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Rio: Birds of a Fabulous Feather
It’s a toga party at the Tiki Room. In the first minutes of Rio, the new animated feature from 20th Century Fox’s Blue Sky studio, the 3-D screen explodes in a riot of tropical plumage.
In Hanna, Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett Put a Feminine Twist on the Bourne Formula
Hanna, Joe Wright’s action thriller about a teenager trained from childhood to be an assassin, is the movie you’d most want to see projected on monitors the next time you’re 23 and getting drunk at a nightclub.
The Human-Rights Vacuum
Rebel troops stampeded an african Union base in Darfur, Sudan, last month, murdering 10 African peacekeepers.
Libya: How a No-Fly Zone Can Become a Red Hot Mess
Libya’s monthlong revolt became an international conflict on Saturday as U.S. and British warships fired 110 Tomahawk missiles at 20 military targets in the country, in the first foreign military action ostensibly designed to stop Muammar Gaddafi’s army from inflicting more damage on rebel strongholds and Libyan civilians
Patriots brush aside Buccaneers as NFL returns to Wembley
The New England Patriots extended Tampa Bay’s dismal run with a 35-7 victory at London’s Wembley Stadium as NFL action returned to Britain for the third successive year on Sunday night.
Maria Shriver breaks husband’s cell phone law, Web site says
A celebrity gossip Web site has caught Maria Shriver a third time apparently violating California’s law against using a cell phone while driving.
Twitter: Tweets Expose Trafigura and Carter-Ruck
Twitterers across the world colored their avatars green to show support for protesters who took to Iran’s streets after the country’s disputed elections earlier this year.
Bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan due back in U.S.
The flag-draped coffins of at least four U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S
U.S. closes embassy in South Africa after ‘possible threat’
The United States temporarily closed its government facilities in South Africa on Tuesday after a “possible threat” to its embassy, the U.S.