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  • `Avatar' rules with $68.3M, tops $1B worldwide (AP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:39:43 GMT

    FILE - This undated file photo released by 20th Century Fox, the character Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, is shown in a scene from 'Avatar.'  James Cameron's science-fiction epic took in $68.3 million domestically to remain the No. 1 movie for the third-straight weekend, raising its domestic total to $352.1 million in just 17 days. With $670 million more overseas, 'Avatar' climbed to a worldwide total of $1.02 billion. (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, File)AP - James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.


  • Group in NYC picks 'Hurt Locker' as best 2009 film (AP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:56:23 GMT

    AP - The National Society of Film Critics on Sunday selected "The Hurt Locker," a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit that works in Iraq to defuse improvised explosives while under the threat of insurgents, as the best picture of 2009.

  • 'The Simpsons' marks 450th episode with special (AP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:34 GMT

    AP - To speak of the latest milestone by "The Simpsons" seems to restate the obvious.

  • 2010 Spoleto embraces renovated SC theater (AP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:00:33 GMT

    AP - The Spoleto Festival USA plans to celebrate the reopening of a nearly 300-year old South Carolina theater with a production that was the first opera ever performed in the American colonies.

  • Networks blur policy of not paying for interviews (AP)

    - Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:42:53 GMT

    FILE - In this  Dec. 24, 2009 file photo, U.S. David Goldman, top, followed by his 9-year-old son Sean, gestures as he boards a plane at the Galeao airport, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The Society of Professional Journalists condemned NBC News for practicing 'checkbook journalism' by chartering a jet that carried a New Jersey man involved in a bitter custody battle and his son home from Brazil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)AP - Policies forbidding payment for news interviews increasingly seem like the network television equivalent of the 55 mph speed limit: a rule often winked at unless you're heading into a speed trap.


  • Calif. pastor takes in $2.4M after donations plea (AP)

    - Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:37:58 GMT

    FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008  file photo, Pastor Rick Warren signs his book 'The Purpose of Christmas' at Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren says his call for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch has brought in $2.4 million. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)AP - Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.


  • 'The Simpsons' marks 450th episode with special (AP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:34 GMT

    AP - To speak of the latest milestone by "The Simpsons" seems to restate the obvious.

  • Group in NYC picks 'Hurt Locker' as best 2009 film (AP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:56:23 GMT

    AP - The National Society of Film Critics on Sunday selected "The Hurt Locker," a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit that works in Iraq to defuse improvised explosives while under the threat of insurgents, as the best picture of 2009.

  • Lady Gaga, Susan Boyle UK's 2009 best sellers (Reuters)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:30:01 GMT

    Reuters - Lady Gaga's single "Poker Face" and Susan Boyle's debut album "I Dreamed A Dream" were crowned Britain's biggest-selling records of 2009, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.

  • More network-cable operator disputes on horizon (Reuters)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:37:44 GMT

    Reuters - The peaceful resolution of Fox's spat with Time Warner Cable, the first big retransmission-consent fight between a broadcast network and a cable provider, ushered in 2010 -- which is certain to bring more clashes as broadcast networks search desperately for ways to supplement falling advertising revenue.

  • Picasso, other art works stolen from French villa (Reuters)

    - Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:21:56 GMT

    Reuters - Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in the south of France, police said on Saturday.

  • German resistance fighter dies at 98 (AFP)

    - Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:52:51 GMT

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) is photographed with Freya von Moltke in the concert hall in Berlin, in 2007. Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the German resistance during World War II alongside her husband, has died at the age of 98 in the United States, The Valley News has reported.(AFP/DDP/File/Clemens Bilan)AFP - Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the German resistance during World War II alongside her husband, has died at the age of 98 in the United States, The Valley News reported.


  • Australian prime minister turns children's author (Reuters)

    - Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:35:35 GMT

    Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is about to become a published children's author, with a tale about the lives of two family pets at one of his official residences, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.