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MIAMI (AP) -- The Miami Dolphins treat stadium names like quarterbacks, changing them often. Beginning this week, the team's home is Sun Life Stadium.

A biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, the French singer best known abroad for his raunchy 1969 classic "Je t'aime, moi non plus," hits cinemas across Europe this week but its release is overshadowed by the suicide of the British actress who played his muse.

&$ &$Ronald Mulder from the Netherlands reacts after his 500 metres race at the World Cup Speed Skating competition in Heerenveen November 13, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) &$&$ Dutch speedskating team added Ronald Mulder on Monday to the attending list of the 500 meters race for next month's Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Mulder, who was placed fourth overall at the World Sprint Speedskating Championships in ...

associate editor of the Spectator Toby Young once summed up the perplexing conundrum of Ben Elton: "He started out as an alternative comedian, railing against Thatcherism and the like, and now earns a fortune writing librettos for truly awful West End musicals. He's the biggest sell-out of his generation."

TORONTO (AP) -- Chris Bosh had 23 points and 13 rebounds, Andrea Bargnani scored 22 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Dallas Mavericks 110-88 on Sunday.

The World Bank said Wednesday it will provide an additional 100 million U.S. dollars in emergency grant funding to support recovery and reconstruction in Haiti in response to a magnitude-7.0 earthquake that caused extensive damage and casualties in the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. "This is a shocking event and it is crucial that the international community supports the Haitian people at this critical time," a World Bank press release quoted bank group President Robert B. Zoellick as sayi ...

Reuters - Cyber attacks on Google Inc's China operations could scare businesses and consumers into spending more on protection, benefiting security companies like McAfee Inc, Symantec Corp and Trend Micro.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A focused search of the entire human genome has found a genetic variant associated with the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, in a discovery that marks an important first step toward singling out cancers that need intensive treatment from those that can simply be left alone.

AP - The Food and Drug Administration is launching a new Web site explaining its operations to consumers as part of a broader effort to rebrand itself as a more accessible agency.

Reuters - Former St Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire has admitted using steroids when he was a player, including 1998 when he broke the single-season home-run record.

The family of the late Philip K. Dick, the author of the book on which the film Blade Runner was based, say they are to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights. The search giant's new mobile phone, the Nexus One, has a similar name to a group of rogue androids from the film called "replicants" that are identified through the model designation Nexus-6. The phone's operating system is called Android. Isa Dick Hackett, Dick's daughter, claims the names are lifted ...

A cold snap, coupled with heavy snowfalls, has interrupted traffic flows on roads, rails and in air while forcing up power consumption to a record high in France. Meteo-France, the French national meteorological service, has decided to maintain till Sunday in most of the country's 26 administrative regions its orange alert against the ongoing cold spell. France uses a weather alert system of green, yellow, orange and red to indicate alerts ranging from caution to warning. ...

A film and cartoon will start shooting basing upon King Gesar, the most famous heroic epic of Tibetan people. Jampel Gyatso, an expert for doing researching on Gesar shoulders the general planner as well as the general playwright and Tang Min as the chief producer. Supported by Tibet Party Publicizing Department, Qinghai Provincial Publicizing Department and China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture, the scenario will be based upon the most authoritative book ab ...

What works brilliantly in morbidly hilarious cartoons is a tougher trick to translate to live theater, as the producers of “The Addams Family” have learned.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

ESPN is looking to ride one of the next big waves in consumer electronics with a new 3-D sports channel.

&$ &$Holding bronze bells in their hands, male dancers perform stunts during the Repa dance. (Photo Source: 51tibettour.com) &$&$ Tibet's Repa dance, known as the oriental Gypsy dance, was considered a way of making a living for those street performers in the past. The dance, originating from Dengqen County, eastern Tibet's Qamdo Prefecture, was designated as a member of the first group of national intangibl ...

Yitong Solar Energy Industrial Base, the largest solar energy photo-thermal base in China's southwestern region was completed and put into operation in Kunming recently. The solar energy photo-thermal base is located at the industrial park in the Guangdu District of Kunming. The first phase project of the base covers an area of 60 mu, its investment is 90 million yuan and its annual output is 500,000 solar energy collectors, ranking first in the 5 southwestern provinces. It is planned that th ...

The former banker had asked for the delay, saying he was ready to further cooperate with authorities in their pursuit of tax cheats.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks on Monday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on ways to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and Palestinian reconciliation, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported. The two leaders met at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and discussed Egypt's efforts to halt settlement activities and lift the blockade on the Palestinian people, the report said. They also discussed Egypt's efforts with the U.S. administration to push forwa ...