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Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early (AP)
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, center, greets U.S. troops as he tours the training grounds of Camp Blackhorse, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.  (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.

Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius (Reuters)
In this Feb. 7, 2010 photo, the tailends of unsold 2010 Toyota Prius sedans form a long line at a Toyota dealership in Lakewood, Colo. Toyota owners and stockholders have peppered the Japanese automaker with more than 80 class-action lawsuits in the wake of widespread recalls, some contending that defective engineering has caused injuries or deaths and others claiming the company's woes have damaged the value of the vehicles. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.

Bomb kills 5 as Gates, Ahmadinejad visit Afghanistan (AFP)
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates inspects troops at Camp Blackhorse training ground in Kabul. A car bomb has killed five people in Afghanistan as the Iranian president and the US defence secretary pay duelling visits to the war-torn country.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - A car bomb killed five people in Afghanistan on Wednesday, as the Iranian president and the defence secretary of Iran's arch-foe, the United States, paid duelling visits to the war-torn country.

AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress (AP)
President Barack Obama speaks with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou during a ceremony honoring Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.

Israel apologizes for embarrassing Biden (AP)
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. Biden was to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in part to ease their doubts about the latest U.S. peace efforts. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a shadow over the latest U.S. push for Mideast peace.

Dunleavy, Los Angeles Clippers sever ties (AP)
FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010, file photo, then-Los Angeles Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy glares at his team during an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta. Dunleavy is out as general manager of the Clippers, barely a month after relinquishing his head coaching duties. The team announced it severed ties with Dunleavy late Tuesday afternoon, March 9, 2010, in an e-mail. Assistant general manager Neil Olshey will take over Dunleavy's job. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)AP - Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers parted company for good Tuesday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager.

Aid group attacked in northwest Pakistan; 6 dead (AP)
Map locates Mansehra, Pakistan, where a suicide bomber struck World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian groupAP - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organization said.

Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating (Reuters)
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown gestures as he bids farewell to Jordan's King Abdullah (not pictured) on the steps of 10 Downing Street central London March 9, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew WinningReuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.

Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

First Iraq vote results expected by Thursday: U.N. (Reuters)
An Iraqi soldier secures workers unloading boxes of parliamentary election ballots at a tally centre in Baghdad March 9, 2010. Iraq held their parliamentary election on Sunday. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said Wednesday.

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Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies (AP)
U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan poses prior to attend to the German fashion designer Karl Lagarfeld's Fall-Winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear collection for Chanel fashion house, in Paris Tuesday March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.

Bigelow's Oscars will change Hollywood, slowly (Reuters)
Reuters - "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow wrapped her fingers around that little golden man called Oscar on Sunday and cracked one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, but truly shattering it may take more time.

Film, TV casting briefs (Reuters)
Reuters - Actress Spencer Locke has been cast in a guest spot on the CW's "Vampire Diaries." She will play Amber Bradley, a girl who enters a beauty pageant along with Elena and Caroline. Locke has appeared in the ABC series "Cougar Town," the film "Resident Evil: Extinction" and the Nick series "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide."

Girls Gone Wild associate fined $5,000; no prison (AP)
AP - A Hollywood associate of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis was fined $5,000 Monday but spared prison time for his role as the "bag man" in the bribery of jail guards to help Francis when he was held in Reno on tax evasion charges in 2007.

STAGE TO SCREENS: Brian Geraghty of "The Hurt Locker" and 'The Subject Was Roses' (Playbill)
Playbill - Meet Brian Geraghty, the rising star of the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" and Mark Taper Forum's The Subject Was Roses.

John Krasinski joins "Something" romantic comedies (Reuters)
Reuters - John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side."

De Niro signs up to play football icon Lombardi (Reuters)
Actor Robert DeNiro poses backstage at the 10th Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala in Beverly Hills in this October 23, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Fred ProuserReuters - He has played killers and cops in the movies, and two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro may soon take on the role of iconic U.S. football coach Vince Lombardi in a film backed by sports television network ESPN.

"Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" a cold-case chiller (Reuters)
Reuters - Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.

Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA (AP)
AP - Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.

Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson join suspense film (Reuters)
Reuters - Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson have been cast in the suspense film "The Ledge," which began shooting Monday in Baton Rouge, La.

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R&B star Akon goes to Bollywood (AFP)
US R&B star Akon (seen here in January 2010) is to record a track for a Bollywood film, following in the footsteps of rapper Snoop Dogg who raised his profile in the 1.2-billion-strong Indian market with a similar foray.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jason Merritt)AFP - US R&B star Akon is to record a track for a Bollywood film, following in the footsteps of rapper Snoop Dogg who raised his profile in the 1.2-billion-strong Indian market with a similar foray.

Osmonds return to stage after death of Marie's son (AP)
AP - Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death

Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies (AP)
U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan poses prior to attend to the German fashion designer Karl Lagarfeld's Fall-Winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear collection for Chanel fashion house, in Paris Tuesday March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.

Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011 (AP)
Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, before attending the weekly caucus luncheons. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.

Paice, Luker, Dvorsky and Petkoff Set for 'Enchanted April' Musical Reading (Playbill)
Playbill - Jill Paice, Rebecca Luker, George Dvorsky and Robert Petkoff will take part in a reading of the new musical adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's 1922 novel Enchanted April.

HBO's `The Pacific' joins `Band of Brothers' ranks (AP)
AP - Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg swapped other people's war stories to groundbreaking, heartbreaking effect in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers."

Leibovitz can keep portfolio under new debt deal (AP)
FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2009 file photo, U.S. photographer Annie Leibovitz poses for the media, prior to a media tour through her exhibition 'Annie Leibovitz - A Photographer's Life 1990 - 2005', at Kunsthaus Gallery in Vienna. Leibovitz has entered into an agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her portfolio of celebrity images. Colony Capital LLC spokeswoman Caroline Luz said Tuesday, March 9, 2010, that the photographer and the firm signed the deal Monday. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)AP - Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture's most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both sides said Tuesday.

Disney sets March 19 deadline for Miramax bids (Reuters)
Reuters - Hollywood's dealmakers have a busy couple of weeks ahead of them.

Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident (AP)
El comité encargado del segmento 'In Memorian' dentro de la ceremonia del Oscar dijo que se omitió a la actriz Farrah Fawcett porque era más conocida como estrella de televisión, que de cine.  (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, ARCHIVO)AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.

John Krasinski joins "Something" romantic comedies (Reuters)
Reuters - John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side."

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