The pop star has finally popped. Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rocker hubby Pete Wentz welcomed son Bronx Mowgli Wentz, their first child together, Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical...

    The fan petitions are still growing. The movie is still not coming out. Friday was supposed to be the day Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opened. Instead, over the summer, Warner...

    Say whaaaa? We leave Sawyer and Juliet alone on Lost Island for one minute (OK, three years, but who's counting?), and now they are holding hands? Crazytown! New...

    The guest shots just keep coming on 30 Rock. In the last few weeks, Oprah Winfrey played it cool and Jennifer Aniston played it crazy on the Tina Fey-Alec...

    NEW YORK -- DeShawn Sims scored 18 points and Manny Harris added 15 to help Michigan upset No. 4 UCLA 55-52 on Thursday night in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic.

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents entered a port on Friday in search of the pirate group behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world's biggest hijack, a local elder said.

    Saudi Prince said he would raise his stake, but investors sent the bank's stock down 26.4% on expected losses.

    Hundreds of thousands of people may lose savings to unstable financial institutions.

    The dwindling union thinks mass layoffs may convert more shops. Some sales technique.

    DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy and operators of a Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates could not confirm on Friday reports that the hijackers had demanded a $25 million ransom.

    Nothing ruins a good run quite like a ton of steel in your path.

    It's not easy being a preteen "wolf boy" — but scientists at Columbia University are confident they've finally found the silver bullet that can cure one.

    A restaurant industry spokeswoman says a new study linking obesity and fast-food ads is based on old information.

    Should you share your number? When it comes to professing your sexual history, some things are better left unsaid

    If a doctor over-shares, what happens to the doctor-patient bond?

    DOVER — For some people in the region, it's been an oasis for upscale dining and lodging.

    President George W. Bush will again visit Fort Campbell before the Thanksgiving holiday.

    WASHINGTON — Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out.

    NASHVILLE — Tennessee's jobless rate dipped slightly in October, but officials still worry that the state's unemployment trust fund could run out of money in the next two years.

    1. A man at a North Second Street reported to police that a man apparently was trying to scam him, as the suspect acted like the man had hit him with his pickup and attempted to get money from the man.

    The second spacewalk during a mission of the shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station proceeded without mishap.

    The solar wind appears to be ripping big chunks of air from the atmosphere of Mars. This could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet.

    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. The planet, called 'Fomalhaut b', orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years from Earth.

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    It is said that timing is everything and that certainly appears to be true for autumn infants. Children who are born four months before the height of cold and flu season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma than children born at any other time of year, according to new research.

    AFP - Argentina could win all five rubbers in this weekend's Davis Cup final, a confident home team captain Alberto Mancini said before their clash against Spain who will be without world number one Rafael Nadal.

    AFP - William Gallas faces a fight to hold onto the Arsenal captaincy after the France defender came under-fire for his shock blast at his young team-mates.

    AP - A Hong Kong teenager became the youngest player to ever make the cut at an European Tour event on Friday, breaking the record set by current world No. 2 Sergio Garcia.

    AFP - England manager Fabio Capello admitted on Friday that he has been stunned by the progress made by a team which was in utter disarray when he took over in February.

    For more than three decades, George Steinbrenner's imprints were all over the New York Yankees.

    Peter Glaskowsky describes his WTF reaction to many missing iPhone 3G features. WTF, of course, stands for "Where's That Feature"

    One analyst firm has slashed its 2009 forecast for PC shipments by nearly two-thirds because of the deteriorating economy.

    Verizon Wireless has suspended several employees who accessed account information for a flip-phone formerly used by President-elect Barack Obama, the company said in a statement Thursday.

    I've been using a T-Mobile G1 for about a month now, and while it's the best phone I've ever owned (yes, I bought it), I haven't yet found myself saying "I love this phone." I like it plenty, don't get me wrong, but like any device, it's got things about it that are frustrating and other things that are pretty cool.

    Ian Rogers, whose digital music company Topspin was behind the latest Byrne/Eno album, recently revealed some numbers showing that cutting out the middleman can put power back in the hands of the artist.

    U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech Thursday at the Federalist Society dinner at a Marriott hotel in Washington.

    AP - Astronauts at the international space station prepared to work on a urine-recycling contraption and re-fire the space shuttle's thrusters Friday, before enjoying a half-day off to reboost their own energy.

    AP - Lawmakers are poised to close a loophole that led to troubled teens being abandoned at Nebraska hospitals, but they aren't stopping there. Instead, they're vowing to make sure families can get help in a crisis.

    AP - As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still give.

    As the veterans’ health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation’s veterans.

    Billionaire Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is to separate from his wife, paving the way for what could be one of Britain's most expensive divorce settlements.

    A blast has killed at least eight mourners at the funeral of a Shiite cleric in northwest Pakistan who was gunned down hours earlier, police say.

    A suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a funeral procession in northwest Pakistan late Friday morning, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, police said.

    Asian and Pacific stocks turned mixed by midday Friday after tumbling in early trading, struggling for direction after Wall Street slumped on fears of a prolonged recession.

    More than 19,000 schoolchildren died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China has acknowledged for the first time. The quake left a total of almost 90,000 people dead or missing.