Charlie Sheen, whose well-publicized list of bad habits includes smoking, is being offered a hand in kicking the tobacco habit by an Ontario cabinet minister, media reports said on Thursday.
Ontario Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best said she was personally willing to give Sheen a hand in quitting smoking while he's in Toronto on Thursday for his "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is not an Option" show.
A winsome dino called Bambiraptor has helped scientists determine that birds inherited a good sense of smell from dinosaurs -- and then improved the faculty.
Birds are long thought to have evolved from small two-footed dinosaurs that over a long period grew feathers, took to dwelling in trees and eventually started to fly. The first identifiable bird was Archaeopteryx, which lived around 150 million years ago.
Military police officers shot Uganda's top opposition politician in the right hand Thursday and fired tear gas into a hospital as demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out in several locations across the country, officials said.
The opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, was walking to work to protest high gas prices.
A Kentucky legislator who is also a high school teacher was critically injured Tuesday trying to break up a fight between two students.
State Rep. Dewayne Bunch, 49, was punched in the head and fell to the cafeteria floor, hitting his head on the tile, Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell said.
s next generation of LEDs offer a host of new features, such as top quality Cree chip construction, UL and CUL approval, Energy Star rated performance, and greater flexibility when adjusting ambient light levels. The complete line of high efficiency, long life products is now available.
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It's easy to see why insurance swindler Sholam Weiss was not entirely satisfied with a judge's decision to cut 10 years from his prison term.
Even after the reduction, Weiss still had 835 years to serve for his role in the collapse of a life insurance company in the 1990s that cost thousands of people their life savings.
The NFL and its locked-out players have completed their first day of mediation under a court order and will meet again Friday as they try to resolve their labor dispute.
Commissioner Roger Goodell, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft were among those on hand for the closed-door session at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.
t the little glowing dots you typically see on electronic appliances. Rather, they’re as powerful and bright as conventional showroom spotlights and showcase the quality of the furniture with ease. But there's one big difference: Each of the 200 LED lights Linly installs will use only 18 watts – replacing a 90-watt halogen bulb.
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Fresh off his first relief appearance since the 2004 World Series, Dan Haren showed the Cleveland Indians why he's been such a successful starting pitcher in the major leagues. And he did it with his most dominant performance.
The three-time All-Star pitched his first career one-hitter, allowing only Shin-Soo Choo's clean single in the fourth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels snapped the Indians' eight-game winning streak with a 2-0 victory on Tuesday night.
2.16 billion sale, saying their silence has allowed "ill-intentioned groups" to create negative impressions over the much-delayed deal.
* A former private equity executive was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison for his role in a real estate investment fraud that federal authorities have called a $255 million Ponzi scheme targeting Orthodox Jews [ID:nN11118548]
