BELENE, Bulgaria (Reuters) - In the dense forests of the idyllic Danube island of Persin, home to the endangered sea eagle and the pygmy cormorant, lie the ghastly remains of a communist-era death camp.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets African leaders on Sunday, aiming to boost a relationship which politically goes back decades and is now economically booming -- to the discomfort of some in the West.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The lower house of Haiti's parliament confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as prime minister on Saturday, clearing the way for the economist and veteran politician to form a new government.

New York Daily News
Police report says wrong-way driver a pot smoker
The Associated Press
WHITE PLAINS, NY — New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. The report says Diane Schuler's husband told police ...
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'Disney's A Christmas Carol Sings To The Top Of The Saturday Box Office
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Welcome to the MTV Movies Blog, updated throughout the day with exclusive movie news, trailers, interviews and more. Our team of film experts joins with celebrity contributors - from Eli Roth to Judd Apatow - to ensure that when it comes to the hottest ...
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Taylor Lautner Plays Coy on Romance With Taylor Swift
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Taylor Lautner isn't too upset with all the rumors circulating that he and Taylor Swift are dating. "The very funny thing is that all of you have seen every single move I make, so I guess I can leave that up to you to decide," he said to reporters at ...
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' ousted president and de facto leader gave signs they would try again on Saturday to form a unity government to guide the country out of a four-month crisis after the process collapsed a day earlier.

BERLIN (Reuters) - As Germany prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new study shows that some 1.3 trillion euros ($1.9 trillion) have been transferred from the west to rebuild the east, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri will announce a new national unity government to include Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah in the next few days, politicians said on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan urged Myanmar Saturday to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before next year's election, adding it was ready to provide more aid if democratization in the country advanced.

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing American soldiers in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan accused the United Nations on Saturday of intervening in the formation of President Hamid Karzai's next cabinet, less than a week into his new term.

E! Online
Movie review: Ann Hornaday on 'The Box'
Washington Post
A TOUGH DECISION: James Marsden and Cameron Diaz. (Dale Robinette/warner Bros. Via Associated Press) By Ann Hornaday Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate ...
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Straits Times
Rihanna describes night of attack by Chris Brown
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Rihanna broke her silence on Friday about the night her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown attacked her, saying he had bitten her, put her in a headlock and left her bleeding and swollen. "It wasn't the same person that says 'I ...
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Daily Nation
Michael Jackson's father seeks allowance from singer's estate
Los Angeles Times
Joe Jackson, 81, says he has living expenses exceeding $20000 a month. His attorney says the family patriarch doesn't have a regular income and was dependent on his son's money. Joe Jackson says his monthly expenses include $5000 for hotels and air ...
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New York Times
'Spider-Man' Is Given a New Lead Producer
New York Times
A rock concert promoter with ties to the Rolling Stones and U2 said on Friday that he was taking over as the lead producer of the coming Broadway musical “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark,” and that the troubled multimillion-dollar show ...
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guardian.co.uk
Grant Heslov, George Clooney team up for 'The Men Who Stare at Goats.'
Los Angeles Times
By Rachel Abramowitz >>> It all started with an unlikely pairing of two unknowns. Back in the '80s, a couple of struggling actors named Grant Heslov and George Clooney were in Milton Katselas' famed acting class. Clooney asked Heslov, then a student at ...
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On November 6th in Barcelona, Spain, United Nations climate change negotiations were supposed to conclude final preparations for the long-awaited talks in Copenhagen this December. But, after the-five day session concluded, the world was not much closer to the fair, ambitious and legally-binding treaty needed from the Copenhagen talks.


Greenpeace activists hang a banner from Barcelona's Sagrada Família that reads "World leaders, make the climate call." © Greenpeace/Pedro Armestre

Seattle Post Intelligencer
Wanda Sykes Has a Show (or So They Tell Her)
New York Times
Wanda Sykes is the host of a Saturday late-night show on Fox. More Photos » The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. This week, a few days before her ...
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