King cake reigns on Fat Tuesday – and the days leading up to it – but there are other traditional indulgences to be had across the country today, as Ash Wednesday looms.

King cake reigns on Fat Tuesday – and the days leading up to it – but there are other traditional indulgences to be had across the country today, as Ash Wednesday looms.

King cakes. They're unusual-looking creations, bedazzled in beads, candies and, strangely, a little baby Jesus. King cakes are drawn from the Catholic tradition, Mardi Gras, which is the culmination of the Carnival season.

King cakes. They're unusual-looking creations, bedazzled in beads, candies and, strangely, a little baby Jesus. King cakes are drawn from the Catholic tradition, Mardi Gras, which is the culmination of the Carnival season.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

Hours before her death in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, Marie Colvin, an American reporter, described the death of a boy in telephone interviews with the BBC, CNN and Britain's Channel 4 News.

Journalist Marie Colvin, who worked for The Sunday Times, has been killed by Syrian regime forces in the flashpoint city of Homs, according to reports. Credit: www.youtube.com/cnninternational JOURNALIST Marie Colvin, who worked for The Sunday Times,

22, 2012 by the Sunday Times in London of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin photographed in Tahrir square in Cairo. The French government spokeswoman on Wednesday identified two Western reporters killed in Syria as American war reporter Marie Colvin

Last night, Lewis Black dropped in to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for a much-needed edition of Back in Black. The subject: the way in which mainstream media — mostly Fox News and Nancy Grace — have handled the

Last night, Lewis Black dropped in to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for a much-needed edition of Back in Black. The subject: the way in which mainstream media — mostly Fox News and Nancy Grace — have handled the

“The Daily Show's” Lewis Black thinks so. Watch a clip. We welcome thoughtful comments from readers. Please comply with our guidelines. Our blogs do not require the use of your real name. Speakeasy is an online magazine covering media, entertainment,

“The Daily Show's” Lewis Black thinks so. Watch a clip. We welcome thoughtful comments from readers. Please comply with our guidelines. Our blogs do not require the use of your real name. Speakeasy is an online magazine covering media, entertainment,

For the half-year to 30 June 2012, the IPKat's regular team is supplemented by contributions from guest bloggers Tara Aaron, Norman Siebrasse and Darren Smyth. The IPKat is also privileged to enjoy regular contributions on

By David DiLillo on February 22nd, 2012 in Album Reviews Trading in clever, orchestrated pop rock for hollow, overproduced stadium romps, fun. swing big and miss the point almost entirely on Some Nights, their second LP and first with Fueled By Ramen.

We're guessing that fun. have been having much, um, fun watching the success of their Janelle Monae-featuring breakout single We Are Young. The power-pop jam.

Trading in clever, orchestrated pop rock for hollow, overproduced stadium romps, fun. swing big and miss the point almost entirely on Some Nights, their second LP and first with Fueled By Ramen. I'm not sure if the fault lies

Pocket-lint sources at the Panasonic conference in Hamburg tell us that Star Wars is headed to Blu-ray in 3D this spring. Rather unsurprisingly, following.

Real Intent has announced it is now shipping version 1.5 of its Ascent™ Lint software. Version 1.5 of Ascent Lint adds over 40 new rules for Verilog, VHDL and SystemVerilog designs, covering both RTL and gate-level netlists.

Pocket-lint sources at the Panasonic conference in Hamburg tell us that Star Wars is headed to Blu-ray in 3D this spring. Rather unsurprisingly, following.

It's Sony PlayStation Vita launch day and to celebrate Pocket-lint is offering five lucky readers the chance to win a copy of Codemasters' F1 2011 for the new handheld console. The game allows you to compete in a full Formula One season,

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan, Reuters February 22, 2012 3:15 PM American journalist Marie Colvin called the bombardment of Homs “merciless” in a telephone interview on Tuesday (February 21), a day before she was killed alongside French

The commitment and self-sacrifice of Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria, was in the finest tradition of great journalism. By Peter Oborne This year, as the Leveson inquiry grinds towards its conclusion, journalism is in the cesspit.

LONDON (AP) — She was instantly recognizable for the eye patch that hid a shrapnel injury — a testament to Marie Colvin's courage, which took her behind the front lines of the world's deadliest conflicts to write about the

American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed early this morning in the Syrian city of Homs. Snipers reportedly loyal to President Bashar al-Assad bombarded the home, located in the

ATT CEO Randall Stephenson’s paycheck is $2 million lighter because of his failed T-Mobile takeover bid.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — What’s the cost of a $4 billion gamble gone wrong?

For ATT CEO Randall Stephenson, the answer is, “$2 million.” That’s the sum by which ATT’s board cut his 2011 compensation as a direct response to the failed T-Mobile takeover bid Stephenson led last year.

ATT offered $39 billion for T-Mobile, a deal that would have eliminated the fourth-biggest wireless carrier in the U.S. and made ATT the nation’s biggest by far. But the arrangement was a risky one that all sides knew would face heavy regulatory scrutiny.

To entice T-Mobile to roll the dice, ATT (T, Fortune 500) offered a whopping breakup fee: It agreed to pay T-Mobile $3 billion if the deal didn’t go through, plus hand over another $1 billion worth of spectrum.

That’s exactly what happened. After the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice both moved to block the deal, ATT withdrew its bid in December. It then turned its spectrum, plus billions in cash, over to T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom.

Stephenson swung for the fences — and missed.

ATT’s compensation committee took that into consideration for his 2011 pay package, ATT said Tuesday in a regulatory filing. Despite a “strong operational performance,” Stephenson’s compensation was slashed by “more than $2 million” as a reflection of the heavy toll T-Mobile took on the company’s bottom line, ATT said.

Stephenson still took home a pretty rich package. On top of a base salary of $1.6 million, he received a $3.8 million “incentive award” and stock compensation worth an estimated $12.7 million. ATT valued his total 2011 compensation at $22 million — a 20% drop from the $27 million he collected a year earlier. 

ATT CEO Randall Stephenson’s paycheck is $2 million lighter because of his failed T-Mobile takeover bid.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — What’s the cost of a $4 billion gamble gone wrong?

For ATT CEO Randall Stephenson, the answer is, “$2 million.” That’s the sum by which ATT’s board cut his 2011 compensation as a direct response to the failed T-Mobile takeover bid Stephenson led last year.

ATT offered $39 billion for T-Mobile, a deal that would have eliminated the fourth-biggest wireless carrier in the U.S. and made ATT the nation’s biggest by far. But the arrangement was a risky one that all sides knew would face heavy regulatory scrutiny.

To entice T-Mobile to roll the dice, ATT (T, Fortune 500) offered a whopping breakup fee: It agreed to pay T-Mobile $3 billion if the deal didn’t go through, plus hand over another $1 billion worth of spectrum.

That’s exactly what happened. After the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice both moved to block the deal, ATT withdrew its bid in December. It then turned its spectrum, plus billions in cash, over to T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom.

Stephenson swung for the fences — and missed.

ATT’s compensation committee took that into consideration for his 2011 pay package, ATT said Tuesday in a regulatory filing. Despite a “strong operational performance,” Stephenson’s compensation was slashed by “more than $2 million” as a reflection of the heavy toll T-Mobile took on the company’s bottom line, ATT said.

Stephenson still took home a pretty rich package. On top of a base salary of $1.6 million, he received a $3.8 million “incentive award” and stock compensation worth an estimated $12.7 million. ATT valued his total 2011 compensation at $22 million — a 20% drop from the $27 million he collected a year earlier. 

ATT CEO Randall Stephenson’s paycheck is $2 million lighter because of his failed T-Mobile takeover bid.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — What’s the cost of a $4 billion gamble gone wrong?

For ATT CEO Randall Stephenson, the answer is, “$2 million.” That’s the sum by which ATT’s board cut his 2011 compensation as a direct response to the failed T-Mobile takeover bid Stephenson led last year.

ATT offered $39 billion for T-Mobile, a deal that would have eliminated the fourth-biggest wireless carrier in the U.S. and made ATT the nation’s biggest by far. But the arrangement was a risky one that all sides knew would face heavy regulatory scrutiny.

To entice T-Mobile to roll the dice, ATT (T, Fortune 500) offered a whopping breakup fee: It agreed to pay T-Mobile $3 billion if the deal didn’t go through, plus hand over another $1 billion worth of spectrum.

That’s exactly what happened. After the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice both moved to block the deal, ATT withdrew its bid in December. It then turned its spectrum, plus billions in cash, over to T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom.

Stephenson swung for the fences — and missed.

ATT’s compensation committee took that into consideration for his 2011 pay package, ATT said Tuesday in a regulatory filing. Despite a “strong operational performance,” Stephenson’s compensation was slashed by “more than $2 million” as a reflection of the heavy toll T-Mobile took on the company’s bottom line, ATT said.

Stephenson still took home a pretty rich package. On top of a base salary of $1.6 million, he received a $3.8 million “incentive award” and stock compensation worth an estimated $12.7 million. ATT valued his total 2011 compensation at $22 million — a 20% drop from the $27 million he collected a year earlier. 

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Given the chance to makeover any of her Real Housewives of Orange County costars, Gretchen Rossi, 33, would choose frenemy Vicki Gunvalson, 49. "I love her and she's very sweet," Rossi said during a recent visit to Us Weekly's New York City offices,

From left to right: Gretchen Rossi, Alexis Bellino, Heather Dubrow (sitting), Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Barney. Here we give you, dear readers, a sneak peek at what transpires on the next installment of Orange County's best-known (and most-hated?)

But only one of “Orange County's” original cast members has been there from the start: Palatine native Vicki Gunvalson. While many high-heeled housewives have come and gone, Vicki survived. As the 2.56 million viewers of last season know, her longtime

ORANGE COUNTY (LALATE) – Brooks Ayers, Vicki Gunvalson's boyfriend 2012, battles scandal allegations on RHOC tonight. Vicki Gunvalson and Brooks Ayers.