Los Angeles (E! Online) –
So this is what the face of an impressionable lad turned corrupted bloodsucker looks like.
It looks fang-licking good, if you ask us!
Summit Entertainment has tapped Australian newcomer Xavier Samuel to play Riley…

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
Cutting Kara DioGuardi's “No Boundaries” from the American Idol tour was a no-brainer for Kris Allen.
“Taking that out is kind of helping my set a little bit,” Allen…

BAGHDAD – Antique dealer Riyadh al-Khafaf has so few customers he hasn’t bothered to dust his collection of fine metalware from the early 20th century. Other dealers say they can go for days without seeing…

A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called “the blob.” It was a dark, floating…

SAN FRANCISCO, California Two light rail transit cars collided Saturday in San Francisco, causing multiple injuries, but none appeared life-threatening, a spokesman for the…

UK set to take back Brazil waste
The UK is working with Brazilian authorities to return more than 1,400 tonnes of toxic waste to Britain, the Environment Agency has said.Head of waste Liz Parks said plans…

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) –
Argentina issued a nationwide alert on Friday after pigs in the country were confirmed to have the swine flu virus, health authorities said.
“We have detected clinical cases…

FARMINGTON, Conn. – The price of the Connecticut mega-mansion owned by rapper 50 Cent has dropped again — to 10.9 million.
The 50,000-square-foot mansion is in the Hartford metropolitan area suburb Farmington….

Sink or swim in modern China
Chris Hogg heads to the small Chinese village of Zhushanxia, 200km east of Shanghai, to see how lives have been shaped by the economy under communist…

WASHINGTON – “And that’s the way it is,” he’d say.
It wasn’t, but we wanted that reassurance. The idea that someone could wrangle the world each night and boil it down to a sensible,…

NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite’s final resting place will be next to his late wife in Missouri.
The iconic newsman’s longtime chief of staff says a private funeral service has been scheduled…

Throughout his career as a television anchorman, Walter Cronkite had a few memorable run-ins with other powerful figures at CBS News, one of his producers told…

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Reuters) –
New Zealand cyclist Julian Dean did not know he had been shot during Friday's stage on the Tour de France, thinking instead he had been hit…

WASHINGTON – The Taliban has released a video of an American soldier who went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan June 30 and was later confirmed captured.
The soldier, whose identity has not…

BESANCON, France (Reuters) –
The Tour de France was marred by the death of a spectator Saturday as Russian Serguei Ivanov won the 14th stage, a 199-km ride from Colmar.
A gendarmerie officer, who declined to…

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
Are the Jackson brothers really performing in Jamaica or what?
We're still not totally sure. Depending on who you listen to, the answers seem to vary.
Yesterday, TMZ…

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. – A suspect was in custody in the slayings of six people, five in southern Tennessee and another about 20 miles away in Huntsville, Ala., authorities said Saturday.
Lincoln County,…

The Great Economic Recovery Hunt has been underway for about half a year, and the quarry bag is still pretty empty. A few optimists have tried to wring hope from fuzzy statistics showing…

China admits Uighur riot killings
A Chinese official says police shot dead 12 Uighur rioters in Urumqi this month, in a rare government admission of deaths inflicted by security forces.Nuer Baikeli, governor of Xinjiang region and himself a Uighur, said…

Milan to enforce teen drink ban
By David Willey
BBC News, Rome
Milan has banned the consumption and sale of alcohol to young teenagers in an effort to curb binge-drinking.Parents of children under the age of 16 caught drinking wine…

DAYTON, Ohio – Edward White, who made America’s first spacewalk and later died in a spacecraft fire, is among the latest aviation and space pioneers scheduled to be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of…

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) –
Argentina issued a nationwide alert on Friday after pigs in the country were confirmed to have the swine flu virus, health authorities said.
“We have detected clinical cases…

Government agents used tear gas to disperse demonstrators, and beat and kidnapped a human rights lawyer, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said Saturday, citing witnesses.
Protesters in…

African striker Emmanuel Adebayor has become the latest big-money acquisition by English Premier League club Manchester City.
Emmanuel Adebayor spent three and a half years at Arsenal after joining from French club…