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A roundup of the latest news: Google unveils 'Recipe View'; CBS pulls the plug on Two and a Half Men; what your car colour says about your personality; a five-year-old girl won’t get married until she has a job; and the space shuttle Discovery departs for its final mission.

On her ideal day, the star of CBC's TV series Being Erica would want to teleport to LA for lunch, drink white wine spritzers on Centre Island in Toronto, and transport her family to Maui for a game of Honolulu rummy

She plays, Robin Scherbatsky, the proud Canadian on the hit New York-based sitcom How I Met Your Mother, probably because she is one

Poor Fergie. If the public humiliation of drunkenly trying to sell your ex-husband's influence to an undercover News of the World reporter dressed up as a sheik isn't enough, what about being shut out of the most important social event of the decade? The Duchess of York’s ex, Prince Andrew, an uncle of the groom, is planning to attend the wedding, as are her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Now that must hurt, but it's also hardly unexpected—even for Fergie.

A roundup of the latest news: how dollar stores can save you money; the babes in contention for a new Genie award; Apple announces when they will reveal the iPad 2; 2010 was the safest year in aviation history; and Canadians care more about global warming than Americans.