'Breaking Dawn' Scores Fifth-Biggest Box-Office

The fourth of Summit's vampire-and-werewolf movies had the franchise's second best three-day opening ever, behind 2009's "New Moon" ($142.8 million in November 2009). For a box office that's down about 3.5 percent from last year, "Breaking Dawn" is only the second movie this year, including the summer's final "Harry Potter" film, to open to more than $100 million. (There were four $100 million openers last year.) And it had the third-best opening Friday ever, grossing $71.4 million -- behind only this year's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" and "New Moon." With the release of the latest and fourth Twilight series movie, Breaking...

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Justin biebers baby brothers birthday a rumer

When is Justin Bieber's little brother's birthday? he was born November 20th 2009 It's sometime this year. A very happy 1st birthday to Justin Bieber’s little brother  Jaxon Bieber! What a cutie! Here is what Justin Tweeted as a message to his brother (who might be a bit too young to be using Twitter just yet! The Wanted have got a special relationship with Justin Bieber, what with a US tour under their belts, and also joining him to switch on the Christmas lights at the Westfield shopping centres in London and the teen told them that Mariah Yeater's baby allegations were "bulls*** lies". Max George has become close buddies with the 17-year-old...

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Immigration law change the factors

In an attempt to invoke the memory and passion of the civil rights movement, a group of Democratic lawmakers will stand Monday in a historic church in Birmingham to help rally opposition to the state's new law that seeks to get tough on illegal immigrants. The 10 Democrats, including Rep. Terri Sewell of Birmingham, will participate in an ad hoc hearing on the immigration law and later help launch a petition to repeal it at the historic 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham. The church was the site of the 1963 bombing that killed four little girls during the civil rights movement. "The history of fighting for justice and fighting for basic rights...

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UC Davis chief launches probe into pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters

 As some faculty members called for her ouster, the chancellor of UC Davis launched an inquiry Saturday into the pepper-spraying of apparently peaceful Occupy Davis protesters by campus police. A video of the Friday incident that went viral on the Web showed a police officer dousing the protesters with a canister of pepper spray as they sat huddled on the ground. The police had been attempting to clear the university's Quad of tents and campers. Faculty and students reacted with outrage. Nathan Brown, an assistant professor of English, said in an interview that the episode was the latest example of "the systematic use by UC chancellors...

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