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Warner Bros. Consumer Products Stomps Onto The Show Floor At Licensing Expo 2013 In Las Vegas Legendary Pictures Godzilla Leads Strong Portfolio of Entertainment Properties to Be Showcased Including Films Television TV Classics Animation and Su

BURBANK, Calif., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) stomps into Licensing Expo 2013 with a massive footprint and impressive lineup of licensees to support the studio's coveted properties. Returning the character to its epic roots, Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' Godzilla is exciting fans around the world in advance of its 2014 ...
FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffas remains ends

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 and announced the FBI was ending the search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos ...
Latest blow to Egypts tourism Luxors governor

President Morsi has enraged residents in Luxor, one of Egypt's main tourism destinations, by appointing as governor a former member of Al Gamaa ...
Egypt appoints former terrorist as Luxor Governor

Adel Mohamed al-Khayat is a former leader of terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya -- which in 1997 sent a terrorist squad that massacred 62 tourists before killing themselves at the ancient Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor -- and now he's a governor. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi this ...
Egypt tourism minister resigns over Luxor governors terror links

Egypt 's tourism minister has resigned in protest over the appointment as Luxor governor of a member of a hardline Islamist group associated with terrorists who killed at least 58 tourists in 1997.Hisham Zaazou, whose resignation has not yet been accepted by Egypt's prime minister, ...

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Freeway

"Freeway" makes blank stabs at being social satire by putting a 90's spin on the ancient fable "Red Riding Hood," but instead it quickly spirals into a banal waste of time. The spin is that Red Riding Hood is a hardened toughie who fights back against the Wolf. This is an interesting idea, but Matthew Bright, the writer/director of "Freeway" doesn't deliver a script worthy of its satirical intent ... ...

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North Las Vegas set to decide on controversial mortgage-seizure plan

A the front door of a vacant home is shown in North Las Vegas April 2, 2013. A neighbor said it has been vacant for about six months. (1513 Splinter Rock, North Las ...
Star chef cooking up new surprise

Star chef Jose Andres' midrecession gamble in Las Vegas continues to pay off. Andres, who has three restaurants at The Cosmopolitan and an upcoming venture in SLS Las Vegas, said he's sitting on a "surprise" announcement. "I can't say any more right now," said the Washington, D.C.-based chef who added Las Vegas to his growing empire 3 years ago when The ...
Commission overrules staff on jail food bid

Clark County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to hire a more expensive food service provider for the Clark County Detention Center after the company protested the bid outcome. The vote gives Aramark Correctional Services a $5 million annual contract. County staff had passed over Aramark's bid in favor of New Era Foods Co. of San Ramon, Calif. New Era Foods Co. had pegged the ...
NSA director says sweeping surveillance program foiled plot against Wall Street

WASHINGTON - The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret ...
Vegas Strip to Be Home of Arena

LAS VEGAS | Casino giant MGM Resorts International and entertainment company AEG announced Tuesday that it will build a privately financed 20,000- seat indoor venue on the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts and Los Angeles based AEG said in a joint announcement that construction should start next summer on the $350 million arena on land the casino company owns between the New York-New ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Theo Walcott enjoys 'wild' stag party with pals in Las Vegas

Theo Walcott was seen having fun in his "wild" stag party in Las Vegas.

The 24-year-old footie ace spent most of the day cuddling his friends before staying in at night, the Sun reported.

Walcott was enjoying his last days of freedom before he gets married to childhood sweetheart Melanie Slade.

He was surrounded by local beauties hoping to get to know Waloctt but he was more comfortable chatting up with his friends including Arsenal team-mate Kieran Gibbs and Kieran's twin Jaydon. (ANI)