A visit by George W. Bush to Switzerland later this month has been called off because the host charity says it feared leftist protests would get out of hand. Human rights groups, meanwhile, say the real reason is because they planned to lodge a criminal complaint against Bush accusing him…
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Most people got a chuckle over the 1994 video of Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel struggling to understand that new Internet thing, but not everybody’s laughing: NBC fired the employee who posted it, reports the All Things Digital blog . “The individual in question violated the company’s standards of conduct by…
Continue reading …Lindsay Lohan said last week she was worried about Charlie Sheen. Now it’s Charlie’s turn to worry about her: She’s going to face felony theft charges over the $2,500 necklace that went missing from a California jewelry store, reports TMZ . The charges are expected to come down Monday, and…
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Suspended Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were banned for at least five years after they were found guilty of corruption by an International Cricket Council (ICC) tribunal in Doha. Al Jazeera’s Rahul Path reports from the tribunal in the Qatari capital.
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Ahmed Shafiq, the Egyptian prime minister, has said that “stability” was returning to Egypt on Saturday, but tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square continue to demand that President Hosni Mubarak step down. In the latest reaction to the protests from the ruling party, its top leadership resigned en masse, including Gamal Mubarak, the son of the president. Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher has more.
Continue reading …Susan Arnout Smith is a writer of thrillers, plays, TV movies, and NPR essays. But for a long time, if you looked her up on Facebook, you would find not the respectable website of a published author, but an obscene, pornographic site of a fake persona “trolling for sex,” she…
Continue reading …The long legal road ahead for Jared Lee Loughner is beginning to take shape. Federal prosecutors will get the first crack at him, followed separately by the state and local cases, reports the Los Angeles Times . So far, the 22-year-old faces only three federal charges—for the attempted assassination of…
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