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'Baby Mama' bounces to No. 1 at box office.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "Baby Mama," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Universal Pictures laugher starring the "Saturday Night Live" duo crawled past Warner Bros.' "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," the goofy stoner flick that opened at No. 2 with $14.6 million. With a third comedy, Universal's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," holding its own at No. 4 with $11 million, audiences looked to be flocking to theaters to get giddy. read more cnn.com

Trinny and Susannah strip naked to celebrate the British body.

Flesh pink may not be the most flattering shade for everyone - but for once, Trinny and Susannah didn't care. The style gurus who made their names telling us how best to cover up our lumps and bumps stripped off with 300 others at the weekend to celebrate the British body in all its shapes and sizes. They asked volunteers to lie on the ground on the Sussex Downs and form living sculptures of a man and a woman in an "en masse celebration". And of course, they had to bare all too. Trinny Woodall said: "We never ask people to do things we aren't prepared to do ourselves. No one is going to be zoomed in on. read more -dailymail.co.uk

Dozens dead in Chinese train crash.

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, according to China's official news agency. One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed into a train which was traveling from the Shandong city of Yantai to Xuzhou in the eastern Jiangsu Province, according to a report by the state-run Xinhua news agency. The wreck happened in the city of Zibo in Shandong Province at 4:43 a.m., the report said. "Most passengers were still asleep, but some were standing in the aisle waiting to get off at the Zibo Railway Station," a passenger named Zhang was quoted as saying by Xinhua. read more -cnn.com

Wildfires force Californians from homes.

SIERRA MADRE, California (CNN) -- A 400-acre wildfire raging through dry brush and shrubs in Southern California was about 30 percent contained by Sunday afternoon, an official said. "Winds are very favorable right now, they're very light, humidity was up today at about 20 percent," said Marc Peebles, of the Southern California Incident Management team, which has assumed control of fighting the blaze in Sierra Madre's mountains. "Hopefully, the weather's going to hold," Peebles said at a Sunday afternoon news conference. Authorities ordered about 1,000 people to flee their homes Sunday, and Peebles said all Sierra Madre schools would be closed Monday. read more -cnn.com

Bodies found in Ukrainian shipwreck,the Neftegaz-67.

Eighteen sailors went missing after the tug sank on March 22 off the Hong Kong coast after colliding with a large Chinese bulk carrier to settle 37m under water. The wreck remained submerged for 37 days before authorities managed to deploy one of Asia's largest floating derricks - the Hua Tian Long - to lift the tug to the surface yesterday. A Hong Kong police spokesman said seven more bodies had been recovered from the wreck since then. Of the 18 missing sailors, a total of 10 bodies have so far been found. Days after the sinking, rescue divers scrambled to find possible survivors in the upturned wreck, but only managed to recover three corpses before the search was called off. Only seven members of the 25-strong crew are known to have survived. read more -news.com.au

Wild elephants kill children in Bangladesh.

A girl was killed and six bamboo houses flattened as elephants ravaged a village near Cox's Bazar district town, 400km from the capital Dhaka today. A boy was killed and a man seriously injured when wild elephants strayed into another village in the same district yesterday. Five houses were levelled by the rampaging elephants. In both the attacks, the villagers fled their homes but later returned with drums and firecrackers to scare off the herds of wild elephants. read more -news.com.au

Scoop: Miley Cyrus' embarrassing photo shoot.

It didn’t take long for Miley Cyrus fans (and their parents) to become outraged over racy photos of the 15-year-old that appear in the June issue of Vanity Fair. In the images, Cyrus appears topless save for a bedsheet. Not so much the image Disney is striving for, one would imagine. As it turns out, Cyrus didn’t imagine the photos looking so provocative either. The images were snapped by the legendary Annie Leibowitz, and according to a magazine source, “Cyrus felt that she was in imminently good hands.” read more -msnbc.msn.com

My Family's Kris Marshall in intensive care.

Actor Kris Marshall, the star of BBC television series My Family, is in intensive care with head injuries after being hit by a car, police confirmed. The accident happened as Mr Marshall, 34, enjoyed a night out with friends in Bristol city centre on Saturday night. He was taken to Bristol Royal Infirmary where a scan revealed head injuries. Mr Marshall remains in intensive care but his condition is improving, his mother told the BBC. A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: "There was a collision between a car and pedestrian shortly before 1am on Sunday. "It happened in St Augustine's Parade in Bristol City Centre. A man in his 30s was taken to hospital with head injuries not considered to be life-threatening. read more -telegraph.co.uk

Father admits raping daughter, holding her captive.

AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- A 73-year-old man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in his home cellar for nearly 24 years and fathering seven children by her, Austrian police say. Austrian police spokesman Franz Polzer says the man, known as Mr. F., has admitted holding his daughter hostage for more than two decades and raping her repeatedly. He also told police that one of the children he fathered by his daughter Elisabeth F was a twin who died. The dead baby's body was burned in an oven inside the house, Mr. F. told detectives. He was making an extended confession to investigators Monday, according to Polzer. read more -cnn.com

Woman jailed for killing, cutting up husband.

TOKYO - An abused wife who killed her husband, cut up his body and dumped the parts on a street and in a park was jailed for 15 years by a Tokyo court on Monday, a court official and Japanese media said. Kaori Mihashi, 33, killed her husband by hitting him over the head with a wine bottle in the 2006 case, Kyodo news agency reported. Doctors had said Mihashi was insane at the time of the murder but the court ruled that while she had been seeing hallucinations she was mentally capable of making decisions. .read more -.msnbc.msn.com

Frankston mother of two murdered on neighbour's doorstep .

A WOMAN ran for her life, pursued from her home by a gunman, before she was shot in the head as she screamed for help on a neighbour's doorstep this morning. Police revealed the details of the murder in suburban Melbourne as parts of Frankston Hospital and Frankston High School were closed in the hunt for the gunman. Heavily armed police, the air wing and the dog squad are searching for a man in his 60s suspected of shooting the woman in the head at a Frankston house shortly after 9am. read more -news.com.au

I was a day away from death with anorexia but now I'm expecting my second child.

Her frame was so skeletal that doctors warned Chloe Cook she was only days away from death. Even if she recovered from her six-year battle with anorexia, she was told she might never have children. Now, however, the 24-year-old is the proud mother of a little girl - and her second child is due next month. Miss Cook, who lives in Stoke-on-Trent with partner Neil Ridgway, 29, said her daughter Ella had given her the strength to beat the disease. "I have been given a very special gift - the gift of my baby daughter and another on the way," Miss Cook said. "I know that they have helped me to beat anorexia once and for all. I have to stay healthy to be a mother to them and that keeps me strong and positive." read more- dailymail.co.uk

WPC kicked unconscious by 30-strong drunken teenage gang for asking them not to throw popcorn on a tram.

As a former policewoman, Julie Pickford thought she knew how to deal with a gang of rowdy teenagers on a tram. So when she asked one boy politely but firmly to stop throwing popcorn at fellow passengers she was confident the unruly gang would behave. But nothing - not even a career in the police force - could have prepared her for the shocking and violent attack that followed. Without warning, one girl stood up and punched her in the face and then a mob of up to 30 teenagers joined in, punching and stamping on her. read more -dailymail.co.uk

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