George Clooney: What's His Best Look?


While George Clooney has been hopping - okay, flying first class in a private jet - from red carpet to red carpet over the last few weeks, most eyes have been trained on the woman on his arm. And for good reason:

Stacy Keibler is far from unattractive.

But the actor has also given fans multiple looks at various events honoring his two latest movies, The Ides of March and The Descendants. Below, we're asking readers to compare his cool and casual look at a photo call in London... with his jacket/no-tie outfit at the London Film Festival... with his grey suit at the NYC premiere of the former film. Vote now!

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7.2 quake causes damage, casualties in Turkey

People try to save people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths, an official said. ( AP Photo/ Abdurrahman Antakyali, Aatolia) TURKEY OUT

People try to save people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths, an official said. ( AP Photo/ Abdurrahman Antakyali, Aatolia) TURKEY OUT

People try to save people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths, an official said. ( AP Photo/ Abdurrahman Antakyali, Aatolia) TURKEY OUT

Shocked people seen in the city center of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday Oct. 23, 2011 , collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths, an official said. ( AP Photo/ Abdurrahman Antakyali, Anatolia) TURKEY OUT

Residents take to the streets after a earthquake in Van eastern Turkey in this image taken from Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. _ A powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday, collapsing at least two buildings in the center of eastern city of Van, the mayor said. (AP Photo/Anatolian TV. via APTN) TURKEY OUT TV OUT

(AP) ? A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday, collapsing about 45 buildings according to the deputy prime minister.

Only one death was immediately confirmed, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could have been killed.

The worst damage was caused to the town of Ercis, in the mountainous eastern province of Van, close to the Iranian border. The city of Van also suffered substantial damage.

"Around 10 buildings have collapsed in the city of Van and around 25 or 30 have collapsed in Ercis, including a dormitory," Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said.

Atalay said authorities had no information yet on remote villages, adding that the governor was now touring the region by helicopter to assess damage. The quake's epicenter was in the village of Tabanli.

Authorities did not provide a casualty figure but the Kandilli observatory, Turkey's main seismography center, said the quake was capable of killing many more people.

"We are estimating a death toll between 500 and 1,000," Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli observatory, told a televised news conference. His estimate was based on the structure of the housing in the area and the strength of the quake.

The Turkish Red Crescent said its rescuers pulled several injured people out of the collapsed dormitory in Ercis, which sits on a geological fault line.

In Van, a bustling city with many apartment buildings, at least 50 people were treated in the courtyard of the state hospital, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.

"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed. There is too much destruction," Zulfikar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis, told NTV television. "We need urgent aid. We need medics."

Serious damage and casualties were also reported in the district of Celebibag, near Ercis.

"There are many people under the rubble," Veysel Keser, mayor of Celebibag, told NTV. "People are in agony, we can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help."

"It's a great disaster," he said. "Many buildings have collapsed, student dormitories, hotels and gas stations have collapsed."

Some houses also collapsed in the province of Bitlis, where at least one person, an 8-year-old girl was killed, authorities said. The quake also toppled the minarets of two mosques in the nearby province of Mus, reports said.

NTV said Van's airport was damaged and planes were being diverted to neighboring cities.

Terrified residents spilled into the streets in panic as rescue workers and residents using their bare hands and shovels struggled to find people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings, television footage showed.

Several Cabinet ministers headed to the area as authorities mobilized rescue teams across the country.

The quake had a depth of 20 kilometers (12.4 miles), which is relatively shallow and could potentially cause more damage.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by fault lines.

In 1999, about 18,000 people were killed by two powerful earthquakes that struck northwestern Turkey. Authorities blamed shoddy construction for many of the deaths.

Associated Press

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Fans Line Up At New Seattle Windows Store? For The Concert

This stuff writes itself. At the grand opening of a new Windows Store in Seattle folks were camping out for most of the night only to stream in, breathlessly ready to partake in the one exciting product Microsoft could offer - a free concert by the Black Keys.

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Playstation 3D Display hits shelves November 13, Sony answers your burning questions

We'd imagine come November 13th, the above will be the scene inside many a PS3 owner's house. That's when Sony's hot little 24-inch PlayStation 3D display will officially be available in the US, Canada, Europe and parts of Asia. Sony took to its US PlayStation Blog today with the news, along with a lengthy FAQ to keep your GAS at bay in the meantime. If you'll recall, the 240Hz 1080p display packs a single set of component inputs, two HDMI 1.4 ports, stereo RCA outputs, a headphone jack, an integrated subwoofer, and of course, 3D-capability with supported titles. For five hundred bucks you'll get the PS 3D Display, one pair of USB-rechargeable 3D Glasses ($70 for each additional pair), a copy of Motorstorm: Apocalypse and even an HDMI cable. Notably, its fancy (and exclusive) SimulView feature will let two sets of 3D shades grab either the left or right side feed in supported 3D games for a private 2D view. Disappointingly, this puppy isn't wall-mountable, but hey, that 24-inch panel surely makes it ideal for a desktop setup, no? Full details at the links below, along with a refresher shot of those 3D specs just past the break.

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Rutgers establishes stem cell repository for the study of mental health disorders

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Awarded $1.2 million to expand research capabilities into autism, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and major depression

Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR) has established a stem cell repository for the National Institute of Mental Health that will better enable researchers to study a variety of mental health disorders, including autism, attention deficit disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia, that affect millions of Americans.

"The biology of mental health disorders has been especially difficult to study because brain tissue from affected individuals is seldom available," said principal investigator Jay A. Tischfield, Duncan and Nancy Macmillan Professor and director of the Human Genetics Institute. "With the award of this new grant, we will provide researchers with new biological tools that will greatly enhance our understanding of the biological basis of mental disorders."

The NIMH Repository Supporting Stem Cell Research will be part of the existing NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetic Studies on Mental Disorders which has been based at Rutgers since 1998 when NIMH awarded Rutgers $96 million to establish cell lines, DNA and RNA for the NIMH Genetics Initiative by collecting samples from families with a wide range of mental health disorders. The center's goal which is being expanded with a $1.2 million stem cell supplement is to increase the repertoire of resources to researchers around the world.

Tischfield says researchers at the new Rutgers-based NIMH Stem Cell Center will use skin or other cells from people with mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia, to create stem cells within two to three months that can then become brain cells such as neurons. Up until now, research on the causes and treatment of mental health disorders has been hampered by the fact that brain tissue from someone with the mental disorder was seldom available until they died, a time when brain cells are quickly degrading.

The new method to create stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) produces human stem cells that are similar to embryonic stem cells, but which do not require embryonic material for their establishment. iPS cells originate from adult body cells that are reprogrammed in the laboratory by inserting foreign genes into the cell, enabling it to become any type of cell in the body. The new stem cells could provide scientists with the necessary clues they need to determine the causes of mental disorder and develop effective drugs to combat them.

"It is amazing that we can take a tiny piece of skin from a person with a particular disease, comprised of cells that were thought of as recently as several years ago as being in a terminal state of differentiation, and turn back the clock to induce those cells to become stem cells that have the potential to become a neuron, or a heart cell, or any of a number of cell types," said Michael Sheldon, assistant research professor in the Department of Genetics and the project's co-director.

The collaboration between Rutgers and the National Institute of Mental Health will provide researchers throughout the world studying causes of mental health and other diseases with iPS cells derived from people with anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia, to better understand how these diseases originate and progress.

The RUCDR is the largest repository in the world and provides DNA, RNA and cell lines to hundreds of research laboratories across the globe studying mental health disorders and drug and alcohol abuse as well as the causes of digestive, liver, and kidney disease, and diabetes.

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Rutgers University

Awarded $1.2 million to expand research capabilities into autism, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and major depression

Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR) has established a stem cell repository for the National Institute of Mental Health that will better enable researchers to study a variety of mental health disorders, including autism, attention deficit disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia, that affect millions of Americans.

"The biology of mental health disorders has been especially difficult to study because brain tissue from affected individuals is seldom available," said principal investigator Jay A. Tischfield, Duncan and Nancy Macmillan Professor and director of the Human Genetics Institute. "With the award of this new grant, we will provide researchers with new biological tools that will greatly enhance our understanding of the biological basis of mental disorders."

The NIMH Repository Supporting Stem Cell Research will be part of the existing NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetic Studies on Mental Disorders which has been based at Rutgers since 1998 when NIMH awarded Rutgers $96 million to establish cell lines, DNA and RNA for the NIMH Genetics Initiative by collecting samples from families with a wide range of mental health disorders. The center's goal which is being expanded with a $1.2 million stem cell supplement is to increase the repertoire of resources to researchers around the world.

Tischfield says researchers at the new Rutgers-based NIMH Stem Cell Center will use skin or other cells from people with mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia, to create stem cells within two to three months that can then become brain cells such as neurons. Up until now, research on the causes and treatment of mental health disorders has been hampered by the fact that brain tissue from someone with the mental disorder was seldom available until they died, a time when brain cells are quickly degrading.

The new method to create stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) produces human stem cells that are similar to embryonic stem cells, but which do not require embryonic material for their establishment. iPS cells originate from adult body cells that are reprogrammed in the laboratory by inserting foreign genes into the cell, enabling it to become any type of cell in the body. The new stem cells could provide scientists with the necessary clues they need to determine the causes of mental disorder and develop effective drugs to combat them.

"It is amazing that we can take a tiny piece of skin from a person with a particular disease, comprised of cells that were thought of as recently as several years ago as being in a terminal state of differentiation, and turn back the clock to induce those cells to become stem cells that have the potential to become a neuron, or a heart cell, or any of a number of cell types," said Michael Sheldon, assistant research professor in the Department of Genetics and the project's co-director.

The collaboration between Rutgers and the National Institute of Mental Health will provide researchers throughout the world studying causes of mental health and other diseases with iPS cells derived from people with anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia, to better understand how these diseases originate and progress.

The RUCDR is the largest repository in the world and provides DNA, RNA and cell lines to hundreds of research laboratories across the globe studying mental health disorders and drug and alcohol abuse as well as the causes of digestive, liver, and kidney disease, and diabetes.

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Senate backs measure to avoid another gun scandal (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Senate on Tuesday passed a measure aimed at avoiding another botched operation to track guns smuggled from the United States, many of which ended up at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border.

The "Fast and Furious" sting operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was meant to try to slow the flow of weapons to violent drug gangs.

The Senate voted 99-0 for a proposal that would bar the government from using funds to knowingly transfer guns to drug cartels if U.S. law enforcement agencies are not monitoring or controlling the weapons at all times.

The House of Representatives must pass a similar measure before President Barack Obama, a Democrat, can sign it into law. Border security, also tied to illegal immigration and the broader economy, is an important issue as U.S. politicians gear up for elections in November 2012.

The Senate bill amendment was introduced by Texas Republican John Cornyn after the ATF failed to track guns after they were bought by suspected suppliers to Mexican drug cartels in the operation that ran from late 2009 through 2010.

"When 2,000 firearms go missing and at least one is found at the crime scene of a murdered U.S. Border Patrol agent, we must do everything possible to ensure that such a reckless and ill-advised operation like 'Fast and Furious' is not repeated," Cornyn said in a statement earlier this week.

Republican congressional investigators have demanded Attorney General Eric Holder turn over documents and communications about the operation.

Escalating a battle between Holder and the House Oversight Committee, the panel subpoenaed the Justice Department -- which oversees the ATF -- seeking voluminous information from senior Obama administration officials.

(Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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Start of 2-day general strike shuts down Greece

Tourists check the departure board during a 12-hour work stoppage by air traffic controllers at the Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Private and public sectors shut down across Greece Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour general strike that unions vowed would be the largest in years, to protest a new round of austerity measures designed to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Tourists check the departure board during a 12-hour work stoppage by air traffic controllers at the Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Private and public sectors shut down across Greece Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour general strike that unions vowed would be the largest in years, to protest a new round of austerity measures designed to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A man throws his fishing line in front of a docked ship during a strike in the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. A two-day general strike that unions vow will be the largest in years grounded flights, disrupted public transport and shut down everything from customs offices to shops and schools in debt-ridden Greece on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A passenger takes a photograph of a departure board during a 12-hour work stoppage by air traffic controllers at the Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Private and public sectors shut down across Greece Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour general strike that unions vowed would be the largest in years, to protest a new round of austerity measures designed to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A man walks at the empty arrival terminal during a 12-hour work stoppage by air traffic controllers at the Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Private and public sectors shut down across Greece Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour general strike that unions vowed would be the largest in years, to protest a new round of austerity measures designed to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Tourists from Bolivia sit in a bench during a 12-hour work stoppage by air traffic controllers at the Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Private and public sectors shut down across Greece Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour general strike that unions vowed would be the largest in years, to protest a new round of austerity measures designed to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

(AP) ? A two-day general strike that unions vow will be the largest in years grounded flights, disrupted public transport and shut down everything from shops to schools in Greece on Wednesday, as at least 50,000 protesters converged in central Athens.

All sectors, from dentists, state hospital doctors and lawyers to shop owners, tax office workers, pharmacists, teachers and dock workers walked off the job ahead of a Parliamentary vote Thursday on new austerity measures.

Flights were grounded in the morning but were to resume at noon after air traffic controllers scaled back their initial strike plan from 48 hours to 12. Ferries remained tied up in port, while public transport workers staged work stoppages but were to keep buses, trolleys and the Athens metro running for most of the day.

Several thousand police deployed in central Athens, blocking a road by Parliament and shutting down two nearby metro stations as protest marches began. Authorities estimated the crowd at 50,000, and more people were streaming into the downtown area. A small group of protesters briefly pelted police with garbage, but the rallies were mostly peaceful.

At least 15,000 demonstrators also gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city.

"We just can't take it any more. There is desperation, anger and bitterness," said Nikos Anastasopoulos, head of a workers' union for an Athens municipality. Other municipal workers said they had no option but to take to the streets.

"We can't make ends meet for our families," said protester Eleni Voulieri. "We've lost our salaries, we've lost everything and we're in danger of losing our jobs."

Demonstrations during a similar 48-hour strike in June left the center of Athens convulsed by violence as rioters clashed with police on both days while deputies voted on another austerity package inside Parliament.

"We expect that the strike could be the largest" in decades, said Ilias Vrettakos, deputy president of the civil servants' union ADEDY.

"The fact that other sections of society that are suffering from government policies are also participating gives a new dimension to the social resistance by workers and the people in general, and we hope that this mobilization will have an impact on political developments."

Piles of garbage continued to fester on street corners despite a civil mobilization order issued Tuesday to order garbage crews back to work after a 17-day strike. Earlier in the week, private crews were contracted to remove trash from along the planned demonstration routes, but mounds remained on side streets and in city neighborhoods.

Protesting civil servants have also staged rounds of sit-ins at government buildings, with some, including the Finance Ministry, being under occupation for days.

Prime Minister George Papandreou appealed on Tuesday for the protests to end.

"I would like to ask all those who occupy ministry buildings, choke the streets with garbage, close off ports, close off the Acropolis, if this helps us stand on our feet again ? of course it does not," Papandreou told parliament.

Most stores in the city center, including bakeries and many of the ubiquitous kiosks which sell everything from newspapers, cigarettes and chewing gum to tourist trinkets and snacks, were shut Wednesday. Several shop owners said they had received threats that their stores would be smashed if they attempted to open during the first day of the strike.

The measures to be voted on in Parliament Thursday come after more than a year and a half of repeated spending cuts and tax increases, and include tax hikes, further pension and salary cuts, the suspension on reduced pay of 30,000 public servants out of a total of more than 750,000, and the suspension of collective labor contracts.

A communist party-backed union has vowed to encircle Parliament Thursday in an attempt to prevent deputies from entering the building for the vote.

The reforms have been so unpopular that even some lawmakers from the governing Socialists have indicated they might vote against at least some of them.

But Greece must pass the bill if it is to continue receiving funds from its euro110 billion international bailout. Unless it receives the now long overdue disbursement of an euro8 billion installment, it has said it will run out of funds to pay salaries and pensions by mid-November.

Meanwhile, European countries are trying to work out a broad solution to the continent's deepening debt crisis, ahead of a weekend summit in Brussels. It became clear earlier this year that the initial bailout for Greece was not working as well as had been hoped, and European leaders agreed on a second, euro109 billion bailout. But key details of that rescue fund, including the participation of the private sector, remain to be worked out.

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Nicholas Paphitis in Athens contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Suspected Russian spy fights deportation from UK (AP)

LONDON ? An accused Russian spy who worked as an assistant for a British lawmaker went to court Tuesday in a bid to block her deportation ? telling judges that she had a four-year affair with her boss but was not a secret agent.

Ekaterina Zatuliveter, also known as Katia, was arrested in December on suspicion of using her job in the office of legislator Mike Hancock to pass information to Russian intelligence.

She was not charged, but British authorities want to deport her as a danger to national security.

Zatuliveter denies spying and is asking the Special Immigration Appeals Commission to block her extradition. The case, expected to last nine days, is being heard by three judges and a former head of the MI5 intelligence agency.

Hancock, a Liberal Democrat member of Parliament who sits on the House of Commons Defense Committee, has said 26-year-old Zatuliveter worked as a researcher in his office for 2 1/2 years, but was not involved in sensitive matters.

In a statement issued Tuesday, he said that "at no time, did I pass on to Ms. Zatuliveter any information that was not in the public domain or any classified information."

Zatuliveter said she met Hancock in Moscow in 2006 and they began an affair that continued when she moved to Britain to study. But she denied an allegation by Jonathan Glasson, a lawyer for the British government, that she had targeted Hancock because he was influential in British politics.

"I don't think that he is very influential," she said. "He is a backbench MP."

Asked why she thought Hancock would be of interest to Russian spies, she replied: "I have no idea what would be of interest to the Russian Intelligence Service."

Zatuliveter said she was first questioned by British intelligence officials in August 2010 when she was asked how she could afford her London apartment on a researcher's salary.

She said she replied that Hancock helped her out financially.

Hancock, 65, who is married with two children, said in his statement that it was "not appropriate for me to make any further comments at this time on any aspect of the hearing."

Russia's Foreign Ministry has dismissed the spying accusations as "paranoid" and an attempt to undermine U.K.-Russian relations.

Those relations have been chilled since the death in 2006 of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who died after ingesting a radioactive substance. Litvinenko blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the poisoning.

Britain has sought to extradite the main suspect in the case, former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi, but Russia has refused.

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