LOS ANGELES AFP — A US judge was due to rule Wednesday on damages awarded in a copyright infringement suit filed over the popular Barbie doll by toy giant Mattel against MGA Entertainment, an MGA spokesman said. The federal court ruling was due in the latest step in...
LOS ANGELES AFP — A US jury has awarded Barbie-maker Mattel Inc. 100 million dollars in damages in its copyright fight against MGA Entertainment, whose popular Bratz doll has given Barbie a run for her money. The judge will have to decide on the final figure, but the...
DEAR ABBY: Would you please tell your readers that not reciting or participating in the Pledge of Allegiance does NOT mean that someone is a "bad American"? For religious reasons, I cannot say the Pledge. I sit quietly while it's recited, but unfortunately, others can't keep quiet about...
Dear Abby: Would you please tell your readers that not reciting or participating in the Pledge of Allegiance does NOT mean that someone is a "bad American"? For religious reasons, I cannot say the Pledge. I sit quietly while it's recited, but unfortunately, others can't keep quiet...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Mattel, maker of the ever-popular "Barbie" fashion doll, was awarded 100 million dollars in damages Tuesday, after a jury last month found MGA Entertainment in breach of contract for making the Barbie-rival "Bratz" doll. "Mattel has pursued this case first and foremost as a...
TOM DALEY'S great adventure ended more happily than it began with the 14-year-old diver finishing an impressive seventh in the 10m platform final. Team GB's youngest Olympian since Rome in 1960 returned to the Water Cube - the scene of his infamous spat with diving partner...
BEIJING -- A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification. Cuban coach Leudis Gonzalez offered no apology for Matos' actions during the men's over-80 kg (176 pounds) match. ...
THE young Georgian soldier spat the words out like a bad taste. "Russian pigs, " he said angrily, staring at the bloodstained uniforms of his comrades that lay on the ground in front of us. Soiled with a blue-black stain, the fatigue jackets lay among a heap...
MOURNERS are facing a barrage of abuse on their way to funerals because of a traffic row. A moped rider spat at a hearse driver and tried to assault him. And people are shouting as funeral corteges pass because they wrongly believe...
Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister and long-serving trade chief, is not one to dodge a spat. At World Trade Organization talks in Geneva last week over a global rulebook slated to boost world wealth by billions and lift millions out of poverty, he compared the U.S. and Europe’s tactics to...
Floyd's cash row leaves Novelli facing date in court The celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli is about to be dragged headfirst into an unseemly divorce spat between his friend Keith Floyd and his fourth wife Tess. The French heartthrob's name is among the list...
BANGKOK AFP — Thailand's cabinet agreed in principle Tuesday to pull back some troops from near a disputed temple on the Cambodian border, but did not commit to specific numbers or dates for the withdrawal. The two countries agreed in talks last week to pull back their forces...
WASHINGTON AFP — Ex-president Bill Clinton said in an interview Monday that he was not a racist, but refused to revisit his primary campaign spats with Barack Obama's campaign until after November's election. Clinton, who became embroiled in a string of controversies while backing his wife Hillary Clinton...
PR KING Max Clifford claims troubled Kerry Katona needs round- the-clock attention to stop her going off the rails. The manager-to-the-stars says the wife of former Westlife star Brian McFadden "is very difficult to manage and I have one person in the office working with her...
Alone in a darkened parking lot in central Bucks County, Heather Demou and Richard Patton had their deadly final spat. It ended, all agree, with Demou, a 34-year-old real estate agent, taking a fatal fall from the side of a pickup truck driven by Patton, a lawyer and former prosecutor....
BIRMINGHAM, England AFP — South Africa quick Andre Nel has insisted he will keep "Gunther", the nickname for his aggressive on-field personality, under control in the third Test against England here at Edgbaston. Fast bowler Nel is renowned for his verbal spats with opposition batsmen although it has...
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