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AP - The funny girl wasn’t laughing. Barbra Streisand had a drink lobbed at her Monday after a mid-concert skit poking fun at President Bush.

Reuters - Democratic Sen. John Kerry drew
election-year fire from President George W. Bush and other
Republicans on Tuesday for saying college students could “get
stuck in Iraq” if they do not study hard.

Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday put
on hold sanctions imposed on cigarette makers by a judge who
had found they violated racketeering laws in a decades-long
conspiracy to hide the dangers of smoking.

Reuters - The five major nuclear powers and
eight other nations on Tuesday endorsed a set of principles
designed to keep nuclear materials out of the hands of
extremist groups.

French grocery retailer Groupe Casino has formed a long-term joint venture with international marketing group dunnhumby named dunnhumbyFrance.

Reuters - Veteran TV host Bob Barker plans to
retire from “The Price Is Right” in June after 35 years as
emcee of America’s longest-running game show and five decades
on network television, CBS said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The United States will hold
senior-level talks with Afghanistan next year, a senior U.S.
official said on Tuesday, stressing American support for Kabul
as it confronts rising violence from the Islamist Taliban.

AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government survived a potentially damaging vote in parliament on whether he should order an inquiry into how Britain joined the war in Iraq.

Members at a meeting Tuesday voted 3-2 in favor of endorsing the United Keetoowah Band’s effort to build a riverfront casino and hotel. But the commission has seven members and its rules require a majority of at least four votes for a proposal to pass. Two members were absent from the meeting.

The new music video for “You Know My Name” is now online at the MTV Showcase website. The song from the upcoming James Bond film “Casino Royale” by singer-songwriter Chris Cornell made its world premiere on MTV’s “Making The Video” show.

The British Board of Film Classification today announced a 12A certificate for the upcoming James Bond film Casino Royale. The news confirms the information released by Sony earlier in the week.

Reuters - Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
said on Tuesday indirect negotiations between his group and
Israel over a prisoner exchange had begun through a
U.N.-appointed mediator.