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French time trial champion Jean-Christophe Peraud will race for Omega Pharma-Lotto for the next two seasons (AFP/Getty Images) French mountain biker Jean-Christophe Péraud has signed a two year deal with the Omega Pharma-Lotto professional road team ...

The reality is that since our Great Recession is only a year old, it may be silly to interpret every upward blip as a sign that it's almost finished. The Great Depression lasted ten years, and probably ended only as a result of the economic pump ...

In "Million Dollar Maybe," Homer Simpson is rushing to meet Marge for a date when he encounters Bomba in the episode that centers on a winning lottery ticket. It's possible Bomba could appear again, said executive producer Al Jean, who helped judge ...

In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado ...

Country singer Jean Shepard is 76. Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 75. Actress Marlo Thomas is 72. Actor Rick Lenz is 70. Singer Dr. John is 69. Actress Juliet Mills is 68. Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is 66. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 65.

Contest winner Peggy Black of Orange, Conn., poses with “Simpsons” producer Al Jean in Los Angeles. Ladies’ man Ricardo Bomba is bringing his charms to “The Simpsons,” and it’s all the doing of a hospital operations manager with a vivid ...

PARIS, Nov 17 (Reuters) - French grocer Casino ( CASP.PA ) will replace Jean Duboc as head of Geant hypermarkets and put in place a single management team to lead both the ailing division and its better performing supermarkets unit. The head of ...

... gourmet resto at the top of the city's casino got an impressive face-lift in early 2007 that made the decor as contemporary and elegant as the food -- all creamy walls, white linen, and pale-green leather banquettes. A room with real star power ...

Nevertheless, at a dinner Thursday the 27 EU leaders are to pick the president - as well as a foreign minister for Europe - in a ballot that looks more like something between a lottery and ... Balkenende, Luxembourg Premier Jean-Claude Juncker ...

PARIS, Nov 17 (Reuters) - French grocer Casino ( CASP.PA ) will replace hypermarkets unit head Jean Duboc and put in place one management team to lead the ailing division along with its better performing supermarkets unit, Le Figaro reported on ...