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Director Edgar Wright and actor-writer Simon Pegg came to prominence in England with their TV sitcom Spaced, and made a worldwide splash with the zombie comedy of manners Shaun of the Dead. Their latest collaboration, a parody of Hollywood police shoot-em-ups called Hot Fuzz, is set in a buccolic English village where things just aren't the way they seem.

Indie animation king Bill Plympton's latest feature, Cheatin', tells the loopy love story of Jake and Ella, and how their perfect romance fractured. Reporter Jon Kalish visited Plympton in his studio.

The nominations for this year's Emmy awards were announced on Thursday. House of Cards, Netflix's venture into producing original content, was recognized with several nominations.

She was one of the most famous and beloved playback singers. She recorded songs used in movie soundtracks, which generations of actresses would then lip-sync onscreen.

Jury selection begins in the trial of former Enron chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Mike Pesca uses audio clips from the documentary film The Smartest Guys in the Room to recap some key moments before the energy-trading company collapsed in the fall of 2001.

The new book by The Kitchen Sisters charts their ongoing series of reports exploring the world of street-corner cooking, colorful kitchen rituals and visionaries, legendary meals and eating traditions.

States have been asked to increase accessibility of baby formula for recipients of the low-income program. And the Food and Drug Administration is looking at ways to make it easier to import formula.

Before this week is over, jurors in Michael Jackson's trial could be deliberating his guilt or innocence. But those 12 people are hardly the only ones in the country who will be talking about Michael Jackson. Just about everybody else is, too. Commentator Jake Halpern is working on a book about fame, and he says that all that attention might be part of Michael Jackson's problems.

An autopsy is performed on the remains of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning. He was being tried for war crimes by the international tribunal at The Hague.

Polls open Sunday in Congo for that nation's first democratic elections in more than 40 years. Many hope the vote will help turn the page after decades of dictatorship and civil war.