High School Dropout Rates Are High
State educators were shocked that one in four kids quit
school last year. California
made its...
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San Leandro: Interstate 880 Crash, Two Dead
Thursday, a crash on Interstate
880 in San Leandro
left two dead and caused traffic delays all...
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OC Teenagers Charged With Hacking School Computers
Instead of learning and working harder, two high school
seniors took the easy road and hacked...
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New Standards for Marijuana Use in Mendocino
Give a man an inch and he will take an ell. This seems to be
the case with an unconventional law...
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Police Arrests Suspects in Highway 101 Shooting
Police arrested two suspects in the Highway 101 shooting of
a Hells Angels motorcycle club...
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Legal Groups Seek Delay in Gay Marriage
The California Supreme Court received a request from legal groups that are against same sex...
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Sports
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Super Bowl offers diversion from grim US economy
If it can be said that sports is a secular religion, then Sunday's Super Bowl between the...
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Track star Marion Jones released from prison
Washington - Disgraced track superstar Marion Jones was released from prison on Friday after...
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Hong Kong: Olympic Torch Reaches Friendly Territory
The Olympic torch has reached
Hong Kong this week, and the pro-Tibetan protests became less felt....
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Santana Moves To New York As Mets Strike Deal With Twins
Twins star pitcher Johan Santana
is on the move, as the Mets reached an agreement with the...
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Bonds’ Lawyers File Motion To Dismiss Perjury Charges
The defense team of former outfielder
for San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds asked a federal judge...
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Marion Jones Will Spend Six Months In Prison
On Friday, Marion Jones was sentenced to spend six months in
jail for lying about using steroids...
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Barry Bonds to Make His First Court Appearance
Barry Bonds, on of America’s biggest sluggers, will be in a San Francisco court this morning to...
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Spurs Beat Mavs 97-95, Ginobili Leads With 37
With Tim Duncan out with injury, the San Antonio Spurs were led by Manu Ginobili to a 97-95 win...
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Spurs Rout Bucks 113-88, Ginobili Key Player
After they were swept by the Milwaukee Bucks in last year’s regular season, the San Antonio Spurs...
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Dusty Baker Presented as Reds New Manager
Dusty Baker was presented as the Cincinnati Reds new manager during a press conference on Monday...
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Marion Jones Pleads Guilty and Retires
Gold medalist athlete Marion Jones pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to federal officials about the...
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Bonds Hitless In Probably Last Career Game
Barry Bonds played his final game with the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night, an 11-3 loss to...
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Bond’s 756th Ball to Be Branded with Asterisk
Barry Bonds’ ball that broke one of sports biggest records – the home run total – will be branded...
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DEA Makes 124 Arrests in Drug Raids
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced today an 18-month investigation into illegal steroids...
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Giants Will Let Bonds Go
Barry Bonds and his current club, the San Francisco Giants, will part ways at the end of the 2007...
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The Cubs Bring Trachsel Home
The Cubs acquired Baltimore Orioles’ right-handed pitche Steve Trachsel on Friday for Class AAA...
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Giants Beat Rockies 4-1 to Increase Winning Streak
Rich Aurilia provided the go-ahead RBI single that broke the tie in the eight inning and Kevin...
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Bonds Blasts Into History Past Hammerin' Hank
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds managed to go beyond the milestone established by Hank...
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Business
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Boston Globe closure on hold as unions give way
San Francisco - The Boston Globe pulled back from the brink of closure Monday as its owner The New...
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GE claims data storage breakthrough with 100 DVDs on one disc
San Francisco - General Electric has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology, using...
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Amazon.com shrugs off recession, boosts earnings, sales
San Francisco - Amazon.com posted an 18-per-cent boost in sales and a 24 per cent rise in...
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Extension sought to Microsoft antitrust supervision
San Francisco - Microsoft and US authorities on Thursday jointly proposed an 18-month extension of...
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Google first-quarter profits up 8.9 per cent
San Francisco - Internet search powerhouse Google bucked the economic downturn in the first...
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Intel profits drop 55 per cent, but upswing seen
San Francisco - Computer-chip giant Intel reported a 55-per- cent drop in first-quarter income...
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Taipei company sues Apple over touch screen patents
San Francisco - Taipei-based company Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple for the alleged...
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Report: New York Times Co threatens to shut down Boston Globe
Washington - The New York Times Co has threatened to shut down the Boston...
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Microsoft's Encarta falls victim to Wikipedia
San Francisco - Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it was terminating its Encarta online...
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In challenge to cellphone companies Skype goes mobile
San Francisco - In a move that could ring in big changes in the way customers use their mobile...
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Report: IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems
San Francisco - Technology giant IBM is in talks to buy rival Sun Microsystems for 6.5 billion...
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Newspaper giant McClatchy to eliminate 1,600 jobs
San Francisco - US newspaper giant McClatchy said Monday that it plans to eliminate 1,600...
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Apple's Snow Leopard Might Borrow Some Of The iPhone's Features
There are a lot of reports these days about Apple’s work on completing its new Mac OS X 10.6....
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Google Earth's Update Takes The Software To Another Level
Google’s first major update to its extremely popular mapping software Google Earth was...
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Google Earth Is Now Bigger And Better
Google released the first major update to its Google Earth mapping software, which will include...
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Time Warner to take write-down of 25 billion dollars
San Francisco - Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate, said Wednesday that it...
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Verizon Takes OnlineNIC To Trial
Earlier this week, Verizon was awarded the amount of $33.15 million in its cybersqatting...
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Battered Silicon Valley To Close Shop Over Christmas
San Francisco - The season of good cheer is bringing gloom this year even to the perennial bright...
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Apple Drops Macworld Expo
Apple Incorporated has recently announced that Chief Executing Officer (CEO) Steve Jobs had...
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Apple stocks dive on Steve Jobs health concerns
Shares of Apple were down some 7 per cent in early trading Wednesday amid investor concerns that...
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No Steve Jobs speech at Macworld; Apple's last year at trade show
Washington - There's disappointing news for Apple fans - CEO Steve Jobs will not be delivering the...
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Yahoo Gets A New Open Strategy
During a press conference held yesterday in San Francisco, Yahoo announced its new initiative which...
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AT&T Likely to Use Symbian for Self-Branded Phones
AT&T’s director of next-generation services, data
product realization Roger Smith has...
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Yahoo shares rise on reports of new buyout plan
San Francisco - Shares in troubled web portal Yahoo rose as much as 16 per cent Tuesday after a...
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Pownce Start-Up to Be Closed Down
Pownce, the
free social networking and micro-blogging site that has been deemed as a
competitor...
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Facebook Gets In Touch With Other Web Sites
Facebook introduced its new feature called Facebook Connect,
which allows users to access other...
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Tech toys dominate in early holiday shopping
San Francisco - With the US in a severe economic recession the relative value offered by high tech...
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Industry group: 2009 chip sales expected to plunge
San Francisco - Worldwide sales of computer chips will fall by 5.6 per cent in 2009, the...
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HP shares rally on positive earnings outlook
San Francisco - Shares in technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co rallied by as much as 15 per cent...
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OSI Shares Gain After Study Shows Tarceva Meets Its Goal
Shares of OSI Pharmaceutical rose $5.25, or 15 percent, to $40.65 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq...
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Gadgets
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Apple's new talking iPod is smallest ever
San Francisco - Apple launched what it said was the world's first talking music player on Wednesday...
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Apple To Launch iPhone Nano? Yes, According To Vaja
Curious as it seems, a second case maker has added references to an iPhone nano to its website,...
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iPhone Nano, Finally Possible?
Just like with every other domain, the technological field has its own set of juicy rumors that...
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OrbLive Update Released For iPhone And iPod Touch
Orb updated their OrbLive client for the iPhone and the iPod touch today, an update that enables...
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RIM Is Flipping Out With BlackBerry Pearl 8220
Canadian Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. has announced at CTIA, in San Francisco, its...
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Apple Event Announcements Good but Not Amazing
Yesterday’s Apple presentation held in San
Francisco's Yerba
Buena Center
for the Arts did not...
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“Let’s Rock” Says Apple. What Will September 9 Hold For The iPod?
Apple has recently sent invitations to some members of the
media for an event titled only “Let’s...
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American Airlines Introduces The First Onboard Internet Service
As of today, American Airlines is the first company to offer
its customers onboard Internet...
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Mozilla Reveals The Browser Concept Of The Future: Aurora
Mozilla wants to put the future of Web in the hands of
people around the world, as it launched an...
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Microsoft Surface In An AT&T Store Near You
AT&T wants to revolutionize the way its consumers shop
for mobile phones. Microsoft wants to...
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Nokia Announces Nanotechnology Concept for Future Mobile Phones
The Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge have showcased Morph, a...
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Nokia And UC Berkeley Tests GPS Phones As Traffic Sensors
Together with UC Berkeley researchers, Nokia has conducted an
experiment that could soon transform...
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New Mobile Management Software from Microsoft
Microsoft is to announce at
the Cellular Technology Industry Association convention in...
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Zune Firmware Update Precedes Shinier Zune 2.0?
The rumor mill started churning information about a possible upgrade of the Zune MP3 player line...
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iPod Touch: How It Will Affect The iPhone ?
Ever since the moment it was introduced at the famous “The
Beat Goes On” event in San...
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iSuppli: The iPod Nano's Parts Cost $58.85 and $82.85
U.S. market research company iSuppli, known for its teardown analysis of prominent market products,...
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16GB, HSDPA-Enabled iPhone Heading to Europe?
It appears that the recent $200 price drop operated in the US for the iPhone has an explanation:...
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Microsoft Cuts Zune’s Price to $199, Hints at Zune Phone
What, you thought the Zune brand was dead? No way, Jose! Yes, the Zune did sell more than 1 million...
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Apple’s iPhone Tops All Other Smart Phones in the US
The expensive UniquePhone dethroned all other smart phones sold in July in the US, a territory...
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iPod Overhaul Expected on September 5
Apple Inc. has invited the press in the US at a special event inside the familiar Moscone Center in...
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More Than 500,000 iPhones Sold in the First Week End
The media hype created by Apple around its most craved product is showing some results: it appears...
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Science
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California plans space-based solar power
San Francisco - Californians could soon be powering their homes, and no doubt their hot tubs, from...
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Arctic Sea is ‘on Thin Ice’, Survey Shows
The latest findings from scientists that have been monitoring the Arctic region show that the ice...
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NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Will Be Launched on Friday
A U.S. orbiting telescope designed to help answer one of the oldest and deepest questions of...
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A Healthy 6 Fingered Baby Was Born
According to doctors at Saint Luke's Hospital, a baby born in San Francisco has six perfectly...
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Mineral Suggests Mars May Have Been Hospitable
Thursday, scientists reported that an orbiting spacecraft had found a mineral on the planet...
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NASA Displays Further Land Ice Melting
NASA satellites show that about two trillion tons of ice in Antarctica, Alaska and Greenland have...
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Sutdy Finds Snorers Burn More Calories
A new U.S. study found that people with the worst sleep
apnoea symptoms burned 373 more calories...
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Intel Envisions Self-Powered Sensors For Mobile Devices
Intel’s San Francisco conference offered insights on how our future might look like in the next 50...
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Obese Older Women Have An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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EWG: Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants
When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is
safe to drink, but things are not like...
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Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Shakes Bay Area
Friday at about 9 P.M. CDT, a minor earthquake originating near Alamo hit the San Francisco Bay...
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Navy Agrees To Low-Frequency Sonar Restrictions For Mammals’ Sake
The U.S. District Court in San Francisco approved on Tuesday
an agreement between the U.S. Navy...
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Possible Toxic Element Found on Mars Decreases Chances of Finding Life
NASA scientists announced Monday that they discovered what seems to be a
highly oxidizing...
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Low-Carb Diet Is The Best Choice To Lower Cholesterol
If you really want to lose weight and decrease your
cholesterol level, you may try the...
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California Awards $271M in Stem Cell Grants
California has approved funding worth $271 million in total to create twelve stem cell research...
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Albany Medical Prize Goes to Female Researchers
For the first time in its eight-year history, the Albany Medical Center Prize went to two female...
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Agency Forced To Meet Deadline on Polar Bear Decision
The Interior Department can no longer postpone the decision
on whether to list the polar bear as...
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PG&E: Mojave Solar Plants To Provide Energy For Californian Homes
As renewable resources are
considered to be the future engine of this planet, California seems to...
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Federal Agency Sued Over Delaying Polar Bear Decision
Fed up with the Fish and
Wildlife Service’s constant failure to meet deadlines and make a decision...
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Scientists Warn about Rapid Arctic Melt Due to Global Warming
The Arctic ice is threatening to become open water in an
extremely short time due to global...
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NASA’s Voyager 2 Finds Our Solar System Is “Dented”
Voyager 2, NASA’s spacecraft launched in 1977 on a mission
to the outer planets, has discovered...
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Scientists Discover Familiar Planetary System
Until some of the major scientific discoveries were made,
people believed all kind of things about...
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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of US Navy In Whale Sonar Case
A federal appeals court in San Francisco allowed to US Navy to continue
using sonar technology...
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California Whales Are Going Back To Ocean
The two whales, which were lost in the Sacramento rivers are finally moving back to
ocean after...
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Two Lost Whales Swim Up river To Sacramento
Two humpback whales, believed
to be a mother and her calf, that wandered from San
Francisco nto...
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Music
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“American Idol,” The Place For Life’s Philosophies
With famous lyricist on the jury, Kara DioGuardi, “American Idol” passed its third...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer dies at 61
San Francisco - Drummer Mitch Mitchell, who with Jimi Hendrix founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience...
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Musician Merl Saunders, Collaborated with thGrateful Dead, Dies
Merl Saunders, a keyboardist who collaborated throughout more
than two decades with Grateful Dead...
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Metallica Return Victorious to Top of Billboard Chart
Veteran rockers Metallica have returned to the music scene
and they’re at the top of their game,...
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The Crowds Were the Ones to Rock the Outside Lands Fest
The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival debuted hit-like,
although it did not lack technical and...
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Scorsese's Stones Concert Documentary Opens April 4
The new concert documentary by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, "Shine a Light,"...
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Beck, Primus and Ben Harper Join Outside Fest
San Francisco’s inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts
Festival, to be held Aug. 22-24 at the...
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Report: Hell’s Angels Planned To Kill Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger, the singer from the Rolling Stones, managed to
escape an assassination attempt almost...
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Katharine McPhee And Nick Cokas Have Tied The Knot
The 23-year-old American Idol runner-up, Katharine McPhee and
her boyfriend, actor Nick Cokas, 42,...
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The Grateful Dead To Support Barack Obama
Members of the Grateful Dead, the legendary San
Francisco rock band, will held a get out the vote...
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Another Idol Dropped by Sony BMG: Katharine McPhee
The runner-up to Taylor Hicks on the fifth season of American Idol in 2006, Katharine McPhee, has...
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Saxophonist Frank Morgan Dead from Colon Cancer at 73
Saxophonist Frank Morgan died on Friday, December 14, at his
home in Minneapolis.
He suffered...
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Not So Romantic About Guitar Hero
A Detroit rock band called the Romantics has filed a lawsuit against Activision, publisher of the...
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Avril Lavigne Sued Over Stolen Song
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne is facing a lawsuit by the members of a ‘70s rock band who are...
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Smashing Pumpkins Ready To Perform Again
After a seven-year break, one of the most influential rock band of the 1990’s, The Smashing...
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Video Games
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OnLive to Introduce Cloud-Based Gaming Service, Forget about Consoles
New online video game distribution network OnLive said it will soon make game consoles obsolete by...
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Escape to Sony’s Play Station 3 Dreamland
Jenova Chen and the creators of “Flower” game from Sony just wanted to offer their...
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Video games make killing even in bleak season
San Francisco - The economy is in the doldrums, and shoppers everywhere are cutting back on...
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Blizzard’s Lich King Is A Success
Last night was the official release of word of Warcraft’s third installment, Wrath of The Lich...
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Star Wars: The Force Has Been Unleashed
Following a huge launch party in San Francisco, which George Lucas himself
attended, the...
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“Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” Has Great Premises
During the years between Episodes III and IV, Darth Vader takes a secret apprentice, Starkiller,...
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Banjo-Kazooie Is Shown Just Days Away From Official Release
Screenshots from Rare’s upcoming highly anticipated game
Banjo-Kazooie surfaced on the web,...
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Nintendo Wii Soon In A Westin Hotel Near You
Westin Hotels & Resorts has decided to include Wii in its
WestinWORKOUT exercise and fitness...
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Nintendo Wii’s Mario Super Sluggers at the Twist of a Remote
Nintendo has big plans for this year,
as it unveiled at the summit in San Francisco its plans to...
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Red Steel 2 confirmed by ONM, Resistance 2 at horizon
One of the few titles made for the Wii that is actually a first person shooter is getting a sequel,...
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MySpace Announces Online Games from Oberon
Online social networking giant MySpace and Oberon Media, the world’s leading multi-platform...
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SCEA Appoints Scott A. Steinberg As New Vice President of Product Marketing
In the text-gen gaming consoles battle Sony is still struggling
to close the gap that is...
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George Harrison, Nintendo US Marketing Chief, Steps Down
The Nintendo Marketing Chief, George Harrison, announced in
an telephone interview with Reuters...
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Halo 3 Beta To Go Live On Wednesday
Halo 3, the game with which Microsoft hopes to crush its
competitors, will get its first beta...
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Technology
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Reports: Government probes Apple-Google link
San Francisco - The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the close relationship between...
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Traditional media dominate Webby winners, refuting death knell
San Francisco - The internet might not be the death of traditional media after all. Three of the...
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Study: Most Twitterers quit after first month
San Francisco - Twitter, we have a problem. The hit social networking and microblogging site that...
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Sun posts 201-million-dollar loss
San Francisco - Sun Microsystems posted a sharp drop in revenue alongside widening losses...
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IBM's next frontier for computing: TV game shows
San Francisco - Technology giant IBM on Monday announced its next frontier in the unending quest to...
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Microsoft sales drop for first time since going public
San Francisco - Microsoft reported a drop in quarterly revenues Thursday for the first time in the...
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White House Should Take Over Cyber Security, Review Concludes
The White House should be much more involved in the cyber security of the United States. This was...
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Yahoo to axe 5 percent of workforce
San Francisco - Internet portal Yahoo said Tuesday that it planned to cut 5 per cent of its...
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Report: Apple may take iPhone from AT&T
San Francisco - Apple's iPhone could see wider distribution in the US next year as the...
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EBay announces Skype spin-off plan
San Francisco - Online auction house eBay said Tuesday that it plans to spin off its online...
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PG&E and Startup Plan Project to Use Solar Power from Outer Space
Pacific Gas & Electric, California’s biggest energy utility, said on Monday that it...
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Saboteurs Cut Internet Arteries in California
Police are searching for delinquents who cut the fiber-optic cables killing landlines, cell phones...
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Facebook reaches milestone: 200 million users
San Francisco - Five years after it was founded in a Harvard dorm room, the online social...
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Apple Sued by Elan Over Multi-Touch Infringement
Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics took Apple to court for allegedly infringement of two of its...
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IBM lowers Sun bid
San Francisco - Business technology giant IBM has lowered its bid for server and software company...
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Conficker virus quiet on deadline day, but threat remains
San Francisco - Conficker, the April Fool's worm, began contacting pre-designated websites for...
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Microsoft takes bite out of Apple
San Francisco - Can the tight US economy help Microsoft beat back the cavalry charge of its much...
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Steve Jobs To Show Up At WWDC 09?
When Apple has just announced the schedule for its upcoming WWDC event, one question popped out...
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Apple Announces Dates of WWDC 2009
Apple finally revealed the dates of its Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 or...
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China's YouTube block blasted
San Francisco - The Electronic Freedom Foundation on Thursday voiced alarm at the blanket...
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Google announces 200 layoffs
San Francisco - Internet giant Google said Thursday that it planned to cut 200 jobs in sales and...
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 hits snags
San Francisco - Despite some initial glowing reviews, Microsoft has been flooded with complaints...
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Facebook users revolt against site's redesign
San Francisco - More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign...
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Cisco to Acquire Flip Video for $590 Million
Just a day after IBM started negotiation the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, another big player in...
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At last, Apple offers iPhone cut and paste, and turn by turn
San Francisco - Apple unveiled its proposed new software for its genre-defining iPhone...
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Google taking on phone companies and Skype
San Francisco - Not content with dominating the internet, Google is looking to take on the...
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Online ads get in your face amidst money crunch
San Francisco - Online advertising has suffered almost as much as its print and broadcast...
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National Semiconductor to sack quarter of workforce
San Francisco - National Semiconductor Corp, one of the world's largest manufacturers of...
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Apple founder turns to tech to survive dance competition
San Francisco - After being compared to a Teletubby gone mad, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak turned...
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Social networking beats email on the web
San Francisco - Social networking is a more popular online activity than email, according to a new...
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People
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New Zealand opera star Kiri te Kanawa defrauded by bank manager
Wellington - New Zealand opera diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, 65, suffered the theft of more than...
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Sam Shepard Got Arrested for Speed and Drunken Driving
Sam Shepard, the famous actor and playwright, was caught by the police on Saturday in central...
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Bettie Page, Legendary Pin-up Queen, Really Made a Difference
Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary who became a model over night and whose controversial photographs...
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Pin-Up Queen Bettie Page Dies At 85
Bettie Page, one of entertainment’s original sex kittens,
the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit...
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Patrick Swayze Alive and Kicking (Almost Literally)
Patrick Swayze is so perplexed by tabloid reports saying he
is breathing his last breath and...
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Mariah Carey Reveals Feelings Towards Husband’s Comments
Mariah Carey seems to care a great deal about her public
image. She actually cares so much that...
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Sharon Stone Denies Botox for Son’s Smelly Feet Claims
Hollywood star Sharon Stone
has responded to recent reports in the media that she had...
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Smelly Feet? Botox Is the Key! Wrong Answer, Sharon Stone
Basic instincts have taken over Sharon Stone’s motherhood.
Okay, so I’ve heard about parents...
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Sharon Stone’s Unhappy Day In Court
The custody feud between Sharon Stone and former husband
Phil Bronstein over son Roan is no pretty...
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Writer David Foster Wallace Hanged Himself
David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist and short story writer, breathed his last breath on Sept...
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Census: Hispanics Are the Fastest Growing Minority Population
New Census figures released Thursday indicate that Hispanics continue to be
the...
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Nigel Lythgoe Is Leaving “American Idol”
Nigel Lythgoe, the “American Idol” executive producer is
going to leave the show. According to E!...
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Comedian Stephen Colbert Has New Spider Named After Him
Stephen Colbert’s dream to have a spider named after him
finally came true. When he heard that a...
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Patrick Swayze Describes His Treatment As A “Miracle”
Patrick Swayze, the Dirty Dancing star, looked healthy
during his appearance at LAX airport in...
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Cheryl Burke Draws Back from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Tour
The professional dancer from “Dancing with the stars”,
Cheryl Burke, was taken to the hospital on...
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Radio Talk Show Host Faces Child Pornography Charges
Bernie Ward, a San Francisco radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, was indicted on child...
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Katharine McPhee To Tie The Knot
"American Idol" winner Katharine McPhee and her boyfriend, actor Nick Cokas, reportedly...
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Cartoonist Phil Frank, Creator of “Farley," Dies
Cartoonist Phil Frank, known for his work on the comic strips “Farley” and “The...
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Talk Show Host Tom Snyder Dies Of Leukemia At 71
Famous broadcast journalist Tom Snyder, the man who co-anchored
the first noon news with...
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Character Actor Charles Lane Dies at 102
Charles Lane, an actor since the 1930s who celebrated his 102nd birthday this year, died Monday in...
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Avril Lavigne Responds Plagiarism Accusations
A very angry Avril Lavigne who was sued by the members of a ‘70s rock band for stealing one of...
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US Soprano Beverly Sills Dies
One of America’s most distinguished personalities, opera singer Beverly Sills, known by some as...
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Frida Kahlo Celebrated With Huge Exhibit
Not only is it huge, it is the largest exhibit ever opened in celebration of the Mexican artist...
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Connie Nielsen, Lars Ulrich Welcome Baby Boy
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and his girlfriend, "Gladiator" actress Connie Nielsen,...
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Journalist David Halbertsam Died in Car Crash at 73
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who gained widespread fame through his early...
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Dame Helen Mirren Reigns over BAFTA Awards
Indeed a sovereign! Nothing seems to stand in Helen Mirren’s way as she conquers award after...
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Health
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Three test negative for swine flu as Hong Kong goes on guard
Hong Kong - Three patients tested negative for swine flu in Hong Kong as the...
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Kaiser Permanente Settles Transplant Claims
Kaiser Permanent has agreed to pay $1 million to settle arbitration claims on behalf of five...
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Experimental Prostate Cancer Drug Is Promising in Early Testing
An experimental drug showed promise in treating advanced prostate cancer in early trial,...
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Study finds action video games improve eyesight
San Francisco A new study has found that action video games can improve players' eyesight,...
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Blacks at Higher Risk of Heart Failure than Whites
According to one of the first long-term studies to look at heart failure in younger adults,...
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Less Salt Would Lower Risk of Hear Disease
A recent study in the United States shows that if Americans would change their eating habits in...
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Ozone Exposure Is Deadly
A study that analyzed data on 18 years showed that the risk of respiratory problems has been...
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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, Doing Well after Breast Cancer Surgery
Former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive and high-profile Republican, Carly Fiorina,...
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry to Undergo Kidney Transplant
Washington Mayor Marion Barry was admitted to Howard University Hospital Thursday to prepare for...
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Discovery May Offer New Targets for Drug Development to Slow Alzheimer’s
Researchers at Genentech of South San Francisco and the Salk Institute of La Jolla have...
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Multnomah County Chain Restaurants Required to List Calories on Their Menus
Multnomah County (Oregon) commissioners have approved a new set of rules that will require chain...
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February 9 - The Day Smoking Died…in Boston
Starting today, many Bostonians will breathe healthier air thanks to a tobacco ban implemented by...
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Stem Cells Are Offered New Grants, Despite Their Being Delayed
San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, UCSF, Stanford University, the J. David Gladstone...
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California Seeks to End Prison Receivership
California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger filed a motion in U.S....
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A Recent Report Shows Oakland As Number 1 Against Smoking
A report card issued on Tuesday by the American Lung Association of California has revealed that...
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New System To Rate Nursing Homes In U.S.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the quality ratings for all the...
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Women Can Get HIV No Matter Their Genital Skin Is Injured Or Not
New research presented December 16 at the American Society for Cell Biology 48th annual meeting in...
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The Heavier You Snore, the More Calories You Burn - But It's Still an Unhealthy Habit
People who snore heavily are likely to burn far more
calories than those who snore lightly, even...
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People with Heavy Snoring Problems Burn More Calories
A new U.S. study found that people with the worst sleep
apnoea symptoms burned 373 more calories...
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Genetic Test More Accurate in Predicting Breast Cancer
Researchers present Friday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas said a new genetic...
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Report Calls For More Screening Of Brain Injury In Military Personnel
A report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine,
a government advisory group that studies...
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New Findings About Breast Cancer
A new study that looked at more than 287,000 women and took into account their mammogram habits...
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Lack of Exercise in Depressed Cardiac Patients Worsens Outcomes
If you suffer from depression, you need to look for medical
help right away, as depression has...
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CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test
Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that even though Medicare, the United...
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Obese Older Women Have an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer
A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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Inactivity in Depressed Heart Patients Increases Cardiac Risk
Depression is one of the issues today’s world faces and tries
to overcome. Scientists have shown...
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Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results
Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc
announced on Monday that its experimental cancer treatment...
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Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients
A small study of patients with brain cancer showed that Antigenics
Inc’s Oncophage vaccine helped...
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"AIDS cure" good for only 1 per cent of patients, say experts
Hamburg - Physicians in Germany who say they have "functionally cured" a patient with...
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Avastin Raises Risk of Blood Clots
An analysis of 15 clinical trials involving
Genentech’s cancer drug Avastin has found that the...
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Movies
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Reports: Richardson brain dead after ski accident
San Francisco - Actress Natasha Richardson was reported to be brain dead late Tuesday after a...
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Sean Penn Wins Academy Award for Best Actor for His Portrayal of Harvey Milk
Sean Penn won the Academy Award for best actor on Sunday night for his performance of murdered San...
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Don Johnson Sues ‘Nash Bridges’ Seeking More Money
Actor Don Johnson filed a lawsuit against the makers of 1990s television series “Nash...
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“Milk,” “Slumdog Millionaire” Take Over the WGA Awards
Saturday, Academy Awards nominees “Milk” and “Slumdog Millionaire”...
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GLAAD Awards Nominees
Wednesday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced the nominees for its...
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A Golden Globe For Heath Ledger's Performance In "The Dark Knight"
Heath Ledger won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor Sunday for his role as The...
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The National Society of Film Critics Honors “Waltz With Bashir”
The National Society of Film Critics named Sean Penn, from “Milk,” best actor, and...
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“Frost/Nixon,” “Benjamin Button” and “Doubt” Top the Golden Globe Nods List
Thursday,
the Golden Globe nominations were revealed, putting “Frost/Nixon,” “The Curious
Case of...
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"Milk": Harvey Milk’s Honorable Tribute
“Milk,” the film about the life and death of openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, that...
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“Milk”, The Movie About The Icon
Harvey Bernard Milk (1930 – 1978) is one of the main icons of the gay community. He was an American...
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Twilight Event Draws Blood - Literally
An event featuring “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson got out
of hand quickly and badly in San...
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Zack and Miri Give It a Shot. Porno or Not.
The director of “Chasing Amy” is ready to break new ground with
his Zack and Miri characters who...
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Katie Turns To Law
After a more-than-decent Broadway premiere, Katie Holmes makes an appearance on hit television show...
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Sharon Stone Loses Custody Of Son Roan
For yet unclear reasons, actress Sharon Stone has lost joint custody of her oldest son, 8-year-old...
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“Burn After Reading”: Another Comedy From The Coens Brothers
As they have accustomed us over the years, the Coen
brothers followed their serious movie “No...
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'I Served The King Of England' – A Funny And Emotional Czech Story
In his latest film based on a Bohumil Hrabal novel, director
Jiri Menzel managed to tell the...
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Federal Investigators To Drop Inquiry Into Heath Ledger’s Death
An official quoted by The Associated Press said that the
official investigators intend to drop the...
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“Bottle Shock” – A Whimsical Elegy To Wine
“Bottle Shock,” a lenient and unsophisticated movie, not
swanky at all, but full of flavor,...
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Patrick Swayze on the Set of The Beast, Grateful for Miracle Recovery
The world is spinning the right way around again, with actor
Patrick Swayze, who has been fighting...
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“The Dark Knight” Ends With A Tribute To Heath Ledger
As the premiere of the next sequel of Batman franchise, “The
Dark Knight” draws near, Warner Bros...
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Sean Penn and Robin Wright Put Divorce on Hold
Actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have put their
divorce proceedings on hold, according to...
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Movie Review: Nim’s Island, Jodie Foster In A Fantasy Land
Have you ever wondered what the recipe for a good fantasy
and adventure movie is? Or at least what...
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Fairies, Ogres And Goblins Are Among Us, Spiderwick Says
You could be hasty and call “The Spiderwick Chronicles”
another fantasy movie and then leave it...
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Heath Ledger, A Promising Actor, Dies at 28
The news of Heath Ledger’s death has taken Hollywood by storm. The
28-year old actor was found...
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Directors Begin Talks With Studios
As the writers enter the 11th
week of the strike on Monday, it seems like the negotiations between...
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Movie Review: ‘The Bucket List’
“The Bucket List”, Rob Reiner’s movie (Rumor Has It) about
old men getting their last wishes, is a...
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Darn It: Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn To Divorce
Last year, the unexpected news of divorce came from Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe; this...
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John C. Reilly to Channel His Inner Rock Star for Tour
Academy Award-nominated actor John C. Reilly will channel his inner rock star in the following week...
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Harvey Milk Biopic to Begin Filming in January
Sean Penn will begin work on his portrayal of 1970s gay rights activist Harvey Milk in January,...
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Sean Penn Signs For Gay Politician Role
Actor Sean Penn has reportedly taken over the role of America’s first openly gay politician, Harvey...
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