News Archive for September 05 2007

Off the Charts: Fergie Moves On Up, 'High School Musical' Still Tops

Filed under: Off the ChartsPopEater Music Blog: The soundtrack to Disney's 'High School Musical 2' took the top spot on the charts for the third week in a row -- the first album since Rascal Flatts' 2006 effort, 'Me and My Gang,' to do so. The soundtrack sold another 200,000 copies, bringing its... Read more

Row over climate change TV

Cross posted from The Great Beyond The BBC, it seems, is damned if it does and damned if it don’t. Having abandoned plans for a day long global warming special “which would have involved viewers in a mass ‘switch-off’ to save energy” it has taken fire from all sides (BBC News). As its own reporting notes it has been accused of “cowardice” [...]

Jude Law arrested over photographer 'attack'

The actor Jude Law has been arrested after allegedly attacking a photographer outside his London home.

Security cited in foot and mouth outbreak

British officials says an outbreak of foot and mouth virus may have been spread accidentally by construction workers at a government lab. A report on last month's outbreak said there was a lapse in biosecurity at a laboratory in Surrey involving 120 build...

HBO Buys Rights to Second Life Documentary

HBO has acquired the rights to a short film that was shot entirely within virtual world Second Life. Entitled “My Second Life: The video diaries of Molotov Alta,” the film is about a man who disappeared from his home in California, but sent video messages from Second Life. It’s been reported that HBO paid six [...]

Ohio Rep. Gillmor found dead

Rep. Paul Gillmor, R-Ohio, died suddenly in Washington at age 68, his office reported Wednesday. When Gillmor did not show up at his office Wednesday morning, his staff went to his apartment to check on him and found him dead, an e-mail obtained by The Hi...

South Korea's first astronaut to fly in Russian Soyuz to International Space Station

GWACHEON, South Korea: South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old expert on artificial intelligence will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station next year.

Arguments end in Phil Spector's murder trial

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prosecutors did not present sufficient evidence to convict Phil Spector for the murder of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson, defense attorneys for the rock legend said on Friday.

Martina McBride and daughter Emma at Fashion Week

Country star Martina McBride, 41, and her middle daughter Emma Justine, 9, were spotted outside of The Tents in Bryant Park, New York City during opening day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Martina and her husband John are also parents to Delaney Katherine, 12, and Ava Rose Kathleen, 2. Photo by INF.

Pending home sales fell 12.2 percent in July

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell by a surprising 12.2 percent in July as credit tightened up amid troubles in the housing and subprime mortgage sectors, a real estate trade group said on Wednesday

Chinese hackers target British government

Chinese hackers have been attacking key British government computer networks, a media report said today, amid allegations the Pentagon and German ministries have also been hit.

'Spider-Man' Star Tobey Maguire Weds Jennifer Meyer In Hawaii

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer, with whom he has a baby girl, were married during a ceremony in Hawaii, his publicist confirmed Tuesday.[...] Read more!

Britney Spears Will Open This Year's MTV Video Music Awards In Las Vegas

NEW YORK (AP) - Britney Spears will be the opening act at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. The 25-year-old singer will perform ''Gimme More'' - the first single from her upcoming album - at Sunday's event in Las Vegas, MTV announced Thursday.[...] Read more!

Review: 'Shoot 'Em Up' trashy -- brilliantly so

In "Shoot 'Em Up," Clive Owen plays a man named Smith who never, ever stops firing his guns. He fires them two at a time, leaping across rooms -- blam! blam! blam! -- in glorious slow motion. He fires them in the middle of the sky, after plunging out of a plane without a parachute.

Ben Kingsley Joins Mike Myers' 'Love Guru'

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DHS Ditches Data Mining Program Over Privacy Woes

The Homeland Security Department has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards. Known as "ADVISE" and begun in 2003, the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program was developed for use by many DHS components.

Shaquille O'Neal files for divorce

NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is headed for divorce court after his five-year marriage to his wife, Shaunie. The veteran Miami Heat center filed for divorce Tuesday at Miami-Dade Circuit Court. I am really sort of devastated from the standpoint that actually...

Brad Pitt Says He Did All He Could To Ease Pain Of Split With Jennifer Aniston

Brad Pitt insists he couldn't have handled his split from ex-wife Jennifer Aniston any better, and that he did all he could to painlessly end their relationship before he started romancing Angelina Jolie. [...] Read more!