An Air New Zealand in-flight safety video featuring camp US fitness guru Richard Simmons has gone viral on the Internet, the airline said Wednesday, attracting a million hits in three days.Air New Zealand said the video "mile-high madness", which has a sequin- and lycra-clad Simmons taking passengers though pre-flight safety routines on a plane decked…

Germany's stars shouldered the blame in the wake of their shock 2-1 defeat here to Australia as the Socceroos claimed their maiden win over the hosts.After forward Mario Gomez had put the hosts ahead with a first-half strike, two goals in two stunning second-half minutes by Blackpool midfielder David Carney and a penalty from Dynamo…

The media's most powerful woman will wrap up her talk show in May — and bloggers are already relishing the finale's over-the-top flourishesWhen Oprah Winfrey launched her namesake OWN network last year, she reassured fans of her syndicated talk show that she'd continue taping it until September, 2011. Change of plan: The queen of sympathy…

Several U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned on Tuesday whether female employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc can proceed with the largest class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit in history that seeks billions of dollars.At issue in the case was whether a small group of women who began the lawsuit 10 years ago against the world's largest retailer can…

LONG BRANCH, N.J. – Jesse Steele scored 20 points and Monmouth (N.J.) used two second-half spurts to pull away from St. Francis (Pa.) 57-51 on Thursday night, splitting the season series.After the game's fifth tie at 34-34, the Hawks (9-18, 5-10 Northeast Conference) went on an 8-0 run.The Red Flash closed to 42-39 with 10:07…

MELBOURNE, Australia – First Rafael Nadal, now Roger Federer.Federer, the 16-time Grand Slam winner, was knocked out of the Australian Open 7-6 (3), 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday by 2008 champion Novak Djokovic.Before the tournament Nadal was going for his fourth straight Grand Slam win and Federer was aiming for his fifth Australian title.Instead, Nadal was…

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve's chief policymaking group has vast power over the finances of ordinary people, businesses and investors. The consequences of its interest-rate decisions range wide: from people's ability to get affordable loans to the price of cereal at the grocery store or gasoline at the corner station.Here's a look at the policymaking…

Lawrence O’Donnell is a socialist.At least, that’s what the MSNBC commentator himself told Glenn Greenwald when they duked it out on the air Friday on “Morning Joe.”“I am a socialist,” O’Donnell said. “I live to the extreme left.”Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for Salon.com, ran a column on Wednesday that attacked the election coverage by the…

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Sunday cautioned that there is nothing "revolutionary" in Pope Benedict XVI's startling assertion that condom use in exceptional circumstances can be a responsible act in the fight against the spread of HIV.The Holy See's chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, issued a statement stressing that the pope's comment in…

TUESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The 16-year-old went to the emergency room because of a painful infection in her arm. When doctors used ultrasound on the area, they were shocked to see about 20 foreign objects under her skin, including a paper clip, a screw from a pair of eyeglasses and multiple pieces of…