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AP - Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar joined tens of thousands of people in a march through the Spanish capital on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq and to demand the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

AP - More than 1,400 artifacts — protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland — were returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan on Saturday.

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AP - A waltz. A tango. A piece of jazz. But they weren't composed in Vienna, Buenos Aires or New Orleans.

AP - A waltz. A tango. A piece of jazz. But they weren't composed in Vienna, Buenos Aires or New Orleans.

AP - Joe Hill knew it was only a matter of time before one of the publishing industry's hottest little secrets became common knowledge. He just wished he could have kept it under wraps a bit longer.

AP - Cate Blanchett is in negotiations to star opposite Harrison Ford in the long-awaited fourth installment of the "Indiana Jones" series, her publicist confirmed Saturday.

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AP - All those years of answers and questions, and it's never happened before on "Jeopardy!" What is a three-way tie, Alex? The three contestants on the venerable game show all finished with $16,000 after each answering the final question correctly in the category, "Women of the 1930s," on Friday's show. They identified Bonnie Parker, of the famed Bonnie and Clyde crime duo, as a woman who, as a waitress, once served one of the men who shot her.

AP - All those years of answers and questions, and it's never happened before on "Jeopardy!" What is a three-way tie, Alex? The three contestants on the venerable game show all finished with $16,000 after each answering the final question correctly in the category, "Women of the 1930s," on Friday's show. They identified Bonnie Parker, of the famed Bonnie and Clyde crime duo, as a woman who, as a waitress, once served one of the men who shot her.

Reuters - Avril Lavigne's soundtrack pit stop "Keep Holding On" from "Eragon" -- top 10 at adult top 40 and top 20 at mainstream top 40 -- shows the softer side of the artist . More Info...  

Reuters - When Montreal-based rock group Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" debuted this week at No. 2 on the U.S. album charts with sales of 92,000 units, 27,000 of those were sold digitally, according to Nielsen SoundScan. More Info...  

Reuters - "Pride" combines the two main themes in the current plethora of sports movies -- the inspirational victory and a "Bad News Bears" team that goes from ragtag to riches. Throw in historical black empowerment, too, which does occasionally crop up in films like "Glory Road." More Info...  

AP - Carol Burnett has filed a $2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming her cleaning woman character was portrayed on the animated series "Family Guy." The U.S. District Court lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, said the Fox show didn't have the 73-year-old comedian's permission to include her cleaning woman character, Charwoman, in an April 2006 episode.

AP - Larry King underwent vascular surgery Friday and was expected to return Monday to his CNN talk show. King, 73, was admitted to Cedars Sinai Medical Center where doctors performed carotid endarterectomy surgery, which removes plaque from the carotid artery and can restore blood flow.

AP - How tough could this be? That's what Fox reality show guru Mike Darnell thought when the people pitching "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" asked him to answer six questions they would use on the game. Three wrong answers later, a hit show was born.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — David Duchovny, who starred as special agent Fox Mulder in "The X-Files," will return to television in a new Showtime comedy about a self-destructive writer. The 46-year-old actor will play Hank, a novelist whose "obsession with truth-telling and self-destructive behavior — drinks, drugs and relationships — are both destroying and enriching his career," the cable network announced Thursday.

Reuters - Patrick Swayze and Melissa Gilbert will star as Pa and Ma in an April workshop presentation of "Prairie," a musical version of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie."

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AP - Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston who killed himself last week, left behind a note in which he called himself "a lonely soul," according to police reports released Thursday.

AP - Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston who killed himself last week, left behind a note in which he called himself "a lonely soul," according to police reports released Thursday.

AP - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rico's all-time top-selling artist, added a new honor to go with his multiple Grammy awards on Thursday — he was named king of the 50th annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York. Parade organizers said the honor recognizes Martin's musical success and his efforts to fight the exploitation of children worldwide.

Reuters - Casual fans who were hoping for a parade of Eric Clapton's radio hits were disappointed Wednesday, or at least mildly frustrated. Then again, there was enough guitar mastery onstage at Staples Center to satisfy a blues stickler, a rock die-hard, even a pure metalhead.