AP - Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation's largest bookseller, posted a 15 percent drop in second-quarter profit Thursday as it struggles with sluggish consumer spending.
Reuters - Oil prices rose 5 percent on Thursday,
the biggest gain in more than two months, amid rising global
tensions and a weak U.S. dollar.
Reuters - Madonna kicks off her "Sticky & Sweet"
world tour at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Saturday, the
latest test of her enduring appeal just a week after her 50th
birthday.
Reuters - Shares of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac slid at the open on Thursday, on mounting
fears that the two mortgage finance companies may need a
government bailout, which would wipe out shareholder value.
AP - Stage actors love theater. Film actors see movies. Musicians dig concerts by their fellow musicians. But TV performers just don't seem to catch much TV, according to an unofficial survey spanning years of interviews I've had with them.
E! Online - Jean Reno is alive and well, merci beaucoup.
E! Online - David Cook topped David Archuleta in their American Idol showdown, but now the little D has gotten some extra-large revenge.