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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Linkin Park won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video for "Shadow of the Day" in Los Angeles Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Britney Spears won three top prizes at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles Sunday, a year after delivering a widely panned performance at the VMA show.

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews with David Gregory as anchor of its U.S. election coverage, The New York Times reported Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Chris Brown won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video for his song "With You" in Los Angeles Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- British comedian Russell Brand begged those attending and watching the MTV Music Video Awards show in Los Angeles to vote for Barack Obama for president.

PAYSON, Utah, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Gary Coleman, former child star of the U.S. TV series "Diff'rent Strokes," was involved in an accident in which his pickup truck hit a pedestrian, police say.

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Georgia schools Superintendent Kathy Cox says she will be donating all her winnings from the TV game show "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?"

PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Suspected con artist Marcus Patmon stole two Pablo Picasso etchings from a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., police allege.

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Actor Dominic Chianese, known best for a role on the crime drama "The Sopranos," cannot perform at New York's Yankee Stadium, team officials say.

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The Epcot center at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., offers visitors a realistic re-enactment of a hurricane in a new exhibit, an expert says.

CHICAGO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Participants of a Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago gala say movie reviewer Roger Ebert is an inspiration for surviving multiple bouts with cancer.

GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Polish actor Marcin Mroczek and dancer Edyta Herbus earned a first place victory for their country in the Eurovision Dance Contest, officials say.

LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The husband of singer Suzanne Tamim, slain while in Dubai, accuses London police of not protecting her while living in the city despite threats on her life.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- "Tropic Thunder," like all storms has weakened, having fallen behind the new crime thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" in U.S. theaters, Box Office Mojo said Sunday.