NEW YORK – Is there anything Jamie Foxx can’t conquer? His first try at the Apollo, apparently.
The singer/actor/comedian says the first time he tried his stand-up act on the famed stage, he was…

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
Mel Gibson's soon-to-be ex-wife doesn't want anyone peeping at her payback.
Robyn Denise Moore-Gibson has been granted a request to keep the details of the dueling couple's…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) –
California's government risks a financial “meltdown” within 50 days in light of its weakening May revenues unless Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers quickly plug a $24.3 billion budget gap, the state's…

‘Hidden cost’ of Colombian biofuel
By Margarita Rodriguez
BBC Mundo, Colombia
Colombia’s government proudly claims that it is the biggest producer of biodiesel and ethanol in Latin America after Brazil, but human rights groups do not share that enthusiasm.Critics warn that the…

Seeking television justice in China
By Chris Hogg
BBC News, Shanghai

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In China, if you fall out with a neighbour or a relative over money or property it can be hard to find anyone to help you resolve the…

China’s computers at hacking risk
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by hackers because of flaws in software that the government has mandated its citizens use.The potential…

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
• Looks like some of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler's parental issues that were playing out over Twitter yesterday have been resolved and the rocker got to spend some quality time…

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia A hundred years ago a Brazilian physician, Carlos Chagas, showed that monkeys were susceptible to a rare parasitic illness carried by a particular Latin American bug.
A mother and baby visit a…

China’s computers at hacking risk
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by hackers because of flaws in software that the government has mandated its citizens use.The potential…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The idea was for Phil Mickelson to return to a routine as best as possible in his world now shaken with fear.
It has been three turbulent weeks since he announced his wife,…

GENEVA (Reuters) –
The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting of experts on Thursday to discuss the spreading H1N1 flu outbreak, in a sign the U.N. agency may be poised to…

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
She may have left The Hills, but that doesn't mean Lauren Conrad is done with television.
The former MTV darling tells me she's determined to get her debut novel, L.A. Candy, adapted for the small…

TROY, Va. – For more than a year, Virginia’s largest women’s prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the “butch wing,” prisoners…

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) –
Major powers on Wednesday agreed on a package of expanded sanctions, including tougher cargo inspections and a tighter arms embargo, to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear test…

The “black box” is actually an orange cylinderabout 13 pounds of metal wrapped around a stack of memory chips and designed to withstand the force of being slammed high-speed into…

HELENA, Mont. – Christopher Lloyd plans to rebuild on the Southern California site where wildfire destroyed his house last fall.
Lloyd’s 11 million house was among hundreds lost in the fires that swept the…

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s auto task force told skeptical lawmakers Wednesday the government had no plans to pump more dollars into General Motors and Chrysler and that the public had a “reasonable…

Indian sex workers learn karate

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Prostitutes in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have begun taking karate lessons to protect themselves from violent customers and pimps.The women say they were so fed up with abuse that…

Disputed Peru land laws suspended
Peru’s parliament has suspended two land laws that triggered deadly clashes between police and protesters.At least 54 people, including some police officers, died after violence erupted on Friday between security forces and indigenous protesters. The…

England 6-0 Andorra
England took another step towards World Cup finals qualification by hammering hapless minnows Andorra at Wembley.In an embarrassingly one-sided contest Wayne Rooney hit the crossbar before he headed home Glen Johnson’s cross. Frank Lampard converted Theo Walcott’s pull-back and Johnson fired…

SEATTLE – The Seattle Times reports that the son of former NFL great Joe Montana has decided to play football at Washington.
Nick Montana, from Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, Calif., is rated among the…

PARIS – From behind prison bars, the view never changes. From behind the handlebars of racing bikes, dozens of French inmates are seeing the vineyards of Provence, the sun-drenched Mediterranean coast and the majestic spires of the…

As Gabon begins a month of mourning and condolences pour in for President Omar Bongo, the world’s longest serving President who died Monday…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed to be finished, its completion is in limbo while a judge waits answers to questions about private property in…