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For Tony Parker, only French-made wedding cakes will do. The NBA champion, set to marry "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria next week, is staying coy about plans for the event.

Speaking to reporters Thursday in Paris, the San Antonio Spurs point guard shrugged off questions about the wedding date and venue, believed to be July 7 at a French chateau.

"I don't care where I'm going to get married," he said. "It's a girls' thing." To other queries, he replied: "That's a question you should ask Eva."

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations coming in 2008. The initial round, which starts Oct. 9, is limited to governments desiring geographical names such as "china.asia" and those with trademarks applied before March 16, 2004, and actively in use. Registrations for other trademarks and for company names begin Nov. 13. The Internet's key oversight agency for domain names, the Intern...

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Excerpts from the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday that struck down voluntary integration plans in public schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle:

From Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion:

"The districts offer no evidence that the level of racial diversity necessary to achieve the asserted educational benefits happens to coincide with the racial demographics of the respective school districts or rather the white/nonwhite or black/'other' balance of the districts, since that is the only diversity addressed by the plans."

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Spice Girls wanna returnThe Spice Girls wannabe stars again.After a calculated publicity buildup, the original Girl Power group of the 1990s announced Thursday that they have agreed to reunite for 11 concerts around the world in December and January.The shows will be their first concerts since breaking up in 2001, and the first with all five of the original group since Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell quit to pursue a solo career in 1998.“Imagine you got divorced and you’ve ...

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CARACAS, VENEZUELA - Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips refused to sign deals Tuesday to keep pumping heavy oil under tougher terms in Venezuela's Orinoco River basin, signaling their departure from one of the world's largest oil deposits.

Analysts said the move, however, won't have a major effect on supplies or lead to higher prices at U.S. pumps because production by the two companies will shift to other producers who agreed to the pacts.

Oil production lost to ConocoPhillips or any other oil company will shift to someone else, said James Cordier, president of Liberty Trading Group in Tampa.

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