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Sandra Bullock Tells Vogue She Doesn't Look Back

It's been three years since Sandra Bullock split from her husband Jesse James but she has no desire to go backward and examine what happened, especially not publicly.

Days after Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar for "The Blind Side," tabloids reported James had cheated on her.

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McAfee: Collins Most 'Dangerous' Celeb Search

If you're curious about Lily Collins and head to the Internet to find out, beware — McAfee has ranked the actress as the most dangerous celeb to search for online.

Collins— who starred in movies such as "Mirror, Mirror" and "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" — posed the biggest risk of landing on a malicious site, according to the computer security company; last year Emma Watson topped the list.

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Western Powers to Press Syria Resolution as U.N. Details 'Chilling' Sarin Attack

Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from an area where Syria's military has bases, but said the evidence could have been manipulated in the rebel-controlled stricken neighborhoods.

The U.S., Britain and France jumped on evidence in the report — especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent, and trajectory of the missiles — to declare that President Bashar Assad's government was responsible.

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Liverpool Held to 2-2 Draw at Swansea in EPL

Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League standings on Monday night despite its perfect start to the season ending with a 2-2 draw at Swansea.

Brendan Rodgers' team had won its first three games and a fourth consecutive victory would have marked the club's best start ever in the Premier League.

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Australia Warns FIFA over World Cup Date Switch

Australia's leading football official has cautioned FIFA against compounding the "flawed" choice for the 2022 World Cup host by rushing decisions about switching competition dates to avoid Qatar's searing summer heat.

Football Federation Australia chairman Frank Lowy issued a statement Tuesday urging the sport's global governing body to wait until after an investigation into the World Cup bid process before making any decisions about shifting the event to the northern winter. If the World Cup is rescheduled, the FFA wants compensation for the domestic leagues that are affected and for the countries that spent millions of dollars on unsuccessful bids based on the northern summer time frame.

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Struggling Spain Just Reaches Euro Quarterfinals

It's been anything but a smooth ride for Spain as it seeks its third straight European basketball title.

Marc Gasol and his teammates are in the quarterfinals but they have appeared vulnerable in getting there. Due to a generous format of a tournament that started with 24 teams and was pared down to 12 for the second round, Spain advanced despite three losses.

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Roma Beats Parma 3-1 to Maintain Perfect Start

Roma rallied to beat Parma 3-1 on Monday night to maintain its unbeaten start to the Serie A season.

Parma took a surprise lead six minutes from halftime when Jonathan Biabiany headed Mattia Cassani's deep cross into the bottom right corner.

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Mexico Sees Its First Village Cellphone Network 

The communications revolution that swept the globe missed the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro high in the mountains of southern Mexico, where making any sort of call meant trudging to a community telephone line and paying what could be a day's wages for a crackly five-minute conversation.

All that has changed, thanks to an ingenious plan that backers hope can bring connections to thousands of other small, isolated villages around the world.

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Twitter Flies from Obscurity to the Height of Fame

The Pope. President Barack Obama. Queen Elizabeth. Oprah Winfrey.

When Twitter started seven years ago as an obscure medium for geeks, critics dismissed it as an exercise in narcissism. Some thought it would be as intriguing as watching people gaze at their bellybuttons. But it quickly matured into a worldwide messaging service used by everyone from heads of state to revolutionaries to companies trying to hawk products.

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U.S.: Drug-Resistant Bacteria are Common Killers

For the first time, the U.S. government has estimated how many people die each year from drug-resistant bacteria.

Officials said more than 23,000 deaths and 2 million illnesses stem from germs that are hard to treat because they've become resistant to drugs.

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