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Tough to watch, at times impossible to stomach, the new, two-part mini-series "Human Trafficking" (8 p.m. Monday, Lifetime Television; part 2 airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday) graphically depicts events almost inconceivable as reality in the 21st Century.

And yet the fictional story here is inspired by hundreds of thousands of actual cases. Part of Lifetime's mission involving government lobbying...

VANCOUVER - Saturday night, the glitterati of Ottawa's social set gathered at the Museum of Civilisation across the water in Gattineau for the annual Parliamentary press gallery dinner. The Governor General and her husband were in attendance, as was Prime Minister Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Jack Layton, and countless MPs, Senators, and of course the press gallery scum who complete the incest...

As if hurricanes, terrorism and the economy aren't enough to keep us worried, many Americans have added the avian flu to their lists of reasons to lose sleep.

A new poll says a third of those surveyed in the United States fear the avian flu, a virus rampant among chickens and other birds in Asia and Europe.

The dread is worse in Spain and Italy, where half the people polled express...

In the next few weeks, don't be surprised at how intense life is. Your feelings will run the gamut of obsessed to obsessed. Yup -- pretty heavy. You feel compelled to do and say things. (Your sex drive is very hot during this time, too.) Yowsers!

Today, the sun moves opposite your sign, forcing you to focus on partnerships and your closest relationships. You can learn more about yours...

Hot Hot Heat, Weezer, and Foo Fighters at Long Beach Arena

Cotton candy for sale, the smell of something maybe medicinal wafting through the air, $5 lemonades, people being picked up willy-nilly and thrown over barriers. Oh yes, it's time to rock.

Hot Hot Heat, the Canadian band that sounds suspiciously Brit-pop, got it started Saturday night at the Long Beach Arena. Steve Bays, ...

Those who want to know what the future looks like should head to South Korea, which leads the West on the latest gizmos by about five years. There, Samsung has launched the V770, 7-megapixel cameraphone (in the UK the largest is 3-megapixels) which is capable of such amazing picture-quality that it surpasses many top-end dedicated cameras. What's surprising about this, though, is that the prod...

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DAVENPORT -- The inconspicuous mobile home on Powerline Road doesn't seem inviting -- given its fenced yard, gated driveway with "no trespassing" signs and overgrown landscaping.

But federal law-enforcement officials said the Davenport home has been a hot spot for Central Florida's migrant farmworkers looking for a good...

It says you've arrived. That you're part of an exclusive club. That you are a fashion insider. And an affluent one.

"In an age when nobility has no true signature, an expensive designer bag is the most rapid social shorthand for status," Anna Johnson, author of "Handbags: The Power of the Purse" (Workman Publishing, 2001), writes via e-mail. "Between women it's a sign of success and so...

Guralnick applies producer Sam Phillips' theory of "perfect imperfection" -- the greater beauty is in the flaws that real life presents -- to the singer who had huge hits with such self-penned compositions as "You Send Me," "Chain Gang" and "Cupid." He seemed to always be in control, right up until the news hit of his tawdry demise. The greatest male gospel singer ever and pioneer of soul was ...

A scantily clad Little Bo Peep stood outside Spirit Halloween Superstore waving an inviting hand at Cortez Road traffic.

Jeff Meyer, the manager at Spirit, said he lets his staff decide what costume to wear during the live advertising gigs. "A lot of the girls like the more risque costumes. It seems to draw in more traffic," he said.

Local costume retailers say a large percentage of...