AFP - Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will extend her term as artistic director of one of Australia's biggest theatre companies until 2013, reports said Friday.
Archive for December, 2009
Cate Blanchett extends stay at Sydney Theatre Company (AFP)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Fox, Time Warner Cable ink temp deal to avoid blackout (Reuters)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Reuters - Time Warner Cable and News Corp's Fox Networks agreed to a brief extension of their current carriage contract on Thursday to avoid a blackout that would have prevented 13 million U.S. homes from seeing TV shows like "The Simpsons" and college and NFL football games.
Japan emperor offers sympathy for public’s money woes (AFP)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
AFP - Japanese Emperor Akihito used his New Year statement on Friday to express sympathy with those caught up in the effects of Japan's worst recession in decades.
U.S. drone attack in Pakistan kills three militants (Reuters)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Reuters - A missile fired by a pilotless U.S. drone aircraft on Friday killed at least three militants traveling in a car in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, security officials said.
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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Iowa St holds off Minnesota 14-13 in Insight Bowl (AP)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
AP - Iowa State made its two-win 2008 season seem like a long time ago.
A Minute With: Bryce Dallas Howard in “Teardrop” (Reuters)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Reuters - After starring opposite giant robots in the action movie "Terminator: Salvation," Bryce Dallas Howard plays a debutante in 1920s Memphis in the film drama "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond."
Obama summons intel chiefs for security talks (Reuters)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday summoned U.S. intelligence chiefs to a meeting next week at the White House to discuss how to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25.
China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown (Reuters)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Reuters - Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.
Arabic study may have been cover for bomb suspect (AP)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
AP - The Nigerian suspected of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner with explosives might have used Arabic studies as a pretext for entering Yemen before disappearing for months, perhaps into one of the lawless country's al-Qaida strongholds, fellow students and teachers said.