Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese continue to lure movie-goers to “Shutter Island,” while James Cameron’s “Avatar” has surpassed $700 million domestically. The Paramount Pictures psychological thriller remained the No. 1 film for a second straight weekend with $22.2 million, raising its 10-day total to $75.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Shutter Island” stars DiCaprio [...]
Andrew Koenig, Dana Plato, Gary Coleman, MacKenzie Phillips: Worried family and friends help police search for Andrew Koenig. Growing pains, indeed. Maybe it was the heavy metal, maybe it was the designer drugs, maybe it was the questionable fashion — for a host of reasons, many of the actors and actresses who grew up on [...]
In late February, when the earth is cold and firm, the sun enters Pisces. The last sign of the zodiac, Pisces marks the end of the astrological year. Now is the final stage of winter, a time for tying up loose ends and preparing for the coming spring. The days are continuing to grow longer [...]
Passengers are frustrated after tour operator Go Travel announced that it won’t be following through on its plan to operate direct flights from St. John’s to London, England later this year. St. John’s university student Sarah Stoodley purchased a ticket for a Go Travel flight to the U.K. (CBC)Sarah Stoodley, a university student in St. [...]
Guest Author – Katy Cacolice When young girls and boys were discovered by film studios, they were quickly rushed through the glamour system and worked tirelessly to be a triple threat. Some of the young ladies, who stole millions of movie goer’s hearts, had a tough time making the transition from America’s Sweetheart to a [...]
MADRID, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Spanish producer prices rose 0.9 percent in January compared to a year earlier, the second straight annual rise after a year of sliding prices, the National Statistics Institute said on Thursday. January’s figure compared to a price rise of 0.4 percent in December. Producer prices hit a record low in [...]
Last week, the Fed raised the discount rate by 25 basis points, to .75%. Investors have consistently focused the brunt of their collective monetary attention on the Federal Funds Rate, and the markets (forex included) barely registered a response to the move. Regardless of whether apathy in this particular context was justified, investors who turn [...]
The Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York has seen a 68 per cent increase in passenger traffic over the last year, with 80 per cent of those passengers coming from the Montreal area. Airport officials at what they call “Montreal’s American airport” said the jump in traffic is due to the low airfare deals [...]
In Buddhism, ‘sutra’ (Sanskrit) or ‘sutta’ (Pali) refers to canonical scriptures that are believed to be based on actual oral teachings of the Buddha. Although none of them were written down during his lifetime, tradition teaches that his senior disciples memorized his major teachings, and recited all of them soon after his death. Initially, these [...]
Prudential is in talks about a takeover that would be one of the biggest-ever foreign acquisitions made by a British company, Sky News has learned. The Pru would finance a deal by placing up to 15bn of new shares with investors The insurer is proposing to buy AIA, one of Asia’s biggest insurance groups, which [...]
View Larger Map European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company’s legal worries in Europe. Google should shorten the time it keeps the original photos from one year to six months, regulators also [...]
A New York federal judge has denied bail to the son of actor Michael Douglas in a drug dealing case. The 31-year-old Cameron Douglas pleaded guilty in January to dealing large quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine while holed up in a trendy Manhattan hotel. Douglas was arrested last July at the Hotel Gansevoort in downtown [...]
SAN ANTONIO – A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that’s in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds. We already know that diets [...]
The Euro halted the two-day decline against the greenback, with the exchange rate rising to a high of 1.3568 during the overnight trade, and the major currencies could face increased volatility going into the North American trade as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee on [...]
LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Outsourcing group Capita said it was an enjoying an increasingly active market and that it expected a very good year with Britain’s forthcoming general election likely to provide an additional boost. ‘We’re not complacent about 2010 and beyond but we are quietly confident it will be a very good year,’ [...]
The Better Business Bureau is investigating an Edmonton woman’s complaint she lost $1,300 after she was hired to pose as a mystery shopper. “It’s a horrible feeling to be scammed,” Lindsey LaFrance said. “My first reaction was I was really angry.” Last week, LaFrance replied to the ad from Regent Research after her husband saw [...]
Hundreds of thousands of Olympic revellers are flocking to Vancouver’s downtown, especially Robson Street, seen here, prompting officials to order private liquor stores to close early. (CBC) Vancouver police are ordering downtown liquor stores to close early on Friday evening in anticipation of the large crowds expected to watch Canada’s men take on Slovakia in [...]
Getting off the sugar roller coaster is not just beneficial for your waistline. Without the stress of a sugar surge which is always accompanied by a fatiguing crash, you will experience greater inner peace and stability; also there will be a big boost to your immune system. But how do you quell the powerful cravings? [...]
After just seven years of getting people ‘moving to the music,’ Apple’s iTunes celebrated a milestone Thursday with their 10 billionth download. In the lead up to the occasion, Apple announced they would give $10,000 in free music to the lucky downloader — but the song wasn’t Lady Gaga or the Black-eyed Peas. It was [...]
A Florida woman has sued rapper 50 Cent in New York City, claiming he unlawfully distributed her homemade sex video over the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator. Lastonia Leviston filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan claiming unauthorized use of her name or image and emotional distress caused by the [...]