Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:28 am PST AP - The fourth major typhoon to hit the Philippines in four months killed 198 people and left 260 others missing, officials said Friday.
| Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:26 am PST AP - American forces conducted raids in and around Baghdad on Friday, killing two insurgents and wounding an Iraqi woman the militants were using as a "human shield," the U.S.
command said.
| Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:23 am PST AP - Mexican leader Felipe Calderon got a head start Friday on opponents trying to block his inauguration, taking charge of the presidential residence and swearing in some of his staff in an unusual midnight ceremony.
| AP - Chinese courts on Friday ruled against a blind activist and a researcher for The New York Times in two cases that have attracted international attention as examples of government retribution against dissent.
| Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:54 am PST AP - Hundreds of heavily armed police and combat troops unfurled barbed wire and erected barricades around the Lebanese prime minister's office on Friday, girding for a large protest against the Western-backed leader.
| Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:44 am PST Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:48 am PST AP - DEAD SEA, Jordan ? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threw herself at two intractable Mideast problems ?
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq ? during a brief trip to the region, and encountered the reality that the U.S.
has few options other than patience.
| AP - Police on Thursday found the bullet-ridden bodies of two men, including a missing journalist, just days after the body of another slain reporter was found in the area, authorities said.
| Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:33 am PST AFP - South Africa has unveiled plans to halve the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus within five years by persuading youngsters to delay the start of their sex lives.
| Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:37 am PST AFP - Sri Lanka's defence secretary, the brother of the president, has narrowly escaped death when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up in the heart of Colombo.
| AFP - Tens of thousands of Australians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the country's major cities to a halt.
| Mary in "The Nativity Story.
" It's best to think of "The Nativity Story" as a Hollywood version of the kind of Christmas production some of the "Peanuts" kids put on in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." This is not meant as a criticism. Quite the contrary.
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Mike Rich, "The Nativity Story" sticks to the familiar details of the narrative and dramatizes them with sincerity and good taste. There are no flights of actorly or cinematic bravura ? though all of the performances are credible, and some better than that ? and very few big, showy, epic gestures. Rather than trying to reinterpret or modernize a well-known, cherished story, the filmmakers have rendered it with a quiet, unassuming professionalism. Review by A.
O. SCOTT Brad Silberling's new movie has nothing to prove, and not all that much to say, but its modesty and good humor make it hard to resist. If stupidity were a crime, the nitwits in the cheap horror flick "Turistas" would be doing time in Attica.
Sexual oddities and sexual abuse, the ravages of war, the challenges of immigration, human disabilities and the writer's life: all will be recurring themes at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. When it comes to power games, some in Hollywood are beginning to learn a basic lesson of digital politics: the Internet plays rough. In Brett Morgen's documentary about the Chicago Seven, not everyone is flesh and blood.
The new DVD of "Pandora's Box" is one of the finest Criterion Collection releases in quite some time ? a definitive edition of a seemingly inexhaustible film. sjrotts said: "An extraordinary accomplishment.
Coming at the tail end of a year that finds no fewer than 16 animated films eligible for Oscar consideration, it surfaces as the only one so far with the guts to provoke kids and adults to actually get up out of their comfort zones and do something other than go out and buy the pop-up playsets that masquerade as books, march into a fast food restaurant for the free toys that come with the fries or download the theme song ringtones." (Five Stars)
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