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The James Bond adventure "Skyfall" and the fantasy series "Game of Thrones" have picked up prizes for best stunt work from the Screen Actors Guild.
It's a virtual law, maybe even a commandment, of all literature classes: Write what you know. Don't forget to write what you know. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes agrees _ up to a point.

Comedian Katt Williams has been arrested in Northern California on a felony warrant related to a police chase.

Entering this season, the Redskins' offensive line wasn't known for performing in beautiful harmony with precise choreography like "The Five Heartbeats."

Given all of the setbacks Serena Williams shrugged aside over the years — on tennis courts and, more daunting, away from them — she probably shouldn't have been worried when she stood two points from losing the U.S. Open final.
Closing arguments are set in the trial of a suspended Oklahoma State basketball player charged with sexually assaulting two women at a house party.

Pealing church bells, artillery salutes and crowds cheering, "God save the queen!" greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday on the last of four days of diamond jubilee celebrations honoring her 60 years on the throne.
Pealing church bells, artillery salutes and crowds cheering "God save the queen!" greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, the last of four days of Diamond Jubilee celebrations honoring her 60 years on the throne.
Police say a TV weatherman in Tennessee was wounded by a bolt from a crossbow during a break-in at his home by a man he once lived with who has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.

Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.
The executive who was appointed to lead mortgage giant Fannie Mae in 2009 after the federal government seized the company plans to step down as its CEO.
The Presidents Cup wasted no time delivering the match everyone was talking about _ Tiger Woods against ex-caddie Steve Williams in the opening session at Royal Melbourne.
Golf's two top tour executives condemned caddie Steve Williams' racial slur about Tiger Woods on Sunday, yet stopped short of taking any action.

Anglican bishops are receiving death threats, and one worshipper who refused to follow an excommunicated leader was killed, according to a document viewed by the Associated Press that the worldwide head of the Anglican church gave to the country's longtime ruler.
"We are marking six decades of living proof that public service is possible and that it is a place where happiness can be found," Archbishop Williams told the royals and dignitaries filling the vast landmark church designed by Christopher Wren in the 17th century.