NEW YORK – Will Ferrell and Adam McKay forged their partnership years ago on “Saturday Night Live.” Now, in a much different way, the two are back on TV with a sketch comedy show.
On Friday at midnight, HBO will premiere “Funny or Die Presents,” a new half hour series that compiles clips from the comedy [...]

WASHINGTON – Glenn Beck says it’s still morning in America: a head-pounding, hangover morning.
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The conservative commentator drew cheers from conservative activists Saturday night in a speech that implored Republicans to renounce profligate ways in Washington, let big banks fail and honor true conservative principles.
Beck was keynote speaker for the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. [...]

EDMONTON, Alberta – Here’s something for “Gossip Girl” to talk about.
Actress and singer Hilary Duff, who had a recurring guest role on the popular CW series last season, is engaged to Edmonton Oilers forward Mike Comrie.
Publicist Nanci Ryder says the two were engaged last weekend while vacationing in Hawaii. She says in an e-mail distributed [...]

DUBAI: Visitors on the observation deck of the world’s tallest tower heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floors above the ground. The 15 people inside were trapped for 45 frightening minutes until rescuers managed to pry open the doors.
Because the elevator [...]

BEIJING：Senior Chinese leader He Guoqiang has stressed the country’s determination and efforts in fighting corruption in a lengthy report published Tuesday, saying current anti-graft situation was still “grave.”
“While fully acknowledging the achievements, we should see clearly that many problems still exist in our fight against corruption… the situation is still grave and the task is [...]

WASHINGTON: The United States is developing a “significant regime of sanctions” after Iran apparently spurned an offer to negotiate over its suspect nuclear program, president Barack Obama said Tuesday.
In his most extensive remarks on Iran in some time, Obama said Iran appears to have spurned his offer of engagement. He says Iran is still pursuing [...]

This is a damn disgrace!
I hope the World will stage a condemnation of this American contemptuous inhumane act.
Subsidizing the burning of grains, whilst hundreds of millions are starving.
Yanks have no shame!
One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars – not people, new figures showNew analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests [...]

How many people know that we, I mean all Chinese, are being insulted everyday by a small segment of society in Hong Kong.
Do you know that the High Court Judges insist on masquerading as 17th century English noblemen by wearing powdered shoulder length wigs to work?   And the senior lawyers also wear wigs to work. Â
What [...]

Though China is very likely to replace Japan as the second largest economic powerhouse this year after the Unites States, the country’s economy cannot rival Japan’s in per capita GDP (gross domestic product), a fact that the Chinese should be soberly aware of.
And the economic status that China will likely attain is expected to influence [...]