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Fans must register for Jackson memorial tickets

Fans wishing to attend singer Michael Jackson's memorial service next week will have to register for the 11,000 free tickets, organizers said Thursday. The 20,000-seat Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, will host the memorial service on Tuesday.

Lone survivor of 1971 crash fell 2 miles

A Lockheed Electra turboprop flying over the Amazon rainforest on Christmas Eve in 1971 broke into pieces in midair, thrusting 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke into a free fall. She dropped 2 miles into the jungle canopy but survived with only minor injuries; the 91 other people on board died. With search crews unable to locate the site, her ordeal was far from over.

Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran

Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more tech savvy, have begun to stem the online information flow from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say. Once emboldened by an ability to dodge the government and spread news, many in the youth-driven protest movement, they say, now fear the consequences.

Ex-VP accuses insurer of 'purging' customers

Wendell Potter says he is finished defending the insurance industry, which he says is "beholden to Wall Street."

MySpace suicide case 'tentatively' overturned

A federal judge tentatively overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman accused of using MySpace to deceive a teenage girl who eventually committed suicide, a U.S. attorney's spokesman told CNN.

Judge admonished for explicit items on Web site

A judicial council on Thursday admonished the chief judge of the nation's largest federal appeals court for having "sexually explicit photos and videos" on his personal Web site, but decided against any further punishment.

Air France jet 'went straight down,' report says

The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced today. "The plane went straight down," investigator Alain Bouillard said.

Captured U.S. soldier reportedly sold to clan

A U.S. soldier has been captured by militants in Afghanistan, the U.S. military and the Taliban said Thursday.

FBI talks detail Saddam's Iran fear, WMD bluff

In 2004, even after being captured by U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein told an FBI interrogator he believed Iran was a greater threat to Iraq than the United States, according to newly released FBI documents.

Commentary: Obama meets match in Russia?

Barack Obama often seems to have much of the planet at his feet in rapt attention to his every word.