"It's too much. It's kind of a slap in the face, it's not the way to handle it...Nobody but the Nazis ever asked anybody for their papers," MacFarlane told Reuters Television in an interview on Thursday.
GENEVA – Swiss justice officials said Friday they are not interested in an attempt by Roman Polanski's U.S. lawyers to unseal secret testimony by his original prosecutor in Los Angeles and submit that in the director's fight against extradition to the United States.
SHANGHAI – A proud Shanghai threw open the gates of the 2010 World Expo on Saturday, kicking off an event that underscores the Chinese financial hub's comeback as a major world city after decades of spartan industrialism following the 1949 communist revolution.
ALBANY, N.Y. – Actor Charles Grodin has sent a letter to the federal judge who will sentence a former New York Senate leader on two corruption charges, pointing out the politician's role in getting clemency in the mid-1990s for four female inmates.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama hosted activist and U2 frontman Bono at the White House's Oval Office Friday to discuss US development policy ahead of key international meetings later this year.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lala, the online music service, will be shut down on May 31, just five months after Apple Inc bought the start-up fueling speculation the iPod maker plans to launch a new Web-based version of iTunes.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Billionaire Carl Icahn on Friday extended his tender offer for Lions Gate Entertainment Inc by 10 days, after getting a tepid response to his hostile bid to take over the studio behind "Saw" and "Mad Men".
