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LOS ANGELES, May 11 (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, a former policeman who built a Hollywood career playing detectives, was arrested on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport for carrying a loaded gun on his way to board a plane, police said. Farina, 64, told police he brought the .22 caliber, semi-automatic pistol with him on a drive from Arizona to Los Angeles and forgot it was in his briefcase when he tried to pass through airport security, police said in a statement. He was scheduled to take a United Airlines flight to his home in Chicago. "Farina was very apologetic...

BIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Machete-waving mobs looted and burned in Ivory Coast's largest cities Sunday, laying siege to a French military base and searching house to house for French families after a day of sudden clashes between forces of France and its former colony. France's military sent helicopters to pluck trapped expatriates from buildings as other helicopters and armored vehicles moved out to confront the mobs, lobbing volleys of tear gas and percussion grenades that sent rioters fleeing. French gunships took up positions at bridges in skyscraper-lined Abidjan on Sunday, a day after seizing control of the country's two airports...

Bill Clinton got more than he bargined for when he ate at Palm Beach's famed Bice restaurant with James Carville and 10 others last weekend. A pal asked Clinton to meet his female dining companions in the garden, and Clinton complied, shaking hands with one while the other put on her lipstick. When the lipstick-applier was finished, she "squealed loudly" and declared her willingness to give Clinton oral sex, according to New York magazine. Clinton "jusy stood there for like a minute. But then all these people at the other tables broke out in hysterics. Bill just went inside and...