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He was transferred again to learn to fly F4U Corsairs in Goose Isle, Michigan and logged a few hours in the seat but the war coming to end. As Bob once said " I was a naval aviator, a fighter pilot. I completed all facets of my training, including my qualifying landings on a carrier. I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."

Springfield, MO) -- Retired "Price is Right" host Bob Barker may not be on TV anymore, but he's making news in the Ozarks again. The TV icon came home to Drury University to drop another major financial gift on the school. Barker wanted to tell us about the first of its kind program the money will fund. "What we're doing here today is something they're going to be talking about all across the country" says Bob Barker, Drury Alumni. It's a check for $1,000,000 that will start that dialogue. Barker is giving his alma matter the money to establish the...

BINDI Irwin shared the red carpet with Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe was fashionably late and there was a taste of Kazakhstan at tonight's glamorous G'Day USA Penfolds Icon Ball in Los Angeles. More than 1200 celebrities, business leaders, politicians and star-spotting Aussie commoners came together at the black tie event, which has become one of LA's hottest tickets. With seats selling for up to $US1,000 ($1,285) each, the A-list guests included Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Borat, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Peter Fonda. Cohen skipped the red carpet, but later joined his girlfriend, Australian actress Isla Fisher for...

Bob Barker is heading toward his last showcase, his final "Come on down." ADVERTISEMENT The silver-haired daytime-TV icon is retiring in June, he told The Associated Press Tuesday. "I will be 83 years old on December 12," he said, "and I've decided to retire while I'm still young." He'll hang up his microphone after 35 years as the host of "The Price Is Right" and 50 years overall in television. Though he has been considering retirement for "at least 10 years," Barker said he has so much fun doing the show that he hasn't been able to leave. "I've gone...

A declassified government intelligence report says the war in Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists, breeding deep resentment of the U.S. that is likely to get worse before it gets better. In the bleak report, released Tuesday on President Bush's orders, the nation's most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach. "If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide," the document says. "The confluence of...