NATO: 2 service members killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says two of its service members have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.

A statement said the two were killed Thursday but provided no other …

Final Four has team-oriented look

This year's Final Four will be won by the final fivesome. Not a superstar surrounded by four complementary players, but a team with players who rely on each other.

The stars of this year's NCAA tournament, players like John Wall at Kentucky and Evan Turner at Ohio State, didn't make it to the final week in Indianapolis.

In their place are …

Shaken camera syndrome; 'Bourne' audiences feel effects of unbroken action

"A spectre is haunting contemporary cinema: the shaky shot."

So writes David Bordwell in connection with the growingcontroversy over the hyperkinetic filming and editing style of suchmovies as "The Bourne Ultimatum." This is a specter that will not goaway. The quick cutting of "Ultimatum" (average shot length: twoseconds) has inspired a flood of messages to my Answer Man column,and now Bordwell, probably the most respected U.S. film academic,forwarded me a post in which "sfjockdawg," the writer, says:

"We went to see 'B.U.' on the IMAX in San Francisco. Near theend, when Webb is having the flashback to when he is forced to showhis commitment to the project, the …

Texan joins thousands of Russian nationalists for anti-immigrant march in Moscow

As Preston Wiginton, a white supremacist from Texas, stepped forward to address thousands of Russian nationalists at a rally Sunday in Moscow, he lifted his black cowboy hat high in the air.

"I'm taking my hat off as a sign of respect for your strong identity in ethnicity, nation and race," he said, exposing his close-cropped head to a freezing drizzle.

"Glory to Russia," Wiginton, 43, said in broken Russian, as the crowd of mostly young Russian men raised their right hands in a Nazi salute and chanted "white power!" in English.

About 5,000 nationalists turned out for the Russian March, held for the third straight …

Plane debris found along path Air France jet took

Brazilian military pilots hunting Tuesday for a missing Air France jet spotted an airplane seat, an orange buoy and signs of fuel in a part of the Atlantic Ocean with depths of up to three miles.

Brazil's Navy said three commercial ships in the area were joining the search and France said it would send a ship capable of deep-water exploration. A U.S. spy plane was also diverted from drug interdiction efforts to help with the effort.

The pilots spotted two areas of floating debris _ but no signs of life _ about 35 miles (60 kilometers) apart, about 410 miles (650 kilometers) beyond the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, near Flight 447's path from …

Treasury's Pounds 50k from borough's six speed cameras

SLOW DOWN: 825 drivers are fined for fast driving in a year MOREthan 800 speeding tickets were issued to motorists who set offstationary speed cameras in Brentwood last year, swelling theGovernment's coffers by almost Pounds 50,000.

The Gazette has learned that the borough's six fixed safetycameras caught 825 people speeding in 2010/ 11.

Each driver was slapped with a Pounds 60 fine, raising Pounds49,500 for the Treasury.

In Essex as a whole, stationary cameras issued 29,266 speedingtickets in 2010/11 - raking in more than Pounds 1.7 million.

The most lucrative camera in Brentwood can be found in ShenfieldRoad, near its junction with Middleton …

Minghella to Write Met Opera Libretto

NEW YORK - Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella will write the libretto and direct a new work by composer Osvaldo Golijov that has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.

Golijov went to Botswana last month at the behest of the Met and discussed the opera with Minghella on the production site of the director's latest movie project, based on "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" novels. Minghella, who earned an Oscar in 1997 for "The English Patient," made his Met debut last fall directing an acclaimed staging of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."

"I only saw rehearsals of `Butterfly,' and I love his film work," Golijov said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. "The …