Review: 'A Separation' is a great family drama

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(CNN) -- As I've written on various top 10 lists (and mentioned to anyone who will listen) Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" is an exceptional film.

Friday Top Five: Best New Year's Eve movies

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There is a film in theaters right now about nothing but various scenarios that all take place on New Year's Eve, but this isn't about that movie.

Spain sets out painful spending cuts

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Madrid (CNN) -- Spain's new government announced a series of spending cuts Friday intended to bring down the country's soaring deficit amid concerns over the European debt crisis.

Fil-Am behind popular 'Johnny Bravo' cartoon character

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Johnny Bravo, the popular “muscle head, Elvis Presley wanna-be” cartoon character, may have wrapped up his regular stint on television in 2004, but the man behind him— one who also carries his surname — isn’t putting a halt to his story.

U.N. complains to Iraq over attack on dissident camp

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(Reuters) - The United Nations has complained to Iraq about mortar attacks this week on an Iranian dissident camp near Baghdad and has won a promise that they will be stopped, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.

Verizon to add $2 bill-pay charge

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Reuters - Verizon Wireless, which this month angered customers with three separate data service problems, said on Thursday it will add a $2 fee for one-time telephone and online bill payments.

North Korea hails nuclear, military feats of Kim Jong-il

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SEOUL - North Korea lauded the military might built up by deceased leader Kim Jong-il on Thursday, likely tying his young successor to the same policies that have set Northeast Asia on edge as the impoverished state inches closer to nuclear weapons capability.

Kobe Bryant's wife files for divorce

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- The wife of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant filed for divorce Friday, eight years after she famously stuck by him after he admitted having sex with a woman at a Colorado hotel, a court spokeswoman said.

Last U.S. troops leave Iraq, ending war

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(Reuters) - The last convoy of U.S. soldiers pulled out of Iraq on Sunday, ending nearly nine years of war that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and left a country grappling with political uncertainty.

Man burns woman alive in New York elevator

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(CNN) -- Police in New York are looking for a man who doused a woman with a flammable liquid and lit her on fire, killing her, in the elevator of a Brooklyn apartment building Saturday.