SANTAQUIN, Utah – Actor Gary Coleman has been booked into a Utah jail after police received reports of a civil disturbance at his Santaquin home, according to news reports.
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Utah County Jail records show the 41-year-old former “Diff’rent Strokes” actor was booked Sunday on suspicion of domestic assault, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
But the paper said [...]

LOS ANGELES – “Titanic” just hit an iceberg named “Avatar.”
James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacular replaced his maritime melodrama as the biggest international release of all time during the weekend and is on the verge of claiming its worldwide crown, which also includes North American receipts, distributor 20th Century Fox said Sunday.
The News Corp-owned studio said “Avatar” [...]

Photo: Celebs take part in “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon
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LOS ANGELES – The “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, led by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, has raised more than $57 million for relief to the earthquake-ravaged country, organizers said on Saturday.
They called the $57 million a record for public donations in a disaster [...]

BEIJING – Two fatal turnovers cost Guangdong Hongyuan a home match and the top place of the league as the defending champions lost to Xinjiang Guanghui 96-93 Sunday of the Chinese Basketball Association league (CBA).
The loss was the first for Guangdong of the season as they posted 11 wins and one loss for the second [...]

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola heaped glowing praise on Lionel Messi after the Argentina superstar became the youngest player to reach a century of goals for the Catalan club.
Messi, who walked off with both the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d’Or crowns in 2009, reached the milestone with his side’s third goal in [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia – Roger Federer played the role of master of ceremonies. Andy Roddick doubled as a standup comic. Serena Williams was laughing all the way.
The fundraiser for earthquake victims on Sunday – a brainchild of Federer and dubbed “Hit for Haiti” – came on the eve of the Australian Open and raised more than [...]

SYDNEY: Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters steamrolled their semi-final opponents on Friday to set up a tantalising all-Belgian final at the Brisbane International.
Henin, playing her first tournament in 20 months after coming out of retirement, crushed Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic 6-3 6-2 in a little over then hour.
Then Clijsters, who won last year’s US Open after [...]

DOHA: Rafael Nadal, who not so long ago was dominating the men’s tour, is still without a title for more than eight months after an astonishing defeat in the final of the Qatar Open on Saturday.
Nadal failed to convert two second set match points in a 0-6, 7-6 (10), 6-4 loss to Nikolay Davydenko – [...]

ANTOFAGASTA, Chile: Monday’s ninth stage of the Dakar Rally between Copiapo and La Serena has been shortened by 267.75km because of persistent fog in the area, organizers said on Saturday.
The section will now cover 170.25km, instead of 338km, through the dunes around Copiapo, maintaining the degree of difficultly.
We had a big first week. It’s been [...]

HONG KONG: The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong said on Monday that an Oriental Magpie Robin, a common resident bird in the city, found in a park in the New Territories, was confirmed H5N1 positive.
The bird carcass was found and collected on December 29 near the Hok Tau Management Center in Pat [...]