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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Charlie Sheen sued over incident at dentist Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A dental technician who says Charlie Sheen punched her in the chest during an office visit is suing the actor for assault and battery. Margarita Palestino filed the lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles seeking unspecified damages from the “Anger
Management” star. Her lawsuit accuses Sheen of attacking her during a dental appointment on Sept. 25, including punching her in the chest and grabbing her bra. Los Angeles police said Thursday that they have an active investigation into the incident, but could not release further details. Sheen’s publicist Jeff Ballard referred
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calls Friday to the actor’s attorney, Marty Singer, who was not available for comment Friday afternoon. Sheen had an adverse reaction to the combination of nitrous oxide and pain medication he was taking for a shoulder injury and that Sheen knocked over dental instruments, Ballard said Thursday. But other elements of the woman’s story were not true, Ballard said.
Brazil’s Rousseff in tight runoff against probusiness Neves
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Ronaldo scores 3, Madrid rolls 5-0 over Bilbao
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North Korea’s No. 2 visits South for rare talks
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This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Ben Affleck in a scene from “Gone Girl.” The 20th Century Fox thriller, which stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, will premiere in theaters on October 3.
“Gone Girl” surfaces at top North American box office Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES - “Gone Girl” surfaced at the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend in theaters, earning $38 million, according to industry estimates Sunday. The mystery-drama starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry, is based on the bestselling book of the same name by Gillian Flynn about a husband who becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife. Debuting close behind in second place, with $37.2 million, was horror flick “Annabelle” about a supernatural doll. Meanwhile action-thriller “The Equalizer” starring Denzel Washington dropped from first into third place with
$19 million. And “The Boxtrolls,” an animated film about an orphaned boy raised underground by friendly monsters, slid to fourth place with $12.4 million. In fifth was “The Maze Runner,” based on James Dashner’s best-selling 2007 young-adult dystopian novel of the same name, taking in $12 million. “Left Behind,” starring Nicolas Cage, debuted in sixth place with $6.9 million, and was adapted from the book series of the same name. The story, loosely based on the Bible’s
interpretation of end times, centers on a group of people who survive after most of the world’s population is wiped out. Comedy-drama “This Is Where I Leave You” earned $4 million in ticket sales, coming in seventh place. In eighth place was “Dolphin Tale 2,” a family-friendly sequel starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, which earned $3.5 million. The summer season’s most successful blockbuster, “Guardians of the Galaxy,” slid to ninth place, adding another $3 million to its 10-week haul, which now stands at $323 million. Rounding out the top ten was thriller “No Good Deed,” about a devoted wife and mother who helps out a charming but dangerous escaped convict played by Idris Elba, with $2.5 million
After four-month hiatus
MH370 hunt resuming
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In this April 9, 2014 file photo provided by the Australian Defense Force, a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion flies past Australian Defense vessel Ocean Shield. After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean.
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SYDNEY — After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, with searchers lowering new equipment deep beneath the waves in a bid to finally solve one of the world’s most perplexing aviation mysteries. The GO Phoenix, the first of three ships that will spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage far off Australia’s west coast, is expected to arrive in the search zone Sunday, though weather could delay its progress. Crews will use sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors to scour the water for any trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The search has been on hold for
months so crews could map the seabed in the search zone, about 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) west of Australia. The 60,000-square kilometer (23,000-square mile) search area lies along what is known as the “seventh arc” — a stretch of ocean where investigators believe the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, based largely on an analysis of transmissions between the plane and a satellite. Given that the hunt has already been peppered with false alarms — from underwater signals wrongly
thought to be from the plane’s black boxes to possible debris fields that turned out to be trash — officials are keen to temper expectations. “We’re cautiously optimistic; cautious because of all the technical and other challenges we’ve got, but optimistic because we’re confident in the analysis,” said Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the agency leading the search. “But it’s just a very big area that we’re looking at.” That area was largely unknown to scientists before the mapping process began in May. Two ships have been surveying the seabed using on-board multibeam sonar devices, similar to a fish-finder. The equipment sends out a series of signals that determine the shape and hardness of the terrain below,
allowing officials to create threedimensional maps of the seabed. Those maps are considered crucial to the search effort because the seafloor is riddled with deep crevasses, mountains and volcanoes, which could prove disastrous to the pricey, delicate search equipment that will be towed just 100 meters (330 feet) above the seabed. Two of the search ships will be using underwater search vessels worth around $1.5 million each. “You can imagine if you’re towing a device close to the seafloor, you want to know if you’re about to run into a mountain,” said Stuart Minchin, chief of the environmental geoscience division at Geoscience Australia, which has been analyzing the mapping data. The terrain isn’t the only challenge. The area is prone to brutal weather,
and is so remote that it takes vessels up to six days to get there from Australia. Water depths are also tricky: They range from 600 meters (2,000 feet) to 6.5 kilometers (4 miles). That’s about the deepest the sonar equipment can go, Dolan said. “In all sorts of ways we’re operating towards the limits of the technology that is available,” Dolan said. With the mapping nearly complete, the GO Phoenix, provided by Malaysia’s government, will begin hunting in an area considered the likeliest crash site, based on an analysis of satellite data gleaned from the plane’s jet engine transmitter and a series of unanswered phone calls officials on the ground made to the plane.
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