Ashley and Cheryl Cole officially divorce (AFP)
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.
The nation's weather (AP)
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.
Brooks & Dunn end 20-year career at Nashville show (AP)
Box Office Preview: 'Machete' should dominate (AP)
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.
Labor Day Weekend for Astronauts: Space Toilet Cleaning and Exercise (SPACE.com)
BP oil spill costs surge to $8bln (AFP)
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.
Hurricane Earl brushes North Carolina (AFP)
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.
BP says cost of Gulf of Mexico spill hits $8B (AP)
AP - BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
Judge: Paris Hilton may owe $160K over movie deal (AP)
AP - Paris Hilton may owe investors in her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" about $160,000 for failing to do enough promotion.
Judge: Paris Hilton may owe $160K over movie deal (omg!)
Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool (AP)
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.
Oprah's Book Club back, pick coming in September (AP)
`American Idol' adds L.A. audition on Sept. 22 (AP)
AP - "American Idol" is expanding the talent search for its next season with an audition in Los Angeles later this month.
Appeals court sets hearing in Jackson estate case (omg!)
Jury struggles with actress' marriage fraud case (AP)
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.
'Crocodile Dundee' to return to US amid tax fray (AP)
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.
Malaysia to monitor Internet for 'harmful' blogs (AFP)
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.
Malaysia to monitor Internet for 'harmful' blogs (AFP)
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.
Sara Paretsky publishes 14th Warshawski mystery (AP)
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.


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