Record award for Florida woman who is suffering emphysema.
Publisher HarperCollins says Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book.
November 21, 2009, 8:55 am* French lawyer says Polanski will fight extradition
26 minutes agoLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal
physician told investigators he was not the first doctor to
give the pop star propofol, the powerful anesthetic that was
one of the drugs to cause his death, according to court papers
unsealed Friday.
VAIL, Colorado (AFP) - American skier Resi Stiegler is out for the Olympic season after breaking two bones in her left leg in a crash in giant slalom training, the US Ski Team said Friday.
November 21, 2009, 8:06 amLOS ANGELES, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A celebrity photographer
who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career
meltdown was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday after
clashing with an official trying to serve him a restraining
order.
Cuba's government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, a newspaper has reported.
November 21, 2009, 7:39 am
American exchange student Amanda Knox wept at the trial in which she is accused of murdering her British housemate in Perugia two years ago.
November 21, 2009, 7:37 amTIRANA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Albanian opposition Socialist Party supporters launched their latest protest Friday to demand the government either recount the vote in a controversial June 28 election or hold another.
November 21, 2009, 7:28 amWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.
November 21, 2009, 6:48 am(Adds statement from Cyrus family in paragraph 5)
November 21, 2009, 6:46 amLONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:42 am
LONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:40 amA US judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
November 21, 2009, 6:37 amBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries to forge a common stand on climate talks, officials said.
November 21, 2009, 6:31 amNEW YORK (AFP) - A charitable trust controlling US chocolate maker Hershey is backing a bid of 17 billion dollars for Britain's Cadbury, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:28 amGENEVA (AFP) - The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.
November 21, 2009, 6:22 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Friday it had sold out of its new electronic book reader, the "Nook," and the next shipments would not be available until after the holidays.
November 21, 2009, 6:12 amWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
November 21, 2009, 5:58 am
MIAMI (AFP) - A US federal judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
November 21, 2009, 5:58 amThe European Medicines Agency announced that five million people in the European Union have been vaccinated against swine flu.
November 21, 2009, 5:42 am
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