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Britney Spears: Looking for a Husband?

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Britney Spears hasn’t given up on love. The former Mrs. Kevin Federline says she’d like another walk down the aisle.
“In five years I would like to be married and have a father figure for my kids, someone who is a provider and can be really stable,” Spears says in [...]

Officials: Obama set to introduce Clinton Monday

By BETH FOUHY |  Associated Press Writer
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) – A deal with Bill Clinton over his post-White House work helped clear the way for Hillary Rodham Clinton to join President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team as secretary of state, reshaping a once-bitter rivalry into a high-profile strategic and diplomatic union.
Obama was to be [...]

‘Christmas Story’ fans celebrate film’s 25th year

CLEVELAND (AP) – Fans of the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” are celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.
The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard’s memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in Indiana but largely filmed in Ohio. The movie [...]

Whitney Houston denies reunion with Bobby Brown

NEW YORK (AP) – Whitney Houston has issued a statement denying rumors of a reunion with Bobby Brown.
Acting on behalf of Houston, the singer’s publicist Nancy Seltzer calls speculation that the exes are getting back together “a complete fabrication.”
Seltzer pinpoints the rumors to a report in Wednesday’s Chicago Sun-Times that said Houston and Brown had [...]

PR actress Roselyn Sanchez marries Eric Winter

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Puerto Rican actress Roselyn Sanchez has gotten married at a historic San Juan fort in front of 250 guests that included Eva Longoria Parker.
Sanchez and actor Eric Winter arrived Saturday at the San Cristobal fort in a white Mercedes Benz. Guests also included actor Amaury Nolasco and Gov. Anibal [...]

Mumbai cop, left for dead, rides with gunmen

By RAJANISH KAKADE | Associated Press Writer
MUMBAI, India (AP) – The militants waited in the shadows for the police van to pass, and when it slowed down in the narrow road, they sprayed it with gunfire.
The gunmen opened the doors and dumped five slumped officers’ bodies into the streets, then piled into the van to [...]

Slovakia, EU’s Detroit, maneuvers around meltdown

By WILLIAM J. KOLE | Associated Press Writer
ZILINA, Slovakia (AP) – Every 60 seconds, to a robotic burst of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, a new Kia sedan or SUV emerges from beneath a cascade of sparks at the South Korean carmaker’s gleaming assembly plant in this northwestern town.
Ex-communist Slovakia is fast becoming Europe’s Detroit: a [...]

Officials: Obama set to introduce Clinton Monday

By BETH FOUHY |  Associated Press Writer
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) – A deal with Bill Clinton over his post-White House work helped clear the way for Hillary Rodham Clinton to join President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team as secretary of state, reshaping a once-bitter rivalry into a high-profile strategic and diplomatic union.
Obama was to be [...]

Chinese leader says China losing competitive edge

BEIJING (AP) – Chinese President Hu Jintao warned that China has started to lose its competitive edge in trade amid the global financial crisis as he told Communist Party leaders the challenge posed a test to the government’s ability to rule.
China’s economic growth is expected to fall to about 9 percent this year, down from [...]

India security chief resigns after Mumbai attacks

PAUL PEACHEY | Associated Press Writer
MUMBAI, India (AP) – With corpses still being pulled from a once-besieged hotel, India’s top security official resigned Sunday as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following terror attacks that killed 174 people.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who has become highly unpopular during a long series of terror [...]