He's been a homicidal singing barber in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," and an drunken swashbuckler in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/30/johnny.depp.public.enemies/index.html?eref=edition
In death, Michael Jackson is topping charts all over the world again with his albums holding the top nine positions of Billboard's "Top Pop Catalog Albums" chart.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/01/michael.jackson.sales/index.html?eref=edition
A growing number of "plant walls" or "vertical gardens" are taking root across the world
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06/28/green.walls/index.html?eref=edition
The teenage niece of golf superstar Tiger Woods has failed to make the cut in her first professional tournament.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/06/27/cheyenne.woods.tiger.lpga/index.html?eref=edition
CNN highlights the best pictures each day from around the world
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/01/daily.snapshot/index.html?eref=edition
Sultry voices floated across a leafy park in Havana during an afternoon jam session, punctuated by trumpet blasts and the rhythmic pounding of timbales.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/23/buena.vista/index.html?eref=edition
Seven people were injured aboard a Qantas flight from Hong Kong, China, to Perth, Australia, after the jetliner hit turbulence over Borneo in Malaysia, the airline said on Monday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/22/qantas.turbulence/index.html?eref=edition
World champions South Africa held off a gallant British and Irish Lions fightback to claim a thrilling 26-21 victory in the opening Test match in Durban on Saturday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/06/20/rugby.test.lions.southafrica/index.html?eref=edition
Pollution in the Mekong River in Southeast Asia has pushed the local population of Irrawaddy dolphins to the brink of extinction, the World Wildlife Fund warned Wednesday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/cambodia.dolphins/index.html?eref=edition
The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan is now allowed to visit his mother more, to get a driver's license and spend more time away from the mental hospital where he lives, a federal judge ruled.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/17/john.hinckley/index.html?eref=edition
Daniel Mungai's family keeps him locked in a room in a wooden shack that is just big enough to fit a bed, a cupboard, Daniel and his wheel-chair. His clothes and bed are soaked with his own waste -- and he's been living like this for 15 years.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/06/12/kenya.health/index.html?eref=edition
Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied they had ever been terrorists, and expressed gratitude toward U.S. President Barack Obama for working to free them.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/12/bermuda.uyghurs/index.html?eref=edition
Hopes for a China-led recovery to the world economy got a reality check Thursday, as government data showed the country's exports in May fell a record 26.4 percent compared to last year.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/06/11/china.economy/index.html?eref=edition
As Apple kicks off a much-anticipated developers' conference Monday in San Francisco, California, much of the buzz is about the possibility of a new iPhone release.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/08/apple.iphone.wwdc/index.html?eref=edition
Regular programming has just been interrupted by a news conference. A slender black man in a suit steps up to a podium, flanked by American flags and a White House logo.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/04/turkey.obama.lookalike/index.html?eref=edition
Turkish officials continued searching Thursday for the leader of an ultra-nationalist political party whose helicopter crashed a day earlier in the mountains of eastern Turkey.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/26/turkey.helicopter.crash.search/index.html?eref=edition
Fate, police say, saved baby Grace from being tossed out with the trash.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/25/newzealand.baby.abandoned/index.html?eref=edition
South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/23/south.africa.dalai.lama.visa/index.html?eref=edition
At least three police officers in Oakland, California, were shot and killed Saturday afternoon after a man pulled over for a routine traffic stop opened fire and then battled SWAT officers at a nearby building, police said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/21/california.officers/index.html?eref=edition
Want to know where the presidential produce comes from?
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/white.house.garden/index.html?eref=edition
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher says he is "astonished" by the swift introduction of new rules to decide the Formula One drivers title by the number of race wins.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/03/19/schumacher.rules/index.html?eref=edition
Canadian researchers say they have discovered the smallest known North American dinosaur, a carnivore that roamed areas of the continent 75 million years ago and weighed less than most modern-day house cats.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/17/tiny.dino/index.html?eref=edition
Taking a different approach to Google's Latitude software, Yahoo has released a Facebook application called Friends on Fire that lets people share their location with each other.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/16/yahoo.friends.fire/index.html?eref=edition
Under pressure from the Treasury Department, insurance giant AIG plans to scale back bonuses and compensation for some of its top-earning employees.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/03/14/aig.bonuses/index.html?eref=edition
CNN highlights the best pictures each day from around the world
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/01/daily.snapshot/index.html?eref=edition
Anna Nicole Smith's longtime partner and attorney Howard K. Stern and two doctors were charged Thursday with conspiring to furnish drugs before her death in 2007, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/anna.nicole.charges/index.html?eref=edition
One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments revealed that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with their royal family during the Russian Revolution.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/11/czar.children/index.html?eref=edition
Prominent scholars and experts are urging President Obama to adopt strong policies backing democracy in the Middle East.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/obama.mideast/index.html?eref=edition
A former official of a cabinet company that has laid off employees has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling $9.9 million from the company over seven years.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/08/california.alleged.embezzlement/index.html?eref=edition
Indian police and paramilitary troops placed a large section of Srinagar under strict restrictions Saturday in hopes of thwarting further violence in the summer capital city of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/kashmir.security.violence/index.html?eref=edition
An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland died "peacefully" after receiving "wonderful and humbling care" from their doctors, the couple's family said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/06/uk.assisted.suicide/index.html?eref=edition
Indian-American hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal said Wednesday he plans to bid on several belongings of Mahatma Gandhi scheduled for auction in New York Thursday, with the goal of returning them to India.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/03/05/gandhi.auction/index.html?eref=edition
You had a close encounter with a 40-yard-wide asteroid this week, but the astronomer who first spotted the large rock said it's nothing to worry about.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/03/asteroid.misses.earth/index.html?eref=edition
A bomb went off in the office of Guinea-Bissau's military chief, Gen. Tagme Na Waie, killing him and wounding five other high-ranking military officials, according to local media.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/02/guineabissau.general/index.html?eref=edition
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Hassan says he will give in to a rebel demand that he impose Islamic law, or sharia, in an effort to halt fighting between Somali forces and Islamic insurgents.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/28/somalia.sharia/index.html?eref=edition
Two rockets were fired Saturday morning from Gaza and landed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, one of them hitting an educational institution and the other landing in an open area, the Israeli military said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/28/israel.gaza.rockets/index.html?eref=edition
In keeping with the democratic nature of user-generated media, Facebook is inviting its 150 million users to help decide how the online gathering place is run.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/27/facebook.democracy/index.html?eref=edition
Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region said they killed six government soldiers after the military attacked one of its camps on Thursday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/26/nigeria.attack/index.html?eref=edition
Three more bodies and a fetus have been discovered west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where six bodies were unearthed earlier this month, police said Tuesday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/24/nm.bodies/index.html?eref=edition
Stalinist North Korea deployed new medium-range ballistic missiles and expanded special forces training during 2008, South Korea's defense ministry reported.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/23/northkorea.missiles/index.html?eref=edition
Hundreds of thousands of workers filled the streets of Dublin on Saturday to protest the government response to Ireland's economic downturn.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/02/21/ireland.economy/index.html?eref=edition
Military officials in Sri Lanka said they shot down a Tamil Tiger aircraft near the Colombo International Airport on Friday, in an air engagement with rebels that killed two people and left about 50 wounded.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/21/srilanka.attack/index.html?eref=edition
Los Angeles police have launched an internal investigation to determine who leaked a picture of a bruised and battered Rihanna to the media.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/20/rihanna.photo/index.html?eref=edition
A New York Post cartoon Wednesday drew fire from civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who says the image invokes a history of racism to suggest that an ape wrote President Obama's economic stimulus package.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/chimp.cartoon/index.html?eref=edition
On an otherwise placid holiday weekend, one blog's commentary on a change to Facebook's terms of service created a firestorm of banter on the Web: does the social network claim ownership to any user content on the site, even if the user deletes it?
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/facebook.terms.service/index.html?eref=edition
Actress Ashley Judd says a wolf management program backed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is "incredibly savage ... it's not right, it's not appropriate, it makes no sense on any level."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/06/alaska.judd.palin/index.html?eref=edition
While reports of fraud have been common in phony phone calls and e-mails, similar cases are now surfacing on social-networking sites. In Seattle, a hacker appeared to steal Bryan Rutberg's identity to get money from his friends by toying with their emotions. In Wisconsin, police accuse an 18-year-old man of posing as a woman to get high school boys to send him naked photos of themselves.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/05/facebook.impostors/index.html?eref=edition
Customs officials in Australia have cried fowl after searching a airline traveler -- and allegedly finding two live pigeons stuffed in his tights.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/australia.border.pigeons/index.html?eref=edition
Questions were being asked Tuesday about how snow in Britain caused so much disruption to travel and education as analysts said the cost to the economy could be as much as £3.5 billion ($5 billion).
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/03/europe.snow/index.html?eref=edition
All charges against George Obama, half-brother to U.S. President Barack Obama, have been dropped after his arrest in a drug raid, according to police in Kenya.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/02/kenya.george.obama/index.html?eref=edition
Former British prime minister Tony Blair said Friday he was "not concerned" by a ruling that details of cabinet meetings in the run-up to the Iraq war should be made public and told CNN the release of the minutes was a decision for the current government.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/blair.iraq.uk/index.html?eref=edition
NATO representatives and lawmakers from alliance nations will meet in Iceland Thursday to discuss security challenges that are likely to arise as the Arctic Circle thaws.
Protesters disrupted the launch of a report that focuses on dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles, according to British media reports Wednesday.
Mounting violence between rebel fighters and government troops along northern Sri Lanka has prompted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to call for the safety of civilians as humanitarian groups try to provide aid to some 250,000 people trapped in the region.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/sri.lanka.fighting/index.html?eref=edition
The pilot who made a treacherous crash-landing on New York's Hudson River look like a routine maneuver got a hero's welcome Saturday in his California hometown.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/01/24/california.pilot.welcome/index.html?eref=edition
Coalition forces killed 15 armed militants and arrested another Friday in eastern Afghanistan in an operation aimed at disrupting a suspected Taliban network, according to a U.S. military statement.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/24/afghan.militants/index.html?eref=edition
Hundreds of tons of timber that fell from a Russian cargo ship in the English Channel this week has started washing up on shore prompting authorities to urge people not to take any of it home.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/23/uk.cargo/index.html?eref=edition
The Gates Foundation is pledging $255 million to help eradicate polio around the world.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/22/gates.foundation.polio/index.html?eref=edition
On President Bush's final day in office, painters and cleaning crews were still working in the West Wing press offices. Moving crews heaved boxes and delicately carried paintings bound in bubble wrap. Other moving trucks were unloading boxes and carting them into the White House.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/bush.day/index.html?eref=edition
Russia and Ukraine signed a new deal Monday to end a long, bitter dispute that has left many European countries running short of natural gas for weeks.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/19/gas.row/index.html?eref=edition
A massive manhunt involving "every guy who ever wore a badge" in northeast Montana ended late Saturday after police located the man they say shot and killed a woman and wounded two others.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/18/montana.manhunt/index.html?eref=edition
A son of Osama bin Laden, believed to be an al Qaeda operative, has left Iran and is likely in Pakistan, the chief intelligence officer of the United States said Friday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/16/bin.laden.son/index.html?eref=edition
Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/15/panama.violence.summet/index.html?eref=edition
Actor Ricardo Montalban, star of the hit TV series "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/14/ricardo.montalban/index.html?eref=edition
The suspected head of an Italian mafia murder squad eluded police for a third time, and may have escaped through the sewer pipes, according to Italian media reports.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/13/mafia.escape/index.html?eref=edition
The U.S. State Department on Monday said that sanctions will be placed on 13 people and three companies "for their involvement in the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/12/us.nuclear.khan.pakistan/index.html?eref=edition
The chief financial officer of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. was arrested Saturday, the third person taken into custody in a scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/10/india.satyam/index.html?eref=edition
Separatist rebels bombed an electricity transmission tower in the southern Philippines on Saturday, according to military spokesperson Lt. Stefani Cacho.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/philippines.rebels/index.html?eref=edition
Fighting in northern Sri Lanka between government and rebel forces escalated on several fronts Friday, while Tamil Tiger rebels killed seven people in a roadside bombing.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/09/sri.lanka.civil.war/index.html?eref=edition
An officer involved in a New Year's Day shooting that left a passenger dead in a crowded California subway station resigned today, a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman said. The spokesman said the officer has received death threats after the incident, which was captured on video. A funeral was held today for the passenger, 22-year-old Oscar Grant.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/07/BART.shooting/index.html?eref=edition
When Apple vice president Philip Schiller takes the stage here Tuesday morning for the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo, he'll face a good-news, bad-news scenario.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/06/macworld.keynote/index.html?eref=edition
A suicide bomber killed at least 37 people and injured 53 -- many of them women -- during a Shia pilgrimage in northwestern Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi officials told CNN.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/04/iraq.suicide.bombing/index.html?eref=edition
Colombo has been hit by a second bomb blast in only 24 hours following the fall of the Tamil Tigers' capital to government troops.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/sri.lanka.war.blasts/index.html?eref=edition
Tiny diamonds found in the soil are "strong evidence" a comet exploded on or above North America nearly 13,000 years ago, leading to the extinction of dozens of mammal species, according to a study.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/02/comet.diamonds/index.html?eref=edition
Cristiano Ronaldo gave Manchester United a New Year boost by again ruling out a move to Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/01/01/ronaldo.intvu/index.html?eref=edition
