| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Director announces third 'Hobbit' film | | Apparently, when it comes to Middle-earth, director Peter Jackson thinks three is the magic number. Last month at Comic-Con, Jackson teased fans with the idea that he was interested in pushing beyond his planned two-film adaptation of "The Hobbit." Today, after weeks of intensive talks with Warner Bros. over how exactly that might be achieved, Jackson announced on his Facebook page that he is, in fact, going to turn "The Hobbit" into a trilogy. |
| Jackson family feud simmers | | Last week began with a missing persons report filed for Katherine Jackson but ended with Michael Jackson's mother attending a "Unity" concert by four of her sons. |
| Opinion: Stop Muslim witch hunts | | Haris Tarin hopes Michele Bachmann's witch hunt for American Muslim spies will push politicians to condemn this kind of bigotry. |
| Twitter bars NBC critic | | A journalist who has criticized NBC's coverage of the London Olympics has been suspended from Twitter after using the site to publish a network executive's private e-mail address and urge followers to message him. |
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