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AFP - The four-year marriage of pop star Cheryl Cole and England footballer Ashley Cole is officially over after the High Court granted the singer a divorce on Friday.

AP - Hurricane Earl had lost some of its strength and was at category 2 strength with winds up to 105 mph early Friday off North Carolina's coast.

AP - The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last.

AP - Twentieth Century Fox's "Machete" is set to slice up the competition as director Robert Rodriguez's star-studded extravaganza will likely dominate the weekend with a Friday through Monday total of around $16 million.

SPACE.com - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off — after they clean the space toilet.

AP - Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare will star in the comedy "Elling."

AFP - British oil giant BP revealed Friday that the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has cost it eight billion dollars so far -- with a sharp rise in payments in the last month.

AFP - Hurricane Earl pounded North Carolina on Friday as it sped up the US East Coast, threatening dangerous waves and riptides across the eastern seaboard.

AP - BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

AP - Paris Hilton may owe investors in her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" about $160,000 for failing to do enough promotion.

omg! - AP - Paris Hilton may owe investors in her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" about $160,000 for failing to do enough promotion.

AP - Dubai's police chief says worries about spying by the U.S., Israel and others helped push plans to limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates.

AP - The first week of the final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will include a selection for Oprah's Book Club.

AP - "American Idol" is expanding the talent search for its next season with an audition in Los Angeles later this month.

omg! - AP - An appeals court has scheduled a hearing for lawyers for the father of Michael Jackson to argue that he deserves a role in decisions involving his son's multimillion dollar estate.

AP - A federal jury weighing whether a Mexican-born actress committed marriage fraud has ended a second day of deliberations without reaching any verdicts and has expressed discord in its ranks.

AP - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday.

AFP - Malaysia has formed a task force to scour the Internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, authorities said on Friday in the latest of a series of actions against new media.

AFP - Malaysia has formed a task force to scour the Internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, authorities said on Friday in the latest of a series of actions against new media.

AP - Sara Paretsky's latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody body of a woman who was just shot to death in her arms.