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Just when eBay thought it had figured out a way to unload a majority interest in Skype, along came the Scandinavian founders of the world’s biggest provider of Internet telephony to sink the $1.9 billion deal — and perhaps Skype itself.
While several high-profile actors and directors have rallied around Roman Polanski, not everyone in Hollywood believes he should be freed and forgiven. In the face of a petition signed by notables such as Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and John Landis calling for the immediate release of Polanski following his detainment in Switzerland, a backlash is building against such support
Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicated jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do turn up are sometimes hard to place.
Remember the kid growing up who threatened to take his ball home when he didn’t get picked for a team? Well, that’s Jon Gosselin.
New research suggests penicillin is becoming obsolete, and antibiotic resistance could lead to a “major health crisis” unless governments act to promote research into new drugs.
The unveiling Wednesday morning of the Senate’s long-awaited draft legislation to reduce U.S. carbon emissions and shift the country to a clean-energy economy signals that Washington is inching ever closer to addressing global warming.
A protester threw a shoe at the IMF director at the end of a question-and-answer session Thursday at a university in Istanbul.
Civilians, including women and children, were killed in an airstrike by coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Thursday.
John Travolta testified Wednesday that would-be extortionists threatened to go the media with stories implying “the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable somehow.” Travolta testified for the second time in a case against paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater.
You’d think Najibullah Zazi would stand out on the high, dry plains southeast of Denver, where the earth is as flat as a starched shirt and mere wrinkles count as topography. But if heartland suburbs were ever enclaves of uniformity, that day is long gone