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  • Review: Redgrave is raw, moving in Eisenberg play

    It's probably safe to say there aren't too many 29-year-old playwrights out there who could get Vanessa Redgrave to appear in their work. Let alone in only their second play.


  • ** FILE ** In this Feb. 16, 2012, file photo former boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho, front center, poses for photographers at his arrival to the Premio Lo Nuestro Music Awards in Miami. Police in Puerto Rico say Camacho has been shot and critically wounded Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

    Hector 'Macho' Camacho: Former boxer shot in Puerto Rico

    Hector "Macho" Camacho was clinging to life Wednesday after being shot in the face while in a car, with doctors and his family expected to decide whether to remove the former boxing champion from life support.


  • Former Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo is one of thousands gathered in Gapyeong, South Korea, for services for the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Milingo: Rev. Moon's legacy is in religious unity

    Unification Church founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon's work on behalf of harmony among the world's great faiths will be among his most lasting achievements, Emmanuel Milingo, the onetime Zambian Catholic archbishop defrocked for taking a wife in a ceremony presided over by Rev. Moon in 2001, said in an interview Thursday.


  • ** FILE * This April 24, 2012 photo shows NBC's Ann Curry at the TIME 100 gala at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. Curry made her first return to NBC's "Today" show on Thursday to introduce a filmed report on a still photographer at the London Olympics. She lost her job as Matt Lauer's co-anchor in June and was replaced by Savannah Guthrie. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

    Tuning in to TV: Curry returns to ‘Today’ for story from Olympics

    Ann Curry, replaced as one of the NBC's "Today" show hosts in June, made a return to the show's set in London.


  • Sesame Street casting Latino character

    So you grew up watching Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird, and now you want to be friends with Rosita, Luis and Maria.


  • **FILE** Rescue crews work at the scene of a May 2008 crane collapse on New York's Upper East Side. (Associated Press)

    Crane owner cleared in deadly 2008 collapse in NYC

    A construction crane owner was acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges Thursday in the May 2008 collapse of his 200-foot-tall rig that snapped apart and killed two workers, which fueled concerns about crane safety.


  • UK singer gets $951,000 in Murdoch hacking case

    Charlotte Church, who testified about being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a settlement from News International.


  • Rousseff draws women into politics

    Manuela D'Avila hopes she and women like her will change the face of government in Brazil, a country that has lagged behind its neighbors in female presence in politics despite the election of Dilma Rousseff as the nation's first female president.


  • Roving art show brings Picasso to Cuban masses

    A traveling exhibition of art donated by a U.S. philanthropist is giving Cubans outside the capital a rare chance to see works from masters such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol that would normally hang in world-class galleries instead of sleepy provincial cities.


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