![Quebec protests brought to Saturday Night Live by Arcade Fire and Mick Jagger … – Calgary Herald]()
MONTREAL - A plan to restore order in Montreal appeared to erupt in smoke late Saturday, with fiery blockades blazing on a busy downtown street corner in a dispute gaining international attention.
Groups of protesters built pyres from plastic traffic cones and construction materials, setting them ablaze in the middle of an intersection in a popular night club district.
Meanwhile, the protest has spread beyond borders.
In New York, members of...
![Facebook fatigue: Half of Americans say Facebook is a passing fad, IPO shares … – Toronto Star]()
Tali Arbel The Associated Press
Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network’s initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network’s expected asking price is too high.
The company Mark Zuckerberg created as a Harvard student eight years ago is preparing for what looks to be the biggest Internet IPO...
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(CBS News) CHICAGO - Whatever NATO's ultimate withdrawal timetable from Afghanistan is, it won't be speedy enough for demonstrators outside the current summit in Chicago.
Thousands of protesters walked the sweltering streets of Chicago on Sunday to vent their opposition to NATO and the government leaders meeting just a few hundred yards away.
"We're spending $ 2 billion a week killing people who are very far away and really haven't don't...
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CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez's public assurances that he will beat cancer have failed to quell Venezuelans' frenetic speculation about whether the illness will ruin his chances of winning another six-year term in October.
Opinion polls show two thirds of voters think their larger-than-life president will recover from cancer despite his long, uncharacteristic silences and nagging rumors that he might have to anoint a successor -...
![VIDEO: Kristen Wiig’s Teary SNL ‘Graduation’ – People Magazine]()
For once, Saturday Night Live didn't go for laughs, instead ending its season with tears and hugs Saturday night.In a surprise – and surprisingly emotional – send-off, cast members appeared to bid goodbye to key player Kristen Wiig. The Bridesmaids star's departure has long been rumored, but has yet to be confirmed by NBC.Still, the farewell sentiment seemed clear: After host Mick Jagger introduced a class of "graduates," Wiig took the...
BALTIMORE - Canadian-owned I'll Have Another poked his head out of his stall, started nibbling on his nameplate tacked to a wall and looked up at all the people watching his every move.
Yes, I'll Have Another came out of his thrilling Preakness victory over Bodemeister in "super shape," trainer Doug O'Neill said Sunday, and now it's on to New York for a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes on June 9.
"We're ready. Bring it on,"...
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DALLAS - James Harden scored 15 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter and Oklahoma City rallied for a 103-97 victory Saturday night to sweep the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks out of the playoffs.
The Thunder trailed by 13 points with 9:44 left before Harden scored seven in a row, and nine in a 12-0 run over the next 3 minutes.
Oklahoma City finally took the lead, and kept it, after Russell Westbrook stole the ball from Dirk Nowitzki...
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Amid reports on some TV news channels that Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan had complained to Chairman M. Hamid Ansari about cameras excessively focusing on her during the oath-taking ceremony of actress Rekha, the Rajya Sabha secretariat Wednesday denied the news as factually incorrect.
"The attention of the secretariat has been drawn to the reports in the electronic media that Smt. Jaya Bachchan, MP, Rajya Sabha, has...
![MDY, VRTX, MNST, REGN: ETF Inflow Alert – TheStreet.com]()
By ETFChannel.com
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF (AMEX: MDY) where we have detected an approximate $ 75.1 million dollar inflow — that's a 0.8% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 53,451,830 to 53,901,830). Among the largest underlying components of MDY, in trading today Vertex Pharmaceuticals,...
![Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart – Danbury News Times]()
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."
Zuckerberg wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nearly a decade, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be...
