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Official 'furious' over Myanmar's food seizure
The United Nations' top World Food Program official says he is "furious" over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow the organization to distribute aid that was flown in for cyclone disaster victims. Future flights have been suspended.

'I was gonna blow myself away'
"We were a normal red-blooded American family," recalls Rudy Aguilar. "And ... it took [one day] to wipe us out."

Physics wonder boy to test Einstein's theories
Arkani-Hamed is only in his mid-30s, but he has already distinguished himself as one of the leading thinkers in the field of particle physics. His revolutionary ideas about the way the universe works will finally be put to the test at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider.

Turning 50 prompts 75-pound weight loss
Barbara Aldrich can hardly remember a time when she wasn't a little overweight.

Hezbollah takes control of western Beirut
Sectarian fighting rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day Friday, with small arms, machine-gun and rocket-propelled-grenade fire echoing through the streets.

 

 

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Quiet on the set in Wilmington, N.C.
Some people call Wilmington, North Carolina, "Hollywood East" because of all the movies and TV shows filmed here. In the last three decades, more than 400 feature films, documentaries and television series have been shot and edited around town, drawing notable actors from Andy Griffith to Richard Gere.

Major airlines boost fares
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Troubleshooter: Lost luggage in Las Vegas
On a nonstop flight to Las Vegas, Spirit Airlines loses Michael Germano's checked luggage. He files a missing luggage report and a lost luggage claim, but the airline is ignoring his requests for compensation. What's going on, and how can Germano get Spirit to respond?

Branson sticks to tried and true
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Plane flies across Atlantic with missing panel
An American Airlines plane flew from Dallas to Paris even though a "large panel" fell off the underside as the flight took off, the airline said in a memo to pilots.

 

Entertainment Entertainment

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Review: Insults, but no jackpot in 'Vegas'
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in "What Happens in Vegas."

'Speed Racer' rich in color, poor in spirit
"Speed Racer," the Wachowski Brothers' first film as writer-directors since "The Matrix Reloaded" five years ago, is a dizzying pop-art confection. But beneath the flash, there's no there there.

Cosmetics firm, Uma Thurman at odds
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This just in: 'Daily Show' viewers know news
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Photographer reviews our small, small world
Japanese photographer Naoki Honjo is known for his cute representations of familiar places, shot to look like miniature models of the real thing. He achieves this effect by using the tilt-shift technique, which creates a very narrow line of focus. As he writes in the afterword of his book "Small Planet" published in 2006: "Small changes in point of view can lead to big changes of consciousness. I think this is the role of photography."

 

 

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Sexson sparks bench-clearing incident
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WVU's Huggins taken to hospital following fall
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Pistons' Billups uncertain he can play in Game 4
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Papa John's apologizes with 23-cent LeBron pie
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Ben Fowkles: Kimbo Slice: Pro, scapegoat or hype job?
Kimbo Slice may be the worst thing to happen to mixed martial arts.