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Sesame Street’s next chapter: Elmo, Big Bird in two-way talk
Elmo, Big Bird and the rest of the “Sesame Street” crew have always talked to kids. Now, they’ll try to have a two-way conversation with their pint-sized audience using Kinect, the motion and voice-sensing controller created by Microsoft.
US space shuttle Endeavour on final voyage to museum
US space shuttle Endeavour departed Wednesday morning on its final voyage.
Dominique woos fans with Dubai debut
Lebanese singer Dominique Hourani’s first ever Dubai performance went off with a bang.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
UK singer Emeli Sande has married boyfriend Adam Gouragine.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
Brian Dwyer holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia. He’s also the driving force behind Pizza Brain, which he calls the first pizza museum in the US.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
A 71-year-old Italian man completed on Wednesday a 300-kilometer (190-mile) journey down the Danube from Vienna to Budapest — by gondola.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
British pop star Robbie Williams has become father to a baby girl, named Theodora Rose Williams, he said on his blog.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
Passenger jets could be chomping on straw or flying on fuel extracted from sawdust in coming years as the search widens for cleaner alternatives to kerosene, French scientists say.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
A shopping center near Milan is claiming an unusual record — the biggest vertical garden in the world, covering a surface of 1,263 square meters (13,600 square feet) with a total of 44,000 plants.
Thursday, 20 - September 2012
More than three decades after "The Shining" was first published, the sequel to Stephen King's classic horror novel is finally coming out next year.
