Saturday’s funeral for legendary pop singer Whitney Houston is expected to be made available for television and web streaming from the New Jersey church where she grew up, Houston’s publicist said Wednesday. The services, to be held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, will be in a much smaller, more intimate setting than the [...]

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A rare Sumatran rhino born at the Cincinnati Zoo will soon be a father. Andalas was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2002, the first of his species born in captivity in more than 112 years, the zoo said. Two more endangered Sumatran rhinos have been born at the zoo since then. Andalas was sent [...]

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Start ordering your cheese and wine and planning your Oscars parties, the nominees have been announced for the 2012 Academy Awards. Hot off the win from the Golden Globes, The Descendants scored five nominations in big categories but it was Hugo and The Artist that both roped in 10 nominations to lead the way. Extremely [...]

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Plans call for roughly 1,000 boats of various sizes to gather June 3 for an unprecedented tribute to the queen, who is marking the 60th year of her reign. The flotilla will be over seven miles long and include barges on which original works composed for the jubilee will be performed. The event is planned [...]

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Fred Prouser/ReutersShowtime has been promoting “House of Lies” for what seems like the better part of a year, so there was a lot of anticipation for Sunday night’s series premiere. But the show, about a team of management consultants led by Marty (Oscar-nominated actor and executive producer Don Cheadle), crammed a lot of plot into [...]

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