Chronicle brought in an estimated $22. million from U.S. and Canadian theaters, studio estimates released on Sunday showed. The movie with largely unknown actors finished just ahead of Radcliffe’s Woman in Black, which took in an estimated $21. million.Both performances surpassed projections from studio executives, who had expected weaker sales against competition from [...]

The fire broke out early Sunday in a part of the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in southwestern Moscow that contains a research collider, institute officials said in a statement on its website.There were no radiation sources in the area of the collider, which had been shut off on December 25, and no [...]

Chronicle, a story about three teenage boys who develop superpowers and find they have a dark side, brought in an estimated $22. million from U.S. and Canadian theaters.The Woman in Black, the first movie for Daniel Radcliffe since his Harry Potter franchise ended, trailed close behind with an estimated $21. million.The performance of [...]

Hundreds have lost their lives in eastern Europe as freezing weather sweeps across the continent westwards, while major airports warned that services would be delayed or cancelled.Steven Keates, a weather forecaster at Britain’s Met Office, said the severe wintry conditions were expected to last, and spread to other areas.It will still be very cold, maybe [...]

A three-time Tony nominee for his stage work, Gazzara made his big break into films with his role as an accused killer in Otto Preminger’s 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder.He went on to work with numerous high-profile Hollywood directors, including John Cassavetes, with whom he collaborated on several films, including the 1976 gangster [...]

The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee will vote on Tuesday on a bill that would transfer permitting authority over TransCanada’s planned pipeline to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and direct the commission to approve the project within 30 days.It’s time for Congress to take this decision out of the president’s hands and take [...]

Zalman was an extraordinary man and artist, more complex and humane than those who knew him only from afar could possibly imagine, said Allison Burnett, King’s son-in-law.Actor Charlie Sheen paid a tribute to the late director on his Facebook page, saying the world lost a brilliant and noble soul today.King started his career on screen [...]

TransCanada’s $7 billion Keystone pipeline has become a political lightning rod this election year, with Republicans arguing that the pipeline will provide a critical link to Canada’s vast oil sands crude and lessen U.S. dependence on oil from more hostile regimes.But critics of the project charge that dirty oil sands crude will exacerbate climate change [...]

The federal and the Alberta provincial governments said on Friday the new plan that will boost water sampling and increase information available to the public.They said they will take three years to implement a joint program that will continuously study the effects of developing the resource on water sources such as the Athabasca River. The [...]

USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan said 298 recipients in 44 states and Puerto Rico will receive business development assistance through the Value-Added Producer Grant program.These projects will provide financial returns and help create jobs for agricultural producers, businesses and families across the country, Merrigan said in a statement.This funding will promote small business expansion and [...]