HONG KONG – Chow Yun-Fat (search), star of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (search) and “Anna and the King,” is helping raise funds for tsunami (search) survivors in South Asia by auctioning off a photograph he took. The minimum price for the signed black-and-white picture of a branch laden with what …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The United States military said it dropped a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul (search) on Saturday, killing five people. The man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people, and an Associated Press photographer said seven of them …
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NEW YORK – News Corp. (NWS) Monday said it would buy the remaining 18 percent of its Fox Entertainment Group Inc. (FOX) unit in a stock swap worth roughly $6 billion, which analysts said would simplify the media conglomerate’s structure. The deal gives News Corp. full ownership of its U.S. …
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Internet sales of prescription drugs (search) to U.S. consumers could be banned by Canada if a proposal being drafted by health officials is approved, changes that would essentially kill a $700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine. The issue has become …
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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Though known for its search-and-rescue efforts at sea, the U.S. Coast Guard (search) is now training members to fight terrorism. The new Maritime Law Enforcement Training Center (search) has just opened at a former Naval base in Charleston, S.C., and will teach counterterrorism techniques to some 2,000 …
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ATLANTA – An Ethiopian immigrant suspected of torturing and murdering dissidents in a military dictatorship in Ethiopia (search) during the 1970s was arrested Tuesday by federal agents and faces deportation. Kelbessa Negewo (search), 54, remains in federal custody and will face a deportation hearing before an immigration judge in the …
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LOS ANGELES – An American and a British television company found a creative way around the ban on cameras for Michael Jackson’s (search) child molestation trial: dramatic re-enactments. E! Entertainment Television and satellite company British Sky Broadcasting, BSkyB, are joining to present daily recreations of the trial, executives announced Tuesday. …
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DENVER – NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant (search) should not be required to answer questions about his sexual history in a civil lawsuit against him because it would violate the privacy of his past sexual partners, his attorneys argue. Lawyers for the woman accusing Bryant of rape want to interview …
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YOUSSIFIYAH, Iraq – Just ahead of the first free balloting in Iraq in half a century, the nation battened down for the vote, imposing a 7 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew on Friday and closing Baghdad International Airport (search). Five U.S. soldiers were killed in the capital and insurgents blasted polling stations …
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