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Actress Jennifer Aniston has burned the wedding dress she wore when she married her now ex-husband (and father to be of Angelina Jolie's adopted children) Brad Pitt.Aniston was planning to give the Lawrence Steele designed gown to charity but decided to burn it instead, to rid marriage demons once and for all. Other items on the fire were letters from Mr. Pitt as well as T-shirts and compact discs belonging to him. The actress was joined by friends to witness the ritual outside her Malibu beach home.According to Grazia Magazine, the actress was seen sipping champagne and laughing with her...

Two airlines "down under" are under fire after acknowledging their policy of not allowing an unaccompanied child passenger to sit next to a man. The policy emerged when a New Zealand man said he was asked by airline staff to move because an unaccompanied minor had been assigned the seat next to him. Mark Worsley was told to swap seats with a woman sitting nearby, who then moved into the seat next to the boy, about eight years old, for the 80-minute flight. "I was pretty shocked -- I think most people would be," the 37-year-old shipping manager and father...

Americans who don't believe in God have decided it's time they had a lobbyist in the nation's capital. Their new advocate describes herself as a "soft, fuzzy atheist." Lori Lipman Brown starts Monday as executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. Her two goals: keep religion out of government and win respect for a stigmatized minority. The magnitude of those challenges is, well, biblical. Think Daniel entering the lion's den, or David taking on Goliath. Christian conservatives wield enormous clout here through a network of advocacy groups and relationships with politicians from President Bush on down. Atheists, humanists and...