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Where until recently people quietly leafed through books in the heart of Belgrade or met to discuss literary works, today they read newspapers while drinking franchise coffee or eyeing designer clothes.
The government plan to privatize one of the older Serbian publishing houses, the Prosveta, stirred book lovers into a state of alarm...
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Vietnam's trade deficit in the first ten months of the year hit a record 16.3 billion dollars, up 77 per cent from a year earlier, local media report on Friday.
While the country's exports did rise, with total revenues of 53.8 billion dollars, up 36.7 per cent year-on-year, it spent 70.1 billion dollars on imports, up 42.6 per cent...
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Guatemala and Taiwan on Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral ties by expanding trade and increasing exchange visits.
President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala on his four-day visit to Taiwan was expected to discuss bilateral relations with President Ma Ying-jeou and attend Taiwan's National Day celebrations.
"Cooperation from...
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Taiwan's health authorities ordered all food and beverages using Chinese dairy ingredients be taken off the shelves by 10 pm (1400 GMT) Wednesday, in the latest fallout from China's tainted milk scandal.
"We have decided to adopt what could be the world's most stringent measure by imposing a sweeping, temporary ban on the...
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German police arrested two men Wednesday in connection with a shooting at an ice cream parlour in the city of Ruesselsheim in which two men and a woman were killed, the prosecutor's office said.
Two of the victims in the killing, which took place at 8 pm Tuesday, were reported to be of Kurdish-Turkish origin and to be regulars at the...
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Three people were killed and five injured when a bomb went off in a cafe in Iraq's Hillah province, witnesses said Monday.
The explosion hit a coffee shop known for its young visitors and caused
serious damage, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Several
cars were also damaged. Hillah province is located some 100...
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The contemplative peace of
the idyllic resort of Toyako on Japan's northern Hokkaido island has
been shattered temporarily by the G8 summit. The 10,000
residents of the village surrounded by stunning nature have never
before experienced such an invasion of journalists, politicians and
police officers. Everywhere you look there...
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 Lawrence Williams, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and John A. Bargh, PhD, professor of psychology at Yale University, carried out two studies on students to determine if and how physical warmth affects human warmth. The study, published today in the journal Science, disclosed that holding something...
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 New research suggests that drinking coffee or eating caffeine-laden foods doesn’t increase overall breast cancer risk. Caffeine, the world's most widely consumed drug, is found in beans, leaves and fruits of more than 60 plants, where it works as a natural pesticide by paralyzing and killing some insects feeding upon the plants. In...
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 Although the 4th of July is a time of
celebration, we should not neglect our pets and their needs. Veterinarians warn
all pet owners that this holiday may prove to be very traumatic for our animal
friends because of the loud and distressful noises produced by the fireworks.
However, specialists caution us about even more elements...
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It might have been considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, but a Vienna woman lost her appetite when she discovered a dead frog in frozen spinach she was cooking, Austrian daily Oesterreich reported Tuesday.
"Any green vegetable sickens me now," the 32-year-old woman told the newspaper after having found the brown...
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German investigators sought Wednesday to find out how a fire began in the toilet of a coach and quickly spread through the vehicle, killing 20 pensioners on a day's outing.
Uwe Schuenemann, interior minister of Lower Saxony state, stressed the cause of the Tuesday evening inferno, on a highway just outside the northern city of...
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Popping into the Netherlands to take advantage of its soft drugs policy could become more difficult if a group of Dutch municipal officials have their way.
The Dutch association for municipalities, VNG, announced Tuesday that it will host a soft drugs summit in the third week of November in Maastricht. Participants will seek ways to...
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Vietnam is isolated from losses linked to toxic US subprime mortgage loans but the global economic crisis they have unleashed is hitting its export markets, government officials said Wednesday.
The Trade and Industry Ministry projected the country would earn 15.7 billion dollars from exports in the fourth quarter, or roughly 5...
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There's a decidedly Italian flavour to this year's International Rome Film Festival - the third time the event is being held, but the first under the city's new, centre-right mayor.
Before his election in April, Gianni Alemanno campaigned on a ticket which included a pledge to sweep the Festival's red carpet clean of...
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Looming up and up and ... creaking worryingly, it looks like the evil masterpiece of a fairytale villain, built to imprison his princess.
But the architect of what is thought to be the world's tallest wooden house is a character right out of a Russian gangster film.
There may have been more than one Rapunzel for the man, who isn't...
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Lack of access to sanitation remains a major impediment to global development while claiming hundreds of lives daily, experts agreed Monday as the annual World Water Week opened Monday.
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander one of the dignataries at the meeting, that said despite progress to build latrines and improve sanitation around...
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German police reported no new leads Wednesday in their search for four gunmen who shot and killed two men and a woman in an ice cream parlour in the city of Ruesselsheim near Frankfurt.
The two men thought to be the targets in the killing, which took place at 8 pm Tuesday, were reported to be of Kurdish-Turkish origin and to be...
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Thinner, a bit greyer and older, but otherwise
the same old Bosnian Serb warlord. Still living in the past and
rambling about conspiracy theories. Don't come back to Serbia, ever.
Comment from Serbs on Radovan Karadzic's first appearance before the
UN war crimes tribunal display little nostalgia. Belgrade coffee shops
and...
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 As the European nations have decided, cigars will be prohibited in the Netherlands, inside coffee shops and other public locations. Still, marijuana is allowed in cannabis cafes, but not mixed with tobacco.
Amsterdam has come to be the most popular capital of the world for allowing marijuana and cannabis inside cafes. From Tuesday,...
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 Last week, a group of six teenagers has had quite a wild night
out. According to Newsday, they robbed a man, stole a pack of cigarettes from a
driver, tested the resistance of a passing van’s body with a bat and eventually
blocked traffic and started harassing motorists.
According to Nassau county police spokesman Det....
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 Rockstar Games has solved the Hot Coffee class action
lawsuit situation and financially speaking, it has managed to do so rather efficiently. Only
2,676 people seem to have been offended by the game’s hidden sex scenes, as
that is the number of user claims recorded within the case.Everything started when a secret sex game was found in...
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 Armed and unmasked thieves stole two Pablo Picasso prints and two works by
Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum on Thursday, officials said, according
to Reuters.
It appears this is the second major art theft in the Brazilian city in six
months.
Three robbers entered the museum and threatened security guards....
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela said Wednesday Barack Obama's election to the White House was a triumph for hope.
In a letter of congratulation to the president-elect, Mandela, 90, said: "Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a...
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 Three people died in a car crash last night in Los Angeles. Among the dead there were a pregnant woman and a little girl of only 12 years. Two other people were seriously injured as their car ran into a tree. Authorities believe that the car was participating in a possible drag race in northeast Los Angeles, in Eagle Rock community.The...
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A 48-year-old non-conformist man succeeded Sunday in conquering the American skies, flying about 230
miles for nine hours across the Oregon
state. On this third attempt, this time successful , he used a lawn chair rigged with more than
150 helium-filled balloons.
Having a GPS gadget, an altimeter
and coffee, Kent Couch, owner...
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 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4,
1968, in a room from Lorraine Motel, in Memphis,
Tennessee. He was one of the
crucial leaders of the American civil rights movement. His name is related to
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), a political and social protest campaign
started in 1955 in Montgomery,
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 Mary Ellen Walsh’s body was found on Monday morning off Old Waterbury Road
in Bristol.
The woman was missing after a home invasion which occurred
on Sunday morning, while she was having coffee with a friend in a New Britain house. Her
friend was shot but she was able to get out of the house and call 911 from a
neighbor’s house....
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 Police say the home-invasion occurred between 9 a.m. and 10
a.m. on Woodhaven Drive,
New Britain. A woman was shot and
another, who suffers of cancer, is missing. The two women were having morning
coffee when the incident happened. The thief, described as a black man in his
30s, invaded the home, shot the owner and stole a Honda...
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 A San Diego Superior Court Judge ruled on Thursday that the world’s largest coffee chain, Starbucks, will be forced to pay 87 million dollars plus interests to its employees that blamed the company of using money from tips in order to pay supervisors.Starbucks baristas in California won the class action suit, which is going to cost...
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 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have managed to add another item
on the list of professions. Soon, the twins will release a book called “Influence”
through Penguin Young Readers Group. It is going to be a coffee table book and
according to People Magazine it will be released in autumn.
The twins, even though only 21-year-old, have...
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 The resume of the Olsen twins will be augmented with
something new.
Apart from their acting career and their fashion business,
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are making their debut in writing, announcing that
they will soon become authors of a book called “Influence.”
The book will bear the signature of the Olsen twins and will
be...
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 As the Internet has become accessible pretty much anywhere
nowadays and surfing the web inside a coffee shop for instance, is now part of
everyday life, Chrysler is getting ready to take things to the next level.
As if listening to music, watching DVDs and talking on the
phone wasn’t distracting enough, the company is planning to...
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 Starbucks Corp. will face the New
York state court for breaching a contract concluded
with T-Mobile back in 2002. According to the internet company’s allegations,
the coffee shop chain secretly signed another contract with AT&T to receive
free WiFi Internet access in its cafes, although the initial contract with
T-Mobile did...
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 Popular American operator
AT&T and Starbucks announced yesterday that starting this spring they would
begin offering a series of free and paid Wi-Fi Internet services in most of the
international coffee retailer’s shops in the United States.
Practically, this recently
announced partnership ends a six-year deal Starbucks had...
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 It seems the delicate situation in which T-Mobile, Starbucks and AT&T have recently found themselves has been taken care of. The companies said an "understanding" has been reached regarding the lawsuit T-Mobile filed last week. Starbucks Corp. was to face the New York state court for breaching a contract concluded with...
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 In an interview with the USA Today, Starbucks Chief Executive Officer, Howard Schultz, said that the company plans to return to its roots, while adding innovation, in the attempt of winning back the customers that chose competitor coffee chains or those who have lowered their coffee budget amid the troubled economic times.The world’s...
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 AT&T Inc. and Starbucks will begin offering a combination of free and pain wireless Internet service at over 7.000 of the coffee retailer’s locations all over the United States beginning this spring.The two companies announced the collaboration on Monday, marking the end of Starbucks six- year partnership with T-Mobile and AT&T’s...
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 Starbucks Corp. is offering a cup of coffee for one dollar and
free refills in some shops around its hometown Seattle, the Wall Street Journal
reported Wednesday.
The coffee retailer is trying to keep up with the faltering
economy and increasing competition, like fast-food competitors McDonalds, by experimenting
“new ways to...
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 Amid the growing competition especially by McDonald’s and the lower than expected shares trading, the world largest coffee-shop chain, Starbucks Corp, announced on Monday that founder and Chairman Howard Schultz would become the chief executive officer of the company. A statement was issued late Monday, after the close of trading on the...
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 The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants would expand its range of coffees that it offers in order to compete with coffeehouse chains such as Starbucks.The world’s largest fast food chain, having over 14.000 restaurants, will introduce a new special coffee counter by the end of this year,...
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 The largest chain of coffee shops in the world, Starbucks, has reduced its profit and earnings forecast, on Thursday, revealing the first decline of US visitors, which could possibly bring an abrupt fall of the company’s shares.The company has forecast that the earnings for the next fiscal year would be of 1.01.05 dollars per share, the...
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Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas
sheltered the shattering of a great dream that Mayor Stephen R. Reed of Harrisburg, Pa had, that
of establishing the National
Museum of the Old West,
in a sign of recognition for the important role the city played as a supply
point.
Reed has all the details covered and purchased all...
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 Three People were found four years ago. Meaning Mexican
artist Rufino Tamayo’s masterpiece named “Tres Personajes” (Three
People) was discovered four years ago in thrash by a New York woman.
Elisabeth Gibson was heading to get coffee one morning and
in exchange she got a priceless painting that had been stolen 16 years...
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 A team of U.S. scientists say that a strand of someone’s
hair can reveal where the person has been living. The new discovery could be of
major help for police in solving crimes, as well as for anthropologists,
archaeologists and doctors.
James Ehleringer, University of Utah environmental
scientist, says that subtle regional...
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 It is already known that people
need sleep, as much as food, so that their bodies could work and manage to successfully
accomplish all the daily tasks. However, today we get more and more people deprived
of sleep in our continual run for fame and glory, money and gadgets. We have forgotten
the simple pleasures of life, such as the...
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 eBay Inc. has recently made
public its latest solution of providing new ways of connecting the buyers and
sellers. Now the online auction house has added networking communities to its
web site in an effort that has received also a name: the eBay Neighborhoods.
Through this move the users will
be allowed to view the connections...
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So, it seems that the rumors were
true, as Apple has announced yesterday the ultimate iPod device. Because of the
buzz that has anticipated the move, the company’s announcement regarding the
new iPod has been well received, but has not represented quite a surprise.
The amazing fact has come from
Apple’s decision to also...
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 Consumption of caffeine could be harmful to people suffering from type 2 diabetes because it increases blood sugar levels, US researchers said Monday.Caffeine is found in coffee, tea or soft drinks and may expose people with the most common form of diabetes to other risks, the study found.Scientists at Duke University Medical Center in...
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 According to a preliminary study conducted by the University of Washington
in Seattle a
mix of acetaminophen also known as Tylenol and caffeine ca lead to liver
damage, especially in heavy caffeine drinkers.
Although previous studies have linked alcohol consumption
and use of acetaminophen to liver damage, this is the first study...
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 The chemical compound acrylamide (acrylic amide) is not linked to breast cancer, as it was previously suggested, a new comprehensive study has found. The study, presented Tuesday in Boston at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, involved around 100,000 women.The acrylamide fobia was triggered in 2002 by Swedish...
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 According to researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the energy drinks available on the market contain so much caffeine that they should have many warning labels on them, which, of course, they don’t. Some of the energy drinks contain 14 times the caffeine of a normal soda. This might the equivalent of 7 seven cups of...
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 Coffee could help prevent multiple
sclerosis, a new study says. It was said before that long term, regular coffee
consumption has beneficial health effects. The main benefit is that it reduces
the risk of dying from heart disease. But a new study found that caffeine could
protect us against multiple sclerosis as it blocks the key...
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 Coffee isn’t harmful to your health, says a
new study. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption has beneficial
health effects? It appears that the main benefit is that it reduces the risk of
dying from heart disease.
The study research, published in the “Annals
of Internal Medicine,” tracked over 84,000 women and...
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 A new study by US researchers has found that people exposed to pesticides had a 1.6 times higher risk of developing Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs the sufferer's motor skills and their speech. Another study at the Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu has found that an impaired sense...
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 According to a recent research,
it seems that diabetes sufferers should say “No” to coffee and any other drink
containing caffeine. Researchers suggested that the daily consumption of
caffeine in coffee, or tea or any other soft drinks based on caffeine is
practically increasing the blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers....
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 Two new studies have found that drinking coffee regularly may prevent a series of neurological problems in older women. The first study, by researchers at the French National Institute of Medical Research, has tracked more than 7,000 men and women living in three French cities, but the coffee-related benefits did not show in men.However,...
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 Coffeehouse chain Starbucks Corporation unveiled plans to promote a new documentary over the summer, "Arctic Tale." It is put out by Paramount Classics and National Geographic Films. The documentary rolls out July 25 and heads into a wide release Aug. 17."It is a collaboration," said Ken Lombard, prexy of Starbucks...
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 Thanks to an appreciating ruble and the rising housing costs Moscow is estimated as world’s most expensive city, a “title” that the Russian capital won for the second straight time after this year’s survey.The city of New York served as the base city for the survey which estimated that Moscow is approximately 35 per cent more expensive,...
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Sharp increases in food and fuel prices will send inflation soaring to 12 per cent this year in sub-Saharan Africa, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.
Food prices have a large impact on inflation in this region, where most countries are dependent on food and fuel imports and are also grappling with pervasive poverty....
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Confusion struck Zimbabwe's financial system Friday after the central bank stopped electronic transfers, following the currency's crash to a new record low.
State radio quoted Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono as saying that electronic transfers had been suspended because they were "being used for illicit foreign...
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 The International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development agreed on Tuesday to create global partnership which aims to reduce the huge number of children working in agriculture.The initiative was launched to mark the UN World Day Against Child...
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 Starbucks Corp. realized that it would be better for them to
return to the initial business with coffee stores. After only one year, the
company announced Thursday that it took a major step back from its
entertainment business by handing over day-to-day management of its music label
to Concord Music Group. Furthermore, Starbucks will...
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 Following the lead of Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell joined forces with the coffee giant’s music label to release her next album.Hear Music, a record label formed in partnership with Starbucks Corp. and the Concord Music Group, revealed yesterday its second signing as being Mitchell. “Shine,” her first album of new works since 1998, will...
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 EMI Music has announced that Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles solo music will be available in digital format for the first time.
EMI Music is preparing a re-launch of Paul McCartney’s albums as a solo artist and as front man of the group Wings, which he formed after The Beatles disbanded in 1970.
The project encompasses his...
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 A promotional commercial featuring TV chef Rachel
Ray was pulled after she was accused of dressing like a terrorist. Critics said
the black-and-white scarf with a paisley floral design offered symbolic support
for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
In the ad, the host of one of the
top-ranked daytime programs on television wears a...
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 There have been rumors that Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson are
forming a couple again; the two spent Easter together, isn’t that the most
obvious confirmation?
The on and off pair spent the holiday together in Miami,
accompanied by Hudson’s son Ryder and another young boy, probably a system that
allowed everyone to feel comfortable....
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 Ashlee Simpson’s diamond band worn on the ring finger of her
left hand does signify something, as we all thought it would.
Ashlee has been wearing it for some time now, and despite
the constant questions it has raised, it remained a mystery. But not for long!
Caught more or less off guarded on Wednesday while on Fuse
TV’s show...
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 B-list actress and known cocaine/alcohol (former?) addict Lindsay Lohan hosted a Malibu party for her 21st birthday. Reportedly, she wore a bikini suit and stayed mostly indoors, to the dismay of a pack of photographers on the next beach. However, they managed to snatch a few precious pics at the house's open back door.She previously...
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 B-list actress and known cocaine/alcohol addict Lindsay Lohan was involved in a car crash last month in which she was slightly wounded. She was allegedly drunk and had cocaine in her system, according to police sources quoted by TMZ. Lohan had "nearly twice the legal limit" of alcohol and traces of cocaine in her bloodstream,...
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 Disturbed youngster and wannabe actress Lindsay Lohan is snorting again, as it looks her stint in rehab was just a cover-up. Hardly a surprise, if we remember her so-called rehab was spent in part by partying with the likes of Paris Hilton. Lindsay Lohan was caught on tape snorting cocaine and shoving it up a pal's nose while being...
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