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SANTIAGO, Chile - Millions of Chileans are voting Sunday for the first time in their lives in nationwide municipal elections that could set the stage for next year's presidential race. The timing is key. The vote tests where the heart of the electorate lies just weeks before the campaign for Chile's presidency formally begins. Any would-be candidates have to give up their political posts a year ahead of the Nov. 17, 2013 vote. The nation has been roiled by more than a year of mass protests over education and environmental policies that brought millions of young demonstrators into the streets, and only about a third of voters approve of the job that conservative President Sebastian Pinera has...

SITTWE, Myanmar â€" The top U.N. official in Myanmar says 22,000 people have been displaced in the country's strife-torn west after a week of violence between Bhuddists and...

Washington, October 28: With the White House race still a dead heat, the Nov 6 night could turn out to be the longest night in American political history with no clear winner emerging on the morrow. With Republican challenger Mitt Romney slightly ahead nationally in polls, but President Barack Obama maintaining a narrow edge in the electoral votes, poll watchers have raised the possibility of one winning the popular vote and the other still regaining the presidency. That has happened only four times in America's 51 presidential elections in 1824, 1876, 1888 and as recently as 2000 when George Bush won the White House in what Democrats called a 'stolen' election with just 537 more votes in...

SITTWE, Myanmar - The top U.N. official in Myanmar says 22,000 people have been displaced in the country's strife-torn west after a week of violence...

Curtis Campbell, Gleaner Writer In the glorious eras of the 1980s and '90s of reggae/dancehall music, there were various recording artistes who held major sway in the Jamaican music industry. Many of the artistes of the era were so good at their craft, that some music lovers will argue that local music was at its best in the '80s and '90s. If that is the case, why are so many of those artistes missing from the scene today? According to some, things and times have changed. "I think there has been a lot of changes in rhythm and the style of deejay and even the lyrics. A lot of artistes didn't bother to change with the time and right now there is a new generation with a...

YANGON: More than 22,000 people from mainly Muslim communities have been displaced by fresh unrest in western Myanmar that has killed dozens and seen whole neighbourhoods razed, the UN said Sunday. The United...

By Rick Rogers | email "Disco Days and Boogie Nights" When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada and a tsunami warning was issued, authorities said, but there were no immediate reports of major damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit the Queen Charlotte Islands just after 8 p.m. local time Saturday at a depth of about 3 miles (5 kilometes) and was centered 96 miles (155 kilometers) south of Masset, British Columbia. The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning...

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TOKYO: Four Chinese maritime surveillance ships were spotted in territorial waters around disputed Tokyo-controlled islands on Sunday, Japan's coastguard said. The ships...

Rome Some 150,000 people have converged here from across Italy to protest against the government's tax hikes and welfare cuts. They called for more jobs, increased investments in...

Sun. Oct. 28 Dr. John & the Blind Boys of Alabama at Macomb Center Mon. 29 • Arlo Guthrie at the Ark • Mux Mool with Sonnymoon and B. Lewis at Magic Stick Tue. 30 Quiet Company with Brick and Mortar at the Pike Room Wed. 31 • Clutch at Machine Shop • Hallowicked with Insane Clown Posse at the Fillmore Detroit Thu. Nov. 1 • Asia at Royal Oak Music Theatre • Todd Murray at the Berman Center Fri. 2 • Disney's "Phineas and Ferb Live: The Best Live Tour Ever!" at...

Related topics Philadelphia Museum of Art Advertisement TODAY: Community and Collaboration in the Printmaking Workshop-A lecture and panel discussion @ Philadelphia Museum of Art Auditorium Sunday, October 28, 2102 | 2:00- 4:30 PM *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Cultural identity, political and social issues, portraiture, and landscape, as well as patterning and pure abstraction, are some of the many concerns explored by the artists in the current exhibition "Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop." The exhibition features more than 50 print works by John Biggers, Moe Brooker, Joyce de Guatemala, Sam Gilliam, Mei-ling Hom, Ibrahim...

WAYNE PARRY Associated Press= SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. (AP) — Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way. "We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As Hurricane Sandy barreled north from the Caribbean — where it left nearly five dozen dead — to meet two other powerful winter...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Richard Goodman turned quiet. He had to give this one some thought. The last time he fielded a kickoff deep in the end zone and didn't take it out for a return … "I took a knee," Goodman said at his locker with about a five-second pause, "maybe Atlanta, I think it was. It was a home game. He kicked the ball outside of where we trying to go to." It doesn't happen often. The Chargers kick returner has made a habit of returning the ball from the deepest recesses of the end zone, kneeling down on rare occasion, including the Week 3 kickoff against the...

Australian PM Julia Gillard has outlined a major foreign policy plan aimed at improving Asian ties. A government white paper sets out 25 national objectives to be met by 2025, with targets ranging from improving trade links to teaching more Mandarin. Mrs Gillard said she wanted to refocus Australia away from Europe's "old countries" towards its near neighbours - particularly China and India. The plan...

Related topics HorrorWrong Turn 5 BloodlinesVideo20th Century FoxDoug Bradley Rating for Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines 2 Advertisement When the original Wrong Turn hit theaters, who would have thought it would have spawned 4 sequels? Ask any horror fan and they aren't surprised as this series has everything needed for a franchise. The last entry went back to deliver a prequel story and worked pretty well. The latest entry Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines plays as a sequel to part 4 continuing on the prequel storyline. Wrong Turn 5 follows a group of college kids visiting a small town for the Mountain Man Festival, but their thoughts of fun are thwarted quickly when a family of inbred cannibals unleash...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians are electing a parliament on Sunday in a vote tainted by the jailing of top opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and fears of election fraud. With the former premier serving a seven-year sentence on abuse of office charges and the opposition split into two parties, President Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions is expected to retain its parliamentary majority. Yanukovych takes credit for bringing stability to the ex-Soviet state after years of political infighting, increasing social spending and co-hosting the European soccer championship this summer. But his democracy record is poor. Tymoshenko's Fatherland party and a party led by world boxing champion Vitali...

All Australian schoolchildren will be able to learn Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese or Bahasa Indonesia under a new government strategy...

A magnitude-5.8 earthquake has struck off the coast of western Canada and a tsunami...

Related topics LincolnDaniel Day-LewisTime Magazinemovie reviewbest actor Advertisement Time magazine just this past Friday declared that British actor Daniel Day-Lewis is the best actor currently working his craft on planet Earth. He's a great actor no doubt, and one who's done a lot of amazing work. He's shown an incredible range that few have ever had. Hard to believe that the same actor who played so foppishly foolish in "A Room with a View" could play so utterly terrifying in "Gangs of New York". Still, what's even a more amazing accomplishment is that Day-Lewis has built such a reputation with a fairly small body of work, less than twenty films over 30 years. And in the last twenty...

Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer The cover art of Peter Tosh's final studio album, the 1987 No Nuclear War, is a combination of protest and triumph, of fear and defiance. The globe is partially submerged in a sea of fire, the mushroom of a nuclear explosion covering Africa and consuming from North America upwards, yet the bare-chested, dreadlocked figure stands like a conqueror on the United States and Soviet missiles which caused the mayhem. The dreadlocked man has on a gas mask, yet stands with legs splayed and arms outspread in a pose reminiscent of a vampire, not seared by the flames. And, imprinted in red against the white 'Nuclear' in the title...

Related topics HorrorHalloween ResurrectionVideoEcho Bridge EntertainmentKatee SackhoffJamie Lee Curtis Rating for Halloween: Resurrection 2 Advertisement After the successful ending of the Laurie and apparently Myers, storyline it was pretty much thought that was it. So when Resurrection came to be it was a bit confusing how they were going to make this work after Myers fateful end. In this film it follows a team of reality programmers putting on an online show featuring a group of teens in the childhood home of Myers. Little to the know Myers has come home and the cameras and the internet world will witness his rampage. The beginning of this film plays really well into the Laurie story...

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Voting stations have opened in the second round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections, with the results likely to determine whether...

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainians are electing a parliament on Sunday in a vote tainted by the jailing of top opposition leader Yulia...

JERUSALEM -- Indonesia: Plotters targeted U.S. Embassy Indonesia's anti-terror squad arrested 11 people suspected of planning attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. Embassy and a site near the Australian Embassy, police said Saturday. National police spokesman Maj. Gen. Suhardi Alius said the suspects arrested Friday and Saturday belong...

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Voting stations have opened in the second round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections, with the results likely to determine...

Jorge Lorenzo secured his second MotoGP world championship as he finished second in the Australian GP. Australian Casey Stoner won at Phillip Island for the sixth year in a row, but Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the lead. Pedrosa, who needed to finish ahead of fellow Spaniard Lorenzo to keep the title race alive going into the final race of the season, crashed on lap two. Briton Cal Crutchlow claimed third, his second podium finish of the season. Yamaha rider Lorenzo, who first won the title in 2010, started the race with a 23-point advantage over Pedrosa and was as good as handed...

Washington, October 28: A pregnant Sikh woman in a Northern California city been arrested on charges of killing her mother-in-law who died of "blunt force trauma" to the head. Baljit Kaur, 68, was found dead at her residence in Yuba City on October 24. According to preliminary autopsy results she died of "blunt force trauma" to the head, the police said. "The police on Friday arrested her daughter-in-law, Baljinder Kaur, 37, on charges of killing Baljit," the Sutter County...