Keira Knightley will appear to be beaten up by an abusive boyfriend in a hard-hitting advert to raise awareness of domestic violence. The two-minute film sees the “Atonement” and “Pirates Of The Caribbean” star return home after a day’s filming to be confronted and attacked by her violent partner,who slaps …

Repair crews were at work across the South on Wednesday, cleaning up the damage caused by waves of thunderstorms that produced tornadoes and were blamed for at least one death. The storms rippled across Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia on Tuesday, part of a large spring storm system. High wind, possibly …

NEW YORK – General Mills Inc. (GIS), the nation’s second-largest cereal producer and largest maker of branded yogurt, said Tuesday that third-quarter earnings dropped from a year ago due to taxes related to the sale of its stake in a European snacks business as well as accounting changes. Net income …

NEW YORK – Christina Applegate (search), star of the Broadway-bound revival of “Sweet Charity,” broke her foot during a performance in Chicago and will be out of the musical through its Boston tryout engagement, which begins Friday. Applegate is expected to return to the musical by the time it starts …

ARNOLD, Md. – President Bush on Wednesday pointed to Maryland’s community colleges (search) as an example of the kind of flexible job-training programs he wants nationwide for the next generation of skilled workers. Bush emceed a five-member panel that included Gov. Robert Ehrlich (search) at Anne Arundel Community College to …

WASHINGTON – The Terri Schiavo (search) case has been catapulted from a drawn-out medical and legal battle into a fast-paced political drama with Congress, the White House and the courts playing leading roles. Republicans see a vote for prolonging the life of the brain-damaged Florida woman as an opportunity to …

ROME – No clear picture had formed Saturday of what happened a day earlier when an Italian hostage was freed by secret agents only to be injured in a deadly shooting at the hands of U.S. soldiers on the road to Baghdad airport. Circumstances surrounding the Friday operation to release …

Here’s what is on tap for Thursday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET Will the Syrian troop withdrawal from Lebanon create a power vacuum that will be sucked up by more dangerous groups like Hamas and Hezbollah? We’ll get insight from Mark Brzezinski, former member of the …

PHILADELPHIA – An aspiring Philadelphia songwriter faces a stiff penalty for filing a lawsuit in which he claimed that he created the beat for a track on Xzibit’s platinum-selling album “Restless” (search). A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that music business hopeful Michael Lowe (search)’s copyright infringement lawsuit against the …

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Johnny Damon (search) flicked his long locks, Kevin Millar (search) rubbed his beard and the makeover artists who turn hairy men into neat gentlemen sized them up. The Fab Five from the television show “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” (search) faced their challenge on Monday …