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OTTAWA, -- The average Canadian non-farm employee weekly pay rose marginally on a monthly basis to $876.53 in March, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa Thursday. The monthly increase was 0.5 percent while on a year-over basis, it was up 4.1 percent, the agency said. "Average weekly hours...

HOLLYWOOD, -- Tom Cruise has agreed to star in the new Universal science fiction movie "Oblivion," Entertainment Weekly said Saturday. Entertainment Weekly said it had confirmed earlier Internet reports that Cruise would play the lead in the small-cast adventure about a lone soldier stationed on...

McAvoy to play young Xavier in 'X-Men' HOLLYWOOD, (UPI) -- Scottish actor James McAvoy has signed on for the next installment of the X-Men franchise, U.S. studio Twentieth Century Fox said. McAvoy, star of "Wanted" and "Atonement," will work with British director Matthew Vaughn for "X-Men...