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Over the past year, Saudi Arabia has arrested 44 al Qaeda suspects across the country, the Saudi interior ministry announced on Wednesday. The winner of eight Emmy and two Peabody awards, Hewitt began working for CBS News as an associate director in 1948. He was executive producer of “60 Minutes” when it premiered on CBS on September 24, 1968
Cheryl Morse was 19 years old when she hitchhiked more than 700 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to Bethel, New York.
Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch is recovering from surgery to treat a tumor and gearing up for radiation treatments, according to an e-mail he sent to his fans. Yauch recently sent the e-mail with the subject line “What I did over my summer vacation” after having revealed in July that he had a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland. “So I’m about a week and a half out of surgery now and rapidly recovering from it,” the e-mail said
The music isn’t new, but the discovery that a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "almost certainly" composed it is a stunning revelation.
The organist on the seminal 1960s song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has won a long-running legal battle for a share in the royalties for the tune. Matthew Fisher sued former Procol Harum bandmate Gary Brooker in the House of Lords, Britain’s highest court.
When the news broke that LeAnn Rimes and Dean Sheremet had separated — just four months after the singer was reportedly caught in an affair with actor Eddie Cibrian — it saddened many friends who had admired their marriage and what they did for each other over the past seven years. In Nashville, those who knew the couple recall how the pair never seemed to spend a moment apart. Says one friend, “[LeAnn and Dean] were pretty much inseparable here.” The pair were often spotted together at the gym, dining on the town with friends, dancing at nightclubs and even shopping for Rimes’s wardrobe
With rumors piling up about a forthcoming Apple tablet, it appears more and more likely that such a device will emerge soon.
If you’re Iranian, you probably know both and Akbar Ganji and Googoosh. You also know that 30 years ago they had as much in common as Rush Limbaugh and Madonna.
England international footballer Steven Gerrard was found not guilty of affray by a court in his home city on Friday.
English football star Steven Gerrard has admitted punching a man in a bar, but the Liverpool captain insisted in his court testimony that it was in self-defense. The 29-year-old is facing a charge of affray after an incident in the early hours of December 29, when he attacked businessman Marcus McGee following a dispute about the music that was being played. If found guilty, Gerrard faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a fine of $7,200.