Washington, Dec 11 : American actor Robert Downey Jr. is said to have revealed his sexual fantasies in public.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:40:11 -0500

New York, Dec 11 : Nude Levi Johnston's charm did not draw the anticipated crowd to sign up for his much-hyped shoot for Playgirl.com, it has emerged.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:40:08 -0500

New York, Dec 11 : Ashley Samson, the woman who broke the news of Tiger Woods' reported romps with New York party girl Rachel Uchitel, has said that she might sue Uchitel for trashing her name.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:40:04 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 : A new American study has found a weakness in H1N1's method for dodging detection by the immune system.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:40:01 -0500

New York, Dec 11 : Tiger Woods was way into threesomes, and prostitutes marveled at his endurance, claims a Hollywood madam.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:40:03 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 : American singer Miley Cyrus' song 'The Climb', which is a single from her 'Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack', has been removed from the Grammy race.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:30:11 -0500

London, Dec.11 : North Korea has said that it understands the need to resume the stalled international talks on ending its nuclear programs, and that it agrees to work with the United States to narrow unspecified "remaining differences."...
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:30:04 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 : A British woman, who made a bizarre petition for rights to late Michael Jackson's estate, has had her case thrown out by a Los Angeles judge due to lack of evidence.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:13 -0500

Melbourne, Dec.11 : American tennis star Serena Williams has launched an extraordinary attack on officials and former players in a bitter aftermath to her record fine.onsidered by many to be fortunate to escape suspension for abusing a lineswoman at the US Open, Williams claims that the 175,000-dollar fine is excessive, and sexist.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:04 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 : Rap mogul and businessman Sean Combs wants to be U.S. President Barack Obama's son.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:40:10 -0500

New York, Dec.11 : The sex-related scandal involving golfing great Tiger Woods could have a crippling effect on the PGA tour, and according to some estimates, the loss could be in millions of dollars and pounds.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:40:03 -0500

New York, Dec. 11 : Five of the 'missing' young US Muslim men, who were apprehended in Pakistan's Sargodha on Wednesday, were on their way to the Taliban sanctuary being operated in the country's lawless tribal areas to receive training to fight American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials have said.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:00:05 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) An American socialite couple, who gatecrashed President Barack Obama's state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tried to pay their way out of a debt with a watch that has turned out to be fake.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:40:02 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) Ruling out a mediatory role in Kashmir, the United States has said that while it understood the importance of the issue to both India and Pakistan, it was ultimately between the two nations to resolve.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:40:02 -0500

SHELTON, CT--(Marketwire - December 11, 2009) - The American Journal For Nurse Practitioners has applied for business publication membership in BPA Worldwide. The magazine is published by NP Communica...
Market Wire Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:29:14 -0500

' capabilities to become any cell type has been identified by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Francisco. The discovery represents a further ste...
Medical News Today Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:29:04 -0500

Jurors return to a Miami courtroom Friday morning to continue deliberating the fate of Liberty City's Rev. Gaston Smith. After a three-day trial marked by bitter legal skirmishes, a tense, packed cour...
The Miami Herald Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:28:52 -0500

The Cedars-Sinai Center for Weight Loss has received re-accreditation as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence from the American College of Surgeons. This is a nationally-recognized acknowledgement...
Medical News Today Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:28:47 -0500

City of Industry, CA --(www.FinancialNewsUSA.com)-- 12/11/2009 - IPOs industry news provided by Financial News USA. DETROIT, Dec. 9 American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc., which is traded as AXL...
Financial News USA Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:30 -0500

Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, announced Friday she is filing for divorce months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an Argentine woman....
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:23 -0500

(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, file photo, Michael Barrett, who is accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, arrives to federal court in L...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:22 -0500

A crucial part of the nation's rapid-reponse plan - the ability to trace food through the supply chain during an illness outbreak or bioterrorism attack - is seriously flawed, an independent watchdog ...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:20 -0500

Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter are expected to ask a judge to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.A hearing in...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:19 -0500

(AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 4, 1967 Thomas P.F. Hoving attends a party in New York shortly after becoming director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During hi...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:18 -0500

The three were ordered to stand trial after a three-week preliminary hearing that detailed the multiple sedatives an opiates given to Smith toward the end of her life.Smith died of an accidental overd...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:23:16 -0500

(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2002 file photo, Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson, co-hosts of ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," are interviewed in their studio in New York's Times S...
Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:22:35 -0500

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOUTTE, La. -- A Louisiana woman is charged with getting back at her sleeping boyfriend after a fight by scalding him with a pot of boiling grits. Sheriff's deputies say 44-ye...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:14:22 -0500

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Here is the text of a statement released Friday by South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford on filing for divorce from Gov. Mark Sanford months after he publicly confessed an...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:14:22 -0500

Alfonso Frank Frazetta, 52, of Marshalls Creek, Pa., allegedly used a backhoe to break into a museum owned by his father, the renowned fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, in the Poconos Mountain region.
MSNBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:12:44 -0500

Corporate sneakiness. Government waste. Technology run amok. Outright scams. The Red Tape Chronicles is MSNBC.com's effort to unmask these 21st Century headaches and offer real solutions that save you...
MSNBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:12:41 -0500

The Chicago Board Options Exchange said Thursday that it plans to seek approval to change from a member-owned organization to a publicly traded stock company.In a letter to CBOE members, the exchange ...
Chicago Tribune Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:43 -0500

An FDA official holds a bag of tomatoes being tested for salmonella bacteria in this June 2008 file photo. A report by an independent watchdog agency says the government's ability to trace contaminate...
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:27 -0500

A new survey shows that few drivers check the safety of their tires. Susan Koeppen gave Harry Smith some tips on how to check a tire tread using a quarter and a penny.
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:25 -0500

Bob Schieffer spoke to Maggie Rodriguez about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, his defense of the Afghan war and falling approval ratings.
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:20 -0500

Inside Jaycee's Terror Tent A look inside the tent compound where the kidnapped woman spent 18 years. (CBS) The couple accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard will be back in court Friday. A...
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:15 -0500

Yale Killing: Bloody Sock, Pen Key to Case (AP) Last Updated 9:08 a.m. ET Police say they've found a missing Yale University lab technician who reportedly works at the building where a graduate stu...
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:11 -0500

Brutal Winter Storm Heads East (CBS/AP) This week's blast of wintry weather helped dot highways across the U.S. with traffic and frosty sub-zero wind chills had people covering up. And all along th...
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:09 -0500

(10/15/2009) The couple accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard will be back in court later Friday. And one topic that may come up is Nancy Garrido's apparent past drug use. Numerous so...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:33:55 -0500

KTVT-TV Local Coverage A federal grand jury has formally accused an Arlington couple of keeping a widowed, Nigerian mother of six in domestic servitude, or in essence holding her as their slave. Accor...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:33:52 -0500

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI is deeply disturbed by a child sex-abuse scandal in Ireland and will write a letter to Catholics there on the church's response, the Vatican said Friday.
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:33:51 -0500

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) ? The No. 2 of Guinea's military junta said Friday that the army has to change and a lack of discipline won't be tolerated.
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:33:49 -0500

The head of Virgin America Inc. said Friday that he expects the long-awaited approval of its new ownership structure by year-end, easing access to funds for new aircraft.
Morning Star Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:31:19 -0500

US retail sales jumped for the second month running in November, as demand picked up for petrol, electronics and appliances, offering hope that consumer spending could gather momentum as the economy r...
Financial Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:30:30 -0500

The Obama administration’s pay tsar plans to announce on Friday his next wave of rulings as bail-out recipients struggle to get out from under his thumb.Kenneth Feinberg has said these rulings will ...
Financial Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:30:29 -0500

A study finds that on average, Americans spend 56 hours per week sitting, Women's Health Magazine reported. According to the magazine, the "sitting disease is literally killing us." "Our bodies have e...
Fox News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:29:25 -0500

New York, Dec 11: Latin America and the Caribbean will bounce back faster than expected from the global financial crisis, with growth projected at over 4 per cent next year, a regional United Nations ...
New Kerala Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:52:45 -0500

Medicaid Services announced that New York's Medicaid program will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record (EHR) incentive progr...
Medical News Today Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:51:24 -0500

Editor's note: This report is part of an occasional series from the McClatchy Washington bureau on government regulation of the financial markets. WASHINGTON -- Although it's been overshadowed by othe...
Miami Herald Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:50:54 -0500

(AP Photo/Sargodha Police Department)In this five-combo photo released by Sargodha Police Department on Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, arrested American Muslims, from left, Waqir Hussain Khan, Ramys Zamzam, U...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:45:27 -0500

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is helped by an unidentified assistant, as he leaves the US District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. Flynt took the ...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:45:25 -0500

United Nations (CNN) -- The United States and other envoys at the United Nations slammed Iran on Thursday for transporting arms and ammunition to Syria, saying the clock is ticking for the Islamic rep...
CNN Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:38 -0500

Washington (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled her willingness Thursday to consider a health care bill that lacks a government-run public health insurance option.
CNN Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:37 -0500

An equipment problem delays launch aimed at scanning for hidden cosmic objects Mission is now scheduled to launch Monday morning Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission will circle Earth over the ...
CNN Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:37 -0500

George Stephanopoulos has been named anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America" He will fill in the gap left by Diane Sawyer, who will anchor "World News Tonight." Newly named news anc...
CNN Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:36 -0500

CNN Hero of the Year Efren Peñaflorida targeted by pickpocket at Manila airport Peñaflorida won award in November for starting "pushcart classroom" to poor children Peña...
CNN Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:35 -0500

CARMEL, Ind. - (Business Wire) Dormir, Inc. an integrated provider of sleep diagnostic services, sleep therapy, and equipment to patients and their physicians, announced today the acquisition of PACIF...
Earth Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:20:40 -0500

PHILADELPHIA - (Business Wire) Next summer, US Airways (NYSE:LCC) customers will have a new nonstop offering to Anchorage, Alaska from the airline’s hub and international gateway at Philadelphia...
Earth Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:20:37 -0500

Andre Crawford guilty 21 times: guilty of 11 murders, nine rapes and an attempted murder. Crawford now ranks among the area's most prolific serial killers since...
Chicago Tribune Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:19:59 -0500

Filmmaker Tyler Perry announced yesterday that his mother, 64, has died. "In Loving Memory. Willie Maxine Perry. February 12, 1945 to December 8, 2009," Tyler writes on his Web site (...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:10:10 -0500

CBS News Interactive: About Global Terrorism Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:50 -0500

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe's president says infighting is destroying the party that has kept him in power for nearly three decades.
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:48 -0500

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ? Romania's Constitutional Court ordered Friday a re-examination of ballots declared void in Sunday's presidential election amid allegations of "massive fraud."...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:47 -0500

(AP) Oil prices crawled up to near $71 a barrel Friday as a forecast of an increase in oil demand next year added to the effects of a weaker dollar.
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:46 -0500

BRUSSELS (AP) ? EU leaders agreed Friday to commit €2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) a year until 2012 to help poorer countries combat global warming, as they sought to rescue their image as climat...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:45 -0500

The millions of acres they burn every year has made their Southeast Asian nation the world's third-largest producer of greenhouse gases. And, environmentalists warn, the powerful forestry and agricult...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:44 -0500

Excerpts from President Obama's speech yesterday ac cepting the Nobel Peace Prize. PERHAPS the most pro found issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief...
New York Post Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:20:39 -0500

The pastor is charged with third-degree grand theft. The Metro Miami Action Plan Trust gave his organization a $25,000 county grant in 2005 to help revitalize Liberty City. Smith is the pastor at Libe...
Miami Herald Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:18:06 -0500

H1N1 virus, according to a new RAND Corporation study. As of the middle of November, about 32 percent of all U.S. adults and 37 percent of adults recommended to receive a flu vaccination had been i...
Medical News Today Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:17:38 -0500

Nancy Falchuk will never forget the phone call. She was in Boston, it was raining and the news was bad. Hadassah, the century-old Jewish charity she had been elected to lead a year earlier, had just l...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:12:39 -0500

(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)Pakistani children play in front of a house where police reportedly arrested five American Muslims in Sargodha, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. Five young American Muslims a...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:12:37 -0500

(AP Photo/Greene family via Norman Yatooma)In a photo provided by the Greene family via attorney Norman Yatooma, Tamara Greene is seen in an undated photo. On Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, Michigan Attorney ...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:12:36 -0500

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is helped by an unidentified assistant, as he leaves the US District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. Flynt took the ...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:12:34 -0500

(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, file photo, Michael Barrett, who is accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, arrives to federal court in L...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:12:33 -0500

The Seattle Times reports a 69-year-old West Seattle man led investigators to the pole. Police say he apparently had a crew with a crane help move the totem, but it's unclear if the crew knew the man ...
MSNBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:02:30 -0500

MIAMI - The Coast Guard found a missing cruise ship crewmember Friday morning who reportedly went overboard about five miles off the Fowey Rocks near Biscayne Bay, WSVN-Ch. 7 reports. According to...
Sun-Sentinel Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:50:05 -0500

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ? Just a few months ago, Sri Lanka's president and its army chief were strong allies, working closely together to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels and end the nation's 25-y...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:24:02 -0500

KABUL (AP) ? A spokesman says the top United Nations official in Afghanistan has asked the U.N. secretary-general to start looking for his replacement.
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:24:01 -0500

LONDON (AP) ? European markets followed Asian stocks higher Friday as a big improvement in China's exports pointed to rising global demand that could lift other trade-reliant economies. Meanwhi...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:24:00 -0500

KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) ? U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told American troops Friday in this oil-rich northern city that their mission in Iraq remains critical despite the nation's focus on Afgh...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:23:59 -0500

YASUF, West Bank (AP) ? Assailants vandalized a Palestinian mosque early Friday, burning prayer carpets and holy books, and leaving behind Hebrew graffiti indicating the rampage was the work of...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:23:58 -0500

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives today approved nearly $1.5 billion of assistance to Pakistan to be spent under the Kerry-Lugar legislation that asks Islamabad cease support to terrorist...
Times of India Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:23:44 -0500

BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist In a recent phone chat, music legend Barry Manilow shared a lot of thoughts about his long ''love affair'' with Chicago, the way he goes about writing ''the songs the...
Chicago Sun-Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:57:16 -0500

(AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)Pedestrians walk past a cordoned off section surrounding the Marriot Marquis hotel where a shooting took place in the hotel's passenger drop-off area, Thursday, Dec.10, 2009, ...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:07 -0500

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)Presiding Justice Dennis Perluss, far right, and Associate Justice Fred Woods listen to Chad Hummel, an attorney for Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, during a hearin...
The Examiner Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:03 -0500

Forget too big to fail. In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street companies are too big to punish. During the past three years, some of the nation's largest financial companies have been acc...
The Seattle Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:42:27 -0500

WASHINGTON — A couple that crashed a White House party turned over a watch to pay a landscaping debt, but a jeweler is saying it's a fake. Tareq Salahi last week gave up his Patek Phillipe watc...
The Seattle Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:42:19 -0500

In a photo provided by the Greene family via attorney Norman Yatooma, Tamara Greene is seen in an undated photo. On Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will give a deposition in ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:37:41 -0500

This undated photo provided by the Indiana Department of Correction shows Matthew Eric Wrinkles. Wrinkles, an Indiana death row inmate who refused to request clemency is scheduled to die by lethal inj...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:37:40 -0500

Teen parenthood often adds an extra hurdle for the offspring of Hispanic immigrants. Many are already struggling to get enough education to overcome their mostly Mexican and Central American parents' ...
MSNBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:36:23 -0500

The Obama administration plans to channel money from the government's massive financial bailout program to small businesses as part of an effort to limit the political and economic damage of high unem...
MSNBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:36:21 -0500

If you are a legal immigrant living in the United States, you might have to. As the debate over how to reform our current health care system moves forward, the issue of whether or not we should allow ...
New America Media Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:31:18 -0500

SARGODHA, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. FBI agents and their Pakistani colleagues interrogated on Friday five young American Muslims who wanted to go to Afghanistan to fight U.S.-led forces, Pakistani off...
Reuters Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:23:28 -0500

C HICAGO — It took a Cook County, Ill., judge seven minutes to finish reading aloud all of the jury’s verdicts, her voice ringing out in a courtroom as still as a crypt. When she finished...
Boston Herald Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:22:43 -0500

C HICAGO — It took a Cook County, Ill., judge seven minutes to finish reading aloud all of the jury’s verdicts, her voice ringing out in a courtroom as still as a crypt. When she finished...
Boston Herald Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:22:42 -0500

/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- In the face of the global economic downturn and ongoing market challenges, a majority of American companies continue to see revenue and profit growth and rank...
Earth Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:22:37 -0500

Gun Sales: Will The "Loophole" Close? (AP) Raymond Martinez was running a common scam on the throngs of holiday tourists in Times Square, pushing shoppers to buy his CDs, police said. But Martinez was...
CBS News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:21:30 -0500

NEW DELHI -- India plans to seek access and eventual extradition of a Chicago man arraigned by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, a top Indian official said Thursda...
Chicago Sun-Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:14:40 -0500

(AP) ? CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been convicted of killing 11 women in a string of attacks that terrorized a south side neighborhood in the 1990s. Jurors deliberated for about 10 hours over ...
New Jersey Online Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:12:49 -0500

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ? Grave robbers unearthed the remains of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and stole his body by night from a suburban graveyard, Cyprus police said Friday, a day...
WBZ4 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:58:56 -0500