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Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker _ a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."

The "Twilight" heartthrob stars in David Cronenberg's Cannes Film Festival entry as sleek, self-centered moneyman Eric Packer, who sees ...

Authorities have arrested a man in southwestern China accused of killing 11 people and dismembering, burning and burying their bodies to destroy the evidence.

The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Sunday that 56-year-old Zhang Yongming was arrested by police in Yunnan province on murder charges.

It said ...

Veteran politician Su Tseng-chang has been elected chairman of Taiwan's main opposition party.

A lawyer by training and a former premier, Su takes a more pragmatic attitude toward China than many colleagues in the Democratic Progressive Party who support Taiwan's formal independence.

Su was elected Sunday after the ...

Love is in the air at the Cannes Film Festival, as the jury sits down Sunday to choose its prizewinners.

There's love in the face of death in Michael Haneke's "Amour," love in conflict with faith in Christian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills" and love against the odds ...

Yuri Leshchinsky spent more than a decade transforming an ailing Soviet-era factory into a leading candy maker. When a board meeting drew him to the plant from his New York home, he was in for a shock: Black-clad security guards armed with rubber batons were there to meet him, blocking ...

Britain's Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

The ministry said in a statement Sunday that the soldier was from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh.

Task Force Helmand spokesman Major Ian Lawrence said the soldier was killed Saturday when his ...

Syrian government denies it was behind attack that killed 90, blames anti-government gunmen.

Nicole Kidman's red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes.

The actress's husband _ musician Keith Urban _ made the trip from Sydney, where's he's been filming "The Voice," to escort her up the famous Palais stairs.

And Kidman says his effort meant "everything ...

Michelle Obama was with the single ladies this weekend, joining 5,500 fans at a Beyonce concert in Atlantic City.

The first lady was with daughters Sasha and Malia at Revel Resorts, where Beyonce performed two dozen songs Saturday night. Obama's husband, President Barack Obama, did not attend.

Gov ...

An official says the four people killed in a plane crash at a municipal airport in southern Utah were from the St. George area.

St. George city official Marc Mortensen tells The Spectrum that the four have been positively identified, but their names aren't expected to be released until ...

Subtropical Storm Beryl continues to trek toward the Southeast coast, threatening dangerous surf and drenching rain from northeast Florida to parts of the Carolinas. Beryl is expected to make landfall with tropical storm strength winds as early as Sunday night. This storm will not be a signficant wind threat, and ...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the country's newly-elected parliament on Sunday to stand with him against "evil ones" who he says have encircled the nation.

The president's address to the opening session of the parliament was seen as an appeal to conservative opponents who crushed Ahmadinejad's ...

Authorities have detained a former official in a central Chinese city for allegedly raping more than 10 girls.

Officials in Yongcheng city referred queries Sunday to a statement by the city government that said Li Xingong confessed during a police interrogation. It said Li was detained Friday.

Li was deputy ...

Authorities have discovered human remains near a campsite believed to have been used by a hiker from Chicago who has been missing since October 2010.

James Nelson was reported missing when he failed to return from a five day, 25-mile hike in the Holy Cross Wilderness area near Minturn.

The ...

A wildfire in Gila National Forest burned through more timber and brush lands as it forced the evacuation of residents living near a privately owned ghost town in southwestern New Mexico, officials said.

Fueled by strong, erratic winds, the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire burning through rugged and remote terrain grew Saturday ...

A famed battleship that saw action during World War II and the Korean War and carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wartime summit traveled along the California coast Sunday on its final voyage.

The iconic USS Iowa left San Francisco Bay on its way to its new home in ...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef has left the country for a trip that includes medical tests.

The official Saudi Press Agency says the heir to the throne will undergo the tests during what was described as a "personal vacation." The report Saturday gave no other details on Nayef's ...

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were:

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Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $128 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $146 million for Wednesday.

Tickets that match the ...

The Houston Astros had Chad Billingsley on the ropes early and let him off. They left the bases loaded twice, including the eighth inning after scoring the tying run off closer Kenley Jansen, and A.J. Ellis made them pay dearly.

Wilton Lopez gave up a three-run homer to Ellis ...

Zack Greinke had a bad game in Arizona on Saturday night _ but not his worst.

After lasting just 2 1/3 innings in the Milwaukee Brewers' 8-5 loss to the Diamondbacks, Greinke was asked how this one compared with that June 10, 2005, outing for Kansas City, when he gave ...