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AMSTERDAM — Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for the New York Times with an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

Details are still somewhat light at the moment, but reports are now coming out that the popular Megaupload file-sharing site has been shut down by Federal prosecutors in the US, and that the sites founders and other individuals have been charged with violating piracy laws.

Does this mean Glenn Beck was right? Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is succeeding despite horrible reviews last year, according to The New York Times.

The show’s producers are now saying for the first time that they think they can recoup their entire investment from the show’s Broadway run (previously, they said they thought they would need national and overseas franchises of the show).

Still, the show will need to be a long-running hit along the lines of Wicked or The Lion King, as producers invested $75 million and the show brings in between $100,000 and $300,000 in profits each week.

Emmy-winning character actor Tom Aldredge, who appeared on stage and on television in “The Sopranos” has died at the age of 83, according to a report from the New York Times.

In anticipation of its official, no-really-we-mean-it-this-time opening night this Tuesday, June 14, the long-delayed, much-beleaguered Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is officially a "frozen" show, according to a New York Times report.

That means no more changes -- to lyrics, choreography, etc.

NBC is expected to announce on Monday that Ann Curry will become co-host of morning television show "Today," according to The New York Times.

In the Monday edition of the New York Times, journalist extraordinaire David Carr reports that the relationship between Glenn Beck and Fox News is potentially reaching the end of its rope because of the ranting host's diminishing ratings.

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Actor Robert Redford attends the 10th Annual New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend photocall at the Times Center on January 8, 2011 in New York City.

The New York Times has released its Words of the Year list, and among them are references to YouTube fave Justin Bieber, and the vuvuzela, the horn used during the World Cup that became both a mobile app and YouTube sensation.