The film \\\\\\\"The Artist\\\\\\\" won top honors at the Academy Awards Sunday, taking the Best Picture prize and marking the first time in 83 years that a silent film has won the Oscar. The black-and-white comic melodrama took four prizes Sund...
A combination of screen captures show websites Wikipedia, Google, Mozilla and Reddit during their online blackout protest against proposed legislation on online piracy January 18, 2012. REUTERS/Staff If you tried to look something ...
Clayton Morris previews the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas....
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Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally signals the beginning of the holiday shopping season because stores offer deep discounts that draw large, deal-hungry crowds — is just a couple of weeks away. Are you re...
By JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERRENCE PETTY - Associated Press | AP – November 14, 2011 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Several hundred protesters, some wearing goggles and gas masks, marched past authorities in a downtown street Sunday, ho...
By Rania El Gamal | Reuters – October 22, 2011 People stand in line to see the body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Misrata, October 21, 2011. REUTERS/Saad Shalash ****************...
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Dozens of exotic animals including tigers, lions and bears were let loose on Ohio farmland by their owner before he committed suicide, sparking a shoot-to-kill hunt in which 49 of the wild beasts, including 18...
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By Edwin Chan and Supantha Mukherjee | Reuters – October 13, 2011 Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith ****** (...
Rough weather has jostled a cargo ship stuck off New Zealand's coast and worsened its oil leak fivefold to make it the country's worst-ever maritime environmental disaster, the government said on Oct. 11 (AP) 1. A New Zealand Defenc...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — \\\\\\\"The Good Wife\\\\\\\" star Julianna Margulies is the winner of the Emmy Award for best actress in a drama series, while Kyle Chandler won the male lead actoraward. Margulies, who navigates politics, law and family...
A rare Sand Cat has been born in Israel. The species used to be common in Israel, but is now extinct in the region. Renana, a 3-week-old sand cat, peers from a cave in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesd...
Is there something stuck on your teeth? Oh no, that’s just a tattoo(文身) of Prince William and Kate Middleton. One man has officially won The Windsor Knot’s royal wedding mania(狂热病) title by willingly paying £1,000 to ...
Around 3,000 people marched through central Tokyo, a large demonstration by Japanese standards(按日本的标准). The demonstration was organized by eight civic(市民的，民间的) groups to protest the Hamaoka nuclear-power plant(核电站), which is loc...
1. Marry an ugly man. Because if he ever leaves you, at least you won't feel bad since, you know, he's ugly. -- Lorraine Ontong Venturina 2. Unfortunately, it was advice that I didn't listen to. In 1986, as he was walking me down the a...
These aerial photos show locations in Japan before and after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck on Friday, March 11. ...
Wednesday brings a new iPad, this we know. And we know that, from 20 paces, it will probably look like the current iPad — Apple's own event invitation indicates as much. As for the details of the reveal, here's what else we think will h...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Rescuers(搜救人员) used their bare hands, dogs, and heavy machines Wednesday in an urgent search for survivors still trapped(被困住) in crumbled(崩塌的) buildings more than 24 hours after an earthquake devast...
‘She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young student, ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose.’ From her nest in the holm-oak(圣栎) tree the nightingale(夜莺) heard him, and she looked o...