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The family of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old Toronto man fatally shot aboard a streetcar in an altercation with police last month, has cancelled a news conference that had been scheduled for this afternoon. More...

Aaron Barr, the tech executive who bailed out of a talk at the Security B-Sides conference after the hacker collective Anonymous attacked the company he worked for, is bailing out of yet another conference, this time chased away by his former boss. More...

NEW YORK – Television viewership is up nearly one-third for the NBA playoffs, and the conference finals are off to a strong start. Games in the first two rounds averaged an audience of 4.92 million people, compared with 3.74 million last year. The conference semifinals averaged 6.14 million...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/02/08/exp.pn.facebook.stalker.hln -- Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has asked for protection from a man who apparently wanted to friend him a little too much. At least it appears that way from court documents released by the Santa Clara...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/05/dougherty.assassination.attempt.cnn -- The German diplomat who said there was an assassination attempt against Egypt's new vice president has retracted his comments. "I was led to believe that we had a confirmed report but in fact we didn't,"...

Charges in $42M Holocaust victims scam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK - U.S. prosecutors charged 17 people Tuesday with stealing more than $42 million from a nonprofit group that distributes German government money to Jewish victims...

Effort made to salvage U.S.-Mexico meeting PHOENIX, (UPI) -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says he is trying to rescue a long-scheduled meeting between the governors of U.S. and Mexican border states. The six Mexican governors scheduled to attend the September Border Governors Conference in...

Congress set to ban movie futures trading WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- A U.S. congressional conference committee has approved a ban on movie box-office futures trading, a practice many filmmakers say would hurt the movie industry. The amendment to the financial reform bill, which would ban derivatives...

Utah officially joins Pac-10 SALT LAKE CITY, (UPI) -- The University of Utah announced Thursday it would accept an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, thus expanding the league to 12 schools. Utah joined former Big 12 member Colorado in jumping to the Pac-10, which originally had hoped...

Colorado to join Pac-10 Conference WALNUT CREEK, Calif., (UPI) -- University of Colorado officials said Thursday the school would join the Pac-10 Conference, leaving the Big 12. Colorado is the second school said to be leaving the Big 12. Nebraska was reported Wednesday to be leaving for the...

UNITED NATIONS – The 189 member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on Friday adopted a detailed plan of small steps down a long road toward nuclear disarmament, including a sharply debated proposal to move toward banning doomsday arms from the Middle East. The 28-page final...

Sports Calendar for Tuesday, May 18 (All times Eastern) Baseball American League Minnesota at Toronto, 12:37 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Detroit, 1:05 p.m. Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m. Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. LA Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m...

NHL conference finals to open Sunday NEW YORK, (UPI) -- The National Hockey League announced Thursday that both the Eastern and Western Conference finals will begin Sunday. Top-seeded San Jose will host Chicago to open the Western Conference finals at 3 p.m. EDT. The opener of the Eastern...

NHL: San Jose 2, Detroit 1 SAN JOSE, Calif., May 9 (UPI) -- Patrick Marleau got the game-winning goal Saturday, boosting the San Jose Sharks to a 2-1 win over Detroit to clinch their Western Conference semifinal series. Marleau scored seven minutes into the final frame and Joe Thornton added a...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Tiger Woods will speak before he plays in the Masters. Woods is scheduled to hold his first press conference in nearly five months at 2 p.m. on Monday, April 5, according to a tentative interview schedule that Augusta National released Wednesday. It will be his first press...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to host a conference in Florida next month on his administration's approach to the next step in space exploration. The White House says Obama and top officials as well as leaders in space will discuss the future of U.S. efforts in human space flight...

Key allied pledges to the NATO-led international force in Afghanistan, in addition to the deployment of 30,000 U.S. reinforcements announced by President Barack Obama. Firm pledges are expected at a conference next Monday, and following the international conference on Afghanistan in January...

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Anti-piracy conference opens in Cairo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An international conference is being held in Cairo to discuss the growing problem of piracy. The meeting brings together experts in security, shipping and insurance as well...