The Rudd government has rejected a formal request from the Bush administration to take in a group of Chinese detained in Guantanamo Bay.
President-elect Barack Obama's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, is moving into the White House.
World Wrestling Entertainment, a US media group whose superstar wrestlers body-slam their opponents into oblivion, has unveiled a round of job cuts.
Angelina Jolie, who has been lying low since the birth of her 5-month-old twins, is thinking about a brief return to film, but very brief.
The Slovak Republic has won a third Hopman Cup in Perth, beating Russia 2-0 in the final of the mixed teams tennis tournament.
Polaroid Corp has reinvented itself for the digital age, launching a digital camera which makes instant full-colour prints.
A mother who is the first woman in Britain to have a baby selected free of a gene which causes breast cancer has given birth successfully, doctors say.
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