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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s main journalist organization says police have arrested four reporters in western Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Union of Journalist head Foster Dongozi said the four — two freelancers and two working for independent dailies — were arrested while on assignment Friday at a police camp north of the second city of Bulawayo where an officer was said to have [...]
LONDON (AP) — The new head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers is a seasoned operator in his global empire, presiding over the successful launch of an Italian pay television venture in direct competition with the powerful business interests of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. He is also seen as untainted by the phone hacking scandal in Britain. Tom Mockridge, [...]
ISTANBUL (AP) — The United States and other nations on Friday formally recognized Libya’s main opposition group as the country’s legitimate government until a new interim authority is formed. The decision, which declared Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s regime no longer legitimate, will potentially free up cash that the rebels fighting Libyan forces urgently need. The front lines [...]
SAO PAULO (AP) — Researchers say they have located the wreckage of a German World War IIsubmarine sunk off the coast of southern Brazil. Researchers from the Vale do Itajai University say the U-513 submarine was found on Thursday at a depth of 245 feet (75 meters) off the coast of Santa Catarina state. It has not been [...]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has for the first time placed regulations on the largely unrestricted practice of abortion, requiring clinics to warn potential clients of the purported health hazards of the procedure. A new law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev is seen by some observers as possibly the first in a series of new rules governing abortion. [...]
A group of angry fans threw eggs at Lady Gaga in response to her recent appearance on stage in Sydney, Australia rolling around in a wheelchair. Though the throwers missed Gaga herself, a few eggs hit members of her entourage. It is unclear why audience members had the eggs in the first place, however. Photos: Lady Gaga’s [...]
NEW YORK (TheWrap) - Sherwood Schwartz, the Emmy-winning television mastermind behind “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,” has died at 94. “He had a lot of favorite projects and a lot of favorite shows and his favorite one was always the next one,” his son and producing partner, Lloyd J. Schwartz, told TheWrap. “He didn’t really [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Irish author John Banville has been lauded as one of the greatest literary stylists of his generation but his recent kick as a crime writer, churning out a murder mystery every year, has him giddy with excitement. “I am in my 60s with a new lease on life. It’s fun,” Banville said in an [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A judge on Tuesday ordered a former producer for the TV show “Survivor” extradited to Mexico to face charges that he killed his wife two years ago while they were on holiday in the resort town of Cancun. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian determined that Bruce Beresford-Redman, who has been jailed since November 2010 awaiting a decision, should be [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter R. Kelly has failed to make mortgage payments on his multimillion-dollar Chicago-area home for more than a year and now may lose the property to lenders, court documents show. In a foreclosure action filed in June in Cook County Circuit Court,J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A. said that the singer, whose full name is Robert S. [...]
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