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Patricia Arquette has filed for divorce from her actor-husband.

Arquette filed for divorce from Thomas Jane in Los Angeles on Monday, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple, who were married in May 2006, have a 5-year-old daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane.

Arquette, the Emmy-winning star of the NBC show "Medium," is ...

House prices in Britain fell by their biggest annual amount in at least 56 years during 2008, as credit seized up and possible buyers stayed out of the market, a leading mortgage lender said Tuesday.

The Nationwide building society said house prices fell 15.9 percent in December from a ...

British historian Christopher Hibbert, whose popular books covered subjects from the medieval Battle of Agincourt to the American Revolutionary War, has died. He was 84.

Hibbert died Dec. 21 in Henley-on-Thames, west of London, after a short illness, his agent, Bruce Hunter, said Tuesday.

Hibbert wrote more than 50 books ...

Ryanair Holdings PLC revealed Tuesday it has attracted little interest from Aer Lingus shareholders for its proposed takeover of the rival Irish carrier and extended its offer period for acceptance.

Ryanair, which already owns 29.82 percent of Aer Lingus, said that as of Monday _ the original closing time for ...

John Woo is preparing to introduce his first Chinese-language film in 16 years to foreign audiences after the historical epic proved a massive success in Asia.

The Hong Kong native said Tuesday he has finished editing an international version of "Red Cliff" and is offering it to American distributors. It ...

A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.

China's Ministry of Health said Huang Yanqing, 19, died Monday and tests confirmed she had ...

Ugandan rebels waging one of Africa's longest and most brutal wars killed two wildlife rangers and six other people in a remote national park in northeastern Congo, a conservation group said Tuesday.

Lord's Resistance Army rebels carried out the attack on the Garamba National Park headquarters at Nagero ...

British singer Amy Winehouse dropped her appeal in a Norwegian drug case and will accept a fine for illegal marijuana possession in 2007, her attorney said Tuesday.

Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested during a concert stop in the western city of Bergen in October 2007 on charges ...

Brazil's stocks rose in early trading, with the Ibovespa stock index up 1.1 percent at 41,956 an hour into the session.

Rising oil and metal prices Tuesday _ along with jumps in overseas stocks _ prompted the gains.

Shares of state-run oil company Petrobras rose 1.2 percent, while ...

Islamic militants posted sarcastic comments on an extremist Web site Tuesday ridiculing a recent announcement by First Lady Laura Bush that the family's cat had died.

The online comments were unusual on the site that usually focuses on official statements by al-Qaida and other militants. Commentators, who must be ...

Fans of Germany's renowned Berlin Philharmonic can now follow the orchestra's performances from anywhere in the world through a new "digital concert hall" accessible via the Internet.

Tuesday's performance _ directed by Sir Simon Rattle and featuring Johannes Brahms' First Symphony _ will be the first to be broadcast ...

South Korea said Tuesday it will invest 50 trillion won ($38.1 billion) over the next four years on environmental projects in a "Green New Deal" to spur slumping economic growth and create nearly a million jobs.

"We are in an unprecedented global economic crisis," Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said ...

After a year in which U.S. auto sales tumbled 18 percent and GM had its worst year in nearly a half-century amid slack demand fueled by a terrible economic outlook and growing job worries, automakers are reluctant to predict when a recovery might occur.

An even sharper sales decline ...

Iran is prepared to increase gas exports to Turkey after Ankara's supplies _ along with those of several European nations _ were cut due to a dispute between Russia and the Ukraine, an Iranian diplomat said Tuesday.

Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted the country's economic attache in Turkey ...

Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges in Connecticut, nearly two years after being fined and losing his license for similar charges in New York.

The 77-year-old Salisbury resident appeared in Bantam Superior Court on Monday. He pleaded not guilty to illegal operation of a motor ...

Orders for Renault cars were boosted in December by a government-sponsored euro1,000 bonus for French consumers who trade in old cars for new lower-emission models, a top executive at the automaker said Tuesday.

The measure, introduced by President Nicolas Sarkozy on Dec. 4, is part of a euro26 billion ...

OMV AG, Central Europe's largest oil and gas company, says Austria's natural gas supplies from Russia are down 90 percent.

Austria's Economics Ministry has called an emergency meeting to review the situation. But OMV says it has a three-month reserve which it says is enough to get ...

President-elect Barack Obama is adding a "Youth Ball" to the parties planned to celebrate his Jan. 20 inauguration.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee said Tuesday the ball for people aged 18 to 35 would celebrate "the role young Americans can play to serve their communities." Tickets will be available for a ...

Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith is due to appear in a New Jersey municipal court next week to face traffic summonses stemming from a car crash that killed a friend in 2007.

A Monmouth County grand jury in October declined to indict the New Jersey native on vehicular homicide ...