Archive for August, 2011

New Zealand’s penguin visitor ‘Happy Feet’ is moved to ship bound for the Southern ocean

New Zealand’s penguin visitor ‘Happy Feet’ is moved to ship bound for the Southern ocean

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The wayward emperor penguin known to the world as Happy Feet is safely aboard a ship in New Zealand and ready to be taken to cooler southern waters. Happy Feet was transported from the Wellington Zoo to the research vessel Tangaroa on Monday. He craned his head back and forth, [...]

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Race for Japanese prime minister goes to run-off between finance minister and trade minister

Race for Japanese prime minister goes to run-off between finance minister and trade minister

TOKYO (AP) — The decision on who becomes Japan’s next prime minister and inherits the enormous challenges of recovering from a huge tsunami and nuclear crisis went into a runoff Monday between the trade minister and finance minister. None of the five candidates vying for leadership of Japan’s ruling party won a clear majority in [...]

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U.S. Wins Little League World Series

U.S. Wins Little League World Series

The boys from Huntington Beach, Calif., brought the Little League World Series championship trophy back to the U.S.A. after a year’s absence. A bases-loaded single by Nick Pratto with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning drove in the tie-breaking run, sending the Southern California boys to a 2-1 victory against Hamamatsu City, Japan [...]

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Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIlroy, sitting in a tree

Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIlroy, sitting in a tree

… K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Well, technically it wasn’t in a tree, it on a tennis court in front of the Yale football team and thousands of fans who watched Wozniacki advance to the finals of the New Haven Open. That doesn’t rhyme as well though. Golf’s reigning U.S. Open champion gave his new girlfriend a kiss on [...]

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Fan falls on stairwell at Rangers Ballpark‎

Fan falls on stairwell at Rangers Ballpark‎

Just what the heck is happening at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington? Two months after firefighter Shannon Stone fell over a railing and landed on concrete, suffering injuries that eventually became fatal, another fan took a dangerous fall while leaving the ballpark on Saturday night. An unidentified 24-year-old man was knocked unconscious after falling 21 feet down [...]

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Flood worries but some relief in Irene’s wake

Flood worries but some relief in Irene’s wake

NEW YORK (AP) — Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage — up to $7 billion by [...]

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Foster says he’ll be ready for week 1, calls some fantasy owners ‘sick’

Foster says he’ll be ready for week 1, calls some fantasy owners ‘sick’

  Houston Texans running back Arian Foster(notes) has a message to all those people sincerely concerned about the hamstring injury he’s been suffering through during training camp. He has a separate message for those sincerely concerned about how said hamstring injury will affect their fantasy football teams. Last year’s top-rated fantasy back Tweeted a message to [...]

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Beyonce Pregnant: Confirms On 2011 VMA Red Carpet

Beyonce Pregnant: Confirms On 2011 VMA Red Carpet

After years of denying endless pregnancy rumors, Beyoncé finally has some good news to share. The “Single Ladies” singer is pregnant. Beyoncé held her belly as she arrived at the Video Music Awards Sunday wearing a long, red dress, quite the opposite of her normal midriff-baring stage costumes. When addressing photographers on the red carpet, [...]

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Johnny Depp Raids The Minibar In New Trailer For ‘The Rum Diary’

Johnny Depp Raids The Minibar In New Trailer For ‘The Rum Diary’

“Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination,” Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, “but it’s all true… I think.” And so it goes in this long-awaited big screen version of “The Rum Diary,” Depp’s latest film adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel. The film, which sat on [...]

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Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock in Talks to Join Animated Film And Then There Was Gordon’

Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock in Talks to Join Animated Film And Then There Was Gordon’

If you thought you saw renewed sparks between Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, you were right. But maybe not in the way you were hoping. Deadline reports that “The Proposal” co-stars are looking to lead the voice cast of the animated comedy, “And Then There Was Gordon.” The movie, which will be written Reynolds and Allan Loeb, [...]

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