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LOS ANGELES, California -- The Will Ferrell comedy "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" raced ahead of the competition to remain the box office champ for a second weekend with $23 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates released Sunday. Last week's news of another terror plot against airliners apparently did not dampen audience appetite for Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center." The Paramount Pictures release beat expectations by earning $19 million ove ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana (AP) -- Fire swept through a two-story home early Sunday, killing at least four people, the state fire marshal said. Firefighters had found four bodies in the home and were looking for more, State Fire Marshal Roger Johnson said. It was unclear how many people lived in the home, which had been divided into apartment units, and how many were able to escape the blaze. Johnson had said earlier that the fire claimed at least six victims. "There were conflicting reports ...

(Time.com) -- It's the summer before your senior year, and you're sweating. The college brochures are spread across the table, along with itineraries, SAT review books, downloaded copies of Web pages that let you chart the grades and scores of every kid from your high school who applied to a given college in the past five years and whether they got in or not. You're hunting for a school where the principal oboe player is graduating, or the soccer goalie, so it might be in the market for someon ...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautioned Cubans he faced a long recovery from surgery and advised them to prepare for "adverse news," but urged them to stay optimistic, while a newspaper published the first photographs of the Cuban leader since his illness. Castro, whose illness forced him to step aside as president two weeks ago, said his health had improved, but warned he still faced risks. "I feel very happy," said a statement attributed to Castr ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The number of polio cases in Afghanistan has quadrupled this year, almost entirely in southern provinces shaken by the country's worst fighting in almost five years, officials said Saturday. Afghanistan has suffered 24 cases so far in 2006, compared to nine cases during the whole of 2005, said Dr. Shukrullah Wahidi, an official with the Ministry of Public Health who ove ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Houston's FBI office has placed the fugitive daughter of a deceased Utah polygamist on the agency's "most wanted" list after getting a tip about the woman from a relative in prison. Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron is wanted in connection with four 1988 murders in Houston and Irving, Texas, according to a wanted poster on the agency's Web site. She's been a fugitive since 1992. A telephone message left by The Associated Press with the Houston FBI office was not  ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday that his militia will agree to a U.N. call for a cease-fire with Israel once a deal on timing is reached. The Lebanese government, which includes two members of Hezbollah, later unanimously approved Security Council Resolution 1701, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said. The announcement followed a meeting of the Lebanese Cabinet, and Siniora said the Cabinet would meet again Sunday to discuss the resolution's implementation ...