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'Alice' stays on top in box office earnings

LOS ANGELES- Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" retained the box office lead for the third week running, pulling in 34.5 million dollars for the weekend, industry figures showed Sunday. Starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska, the live-action, 3-D version of Lewis Carroll's children's classic, has earned 265.7 million dollars since its release, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported. The surprise of the weekend was "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," 20th Century Fox's newly released live action adaptation of the...

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Paralympics: Vancouver hopes to become top accessibility city - 2010-03-17

VANCOUVER, Deborah Jones - Civic leaders hope the 2010 Paralympics will make Vancouver a world leader in disabled accessibility, but experts are divided on whether the games help regular disabled...

Football: South Africa celebrates 100 day countdown to World Cup - 2010-03-02

DURBAN, Marine Veith- Schoolchildren will ditch their uniforms for football jerseys, while dancers will take to the streets on Tuesday as South Africa celebrates the 100-day countdown to the World...

Athletics: US relay medallist Cox suspended for doping - 2010-01-30

COLORADO SPRINGS - Crystal Cox, a member of the victorious US 4x400m women's relay squad at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has accepted a four-year ban after admitting doping from late 2001 through 2004....

NBA: Rondo, defense power Celtics over Magic - 2009-12-26

ORLANDO- Rajon Rondo scored 17 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and passed out eight assists while Boston's defense kept Orlando to a season-low for points in an 86-77 NBA victory Thursday. But a...

RugbyU: Munster edge Perpignan in titanic struggle - 2009-12-12

PARIS - Munster noved four points clear at the top of their pool with a gutsy 24-23 Group 1 win over French champions Perpignan at Thonond Park on Friday. The French looked to have snatched the...

Formula One: Briatore hearing starts in Paris - 2009-11-25

PARIS - Former Renault chief Flavio Briatore's appeal against a lifetime ban for ordering Nelson Piquet junior to crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix began in the High Court in Paris on Tuesday....

Longer toes give sprinters a leg up: study - 2009-11-17

OTTAWA- Longer toes and shorter lower legs allow sprinters to run faster than others, a new study suggests. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Pennsylvania State University...

Football: Germany star Enke's suicide came after depression - 2009-11-12

BERLIN, Ryland James - Germany was in shock on Wednesday after football star Robert Enke, who was set to represent his country at the 2010 World Cup, committed suicide after battling with depression...

Pope a fan of sports -- but not doping athletes - 2009-11-08

VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against drug-taking in sport on Saturday. The pope said the Catholic Church believed sport could be a force for good, particularly among young people, but...

Lula vows Rio Olympics will be violence free - 2009-10-28

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed Wednesday to give special attention to Rio de Janeiro to make sure the city will not see violence during its hosting of the 2016...

MILAN- Spanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit that opened Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was...

Science Male pregnancy and abortion: The sex life of pipefish PARIS- A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species...	Medicine Some clinical trials exclude gays and lesbians: study WASHINGTON - Some clinical trials financed by the US federal government and pharmaceutical labs exclude gay and lesbian...
Media Paris Hilton minimized in beer ad relaunch RIO DE JANEIRO- A provocative beer ad showing American celebrity Paris Hilton in suggestive poses has been recast and...	Festivals 'The Hurt Locker' rules on historic Oscars night HOLLYWOOD, Rob Woollard- Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with...