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By Alexei Oreskovic, Sarah McBride and Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced into a Silicon Valley red-carpet event on Sunday. He’d left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product — he recently wore his pair to the beach. …

By Mary Milliken BEVERLY HILLS Calif. (Reuters) – Hollywood makeup wizardry made comic Steve Carell unrecognizable for his latest star turn as heir John du Pont in director Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher.” The film, which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, portrays the tragic relationship between du Pont and the wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz, brothers who won Olympic gold medals. Carell, 52, best known for smash comedies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and the hit TV series “The Office,” talked to Reuters about his creepy appearance and exploring his character’s past. …

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An Argentine court has ordered pop star Justin Bieber to appear before it within two months to face questions about an alleged assault on a photographer at a Buenos Aires nightclub last year, state-run news agency Telam reported on Thursday. The photographer, Diego Pesoa, accused Bieber and one of his bodyguards of lashing out at him when he tried to take a picture of the Canadian singer as he left the club in the capital’s trendy Palermo Hollywood neighborhood. …

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An Argentine court has ordered pop star Justin Bieber to appear before it within two months to face questions about an alleged assault on a photographer at a Buenos Aires nightclub last year, state-run news agency Telam reported on Thursday. The photographer, Diego Pesoa, accused Bieber and one of his bodyguards of lashing out at him when he tried to take a picture of the Canadian singer as he left the club in the capital’s trendy Palermo Hollywood neighborhood. …

By Mary Milliken BEVERLY HILLS Calif. (Reuters) – Hollywood makeup wizardry made comic Steve Carell unrecognizable for his latest star turn as heir John du Pont in director Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher.” The film, which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, portrays the tragic relationship between du Pont and the wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz, brothers who won Olympic gold medals. Carell, 52, best known for smash comedies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and the hit TV series “The Office,” talked to Reuters about his creepy appearance and exploring his character’s past. …

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow industrials closed at a record high on Thursday, boosted by gains in Wal-Mart, but the S&P 500 was little changed as energy shares tracked crude futures prices lower. The energy sector cut its losses late in the session after Dow Jones reported Halliburton is in talks to buy Baker Hughes. Halliburton ended up 1 percent after earlier falling as much as 4.6 percent, while Baker Hughes rallied to close up 15.3 percent at $58.75. They were, however, the only two stocks to finish higher in the energy sector of the S&P 500, which closed down 1.3 …

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a soap opera actor’s blood-alcohol level was over the legal limit when he crashed his vehicle in northeast Ohio last month.