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Museu Picasso presents Living Things: Picasso Figure - Still Life, on view through March 1, 2009.

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas.

Madonna 2008-11-30 15:36:04 - MADONNA's ex GUY RITCHIE is making plans to open a new pub in the pop superstar's native New York.

A relative says the New York couple gunned down in India will be flown to Israel and likely buried Monday.

Twenty-nine-year-old Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his 28-year-old wife, Rivkah, were members of the New York-based Chabad-Lubavitch ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. The pair ran a Jewish outreach center in Mumbai, India.

Three other victims killed at the Chabad house have been identified: Bentzion Chroman, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen; Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, a U.S. citizen and New Yorker who lived in Jerusalem, and an Israeli tourist, Yocheved Orpaz.

Originally posted on: Saturday, November 29, 2008 by NBC2 News Last updated on: 11/29/2008 12:49:59 PM Today is Saturday, Nov.

The Toronto market and the Canadian dollar were sharply lower Friday morning as the future of the minority Conservative government appeared in doubt.

Former New York Gov. George Pataki is joining a Cold War foundation to push national policy to end America's dependence on oil producers unfriendly to the United States.

New Yorkers hear sermon to 'Buy Nothing' November 29, 2008, 4:47 pm Reverend Billy smoothed his peroxide-blond hair and white suit, and proclaimed a novel solution to the US economic crisis: "Stop shopping." ...

Uniformed police officers have flooded New York City's Penn Station, home to the Long Island Rail Road, following a warning from the FBI of a "plausible but unsubstantiated" threat of a terrorist bomb attack ...

Britain will start next year to clear land mines left by Argentina on the Falkland Islands, a British ambassador said Friday at a U.N. conference on the treaty banning the weapons.

Ambassador John Duncan said Britain has committed to other countries in the treaty that it will begin the clearing of the estimated 16,000 mines left on the islands.

'By the time we've completed the tender process and appointed someone to do the mine clearance, it will probably be this time next year before they could start,' Duncan told The Associated Press.

The New York state Consumer Protection Board warns consumers to be wary about providing personal information when shopping online this holiday season.

Nielson Online, a consumer research company, says online holiday shopping will spike this year because it allows consumers to comparison shop and save money on gas.

But Mindy Bockstein, executive director of the state consumer board, is urging New Yorkers to only give out only essential personal information and credit card numbers to reputable dealers to avoid identity theft.

NEW YORK - A worker was killed in the crush Friday after a throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains burst through the doors at a suburban Wal-Mart, authorities said.

Oil prices slumped Friday with little indication from OPEC members that there would be any production cuts before a regularly scheduled meeting in December.

The Oneida Indian Nation's float, "True Spirit of Thanksgiving," makes its way through New York's Times Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In the wake of the indictment of a Queens lawmaker for allegedly putting his office up for sale, reformers are pushing for greater disclosure by lawmakers of how much money they make from side jobs.

OPEC could cut oil output for the second time in as many months at a meeting in Cairo on Saturday as weak demand and global recession jitters have driven prices under $US50 per barrel, analysts said.

THE BECKHAMS stepped up their profile-raising campaign in the US yesterday by celebrating