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Micro-blogging site Twitter's admittance this week that they used to copy and store the entire address book of smartphone users is causing quite a stir. The company has tendered an apology and has indicated that it will update it's privacy policy. But is that enough?

Jeremy Lin is going to bring the Linsanity to the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend at the end of this month in Orlando, Fla.

The 2012 Sprite Slam Dunk Contest participants, all first-timers, have their fate in the hands of the voters as the contest moves to a new format.

Madeleine Stowe plays the icy matriarch Victoria Grayson in the ABC television series Revenge, for which she was recently nominated for a Golden Globe award. The 53-year-old actress has starred in films such as The Last of the Mohicans and Twelve Monkeys. Here are 10 things you probably didn't know about her:

Whitney Houston has not even been buried yet and the battle for her money is about to heat up.

Xi Jinping's visit to the United States is all the rage as Washington scurries to get a better impression of the presumed successor of President Hu Jintao. However, it would be premature to judge Xi's comfortable and amicable style as a sign of any weakness.

Whitney Houston's funeral on Saturday is expected to be televised and streamed on the Web live from the New Jersey church, her publicist told the media Wednesday. Houston's service will be held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark and Houston's rep reportedly told RumorFix that The Associated Press will live stream the service that begins at noon.

Bruce Beresford-Redman, the former producer of Survivor accused of killing his wife during a family vacation in Cancun, Mexico, will stand trial in that country, Los Angeles station KNBC TV reports.

Los Angeles County officials who were widely ridiculed over mistaken reports that they had imposed a $1,000 fine for throwing Frisbees and footballs on the beach now want to dispatch with the misunderstood rules entirely.

President Obama took the stage at television producer Bradley Bell's house Wednesday, telling about 1,000 supporters that the economy is rebounding and that when he took office, we didn't realize how profound the nature of the crisis was.

Diner was eating a Triple Bypass Burger

Bobbi Kristina, the 18-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston, must be having a difficult time dealing with the loss of her mother, but her father, Bobby Brown said she is emotionally improving as the days go on.

Love is in the air for music's newest couple.

Four days after Whitney Houston's death, her doctors' drug records were subpoenaed by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

Tim Tebow and Katy Perry don't have a thing, Denver's QB has assured a room full of kids.

As fans question Whitney Houston's cause of death, many decide to visit the site of her passing, the Beverly Hilton hotel, aboard Hollywood's Dearly Departed, the Tragical History Tour. But is it too soon?

Glee pays tribute to the late singer with one of the biggest hits of her career.

Linsanity has taken the sports world by storm, and at least one business-minded individual is trying to patent the term and profit off of the New York Knicks player's success.

Whitney Houston's funeral is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 18, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where Houston sang as a child with her mother Cissy Houston and her cousin Dionne Warwick. It will be an invite-only affair and Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston's ex-husband, may not get an invitation, according to TMZ.

Two lucky women and two men became the first same-sex couples to wed in the 61st-floor area of the Empire State Building, New York, Tuesday, following the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages by the NYC government in June, 2011.

The hunt for elusive drug cartel leader Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo, got a shot in the arm Tuesday with the arrest of infamous meth producer Jaime Herrera in Mexico's Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.