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U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after a hefty year-end rally and the S&P 500 erased gains for the year on renewed concerns about the euro zone's financial health.

It seems actor Jim Carrey, 49, has gotten over his creepy crush on actress Emma Stone, 23. Perhaps a young Russian blonde named Anastasia Vitkina had something to do with it.

Disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner wanted a threesome with a female and another man, according to a woman that Weiner was texting while in office.

The United States warned the Iranian government that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will not be tolerated after Iran threatened to do so if sanctions were put in place.

The single mom, who was on her way home to her 8-year-old son Elijah when she was struck and killed. In her pocket, Fountain was carrying a list called My Dreams, detailing her hopes for her son's future and how she might give back to her community. As police search for the driver who killed her, friends and family are trying to make that list a reality.

Around this time of year, wanderlust travelers raise a Champagne glass and spin the globe in search of the next great destination for the coming year. What will be the top destinations in 2012? Have a look:

The ticket was bought at King Kullen store in Middle Island. For the New York resident that purchased the ticket, it was a belated Christmas gift worth $208 million from Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing as it matched all six numbers.

U.S. painter Helen Frankenthaler, who poured thinned pigments directly onto untreated canvas to create ethereal fields of color seen as seminal works in the development of abstract expressionism, died at her home in Darien, Connecticut, on Monday evening at the age of 83.

Stocks fell about 1 percent on Wednesday on concerns about the economy in early 2012 while the euro hit a fresh 11-month low against the dollar before a key auction of long-dated Italian debt on Thursday.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, who took two trips to Germany, one in the summer and the other in October, during the prolonged offseason for knee and ankle treatment, recommended that New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez also go to Germany to go through the same experimental therapy he did to heal up, according to the New York Post.

An affiliate of the World-Wide Group has sold a two-story commercial building at 646 Eleventh Avenue for $27.75 million, according to New York City records.

Samsung Electronics Co, Sharp Corp and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to pay more than $553 million to settle consumer and state regulatory claims that they conspired to fix prices for LCD panels in televisions, notebook computers and monitors.

The New York Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nilda Macri, who has been in court for the last four years, trying to collect line-of-duty death benefits after her husband, NYPD Officer and September 11th first responder Frank Macri, died from lung cancer that he developed after working at Ground Zero for two months.

Confidential whistleblower documents that helped spark a massive state and federal investigation into how Bank of New York Mellon Corp charged pension funds for currency exchange, provide a rare window into how a bank insider aided a lawsuit against the bank.

Rick Perry, who said last month that he supported abortion in cases of rape or incest, told an Iowa pastor on Tuesday that he had undergone a transformation and now opposed abortion without exceptions.

Workers at an LG Display factory in eastern China have gone on strike, halting some production, the company said on Wednesday, in the latest action by China's increasingly assertive workforce.

Australian supermodel and Victoria's Secret angel Miranda Kerr looks stunning in a new fashion ad campaign by Swiss fashion brand Bally.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Braylon Edwards was released on Tuesday after an injury-riddled season. He suffered a knee injury in week 2 that sidelined him for five weeks, and then suffered a shoulder injury two weeks later.

The Christmas Day house fire that killed Madonna Badger's three daughters - Lily, Grace and Sarah -- and her parents - Lomer and Pauline Johnson -- was caused by discarded hot embers removed from the fireplace, authorities report.

Oh Baby! A very pregnant Beyonce is reportedly getting ready to check in to a New York Hospital to give birth any minute now, according to multiple reports. Beyonce confirmed in September that she was six months pregnant, so she would be due around this time.

Toddlers who have poor relationships with their moms are more likely to pack on extra pounds as they grow up, a new U.S. study shows.