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Haneke's 'Amour' wins top prize at Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons — 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant — as an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health.Cannes

Exonerated ex-football star wants money from state

A former high school football star whose rape conviction was thrown out this week plans to file a claim against the state but will not sue the woman who recanted the sexual assault accusation she

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'Anti-monogamist' Holly Hill says she's done with open relationships
Holly Hill, who had previously insisted that allowing her boyfriend to cheat three nights a week kept them strong, has now admitted that it destroyed them.

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Former top Calif. football prospect exonerated

Now that Brian Banks has been exonerated of a rape conviction that put him in prison for five years, the one-time prep football star has a message for NFL coaches: Give him a chance.

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Email, wiretaps, at trial link Rajat Gupta to Rajaratnam

New York: Using FBI wiretaps, email, phone records and the testimony of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc director, US prosecutors drew a picture for jurors on Thursday of events that led to the

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One-time top Calif. football prospect exonerated

A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than

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