Reuters - Two American servicmen were wounded when
their vehicle was hit by a bomb blast while on patrol in a
restive eastern province of Afghanistan, the U.S. military said

Reuters - Actor Paul Giamatti is smack in
the middle of an Oscar race, has two movies at Sundance,
another coming out this summer and a new film production
company, but he considers himself o

AP - Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to win an Academy Award, was honored Wednesday with a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

Reuters - Medical examiners conducted an
autopsy on Wednesday on the body of actor Chris Penn, but said
they would be unable to determine how the 40-year-old brother
of Oscar winner Sean Penn di

Reuters - Sundance has always
been a huge showcase for women directors, so the fact that I
saw so many films by women in the first few days is no
surprise. What is refreshing, though, is th

AP - The last hostage in a bank standoff has been released and a suspect is in custody, police say.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - A car full of siblings headed home was crushed between a truck and a stopped school bus, killing the seven adopted children just two miles from where they lived.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - Antarctica has at least 145 small lakes buried under its ice and one large one called Vostok. Now scientists have found the second and third largest known bodies

AP - Most military reservists who left their civilian jobs to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan made more money there than in their regular jobs, according to a study that contradicts the notion th

AP - The cause of actor Chris Penn's death remained undetermined despite an autopsy performed Wednesday just hours before the premiere of his latest film at the Sundance Fi

AP - The number of women-owned businesses, many of them one-person enterprises, grew at twice the national rate for all private companies from 1997 to 2002, with the biggest increases in Nevada a

AP - For Kim Clijsters, it was one injury too many. For Amelie Mauresmo, it meant a long-awaited second chance at a Grand Slam title.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

Reuters - The Islamic militant group Hamas swept to
victory over the long-dominant Fatah faction on Thursday in the
Palestinian parliamentary election, a political earthquake that
could bu

Reuters - China opposes sanctions against Iran's
nuclear ambitions and urges countries to consider a Russian
compromise, a Chinese spokesman said on Thursday, as Tehran's
nucle

Reuters - Three women held hostage by
an armed robber at a bank in a rural central Californian town
ran out on Thursday, but their captor grabbed one and puller
her back, poli

Reuters - The Sundance Film
Festival is presenting one of its strongest lineups of gay and
lesbian films ever, with some 20 features and 10 shorts
featuring queer themes. And the Queer Loung