Marc Anthony raised eyebrows Friday night when he made a special song dedication to wife Jennifer Lopez at their Los Angeles concert.
“It’s a real personal song,” Anthony said before belting out Journey’s “Faithfully” inside a packed Staples Center. “This song has a whole new significance.”
It was when he sang the song’s lyrics “They say that […]
Nickelodeon made a splash on the other side of the Atlantic on Saturday, debuting the U.K. edition of its Kids’ Choice Awards in London.
Notably absent were any big-name celebrities being doused in Nick’s traditional green slime. That, of course, was good news for Emma Watson, who also was named Nickelodeon’s Best Movie Actress.
“This is so […]
Keep an eye out for a new name in the Desperate Housewives credits: Eva Longoria Parker. The actress, 32, has taken her husband Tony Parker’s surname, she tells E! News.
“I completely adopted the new name and I love it … I’m a Parker now,” she said Thursday at the Padres Contra El Cáncer (Parents Against […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand brewer is offering a lifetime supply of free beer in exchange for the return of a laptop stolen in a break-in.
Croucher Brewing Co. co-owner Paul Croucher said Friday the computer contains “all our financials” as well as label designs for new beers and business contacts.
“So we […]
Microsoft and Dassault Systemes have released a 3D building application for the Virtual Earth mapping program, the companies said Friday.
Virtual Earth-3DVIA will let people create 3D structures with textures and colors and share them with one other online. The models can also be tagged with real-life addresses or town information so that they can be […]
For a few months Comcast has been the subject of scattered reports that say it throttles BitTorrent traffic.
TorrentFreak said in August that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with file transfers by posing as one party and then, essentially, hanging up the phone. But when we contacted Comcast at the time, it flatly denied doing it.
Thanks to […]
WASHINGTON — For the second time in two months, President Bush announced sanctions against Myanmar to punish the military-run government and its backers for the recent violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Bush ordered the Treasury Department Friday to freeze the financial assets of additional members of the repressive military junta. He also acted to tighten controls […]
Crude oil prices briefly crossed above the $90-a-barrel threshold today on the New York Mercantile Exchange, setting a record and coming very close to an inflation-adjusted record, too.
The price for November delivery fell back to $89 by noon, a level that still defied the predictions of many veteran oil analysts.
“The surge in oil markets […]
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian indexes declined Friday on concerns that high energy prices could hurt global economic growth as crude-oil futures topped $90 a barrel for the first time and as exporters and financials lost ground in Japan.
The futures contract for November delivery hit an intraday high of $90.02 a barrel in electronic trading […]
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — The 13-nation euro hit a new all-time high Friday against the U.S. dollar, breaking through the previous record, set a day earlier, as the U.S. currency remained under pressure.
In morning European trading, the euro bought $1.4319 — surpassing the mark of $1.4310 set Thursday — before settling back slightly to […]
