WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) – Three different groups of creditors to Tribune Co filed rival proposals for ending the newspaper publisher's near two-year stay in bankruptcy.
DOHA (Reuters) – Stars including Salma Hayek, Freida Pinto and Kevin Spacey descended on Qatar this week for the second annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the Middle East branch of the celebrated New York event.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Randy Travis and his wife-manager Elizabeth Travis have divorced. Family spokeswoman Maureen O'Connor confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that the divorce was final.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Dennis Iliadis, who directed last year's remake of "The House on the Left," is in negotiations to direct "The Demonologists," a horror movie set up at producer Joel Silver's Dark Castle label.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Oscar-winning director Ang Lee said he is counting on the innocent looks and storytelling ability of an Indian boy to assure the success of Yann Martel's "Life of Pi," the fantasy book he is making into a film.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – The Israeli archaeologist who unearthed the tomb of the biblical king Herod died from injuries sustained during a fall at the site of the dig, the Israeli antiquities authority said.
MIREBALAIS, Haiti – U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people in the earthquake-ravaged nation.
MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia – Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 343 Thursday as more bodies were found and said the number is likely to climb higher because hundreds of missing people may have been swept away.
HANOI, Vietnam – Myanmar said its top leader will not run in next month's elections as it presented a new image to the world at a regional summit, while the U.N. chief warned that the vote may lack legitimacy if the country's junta does not release political prisoners.
