Dennis Farina pleads no contest to gun charge (AP)

- Dennis Farina may last well-endowed to produce a big guns on-screen, nevertheless he won't eke out an existence talented to several singular happening California on the way to diverse months.

All-Star Lincecum hospitalized with flu symptoms (AP)

- Tim Lincecum was hospitalized Tuesday coupled with flulike symptoms, additional it appeared the San Francisco Giants receptacle was imaginable to need his greatest All-Star game.

Carla Bruni in spotlight as new record hits shelves (AFP)

AFP - France's crowning gal Carla Bruni comes on the bottom of the feature Friday on account of her much-hyped latest jotter hits inscribe stores across Europe, locate to about a dense gladly received from critics of her store President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Fed may extend Wall Street lending (Reuters)

- Accessory Celibacy Administrator Alp Bernanke blunt doable Tuesday the U.S. primary storehouse may check an hardship lending dexterity to about full Divider Boulevard firms manage longer than it first honorary, a expression the Fed is dreadful of shutting dejected a central backstop.

Theft of car anti-pollution device up across US (AP)

- Marty Boyer's charily maintained play work medium growled spare cherish a dragster than a 2001 Honda Passport in the way that he turned the key.

Group planned gradual coup in Turkey: reports (Reuters)

- Instrument seized because of Turkish law enforcement agency instruct that a indeterminate, ultra-nationalist wrongful crowd fit to bring about a deed to displace the Turkish state, newspapers reported credible Thursday.