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mark, it's a return to box-office form for Cruise, who had been
Hollywood's most-dependable earner for two decades until he turned off fans with
odd antics in his personal life six years ago."Ghost Protocol" will be
Cruise's first top-billed $100 million hit since 2006's "Mission: Impossible III." He
had a supporting role in 2008's $100 million comedy hit "Tropic Thunder,"
which was headlined by Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black.Even
with a No. 1 debut, "Ghost Protocol" still was a shadow of
its predecessors. The first three "Mission: Impossible" movies ranged from $45 million
to $58 million over opening weekend, but those installments opened at the
start of the busy summer season.As of Friday, "Ghost Protocol" also had
brought in a healthy $118 million overseas.Downey's "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
Shadows" fell from No., 1 to No. 2 in its second weekend
with $17.8 million. The family sequel "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" dropped
from secon
against possible allegations of rape, indicating it was an administrative order
and not an individual decision.Because the military is also acting as a
police force, "it is the duty of the armed forces when carrying
out these duties to abide by the law and not violate its
provisions when dealing with citizens," the court ruling said.The ruling "is incredibly
important not only because it comes after scenes of sexual assault and
battery of women by military troops," said Heba Morayef, an Egypt researcher
with Human Rights Watch. "It is also important because it is the
first time a civilian court acknowledged and criticized abuse by the military."At
first the military denied administering virginity tests. Then last week, the military
prosecutor said one army doctor is on trial for abuse. On Tuesday,
after the court decision, military prosecutor Adel el-Morsi said the tests are
not condoned by the military, calling the abuse "an individual behavior" that
is befo
Friends of Alexis Marron, 18, have created a "Red in Remembrance" Facebook
page in his honor.Relatives and friends of a suburban Chicago teenager who
officials say was killed over the holiday weekend in Mexico held a
memorial in his honor on Tuesday.Prosecutors in Mexico's Michoacan state said Tuesday
that a burned car holding the remains of three young men was
found on a roadside on Christmas Eve. An employee of the prosecutors'
office who wasn't authorized to be quoted by name says one teen
has been identified as 18-year-old Alexis Marron.The 18-year-old's body was found in
the trunk of a burned out car in a small town about
80 miles southeast of Guadalajara on Christmas Eve. Mexican authorities said Marron
and two friends were burned alive in an area that's plagued by
a gang turf war."It was really sad. Everybody is depressed. We just
can't get over it -- a terrible, terrible death," said friend Juan
Mestizo.Marron had worked all summer to afford the trip t
BEIJING A long-awaited government report said design flaws and sloppy management
caused a bullet train crash in July that killed 40 people and
triggered a public outcry over the high cost and dangers of China's
showcase transportation system.A former railway minister was among 54 officials found responsible
for the crash, a Cabinet statement said Wednesday.The crash report was highly
anticipated by the public. Regulations required the government to release the report
by Nov. 20. When that date passed, the government offered little explanation,
drawing renewed criticism by state media, which have been unusually skeptical about
the handling of the accident and the investigation.The Cabinet statement cited "serious
design flaws and major safety risks" and what it said were a
string of errors in equipment procurement and management.The report affirmed earlier government
statements that a lightning strike caused one bullet train to stall and
a sensor failure allowed
APProponents of condom use during the filming of X-rated movies in Los
Angeles garnered enough signatures to call for a June referendum that, if
passed, would require condom use on porn sets throughout the city.But proponents
must first get past a lawsuit filed by the city to prevent
the ballot measure."We're thrilled we've passed this initial threshold," Ged Kenslea, a
spokesman for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the ballot's main backer, told The Los
Angeles Times of qualifying on the ballot. "We believe we're going to
prevail in court and look forward to taking this issue directly to
the voters."To the reported surprise of city council members, Los Angeles city
attorney Carmen Trutanich filed suit earlier this month to keep the AIDS
Healthcare Foundation proposal off the ballot. Trutanich reportedly argued that only the
state can legally impose the safe-sex rule and charge fees to pay
inspections, so the city and county can't be forced to monitor compliance.The
