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Music World Gospel recording artists Trin-i-tee 5:7  announced  last week that they will  transition from a trio to a duo. New Orleans natives and original group members, Chanelle Haynes and Angel Taylor will move forward as a duo and Adrian Anderson will pursue other career opportunities.

According to our friends over at CNN, scientists have discovered a new “Goldilocks” in a potentially habitable zone around a nearby star. CNN’s Josh Levs reports.

Via Newsone.com: Although it’s several years from being released, some of you may have heard by now that Will Smith is preparing to play the part of 25th dynasty Egyptian Pharoah, Taharqa, in a major Hollywood film set for 2013. That said, in the year 2010, it should go without saying that we, as black […]

Spanish police say they have disrupted a criminal network trafficking male prostitutes. CNN’s Phil Black reports.

Miami, Florida (CNN) — Hurricane Earl was slowly strengthening in the Atlantic on Monday as it passed over the northern Leeward Islands on its way to the Virgin Islands, forecasters said. Earl remained a Category 2 hurricane as of Monday, but its winds were getting stronger, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 8 a.m. […]

The 33 miners trapped by a cave-in at a mine in northern Chile have been told they may be stuck underground for four more months. “We were able to tell them … they would not be rescued before the Fiestas Patrias [Chile’s September 18 Independence Day celebrations], and that we hoped to get them out […]

// // Darmstadt, Germany (CNN) — A German pop star was found guilty Thursday of causing grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm for failing to tell sexual partners that she was infected with HIV. Nadja Benaissa, 28, former singer in the girl band No Angels, was given a two-year suspended sentence. She was also […]

VIA CNN.com: Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, officials say. Police say they do not know who posted the list or why the names are on it. “It is still not clear,” Colombian national police spokesman […]

Via CNN.com: Beijing, China (CNN) — Forty-three people died in a plane crash Tuesday night in northeast China, state-run media reported. However, a number of people have been rescued from the wreckage at the Yichun airport, according to media reports. The China News Agency said 53 people had been rescued, quoting a Yichun city official. […]

CNN’s iReporter caught a water spout fall out of the sky and into the ocean. I was out on my balcony cleaning in the early afternoon. I happened to look at the incoming thunderstorm and I noticed a slight funnel starting to form in the thunderstorms. A few minutes later there was a waterspout present […]

CNN is reporting that the recent flooding in Pakistan has left 1/5th of the country under water. With about one-fifth of the country underwater, almost 900,000 homes have been damaged, the agency said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday that while he has visited sites of natural disasters around the world, he has never seen […]

A group of scholars and activists including Cornel West and Noam Chomsky are urging France to pay the billions of dollars of debt that Haiti paid them for Haitian independence. The UK Guardian reports : The open letter to the French president says the debt, now worth more than €17bn (£14bn), would cover the rebuilding […]