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Paul McCartney writes in support of Pussy Riot
Beatles frontman Paul McCartney has asked a Russian judge to release members of the Pussy Riot punk group from prison. In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group's supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an ...
Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital. The book "Inferno," which is being sold in the Philippines, includes a character who is visiting the city and taken aback by poverty, ...
IU film shows lessons learned from common bird
A documentary by Indiana University biologists about the scientific lessons that can be learned from a common backyard bird is now available online for classroom use. The film "Ordinary Extraordinary Junco: Remarkable Biology From a Backyard Bird" chronicles more than a century of research on one of the most common, ...
Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War. McGrath spent almost six years in North Vietnamese prisons, enduring torture and beatings ...
Debbie Reynolds: We all knew Liberace was gay
In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother Frances. The Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy-nominated Reynolds didn't need to do any homework for ...
Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage
A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a ...
Ocean not all that separates US, European fans
Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial slurs and throwing bananas at his team. Or a game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls halted because of unrelenting race-baiting from the crowd. It's almost unfathomable to a U.S. sports fan, ...
Police: Car bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan
A police officer says a car bomb in southwest Pakistan has killed 11 policemen and a civilian. Fayaz Sumbal says the Thursday morning bombing on the outskirts of Quetta city has also wounded about 23 people. He says a remote-controlled bomb in a car parked along a road targeted a ...
Photographer and forester Wayne Miller dies at 94
Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday. He was 94. Miller was also known for his ...
Obama honors Carole King at White House concert
President Barack Obama, saluting Carole King's five decades as an award-winning singer-songwriter, said Wednesday that music often is a place where people seek comfort and inspiration during trying times. Two days after much of Moore, Okla., was flattened by a powerful tornado that killed 24 people, Obama pledged anew that ...
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