Reuters - The limousines have been rented, the champagne put on ice and the couture dresses begged, borrowed or bought. Hollywood was all made up and ready on Sunday for its big night -- the Oscars.

AP - Curt Schilling struck out his first two batters of spring training. He allowed one hit in four shutout innings. And, he said, he doesn't think about the ankle that ruined his 2005 season.

AP - Erik Cole and Eric Staal each had two goals to help the Carolina Hurricanes tie a franchise record for home victories by beating the Florida Panthers 5-2 Friday night.

Reuters - Gunmen have freed an American working for the United Nations who was kidnapped in southern Somalia over a business dispute, the Somali government said.

Reuters - The turmoil of the Middle East will have a front-row seat at this year's Oscars.

AP - Manny Ramirez is in camp with the Red Sox. Vladimir Guerrero, Billy Wagner and C.C. Sabathia are out of the World Baseball Classic.

Reuters - Gunmen abducted an American working for the United Nations in southern Somalia on Wednesday, U.N. officials said.

Reuters - The turmoil of the Middle East will have a front-row seat at this year's Oscars.

Reuters - As celebrities vie to be prettier, thinner and more fabulous in preparation for the Academy Awards, they are pulling out all the stops, having their bodies massaged with diamonds and their faces rubbed with a cream made of fish eggs.

E! Online - While David Chase, mastermind of The Sopranos, is reiterating that the upcoming extended sixth season will be the last the last we see of the mob family on HBO, he isn't saying fuhgeddaboudit to a big-screen sequel.

AP - The Villanova-Connecticut rematch lived up to its billing, a couple of Big East heavyweights slugging it out for the conference lead.

E! Online - Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, the sequel to Perry's surprise hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman, pulled in $30.2 million to dominate the weekend box office, according to preliminary studio figures Sunday.

AFP - Somalia's transitional parliament has officially opened its first session on home ground since relocating from exile in Kenya last year.

AFP - The three-storey, cream building on the corner of a Baghdad sidestreet could pass easily as a hotel or cinema, with gun-carrying guards at the door and sandbags protecting it -- a common sight in insurgency-racked Iraq.

AP - John Leguizamo will arrive by dog sled at an ice-carving festival in Fairbanks to open a park with characters from the upcoming sequel to his film "Ice Age," officials said.

AP - Here's what Manny Ramirez missed by skipping the Boston Red Sox's first full-squad workout Thursday:

AP - Dweezil Zappa will participate in a special tribute to his late dad, Frank Zappa, while My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams and the North Mississippi All-Stars will be among the acts vying for key awards at the sixth annual Jammy Awards.

Reuters - Lionsgate's surprise hit horror sequel "Saw II" buzzed through the competition to take the top spot on both the preliminary national DVD sales chart and the video rental chart for the week ending February 19.

AP - Mexican Institute of Sound, "Mejico Maxico" (Nacional)

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – At least two more people are killed during the fourth day of the heaviest fighting to take place in the Somali capital in four years. Supporters of some of Mogadishu’s militia leaders have clashed with...