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Bloomberg to buy BusinessWeek from McGraw-Hill
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bloomberg LP will buy BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill Companies as the news and data provider seeks to reach a wider audience than its traditional clients in financial services.
October 14, 2009, 12:00 pm -
Hang up, Schwarzenegger tells his wife
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling out his wife for apparently violating a state law he signed - holding her mobile phone while driving.
October 14, 2009, 11:24 am -
First Birgit Nilsson opera prize goes to Placido Domingo
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo on Tuesday received the first Birgit Nilsson prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, and said it was like winning the "Nobel prize of music."
October 14, 2009, 10:40 am -
Balibo tops Screen Music nominations
The haunting music composed for feature films Australia and Balibo lead the nominations for the 2009 Screen Music Awards.
October 14, 2009, 10:24 am -
Bloomberg LP to buy BusinessWeek magazine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bloomberg LP, the financial news and data provider, said on Tuesday it has reached an agreement to purchase BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill Companies for an undisclosed sum.
October 14, 2009, 8:34 am -
Cuba stops blogger traveling to NYC to accept prize
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cuba will not allow dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez to travel to the United States to receive a journalism prize, Columbia University said on Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 8:02 am -
Bruni undergoing psychoanalysis
Carla Bruni, the supermodel wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has told a new documentary she is in psychoanalysis.
October 14, 2009, 6:48 am -
Jackson scores 5 American Music Award nominations
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson picked up five American Music Awards on Tuesday, almost four months after his sudden death turned him into the biggest-selling artist of the year, organizers said on Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 6:40 am -
Pepsi apologizes for girl-getting iPhone app
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US soft drink giant PepsiCo has apologized for a free iPhone application crafted to help men seduce women and keep records of conquests but the program remained available on Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 6:39 am -
Brinkley and ex-husband reach settlement
Model Christie Brinkley and her former husband have settled their post-divorce spat before a New York judge.
October 14, 2009, 6:33 am -
Hirst paintings on show in London
One of London's most traditional art galleries is staging an exhibition of works by the enfant terrible of British art, Damien Hirst.
October 14, 2009, 6:32 am -
Jackson scores five American Music Award nominations
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson picked up five American Music Awards on Tuesday, almost four months after his sudden death turned him into the biggest-selling artist of the year, organizers said on Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 6:12 am -
Swift, Jackson lead American Music Award nominees
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country ingenue Taylor Swift and dead pop star Michael Jackson led the contenders for the 37th annual American Music Awards, and will both vie for the artist of the year prize, organizers said on Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 4:46 am -
Hirst tackles painting with nod to Bacon, Richter
LONDON (Reuters) - Artist Damien Hirst has made a reputation, and sizeable fortune, from suspending animals in formaldehyde and filling medicine cabinets with pills.
October 14, 2009, 4:34 am -
Heidi Klum gives birth to baby girl
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Project Runway" star Heidi Klum has given birth to her fourth child, a baby girl, her representatives said on Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 3:33 am -
Frankfurt Book Fair welcomes China, dissident voices
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The Frankfurt Book Fair's 61st edition opens Tuesday with the welcome mat laid out for guest of honour China, but it was clear the hosts saw freedom of expression more as an opportunity than a threat.
October 14, 2009, 3:13 am -
What no sharks? Hirst paintings on show in London
LONDON (AFP) - One of London's most traditional art galleries is staging an exhibition of works by the enfant terrible of British art, Damien Hirst, from Wednesday.
October 14, 2009, 3:04 am -
Fluid on the lungs killed Boyzone's Gately
MAJORCA, Spain (Reuters) - A post mortem on Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, on the Spanish island of Majorca revealed Tuesday that he died of natural causes due to fluid on the lungs, a court official said Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 3:02 am -
Fluid on the lungs killed Boyzone singer
MAJORCA, Spain (Reuters) - A post mortem on Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, on the Spanish island of Majorca revealed Tuesday that he died of natural causes due to fluid on the lungs, a court official said Tuesday.
October 14, 2009, 3:00 am -
A big hunk o' hair -- Elvis locks go under the hammer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Elvis Presley fans keen to own a chunk of their idol now can: locks of what is claimed to be The King's hair are up for auction next week.
October 14, 2009, 2:33 am
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