Surprise box office tie for "Cowboys", "Smurfs"

Costumed ''Smurfs'' characters stand on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, after ringing the opening bell for the Exchange's session July 29, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mike Segar Costumed ''Smurfs'' characters stand on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, after ringing the opening bell for the Exchange's session July 29,...

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Peter Bromhead: Anthropogenic global warming issues

On yet another dreary commuting foray to North America, I had the opportunity to converse at length with an eminent climate scientist over anthropogenic global warming issues. My flight companion was part of an international climate change panel, and was homeward bound to New York after consultations with the Australian Government. Obviously, it was pointless for a bewildered old cartoonist to try to verbally outrun somebody professionally clued up on his subject - even when my companion's viewpoint appeared disturbingly contaminated...

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Strong quake jolts northeast Japan, no tsunami

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 jolted northeast Japan on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, at 3:54am local time Saturday, was also felt in Tokyo. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and no tsunami warning was issued. The focus of the quake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture. There were no abnormalities...

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Plane Crash in Guyana: Jet Splits in Two on Landing

   The broken fuselage of a Caribbean Airlines' Boeing 737-800 is seen after it crashed at the end of the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Timehri, Guyana, Saturday July 30, 2011.    Caribbean Airlines flight 523 traveling from New York split in two as it crash-landed in...

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Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak forced out of U.S. Navy

In this Aug. 24, 2007 file photo, Lisa Nowak makes a brief statement to the media outside the courtroom after a hearing at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, Fla. Nowak, banished from NASA after she attacked a romantic rival, will retire from the Navy with an "other than honorable" discharge and her pay grade will be knocked down one rank, Assistant Secretary...

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Emma Stone: I'm an enormous 'Spider-Man' fan

Emma Stone poses for a portrait at Comic Con in San Diego, Calif. on Friday, July 22, 2011. Emma Stone poses for a portrait at Comic Con in San Diego, Calif. on Friday, July 22, 2011. ...

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Archaeopteryx may not have been a bird, but just a feathery dinosaur

Archaeopteryx: The creature long believed to be the earliest known bird may not have been a bird at all, suggests a new Chinese fossil find. This artist's rendition released by Nature shows what scientists at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing are dubbing 'Xiaotingia zhengi.' The discovery of its fossilized remains helped scientists propose an evolutionary...

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Obama’s approval numbers hit all-time low

 President Barack Obama gestures while speaking about his plan for America's energy security, Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at Georgetown University in Washington. ...

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Dark winters 'led to bigger human brains'

Humans living at high latitude have bigger eyes and bigger brains to cope with poor light during long winters and cloudy days, UK scientists have said. The Oxford University team said bigger brains did not make people smarter. Larger vision processing areas fill the extra capacity, they write in the Royal Society's Biology Letters journal. The scientists measured the eye sockets and brain volumes of 55 skulls from 12 populations across the world, and plotted the results against latitude. Lead author Eiluned Pearce told "We found a positive...

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Peace talks pick up pace as India, Pak skirt blocks

: India and Pakistan on Wednesday pressed ahead with their peace engagement, steering  around contentious issues -- particularly Jammu and Kashmir and terrorism -- that bedevil their ties. Erasing the scars of last July, when their foreign ministers clashed in full public view in Islamabad, India and Pakistan on Wednesday managed the rare feat of speaking in...

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Emma Stone in talks for gangster film?

watch now You’d think Emma Stone would be preoccupied, what with appearing in and promoting three summer blockbusters, but the bottle ginger is looking ahead.Stone is in talks to play the female lead in the 1940s crime drama “Gangster Squad,”  The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow film is set to star Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling, who she appeared alongside...

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Alexander McQueen Leaves $82,000 Each to His Dogs

Alexander McQueen, the high-fashion designer who died last year at the age of 40, has made an unusual provision in his will. McQueen hanged himself a day before the funeral of his mother, and his body was found by one of his two housekeepers. The designer had taken a cocktail of sedatives and cocaine. One of his two housekeepers found his body, and each was bequeathed £50,000...

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India maharaja's tiger hunting Rolls may fetch $1 million

Auction house Bonhams will put under the hammer a rare Rolls Royce Phantom modified for tiger hunting by an Indian maharaja during the days of the British...

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Dollar falls, gold rises with no US debt progress

Asian stocks and the US dollar fell on Wednesday while gold hit a record high at more than $1,623 an ounce, as a drip feed of news out of Washington indicated politicians were making little progress on a plan to lift the US debt ceiling. The Australian dollar jumped to a post-float high above $1.1050 after second quarter inflation figures were higher than forecast, squeezing investors who had recently increased bets that the Australian central bank would cut rates this year. The Australian dollar and other Asia-Pacific currencies have...

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2,000-year-old Bell Rings Again In Jerusalem

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At least 100,000 join Oslo march in grief and unity

  At least 100,000 people...

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Gay Marriage Opponents Rally In New York

Thousands marched in the 'Let the People Vote' rally in Manhattan on July 24, 2011 to protest of New York's gay marriage law and demand that state lawmakers put the issue before voters through a statewide referendum. Thousands of opponents of gay marriage took to the streets in loud and sometimes tense protests Sunday, the first day that legal same-sex...

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Europol plans task force for Norway

In the wake of Norway's terrorist attack, the European police agency is setting up a task force of more than 50 experts to help northern European countries investigate non-Islamic terror threats, its spokesman told The Associated Press yesterday. Soeren Pedersen said the group, which is based in The Hague, hopes to help Norway and nearby countries in their investigations in the coming weeks. He said Norway has not requested forensic experts but that Europol could provide them if needed. "There is no doubt that the threat from Islamist terrorism...

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New dispute threatens US debt limit negotiations

  New disagreement erupted late on Saturday between congressional Democrats and Republicans over the timetable for increasing...

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Amy Winehouse Lost Her Battle with Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment today. The death is listed as unexplained. In the end, Winehouse was better known for her brushes with the law and drug addiction than she was for her talent, and she was talented. She had a wonderful voice and a great musical style. Winehouse had the ability to bring soul music back to the mainstream, and for awhile, she did. "Back to Black" was a massive hit. The album won the singer five Grammies and propelled her into stardom. Her success as a singer was short lived. Within a matter of a few months,...

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Boehner pulls out of White House debt talks

ruHouse Speaker John Boehner abruptly broke off talks with President Barack Obama Friday night on a deal to make major cuts in federal spending and avert a threatened government default, sending already uncertain compromise efforts into instant crisis.  Within minutes, an obviously peeved Obama virtually ordered congressional leaders to the White House Saturday morning for fresh negotiations on raising the nation's debt limit. "We've got to get it done. It is not an option not to do it," he declared. For the first time since talks...

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Teenagers swam for their lives in Norway carnage

Norwegian teenagers at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a policeman began spraying them with gunfire. Police said at least 10 of the youngsters, attending a camp run by the governing Labour Party, were killed in Friday's attack, shortly after a blast in the capital Oslo killed...

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