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Activision has altered the name for Modern Warfare 2 yet again. First it was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, then it was just Modern Warfare 2. Now it's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 yet again.

Google has just launched a new feature of Image Search which is aimed at helping users find images that are free to use based on their usage licenses, such as Creative Commons, GNU free documentation and other intellectual property agreement.

Funny guy Jim Carrey is going to be a Pepaw! Jim's 21-year-old daughter, Jane Carrey, is expecting her first child with longtime boyfriend Alex Santana, a rep for the 47-year-old star confirmed on Thursday.

By John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service July 9, 2009 - A key measurement of success in Afghanistan will be the attitude of Afghans affected by U.S.-led operations, the military's second-ranking military officer said today.

City prosecutors have declined to file charges in a obstruction case in which a Seattle teen says her boyfriend was roughed up and arrested by police during a chaotic incident Tuesday night in Downtown Seattle.

A bungling robber who set fire to his getaway car before he carried out an armed raid was arrested moments later as he fled on foot.

Police have arrested a 25-year-old Comcast Corp. employee after a check-cashing store in Portland was robbed and a female employee was clubbed in the head with a crowbar.

The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said a man shot and killed an 8-year-old child Wednesday afternoon and then shot himself.

LIMERICK MURDER TRIAL: ONE OF Limerick's most notorious gangland criminals has been jailed for life for a contract killing in the city two years ago.

In the following press release Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced today the indictment of 13 individuals and a mortgage origination company for perpetrating over $100 million in mortgage fraud over a four-year period in the New York City metropolitan area.

THE Detroit Pistons are close to appointing John Kuester as their new coach, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Tuesday.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Wednesday rejected Radovan Karadzic's request to dismiss his indictment based on a claim that he cut an immunity deal with U.S. peace envoy Richard Holbrooke.

If you thought Google's OS ambitions would end with Android, think again.A The search giant has announced Google Chrome OS, an "open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks", and which promises a start-up to internet-ready delay of just seconds.A Google Chrome OS is the Chrome browser running within a new ...

Rasmussen reports President Obama's Presidential Approval Index fell to -3 . That is Obama's lowest rating to date.

GARDAI ARE hopeful a blood stain found in the getaway vehicle used in the Wayne Doherty murder will formally identify a man centrally involved in the chain of events that led to the killing.

The singer and actress Queen Latifah speaks during the memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles yesterday - an event that was expected to be watched by millions around the world.

Posted by Michael Sangiacomo/Plain Dealer Reporter July 07, 2009 08:40AM Summit County Jail George McDay III UPDATED 10:02 A.M. AKRON - An Akron man was charged today with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of his brother after an argument at the apartment they shared.

Posted on July 7th, 2009 9:01 AM by Free Britney Filed under: Sahel Kazemi , Steve McNair Nashville Police investigating the shooting deaths of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi held a press conference last night in which officials described their investigation of events leading up to the killings.

Virginia Madsen has joined the cast of "Father of Invention", the indie comedy from Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Productions.A Spacey plays a down-on-his-luck inventor turned billionaire-inventor who once again finds himself down on his luck when an invention goes horribly awry - that Slap-Chop was always too good to be true.A Madsen will play ...

Six weeks after Phil Mickelson announced his wife had breast cancer, his mother was diagnosed with the disease and is to have surgery later this week.