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STOCKHOLM – Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland. Full Story »
AP - Toni Braxton has filed for bankruptcy a second time, citing millions of dollars in debt and financial problems exacerbated by a heart condition that forced her to cancel a series of Las Vegas shows. Full Story »
AP LOS ANGELES - It's likely to be a real horse race at the box office this weekend as "Secretariat" and "Life as We Know It" join "The Social Network" and other films to vie for first place. Full Story »
AP LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-manager Howard K. Stern was also her best friend and lover and would never have been part of an alleged plot to furnish her with harmful drugs, a defense lawyer said Thursday. Full Story »
AFP/Getty Images/File CANNES, France (AFP) - Top broadcasters around the world are to air a documentary on the life-changing effects of anti-retroviral drugs to mark World AIDS Day on December 1, the film's sponsors said on Thursday. Full Story »
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp is developing a handheld game player in a bid to return to the video game market after a hiatus of more than a decade, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Full Story »
Reuters STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Peruvian writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, a chronicler of human struggles against authoritarian power in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday. Full Story »
AFP/Getty Images NEW YORK (AFP) - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa said Thursday he hoped to survive the excitement around winning literature's highest honor, the Nobel prize. Full Story »
Fashion Wire Daily Paris - Designers do not always praise - especially in public - their successors, so the sight of Valentino Garavani standing and applauding the spring 2011 collection in Paris on Tuesday, Oct. 5, of the brand he founded, was the most talked about moment in a finely staged and suitably graceful expression of contemporary fashion. Full Story »
AFP/Getty Images STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Mario Vargas Llosa, a giant of Latin American literature whose political ambitions saw him run for president of his native Peru, finally won the 2010 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday at the age of 74. Full Story »
AP PASADENA, Calif. - A member of the pop group Girlicious has pleaded guilty to felony cocaine possession and has received a deferred judgment that could result in the charge being dismissed. Full Story »
AP LONDON - British tabloids expressed outrage Thursday over a new documentary-style film that imagines what would happen if Prince Harry was taken hostage by the Taliban. Full Story »
Barry Zito pitched himself out of the San Francisco Giants' rotation for the playoffs. As far as making the roster as a reliever, he said he doesn't know where he stands. Full Story »
Technology has become so entwined with college students' often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they'd be more frazzled without it. Full Story »
Resorts Atlantic City, the nation's first casino to open outside Nevada, will adopt a roaring '20s theme to capitalize on the success of "Boardwalk Empire," the HBO series about Prohibition-era Atlantic City. Full Story »
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