For those who must know first
Reuters – Icelandic negotiators may return home on Monday from London if no new meetings are called with British officials over the Icesave debt crisis, Icelandic Radio quoted a finance ministry spokesman as saying.
Read More: UK, Iceland in contact on Icesave, no new meetings
(Reuters)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of a popular beachside lagoon in Rio over the weekend, offending joggers’ olfactory senses and leading the city to fight the stench with disinfectant.
Read More: Thousands of dead fish raise stink at Rio lagoon
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.”
Read More: Scientists defend warning after tsunami nonevent
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Israeli riot police dispersed a crowd of masked Palestinian youths throwing stones in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in a violent reminder of tensions at the holiest site in the contested city.
Read More: Israeli police, Palestinians clash at holy site
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – A rare documentary about Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska portrays a lively yet distinguished woman who savors the world’s contrasts, from 17th-century Dutch painting to boxing.
Read More: New documentary on Nobel laureate Szymborska
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile’s shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers to quell looting. The death toll climbed to 708 in one of the biggest earthquakes in centuries.
Read More: Chile quake death toll hits 708 as rescue ramps up
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
Time.com – The Chile quake was 500 times stronger than the Haiti quake, so why did it cause so much less destruction?
Read More: Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes
(Time.com)
Comments are off for this article
Reuters – Norway’s Petter Northug won the men’s 50km cross country skiing gold medal on the final day of the Winter Olympics Sunday as Vancouver braced itself for the men’s ice hockey match between Canada and the United States.
Read More: Northug wins gold as Canada braces for hockey
(Reuters)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Fire officials say ice has broken through a glass atrium at the Sony Building in New York City and 10 people have sustained minor injuries.
Read More: Official: Ice, glass fall into NYC building atrium
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Lil Wayne may be a self-professed gangsta with the gunshot wound to prove it, but he’s made plenty clear how he feels about doing time behind bars.
Read More: Lil Wayne set to test how jails handle celebs
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
Reuters – A colossal 3000-year-old red granite head of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun, has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Sunday.
Read More: King Tut's grandfather's statue head surfaces in Luxor
(Reuters)
Comments are off for this article
Fashion Wire Daily – Recession? What recession? That felt very much the mood at Giorgio Armani’s latest runway show Saturday, Feb. 27, in Milan, when Italy’s most famous designer staged an Asian-tinted show, before the industry’s top critics and editors and a team of his executives buoyed by their booming business in China.
Read More: Giorgio Armani Looking Ever More Easterly
(Fashion Wire Daily)
Comments are off for this article
The Newsroom – Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week’s fourth wall this season by staging the world’s first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn’t the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son’s New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)
Read More: Fashion's latest fixation: 3D
(The Newsroom)
Comments are off for this article
AP – The French film industry has showered honors on director Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-nominated “Un Prophete” (“A Prophet”), giving the movie France’s coveted Cesar award for best movie.
Read More: 'A Prophet' wins French film industry top prize
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of “The Hurt Locker” who sent multiple e-mails urging academy members to vote for his movie in the Oscar best-picture race and “not a $500 million film” — an obvious reference to close-competitor “Avatar.”
Read More: 'Lockergate'?: Producer apologizes for e-mails
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son Michael Blosil has died, the entertainer said Saturday.
Read More: Marie Osmond's son dies in Los Angeles
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Film critic Roger Ebert says computer programmers have captured his voice from movie commentary tracks so he can type what he wants to say and listeners hear a voice that sounds like him.
Read More: Roger Ebert gets 'voice' grandkids can recognize
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
Reuters – The top senator on antitrust matters has written to NBC to express concern that some of its Internet coverage of the Winter Olympics is limited to pay television subscribers.
Read More: Senator asks NBC about Olympic site pay-TV link
(Reuters)
Comments are off for this article
AP – Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday, his publisher said. He was 62.
Read More: Mexican author Carlos Montemayor dies at 62
(AP)
Comments are off for this article
Reuters – With the Vancouver Olympics near an end on Sunday, Hollywood began charting its own path to glory at the Oscars, and though the film honors feature shoo-in contenders in several key races, industry watchers still expect some excitement.
Read More: Hollywood's Oscar contenders chart course for gold
(Reuters)
Comments are off for this article