NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The trailer for Universal’s upcoming movie “Wanted” features many of the hallmarks of a studio summer movie: Quick cuts, effects-heavy action, Angelina Jolie on the hood of a vintage red Viper.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Soul singer Amy Winehouse will face no further action in connection with an investigation into obstruction of justice charges against her husband, British police said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Providing HIV drug cocktails to people in their homes can cut AIDS-related deaths substantially in poor, rural areas of Africa, researchers said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Couch potatoes who complain they are tired all the time have an easy solution — a little light exercise.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The Jacksonville Jaguars have acquired wide receiver Troy Williamson from the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick this year, the team said on Friday.
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FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A meeting to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will help the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) defend an appeal by Olympic 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin against a four-year doping ban.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Carly Simon has joined former husband James Taylor, Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell on the roster of Starbucks’ Hear Music label. Her first release for the company, “This Kind of Love,” will be available April 29.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Baxter International Inc said on Thursday it was voluntarily recalling all remaining lots of its heparin injection and flush products now that U.S. regulators have concluded there is sufficient capacity from other suppliers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barry Bonds won an initial courtroom fight on Friday when a federal judge found that steroid perjury charges against him were improperly structured, a finding that complicates the government case against the baseball home run king.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Japan’s health authorities have approved Roche’s cancer drug Herceptin for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer, the Swiss drugmaker said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rod Stewart will kick off a North American tour at a state fair in the central California city of Paso Robles on July 30. The veteran crooner will wrap the 18-city trek in Tampa on August 28.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Svetlana Kuznetsova will face Elena Dementieva in an all-Russian final at the Dubai Open on Saturday after the pair won marathon semi-finals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coty Inc said on Friday that it struck a licensing deal with Playboy Enterprises Inc to develop a new Playboy men’s fragrance line.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Bizarre little creatures that look like walking eyeballs and a puzzle-cracking professor may not seem to have much in common at first glance.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Carolina Panthers traded defensive tackle Kris Jenkins to the New York Jets on Friday in exchange for undisclosed draft choices.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Bruins thrashed the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-1 on Thursday, the home team easing to a fifth consecutive win on the back of Marco Sturm’s two goals and a 27-save performance from Tim Thomas.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - British supermodel Naomi Campbell left a Brazilian hospital on Friday, five days after she was rushed in for surgery, the hospital said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who take a proactive role in their healthcare may be better-informed, but that may not necessarily translate into better health, results of a study hint.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Advertisers are unlikely to withdraw support for the Beijing Olympic Games despite recent criticism from human rights groups, the head of the world’s second largest advertising group said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tim Duncan top-scored 31 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to their seventh consecutive victory, a 97-94 home win over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc is scrapping two malaria drugs that may cause anemia, dealing a blow to the global fight against the killer disease.
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(Reuters) - China’s top search engine Baidu.com Inc said it plans to launch an instant messaging service, called “Baidu Hi.”
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Family Guy’s” henpecked husband Cleveland Brown might be getting his own show.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The architects of British punk have been quietly passing on the baton to a new generation in a tiny London bar, but the secret is out and about to hit America.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc have extended by two months a deadline to potentially terminate without penalty Sirius’s year-old proposed acquisition of its bigger rival.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Controversial home run king Barry Bonds says he is feeling in great shape despite the fact no team has signed him for the 2008 season.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who take vitamin supplements are just as likely as those who don’t to develop lung cancer, and vitamin E supplements may actually slightly raise the risk, researchers said on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS is bringing mixed martial arts, the bone-crunching combat sport popularly known as “cage fighting,” to prime-time television this spring, the U.S. network said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - EBay Inc and MercExchange LLC have settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said eBay on Thursday, ending a fight that prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Wednesday it is offering a simple Web site publishing tool for office workers to set up and run their team collaboration sites, taking aim at Microsoft Corp’s rival SharePoint franchise.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The St Louis Cardinals have released Scott Spiezio just hours after an arrest warrant was issued for the utilityman on alcohol-related driving charges.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are physically abused during pregnancy may be at increased risk of delivering prematurely, researchers found.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February as Wii software titles dominated the best seller list, a game magazine publisher said.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Just a few weeks before the return of “The Hills,” MTV is giving fans a sneak peek at the hit reality series’ eight upcoming bonus episodes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that causes a paralyzing illness called ALS in some people, a finding they said on Thursday may lead to treatments for the degenerative nerve condition.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - “Quarterlife,” the first Web-based drama to air on network television, has been canceled by NBC after a dismally rated first episode but will move to sister cable channel Bravo, people close to the show said on Thursday.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, who married his girlfriend at a Hindu temple, has been unable to register the marriage after the bride forged residence documents, leaving the alliance legally invalid, an official said on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Closer Manny Corpas has agreed to a four-year, $8 million contract with the Colorado Rockies, the Major League Baseball team said Thursday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Experts have digitally rebuilt the face of 18th century German composer Johann Sebastian Bach — and say the results may surprise his fans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has begun investigating whether baseball great Roger Clemens lied to the U.S. Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, law enforcement officials said on Thursday.
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Google Inc has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors’ groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With late-night TV watching, Internet surfing and other distractions, Americans are getting less and less sleep, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pregnant women’s exposure to tobacco in developing countries is growing at an alarming rate, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
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TORONTO (Billboard) - Now that the Spice Girls reunion tour has ended, Melanie “Sporty Spice” Chisholm is getting ready to release her fourth solo album in April.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A trawl through the genes of white people in Utah and Yoruba people in Nigeria shows a significant number of differences that can explain why some groups respond differently to drugs than others.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A body found in the river Seine is believed to be that of former top model Katoucha who disappeared near her houseboat in Paris earlier this month, French police said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Any film awards show overlooks good movies. But among the glaring omissions at next Monday’s Genies, Canada’s version of the Oscars, is “Juno.” The box office smash was shot in Vancouver by a Canadian director, Jason Reitman.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Two industry groups representing China’s local musicians and songwriters have filed a lawsuit against the country’s Web search leader, Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of copyright violation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest recall of meat in U.S. history raises “red flags” about the safety of meat used in school lunch and other programs administered by the U.S. Agriculture Department, the head of the House agriculture appropriations subcommittee said on Thursday.
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