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Transformers 2, sequel to the 2007 hit based on the '80s TV cartoon series, is expected to have earned an astral $201 million, according to Paramount, its producing studio. That's nearly a third higher than the previous top Wednesday-to-Sunday take - $152.4 million, for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 - and within a hair of the all-time five-day total, $203.7 million (Friday to Tuesday), for last year's The Dark Knight. Add the $200 million or so that this Armageddon for machines picked up in foreign theaters over the same stretch, and you have a $400 million...
...second week 3. The Hangover, $17.2 million; $183.2 million, fourth week 4. Up, $13 million; $250.2 million, fifth week 5. My Sister's Keeper, $12.1 million, first weekend 6. Year One, $5.8 million; $32.2 million, second week 7. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, $5.4 million; $53.4 million, third week 8. Star Trek, $3.6 million; $246.2 million, eighth week 9. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $3.5 million; $163.2 million, sixth week 10. Away We Go, $1.7 million; $4.1 million, fourth week...
...writes in America's First Families. "By the 1920s, getting a presidential family in and out of church was a production. Secret Service agents had to cordon off a clear path from the curb to the church entrance before the Coolidges arrived ... [and] they were swiftly escorted to their third...
...That question is especially urgent in Afghanistan. Germany is the third biggest troop contributor to the NATO-led international peacekeeping force there, with 3,700 German troops serving in Kabul and in northern Afghanistan, around Mazar-e-Sharif, where Germany heads the northern regional command. More German soldiers are now being sent to Afghanistan in the run-up to the elections in August, bringing the total number to 4,200 by late summer. There are also plans to send 300 more German troops to the country to help support NATO's deployment of surveillance aircraft...
...According to statistics from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Russia is the third most dangerous country to work in for journalists, with 50 killed since 1992. Most recently, in January Anastasiya Baburova, another Novaya Gazeta journalist, was shot and killed alongside human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov in broad daylight in central Moscow. "President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have pledged to enforce the rule of law by investigating crimes against the press. Nonetheless, attacks on journalists continue to occur with impunity," wrote CPJ director Joel Simon in a letter to President Obama ahead of his trip to Moscow...