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By not in system - AOL NewsA Swedish actor who appeared in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" films and his wife are feared dead after fire destroyed their home in Sweden. Firefighters in Skara in Vastergotland, in southwestern Sweden, were called Friday to the home of Per Oscarsson and Kia Ostling. By the time they arrived at the home, located outside of town, only the chimney was left standing, Sveriges Radio reported. Bjorn Larsson Rosvall, Scanpix Sweden/AP Actor Per Oscarsson is believed to have died along with his wife in a fire at their home near Skara, Sweden. The remains of one person were pulled ...
Year in Review: Five Women on Top in Pop Culture
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyAt year's end we've got a rich crop of uppity women -- real and imagined -- who left their deep prints on popular culture in 2010. Some are famous, some are obscure. Some are not widely known by name but known for what they did. But all had a measure of influence on society, on the media, on politics, on the entertainment business, on the national conversation. They helped reshape the cultural landscape while enraging and entertaining, shocking and inspiring millions of people, for good or bad. My top five: 1. Sarah Palin -- she'll be on everyone's list. A genius at media dominance, her ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to Be Questioned in Molestation Claim
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIt was just five weeks ago when Julian Assange, the pale and white-haired antiwar hacker now enmeshed in a potential scandal, became a celebrity in the West, standing lean and tall at the white-hot center of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, which had just released 77,000 secret Afghan battlefield reports placing U.S. military operations in a harsh light. When the Pentagon requested removal of the classified documents from his site, Assange refused. Predictably, in our age of instant fame, a cult grew around Assange, an Australian who at 39 wears the aura of man of mystery, moving under ...
Stress Management: Can I Rent a Wife?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- My colleague Joann Weiner recently wrote a post for this site in which she described the blissful, stress-free summer week she just enjoyed in Washington, D.C., while her family was out of town. She exercised . . . she went out to dinner . . . she tried beer ice cream . . . she even -- gasp -- took time to smell the proverbial flowers. I'm happy for Jo. Truly I am. It's just that after I read her post, I took one look at the way I've spent the last seven days and thought: What's wrong with this picture? You see, I'm having a different sort of week. I call it a "Calgon" week. Don't ...
Auschwitz Sign Theft Linked to Far-Right Terrorist Plot
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- In a holiday season already marked by lapsed security, heightened anxiety and political recrimination, things just got a little bit worse. New developments in the investigation into the disappearance of the entrance sign at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland suggest that the theft was part of a larger far-right terrorist plot in Sweden. ...
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