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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
… 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
“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 [...]
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, [...]