It’s Sunday morning in Hollywood, and the experts have declared the winners and losers of the weekend box office, for which the celebrity contenders were Jim Carrey in Disney’s A Christmas Carol, George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cameron Diaz in The Box. Headline in The Wrap: “$31M Lump of Coal for ‘Christmas Carol’.” And from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood: “Happy Holidays?
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Missing couple’s yacht found abandoned in Indian Ocean
The British Royal Navy has found the yacht belonging to a British couple missing in the Indian Ocean since last week, but the yacht was empty, the British Ministry of Defence said Thursday. International military forces have been treating the case as a “potential hijacking,” Lt
Football in the firing line: The Gaza Cup final
Terrace crowds are controlled by men wearing army fatigues and holding Kalashnikov rifles, players and press pray on the pitch at half-time and when the final whistle is blown, the trophy is handed to the winning captain by one of Israel’s most wanted men. International military forces have been treating the case as a “potential hijacking,” Lt.
‘This Is It’ pulls in record $2.2 mil
Even after his death, Michael Jackson is breaking records. “It wasn’t really like going to the movies, it was more of going to a V.I.P.
British vacationers killed in Kenya
Two Britons were killed while vacationing in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, the Foreign Office said early Sunday.
Lawsuit: Madoff’s workplace was rife with cocaine, sex
A new lawsuit alleges that convicted swindler Bernie Madoff financed a cocaine-fueled work environment and a “culture of sexual deviance,” and he diverted money to his London, England, office when he believed federal authorities were closing in at home.
Bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan due back in U.S.
The flag-draped coffins of at least four U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S
Can Obama Deliver on Health Reform’s Promised Savings?
Way back in January, Barack Obama asked his health-care advisers for a simple number.
Philippines flood survivors count blessings
Huddled on the top floor of her home after waist-deep water inundated the lower story, Doranne Lim is bothered by the debris — and the smell.
Taliban suspected of stockpiling ‘missing’ Afghan opium
Enough Afghan opium to supply world demand for two years has effectively gone missing, with the Taliban suspected of stockpiling supplies in a bid to corner the market, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has revealed.