Celebrate the Fourth of July at any of the following events: Fireworks at the Greenbelt Independence Day Celebration will begin about 9 p.m. and will be preceded by a children's craft tent from 3 to 6 p.m., a performance by the ...Read More
Don't be alarmed if you spot people today popping a squat in office buildings, schools and public spaces. It's all part of World Toilet Day, which is internationally recognized on November 19 as a celebration of the importance of sanitation ...Read More
On Afghanistan's independence day in August, my friends in Kandahar were puzzled. Why was the government bothering to celebrate the holiday? With 100,000 or so foreign troops occupying our country, how could we consider ourselves independent? When my American friends and ...Read More
CLEVELAND -- In a game that caused as much concern as celebration, the Ravens capitalized on the Cleveland Browns' mistakes in the second half for a much-needed 16-0 win.
After being held scoreless for the first 32 1/2 minutes, the Ravens ...Read More
ST. LOUIS — From a hotel suite in Honolulu overlooking the golf course where Michelle Wie first showed her awesome potential, she looked at newspaper photos from various stages of her youth and realized those days were behind her. She was ...Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The NFL is looking into reports Tennessee owner Bud Adams made an obscene hand gesture from his luxury suite and from the field while celebrating his Titans' 41-17 win over Buffalo. WTVF-TV reports Adams flipped the middle ...Read More
Fittingly for a child of the 'aina, Michelle Wie's long-awaited celebration began in the sand.
Wie, 20, finally won a golf tournament yesterday, clinching a two-shot victory in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational at Guadalajara, Mexico, with a spectacular bunker shot on ...Read More
There's cash in cataclysm. At least in Hollywood, which saw the apocalyptic thriller 2012 rake in $65 million, according to studio estimates from box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI. The debut was $5 million more than many analysts projected and finished an ...Read More
Moviegoers said give us the apocalypse now as Sony'send-of-the-world epic
topped the weekend boxoffice with a heaping $65 millionin opening domestic coin.
Directed by Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day"), theeffects-filled actioner cost $200 million to produce. But with a$225 million worldwide haul from ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Doom spelled dollars at the box office as the global-disaster tale "2012" opened at No. 1 domestically with $65 million and pulled in $225 million worldwide.
The Sony Pictures action saga tells the story of a scramble to ...Read More
Doom spelled dollars at the box office as the global-disaster tale "2012" opened at No. 1 domestically with $65 million and pulled in $225 million worldwide. The Sony Pictures action saga tells the story of a scramble to save remnants of ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers worldwide welcomed the apocalypse a little early as the disaster movie "2012" swept through theaters during the weekend with one of the best openings of the year.
The latest end-of-days picture from "Independence Day" director Roland ...Read More
When two planes struck the Twin Towers in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said ...Read More
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas authorities did an about face on Saturday and dropped a plan to keep schools in the Gaza Strip open on a Palestinian holiday founded by the rival Fatah faction. An official with Gaza's Education Ministry said schools ...Read More
2012 is Roland Emmerich's best movie since Independence Day. Take that however you please.
The German director is a filmmaking Peter Pan. He won't grow up. Like most kids, he undoubtedly created horrible scenarios with his toy train set. Unlike most ...Read More
More than thirteen years, Bill Pullman gave a goose-bump-inducing Fourth of July speech about freedom, willpower and how a few ugly aliens needed a good beatdown – and honestly I'm still pumped up. On the strength of that patriotic presidential speech ...Read More
We reported last month that the reason we haven't seen a sequel to the mega successful sci-fi blockbuster, Independence Day, is because 20th Century Fox is apparently stalling because of money. Personally, even if the first film's star, Will Smith, ...Read More
Taylor Swift was predictably flummoxed when she got on the phone Wednesday night with the Los Angeles Times, a few minutes after becoming the youngest person ever, and the first female in nearly a decade, to be named entertainer of ...Read More
Hamas authorities have called off annual Palestinian Independence Day celebrations in the Gaza Strip, ordering its schools and offices to remain open as usual when the holiday falls on Sunday, officials said on Friday. The decision pointed up the tensions between ...Read More
If a film critic awards four stars to a movie directed by Roland Emmerich -- Hollywood's reigning king of catastrophe, the critically scorned director of "Independence Day" and "Godzilla" -- will the world come to an end? That's a question ...Read More
Columbia Pictures/SonyPlanes fly through falling -- highways -- in Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic new film "2012."
"2012" Movie Review -- Remember "Independence Day," that alien invasion movie with great special effects that made a ton of money?
You don't remember it half as ...Read More
