Stan Lee Media Sues Disney Over Marvel Rights

(Reuters) – Stan Lee Media, a company that says it controls the rights to Marvel characters including Spider Man and Iron Man, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Colorado against the Walt Disney Coseeking “billions of dollars of profits.”
Stan Lee, no longer associated with the company, created…

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Dwyane Wade Introduces The WADE Brand

Dwyane Wade was introduced as the latest member of the Li-Ning family on Wednesday in a press event in Beijing.

Wade, who is in town for a pair of exhibition games against the Los Angeles Clippers for the 2012 NBA China Games, was given the red carpet treatment as…

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Student Takes Discrimination Case to Supreme Court

Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas’ use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action.

The court heard arguments in a challenge to the program from a white Texan who contends she was discriminated against when the…

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Pakistani Student Shot By Taliban for Promoting Education

Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet on Wednesday from a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls, doctors said.

Malala Yousufzai was in critical condition after gunmen shot her in the head and neck on Tuesday as she left…

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Alex Karras, Former NFL Player and 'Webster' Actor, Dies

Alex Karras, the rugged lineman who anchored the Detroit Lions’ defense in the 1960s, then went on to an acting career in which he starred in the sitcom “Webster” and famously punched a horse in the 1974 comedy “Blazing Saddles,” died Wednesday. He was 77.

Karras, who had recently suffered…

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