"Alchemist Son on the edge of a cliff, " blared one headline in a Japanese magazine last summer.
One headline today, in an Israeli paper, said better late than never.
"Anna skips cold Delhi, finds Mumbai colder" read one headline.
But, oddly, I didn't see one headline along the lines of, "Marrying a sugar daddy kills you as fast as marrying a boy toy, so might as well go for the hot stud!"
In one recent headline-grabbing study, high doses of Lipitor proved to be far better at preventing heart attacks than a less-potent rival drug, Pravachol.
One more headline on the Mittal bulletin: The businessman denied that a donation he made to the U.K.' s Labour Party in 2001 was linked to a letter that Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote endorsing his deal to buy a Romanian steel firm.
However, Hibs fan McEwan, who harbours an ambition to one day headline a show at Easter Road, remains hopeful of having a fight of some description in Britain next month after returning home with his wife, Sarah, for the birth of the couple's second child, Cameron, on 10 June.
"We consider him one of the headline acts, " said festival spokeswoman Emilie Loertscher.
As a newsman, though, I should support the agency because it produces one really embarrassing headline after the next.
" The headline these days should probably be just one word - "Fog" - although perhaps a second headline might help "No-one can see where they're going.
"It's not nICE for the UK economy" was the headline on one City analyst's research note about the bad weather's impact on growth.
They are also notably free of the kind of scandals that are dominating the news from Wall Street - or Crook Street as the headline in one US newspaper described it.
Headline tier-one capital ratios show all three banks at 11-12% (with BoA including Merrill Lynch).
ECONOMIST: Is it time to nationalise Citigroup and Bank of America?
"All the right words but one, " was the headline of an analysis by the Defense Media Network.
They were to headline the Peace One Day concert in June, which is designed to put Ebrington Square on the map.
Probably the most significant announcement by the European Banking Authority after publishing the results of tests of the resilience of European banks - so called stress tests - was not the headline-grabbing one, to wit that eight out of 90 banks had flunked the tests (or nine, if you include the German bank Helaba which walked out of the exam in a huff at the last minute).
BBC: Stress-test message to banks: Prepare for possible Greek default - BBC News
But HLN doesn't stand for Headline News, as one HLN executive recently corrected me.
Advice to self: don't go to cover a story before you've OK'd the headline on the previous one.
Though Basement Jaxx were the official headline act on day one, it was Dizzee Rascal who stole the show.
For instance in a headline grabbing hoax, one company claimed they were going to deliver tacos using a tacocopter.
There was one at Carnagh forest so the headline there was Forest Dump.
Wednesday's incident was the latest in several headline-making issues for one of the world's leading cruise lines.
One complaint is that Google News provides a headline and the first couple of lines of the piece.
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Although the Twitter-friendly headline tells you a lot in one sentence, it is not intended to tell the whole story.
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Mr. WEISBERG: Yes and I think the volatility, basically, is just indicative of the fact that people just simply don't know what to do and so everybody is sort of sitting on the head of a pin, easily pushed one way or the other depending on the headline or rumor.
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