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NEW YORK The Police ended one of rock 'n' roll's most successful reunions in Madison Square Garden on Thursday with a tribute to other famous trios, an assist from some real cops and a not-particularly close shave. The 150th and final show of a ...
Once-reclusive China commandeered the world stage Friday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pyrotechnics and pageantry ? topped by the unworldly sight of a flying gymnast, traversing the heights of the ...
BERGEN, GERMANY -- A man in this picturesque village in Upper Bavaria identified Clark Rockefeller in photographs as his younger brother, saying in an interview today that he left home at age 17 in 1978 and had not contacted the family in more than ...
LOS ANGELES ? Bernie Brillstein, a Hollywood talent agent, manager, producer and studio head who over half a century guided the careers of Saturday Night Live comedians and helped package a slew of TV and movie hits, has died. He was 77. Brillstein ...
Actor Matthew Rhys spoke of his pride at joining a Druidic order of bards. The Edge Of Love star was back home in Cardiff to be inducted at Wales's National Eisteddfod. Handed out to those deemed to have made a significant contribution to Welsh ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A legion of 2,008 drummers pounded out a hypnotic beat that rumbled like thunder, their red drumsticks glowing in a darkened Bird's Nest stadium. It was the perfect countdown to a spectacular Olympic opening ceremony on Friday ...
Almost a decade ago Kashmir-watchers were startled and disturbed by the newest peace balloon to be pushed afloat ? this time by a furniture magnate based in America. Farooq Kathwari, a Kashmiri-American, and the influential and controversial head ...
Jim Cramer is famous for saying, "There's always a bull market somewhere, and I will try to find it for you." Now Cramer says he's discovered the next bull market in the wake of the commodities collapse. Regular Cramer fans might have missed him in ...
It is a scene I can only imagine occurring in Japan. We are sitting in the private room of a high-class Tokyo restaurant. A woman in a kimono, her face a perfectly composed smile, is placing with the utmost delicacy an array of exquisite ceramics ...
Peggy Fleming, the 1968 Olympic gold medalist, rarely ice-skates any more. But she'll be watching the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which begins airing today on NBC, from her home in Los Gatos, while sipping her own 2005 Santa Cruz Mountains Syrah ...