Reuters: Hollywood showed some love for its history at the Oscars on Sunday, giving its best film award and four others to silent movie “The Artist” in a ceremony that recalled why cinema is special to so many people. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also gave Oscars to Meryl Streep playing former ...

Sydney Morning Herald: This summer’s tri-series will be played amid a backdrop of a pay dispute which sees Sri Lanka’s players owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country’s governing body. As Mahela Jayawardene’s team battle the world’s top two ODI sides on the field during this ...

Sydney Sixers coach Trevor Bayliss has expressed sympathy for Geoff Marsh who is expected to be dumped as Sri Lankan coach this week. Sri Lankan stalwart Tillakaratne Dilshan has already quit as captain in all three formats, replaced by ex-skipper Mahela Jayawardene for the upcoming limited-overs series involving Australia and India starting on February 5. ...

Actor Rob Lowe will sport a graying mustache when he plays Drew Peterson in a made-for-TV movie airing across America on basic cable this weekend, but the real Drew Peterson has his work cut out for him if he wants to smirk along with the performance.

Suspects arrested as they allegedly plotted to rob drug cartel members in BerwynThe plot was like something out of a TV crime drama — a small gang called the Belizean Bloods would allegedly rob more than 100 pounds of cocaine stashed in a Berwyn garage by Mexican drug cartel members.

Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday, was a singular figure in American business history. He will go in the pantheon of great American entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators, alongside John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Sam Walton. Jobs didn’t invent computer technology, or the cell phone, or the notion of digitising music. But he invented methods, ...

By an Independent Analyst The State Assembly of Tamil Nadu (TN) passed a resolution on 8 June 2011, requesting the Indian Central Government to push the international community against Sri Lanka towards imposition of ‘economic sanctions’.  The resolution at the TN assembly moved by Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister passed unanimously with the ruling party ...

Fairfield County deputies say eight gang members waiting in a parking lot to ambush a drug dealer decided to follow the owner of the store home and attack him instead.Investigators told WIS-TV ( http://bit.ly/psUUIO) that seven of the men were arrested over the past few days and an eighth is being sought on a murder charge.Deputies say the men waited for a drug dealer they planned on robbing in th...

Mark Quinn, host of “The Big Picture,” ETV’s program that aired on TV and radio, has left the station to become the director of public and member relations at the Electric Co-Operatives of South Carolina.Taped episodes of the program will air through the summer, ETV’s Rob Schaller said. A replacement will be named. Staff reports

By MEL GUSSOW Elizabeth Taylor, the actress who dazzled generations of moviegoers with her stunning beauty and whose name was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79. A spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said...

A hostage hiding in a North Carolina bank secretly helped police during a standoff with a teenager who was shot dead after slowly emerging from the building holding a gun to the head of one of his captives, authorities said.The gruesome final scene after three tense hours in the quiet suburban town played out live on television Thursday during the dinner hour. None of the hostages nor any of the o...

As far as I know, places of worship have enough people who worship to pay their electricity bills. Going by the number of buildings/sizes and A/C comforts etc. in these religious places, I don’t think it is necessary to give them relief at all – for temples with one small one story building may need ...

by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...

Sugary, high-alcohol energy drinks that are popular with college students who want to get drunk quickly and cheaply came under renewed scrutiny Monday as investigators announced that nine freshmen had been hospitalized after drinking them at an off-campus party.Several states are considering outlawing the drinks and at least two universities have banned them from campus while the Food and Drug Adm...

Democrats question U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's description of "dodging mortar attacks" in a new campaign ad.The ad that began airing throughout Wilson's 2nd District this weekend is a third attempt by Wilson to defend international travel that his Democratic opponent Rob Miller calls junkets.It's a new episode as the South Carolina congressman who made himself famous by shouting "You lie!" at President...

Rep. Joe Wilson and Democratic opponent Rob Miller have new television ads that take a decidedly negative turn in their race for South Carolina's 2nd District.Wilson campaign officials say the Republican congressman's ad debuts Wednesday.In the ad, a somber Wilson introduces a retired two-star Marine general who tells Miller he should return contributions he's taken from the liberal organization M...

A 12-year-old Columbia boy is in serious condition at Palmetto Health Richland after being struck by two vehicles, including a Columbia Police Department patrol car.Juacqua Strothen was crossing North Main Street near Elmore Street when he was struck by a Crown Victoria being driven south on North Main by Columbia officer Leon Sealy, 61, S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Judd Jones said.The impact se...