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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (right) talks with TV journalist and author Cheryl Wills following an announcement on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the National Archives in Washington that Civil War documents will now be available online outside the archives. The document seen here lists draft registrations for the war. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told audience members at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that he, too, found a family connection in the archives for the Civil War. It turns out his great-great-grandfather Abraham Burns was a member of the horse artillery. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced Wednesday that war archives now will be available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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In this Tuesday March 29, 2011 photo released by the BBC in London, cast members of the Olympic satire show "Twenty-Twelve" are seen. From Left: Vincent Franklin (NICK), Jessica Hynes (SIOBHAN), Hugh Bonneville (IAN), Olivia Colman (SALLY), Amelia Bullmore (KAY), Karl Theobald (GRAHAM). In the mock-documentary format pioneered by comedies like "The Office," the show goes behind the scenes at the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission, run by long-suffering "Head of Deliverance" Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville, recently seen as aristocratic Lord Grantham in costume drama "Downton Abbey"). (AP Photo- Jack Barnes /HO BBC) EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES UK OUT TV OUT MANDATORY CREDIT BBC
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@Subhead.frcd.22:"[Ovechkin] playing well. He's arguably the best player in the world. It's a big stage in Toronto, of course he's gonna rise. If he got a break or two, he could've had three or four." @PullQuoteSig:-Capitals' winger Mike Knuble
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin celebrates scoring his 300th career goal Tuesday in Toronto.
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Television personality Paris Hilton attends the Oxygen network upfront at Gotham Hall on Monday, April 4, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Glenn Beck will end his Fox News Channel program later this year and "transition" into a producing role. His show is the third-highest-rated news program on cable TV. (Associated Press)
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"[Ovechkin] playing well. He's arguably the best player in the world. It's a big stage in Toronto, of course he's gonna rise. If he got a break or two, he could've had three or four," says Capitals' winger Mike Knuble.
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"He felt a premonition that he would be detained," said Lu Qing, wife of Ai Weiwei. (Associated Press)
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Artist and government critic Ai Weiwei was barred from boarding a plane and taken into custody on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2011 file photo, actress and singer Tia Carrere is seen backstage with the award for best Hawaiian music album backstage at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The Grammys have eliminated more than 30 categories including Native American album, best spoken-word children's record, and best Hawaiian music album. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2010 file photo, Robbie Robertson attends the premiere of "Shutter Island" at The Ziegfeld Theatre, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
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** FILE ** In this file photo taken Feb. 23, 2011, three Dish Network satellite dishes are shown at an apartment complex in Palo Alto, Calif. Dish Network Corp. said Wednesday, April 6, 2011, it won the auction for Blockbuster Inc. with a bid valued at $228 million in cash.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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This photo made available by the BBC photo made available Wednesday April 6 2011 shows Holly Passalaqua from The Royally Mad TV show during a visit to Garrard, the Royal jewelers, in London. "Royally Mad" is one of a slate of BBC programs aimed at tapping the vast American appetite for royal wedding coverage. The network also plans to show the BBC's domestic coverage of the ceremony commercial-free on its American channel. (AP Photo/HO BBC) EDITORIAL USE ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BBC SHOW ROYALLY MAD.
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In this photo taken on Friday, April 1, 2011, Malaysian bhangra group Goldkartz members, Manjit Singh Gill, right, and Sukhjit Gill Singh, center, pose with Rosmah Mansor, wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak during the launch of their new album "24 Karaatz" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two Sikh brothers nicknamed "Malaysia's Bhangra Ambassadors" are trying to become the newest international hitmakers in the Punjabi-influenced dance music genre with the help of stars from Britain and India. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 27, 2004, Israeli Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis poses for a photograph in his home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Mer Khamis was shot five times by one or more militants in the West Bank city of Jenin Monday, according to Jenin police chief Mohammed Tayyim. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. (AP Photo/Alex Rozkovsky) ISRAEL OUT
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Former Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter, a Democrat who served from 1987 to 1995, died Monday at age 80. (Associated Press)
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About 200 Palestinians and foreign activists gathered next to a large picture of slain actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis flanked by a Palestinian flag and black flag of mourning. "I promise you to catch whomever did this very soon," his business partner Zakariya Zubeidi told the somber gathering. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian actors mourn the death of actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis during a vigil in his honor in the West Bank town of Jenin, where he ran a drama school and community theater. Text on the poster reads in Arabic: "The martyr of freedom and culture, genius Juliano Khamis." (Associated Press)
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"If Arab people see a Jewish person can do this, they might think, 'Maybe there's somebody on the other side we can talk to,'" director Julian Schnabel has said of his new film "Miral." Based on a work by Rula Jebreal (left), it looks at Israeli treatment of Palestinians through the eyes of Palestinians. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
