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7,500 earthquakes shake resolve in NZealand city
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — It's been 10 months since the first big earthquake struck New Zealand's second-largest city. It's been nearly five months since a far more devastating one killed 181 people and crippled the downtown. And it's been just a few hours since yet another aftershock startled Christchurch residents during the night.
Around-the-World Brief: 'Potter' Obliterates Foreign Record
by Ray Subers July 19, 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 outpaced even the most generous prognostications this weekend, setting a new weekend record with an incredible $314 million at the foreign box office. That's 20 percent up on the previous record-holder, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , and 32 percent up on Half-Blood Prince 's series record. Including its stunning domestic take, Deathly Hallows Part 2 also eclipsed Half-Blood Prince to set the worldwide opening weekend record with an astronomical $483.2 million. That improved to $542.2 million through Monday ($18 million domestic plus $41 million overseas), and the movie set a new record by passing the half-billion dollar mark in just six days.
by Brandon Gray July 18, 2011 Working its final movie mojo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 soared into the record books with the highest-grossing opening weekend ever. The series finale drew $169.2 million on around 11,100 screens at 4,375 locations, dethroning The Dark Knight 's $158.4 million. Deathly Hallows Part 2 's first weekend flew past the previous franchise high of $125 million, posted by Deathly Hallows Part 1 last November, and it topped the franchise in terms of estimated attendance as well.
Weekend Report: 'Harry' Makes History
The City of Manchester Stadium is now Etihad Stadium as a result of a sponsorship deal worth up to £400 million ($642.4 million) -- a new world record for this kind of sports sponsorship -- between Sheikh Mansour's Man City and Etihad Airways. Man City chief executive Garry Cook is calling it, "one of the most important arrangements in the history of world football." Conveniently, it will also go a long way in helping big-spending Man City work toward breaking even to adhere to UEFA's new financial fair play rules. The Guardian puts this number in perspective: The 10-year agreement, which means City's ground is renamed the Etihad Stadium, will be worth more than twice the previous record, JP Morgan Chase's $300m (£187m) [partnership over 10 years with] Madison Square Garden, while simultaneously demonstrating the growing disparity between the top clubs in English football.
Richest club in the world signs richest sponsorship in the world - Dirty Tackle - World Soccer Blog
Google+ Reverses Social-Network Curse, Challenges Facebook
With technology, as in the rest of life, eternal verities have a funny way of turning out not to be so eternal after all. For eons, everybody has known that Google is hopelessly inept when it comes to building social-networking services. Each one it has unveiled has seemed to confirm that truism, from Wave (shuttered 2½ months after opening to the public) to Buzz (still extant, but famous mostly for the uproar over its shoddy privacy practices ).
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican will display 100 select documents from its Secret Archives at an unprecedented exhibit next year that includes previously unpublished papers from its World War II papacy. "Lux in Arcana: The Vatican Secret Archives Revealed" opens in February at Rome's Capitoline Museums and marks the first time such precious documents, manuscripts and parchments have been allowed out of the Vatican vaults for view by the general public. The occasion is the archive's 400th anniversary. On view will be the acts of Galileo's trial for heresy as well as the letter from members of the British Parliament asking Pope Clement XII to annul the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon — one of the key events that led to England's break with the Roman Catholic Church .
Vatican opens archives for unprecedented exhibit
'Billions worth' of treasure found in Indian temple
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Rapper Gucci Mane was jailed in Georgia on Wednesday for allegedly hitting a fan in the head with a champagne bottle at an Atlanta nightclub earlier this month. Mane, whose real name is Radric Davis, turned himself in to authorities late on Tuesday, according to Fulton County Sheriff's Office records. Mane, 33, faces an aggravated assault charge after causing a "severe laceration" to the man whom he hit with a champagne bottle on March 16, according to a police report.
Inside Rogers Arena on Wednesday night, there was champagne in the Boston Bruins ' dressing room and sullen faces for everyone wearing a Vancouver Canucks sweater after the home team's Game 7 loss in the Stanley Cup Final. In downtown Vancouver, it was anarchy. Seventeen years after another Game 7 riot in the city , what began as a few random fires and incidents of vandalism by spectators became utter chaos, with looters stealing from local stores and police trying to clear the streets. From QMI: Between 130 and 140 people were sent to hospital, including three people with stab wounds and two suffering trauma, while a number of others were treated in the courtyard of a downtown hospital for the effects of tear gas.
Gallery: Shocking scenes from the Vancouver Game 7 riots - Puck Daddy - NHL Blog
Apparent Immunity Gene ‘Cures’ Bay Area Man Of AIDS
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — A 45-year-old man now living in the Bay Area may be the first person ever cured of the deadly disease AIDS, the result of the discovery of an apparent HIV immunity gene. Timothy Ray Brown tested positive for HIV back in 1995, but has now entered scientific journals as the first man in world history to have that HIV virus completely eliminated from his body in what doctors call a “functional cure.” Brown was living in Berlin, Germany back in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukemia, when scientists there gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant that had astounding results.Higher education agency employees are sifting the flood of applications that came in for state financial aid — 150,000 in all. Each year, around $170 million from state revenues and lottery funds is devoted to scholarships. Shane Broadway, the interim director of the Higher Education Department, said it's his staff's No. 1 priority to process the thousands of applications that streamed in the past few days.
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WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk
Cell phone use 'possibly carcinogenic' NEW: Experts say there are ways to minimize cell phone radiation It's in the same "hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform Until now, WHO has said no adverse health effects have been established The cell phone industry maintains that there is no conclusive evidence of danger (CNN) -- Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform. Before its announcement Tuesday, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been established.Record-setting performances highlight a bizarre week on Mt. Everest
History was made in the Himalayas during the past week as three mountaineers became the first to summit Mt. Everest and neighboring Mt. Lhotse during the same day. In fact, Alpine Ascents International expedition members Garrett Madison, Tom Halliday and Michael Horst, all of whom climbed the 27,940-foot Lhotse from the South Col of Everest after attaining Everest’s summit, are the first climbers to stand atop two 8,000-meter peaks within a 24-hour period. This might rank as the most notable achievement during what has become a circus-like season on the world’s tallest mountain (Everest stands at 29,035 feet), which has played host recently not only to climbers but skiers, paragliders, and even a 30-year-old Nepali guru who meditated on top of the world for 27 hours in support of world peace. The Alpine Ascent climbers were in transit and unavailable for comment, according to a spokesman at the Seattle-based office.Bin Laden's Capture/Death