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(CBS/AP) In what’s mildly surprising news, music sales in the United States are up. Finally, 강원 랜드 vip there’s more music out there that people are willing to pay for rather than steal. So maybe everyone in the United States owes Lars Ulrich an apology. Pictures: Lady Gaga U.S. music album sales grew in the first six months of the year from a year ago, the first gain since 2004, thanks to rising sales of digital tracks and albums. Tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan said Wednesday that overall album sales rose nearly 4 percent to 221.5 million units, from 213.6 million a year ago. The figure includes compact discs and digital albums. Nielsen also counts 10 tracks sold individually as one album. The top-selling album was Adele’s “21,” with 2.5 million albums sold, while Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” came second with 1.5 million albums, thanks largely to a promotion on Amazon.com that sold her album for a heavily discounted 99...

Children often grow up dreaming that, one day, they’ll be able to fly. JT Holmes was one of those kids, and he’s come about as close as anyone on the planet. He and his so-called “birdmen” crew use special suits that enable them to soar off peaks and through valleys across the globe. But nothing could have quite prepared him for his most death-defying jump so far, when producers of the new “Transformers” movie came calling. At first glance, the birdmen soaring through the Chicago skyline seem like computer-generated creations, “Early Show” co-anchor Chris Wragge reported. But what they do is very real. Holmes and his daredevils plunge from the relative safety of the Willis Tower roof, 1,400 feet above the street, to take flight in the Windy City. Rob Bruce, director of photography for the film, told CBS News, “These are actual people flying wing suits in a downtown city environment, which has never been done before.” For his new film, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” director Michael Bay tapped extreme sports athlete Holmes and his crew of high-flying birdmen to give moviegoers a spellbinding look at this type of base-jumping. Bay discovered the team, 영덕출장안마 according to Holmes, from a “60 Minutes report. Holmes said, “(Bay) saw Julian and I flying around mountains in Norway. He called Spielberg and was like, ‘I gotta have wingsuits in ‘Transformers...

PARIS — Paris authorities are building a permanent security belt around the Eiffel Tower. The renovations seek to protect against terror threats, BBC News reports. The company operating France’s most-visited monument said see-through panels are being set up at the north and south ends of the site. Each panel, made from over 6-centimeter thick armored glass, measures nearly 10 feet high and weighs 1.5 tons. In all, 450 glass panels will compose the two walls north and south of the monument.  Two graphic grids have been erected on the two other sides of the site and 마카오 카지노 호텔 bollards against vehicle ramming attacks will be set up all around. French soldiers and police will keep patrolling outside and inside the area, as they have done since the deadly November 2015 attacks in the French capital.  The glass walls being installed allow visitors to admire the views from the nearby Champ-de-Mars gardens to the other side of the Seine River that cuts through Paris.  Bernard Gaudillère, president of the Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, which runs the monument, described the new walls as “rock-solid for absolute security,” the BBC reported.  The renovation, which will also embellish the gardens beneath the tower, is part of a $350 million project announced last year to modernize the 129-year-old tower that has become the most recognized landmark in Paris. Between 6 and 7...

Updated at 11:20 a.m. ET (AP) GENEVA – The violence in Syria has worsened since a cease-fire deal in April and the bloodshed appears to be taking on dangerous sectarian overtones, the U.N. said Wednesday. Investigators say they have concluded that Syrian government troops could be behind the killing of more than 100 civilians in the village of Houla last month. The findings, which were presented to the U.N.’s top human rights body, could lay some of the groundwork for prosecuting alleged crimes against humanity and other abuses in Syria. Reflecting the sense of urgency, senior diplomats said world powers are planning to meet Saturday in Geneva in an attempt to end the bloodshed, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying they will attend. Notably uninvited were major regional players Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Syria itself. More in After the Arab Spring Syria: 7 killed in attack on TV stationTurkey threatens to retaliate against SyriaVideo: U.N. mission suspends operations in Syria Clinton said Wednesday she has “great hope” the Geneva meeting can be a turning point in the Syria crisis. Clinton said the U.S. supports U.N. envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point plan for political transition in Syria. Annan “has developed his own very concrete road map for political transition” from the Assad regime, Clinton said at a news conference at the...