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 On the opening day of the International AIDS conference, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that discrimination against gay people must be brought to an end and required countries to enlarge AIDS-prevention programmes for the this group. Likewise, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, ex-president of Botswana, Festus Mogae,...
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 Cancer survivors and other
participants walked in this year’s Race for the Cure wearing complimentary pink
hats and t-shirts.
Every year, the National Breast Cancer Recognition
program celebrates breast cancer survivors and honours them for their strength and
courage.
This year, about 14,500 people registered
for walking and...
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 Debbie Shoemaker was swimming in the Gulf
of Mexico when a pelican appeared all of a sudden and attacked
her. Her visits to Treasure
Islands became every
year’s ritual. She used to visit this place and swim in the Gulf
of Mexico, but she never witnessed anything similar to the
incident which happened Thursday.
The pelican,...
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 US
hospitals are not prepared to deal with a big event, such as a disaster or a
terrorist attack, according to findings released Monday from a House oversight
committee. The survey included seven major cities and the hospitals were
inspected on Tuesday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m., local time.
The 34 hospitals surveyed in New York...
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 Satellite images show that a large part of the Antarctica's
massive Wilkins Ice Shelf, a plate of permanently floating ice, situated on the
southwest Antarctic Peninsula, has begun disintegrating
under the effects of global warming.
The dimension of the shelf was about 160 square miles (415
square kilometers) in...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has made a plan to release a list of drugs which are under a safety investigation. Every three months the FDA will post the list on which there will be drug companies, physicians and patients that brought drug and medication complaints to the agency. The FDA won’t describe how serious the complaint lists...
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 A vaccine conceived in order to prevent cervical cancer is
due to be thoroughly analyzed as a result of thousands of reports which
associated it to a variety of health disorders.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Merck & Co. Inc.’s Gardasil has been the topic of over 7,800 “adverse
event” complaints...
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 GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's
largest drugmaker, gained European Union approval for its pre-pandemic flu
vaccine, Prepandrix. This vaccine is meant to prevent the deadly H5N1 virus.
Prepandrix should be administrated before or in the early
stages of a flu pandemic. It determines an immune response to the H5N1 strain
of bird...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has announced yesterday that it received 62 reports of deaths during the last 15 months of patients who were treated with the blood-thinner heparin and suffered allergic reactions or low blood pressure. This is more than triple the initial estimate of 19 deaths.The figure includes deaths of patients...
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 The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it is
likely that the well-known anti-smoking drug Chantix may be linked to some
serious psychiatric problems. The FDA alert comes two weeks after the drug-making
company Pfizer added stronger warnings on the drug’s label regarding behavioral
changes, mood swings and suicide...
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 Beneath the cupola of a Parisian palace in the shadow of a worldwide economic crisis, the world's top art buyers gathered on Monday for a historic auction: the sale of 733 pieces of art owned by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent who died last year at 71, valued at as much as $380 million.The proceedings took place under chandeliers...
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 Over the past decade, the academy has chosen to divide its
awards among several big winners, but for "Slumdog Millionaire," the
academy was willing to break recent tradition. On Sunday night, there was a
general feeling of celebration because the movie turned out to be the big
winner at this year's Academy Awards ceremony....
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 Over the past decade, the academy has chosen to divide its
awards among several big winners, but for "Slumdog Millionaire," the
academy was willing to break recent tradition. On Sunday night, there was a
general feeling of celebration because the movie turned out to be the big
winner at this year's Academy Awards ceremony....
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 “The Dark Knight”’s Monday night World Premiere in New York gathered the
world’s most famous stars who paid tribute to the late Heath Ledger.
Kim Ledger, the father of the deceased actor, and his wife,
Heath Ledger’s stepmother, Ines, attended the premiere, although they stayed
away from the red carpet. The couple entered the...
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 On Tuesday night, the American Film Institute announced the
10 greatest movies in 10 classic American film genres during a three-hour
special TV event on the CBS Television Network.
The jury, composed of 1,500 film artists, critics and
historians declared the following films as the very best in their category: 2001:
A Space...
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 Robbie “Kaptain” Knievel successfully jumped over 24 delivery trucks Saturday night at the site of one of his father's most famous stunts, the Associated Press reported. It was his longest gap ever – almost 200 feet – at Kings Island amusement park, Manson, Ohio. He made this jump in honor of his father, the legendary stunt man, Evel...
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 The Washington Post won 6 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism in a
single year. The prize was seen as a confirmation of the value of artful
writing and tenacious working.
The newspaper won the prestigious public service award for
revealing the true story of the tragic event which happened at Walter Reed
Army Medical
Center, when...
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 Whoopi Goldberg was very sad and upset because on Sunday night’s Academy Awards broadcast on ABC she was left out of a montage
of Oscar’s memorable moments. It is uncertain for now whether this happened
unintentional or not, but this fact bothered Whoopi, who was the first woman to
solo as Oscar host.
When asked by Sherri Shepherd...
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 The Oscars have always captured the public’s attention.
However, this year’s 80th annual Academy Awards are thought to have low
ratings. The reason for this situation is the Writers Guild of America strike
and the primary political season which is the most interesting one in a
half-century.
Even though the strike is over, the...
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 The 39th NAACP Image
Awards ceremony was held Thursday night at Shrine Auditorium, honoring the
achievements of individuals from various fields such as arts, literature,
motion pictures, recording and television. The show was hosted by D. L.
Hughley.
The great winners of the night
were Denzel Washington’s “The Great...
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A 25-year-old man was arrested Wednesday
after having been caught trying to get into the Jolie-Pitt’s Los Angeles house.
The housekeeper looking after the
couple’s house said a man, blocking the driveway, got out of his car and asked
where Brad Pitt’s house is. The housekeeper called the police. According...
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Serena Williams arrived in Australia on Thursday vowing to begin her tennis year in style and playing down any talk of the injuries which plagued her in late 2008.
The self-absorbed three-time Australian open winner will take her place in the field at next week's Medibank International after weeks of speculation about her fitness -...
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German Nicolas Kiefer was rushed to hospital for treatment of an ankle injury suffered as the Slovak Republic backed into a fifth final at the Hopman Cup teams event on Thursday.
The 31-year-old fell victim to the worst possible luck as he suffered a freak mishap while leading Slovakia's Domink Hrbaty 3-1.
The Europeans,...
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Only hours after a first-round upset in Brisbane on Tuesday, Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic was set to head to Sydney to tune his tennis at the Medibank International.
The world number three was granted a late wildcard into the men's and women's event which starts on Sunday, one week prior to the Open.
The Serb crashed...
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Novak Djokovic's upcoming defence of his Australian Open title was plunged into disarray on Tuesday as the Serb crashed out 6-4, 6-4 in his opening match at the Brisbane International.
The world number two was upset in his first match of the season and now has no chance to gain ranking ground this week on Roger Federer, who...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made successful injury comebacks at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 in the eight-nation team event.
The Slovak Republic hammered the defending champion and five-time holder the US through singles victories from teenager Dominika Cibulkova and...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a successful injury comeback at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 at the eight-nation team event.
Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip surgery, winning his singles over Nicolas Kiefer 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-2.
Dellacqua, who had to...
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Legend Rod Laver will be honoured for his part in tennis history next month as the Australian Open brings together the great man and those he defeated on the 40th anniversary of his tennis Grand Slam.
It was 1969 when the man they called the Rockhampton Rocket won all four majors in the same calendar year, the last man to achieve...
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Jelena Dokic will have to fight to keep her tennis dream alive after losing to a Brisbane teenager Tuesday in the wild card playoffs for next month's Australian Open.
Former world number four Dokic lost on the second day of play at Melbourne Park, falling to Monica Wejnert 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
"She's probably the highest...
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US cyclist Lance Armstrong will make his official comeback to professional road racing in January at the Tour Down Under in Australia, organizers of the Adelaide stage race said Wednesday.
Armstrong announced his retirement after winning the Tour de France a record seven times in 2005 but has said he would try for an eighth triumph in...
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 An exploding cylinder might have made a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas Airways plane while it was flying on Friday, therefore the crew had to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. No passenger was injured.`”We've likely had a cylinder event,'' said today Neville Blyth, senior transport safety inspector at the Australian...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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 The US tennis player Mardy Fish paved the way for its team to reach the final of the Hopman Cup for the fifth time, as he defeated Australian Peter Luczak 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (12-10). As he fired 25 aces to save set points, Fish needed six match points to prevail after the he saved three shots of the Australian to send the match into a third...
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 US President George W. Bush revealed a plan on Thursday that is aimed to help as much as 1.2 million people that are struggling to pay their home loans, in the context of growing risks to the economy and the fear of average Americans that they might lose their homes in the subprime mortgage meltdown.In its strongest measure taken in the...
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 A Hong-Kong registered supertanker collided with a crane- carrying vessel, causing an estimated 66.000 barrels of oil spilt into the Yellow Sea, off the coast of South Korea, on Friday, the maritime ministry has announced.The collision occurred at 7:30 am, when the Hebei Spirit tanker was hit by the unmanned barge carrying a crane, 8...
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The critics have been silenced, organizers of the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa said on Wednesday.
"Plan B is dead," Danny Jordaan, head of the World Cup local organizing committee told reporters in Johannesburg in a year-end review of preparations for the tournament.
Jordaan was referring to speculation earlier...
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In 2010 South Africa hosts the world's premier footballing event, the World Cup, for the first time, yet there are still many who doubt whether South Africa will be ready to host the huge event.
Infrastructural problems, an alarmingly high crime rate and delays with the building of stadiums are some of the obstacles that need to be...
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Germany is not available to host Euro 2012 if Poland and Ukraien are stripped of the event, the German football federation DFB said on Tuesday.
"This is not an issue. We respect the hosts and fully support them. There has been no query from UEFA either," DFB general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners when the first round kicks off with first leg matches on Tuesday and Thursday.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners'...
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The president of football's governing body, Joseph Blatter, said Thursday that he hoped that the Olympic football tournament would be integrated into the international match calendar.
Blatter's call follows problems involving several European clubs, who were reluctant to release their players for the tournament and were told by the...
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FIFA president Joseph Blatter said Thursday he will travel to South Africa in September to meet with President Thabo Mbeki and discuss ongoing preparations for the 2010 World Cup.
Blatter told a news conference in Beijing that he would be in South Africa September 15-18, during which time he would have "several meetings" in...
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Not content with installing Buddha statues, creating a library and introducing language lessons and yoga sessions at the training ground, German champions Bayern Munich are now planning to get the players' wives top fit in the kitchen.
As part of Bayern's "holistic" approach under new coach Juergen Klinsmann, the wives will...
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Two recent European champions in Liverpool and Spanish giants Barcelona face tricky opponents as they attempt to negotiate their way safely through the last qualifying stage of the Champions League in first leg matches on Wednesday.
Barcelona, who won the title in 2006, come up against Polish champions Wisla Krakow while Liverpool,...
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 A leading US National Football League player has died a day after being
shot at his home in Miami during an apparent burglary, media reports
said Tuesday.
Sean Taylor, 24, who played for Washington Redskins, was shot in the leg by an intruder.
He was airlifted to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital but died
Tuesday. The player had...
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Brazilian comedians gave symbolic "bad luck presents" to British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, who is seeking the world championship title Sunday in Sao Paulo.
Hamilton's rival for the title is Brasilian Felipe Massa, so many of his compatriots are hoping for a "miracle" at the season-ender on the Interlagos...
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 According to local officials the toll raises to 16 people assumed dead after being buried under a massive wave of mud and water that swept through a Mexican village on Monday. During this event caused by nature, elsewhere, rescuers elsewhere worked furiously to deliver aid to victims of flooding in Southern Mexico.More than a week after...
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Liberec, Czech Republic - Lindsey Van of the United States made ski history on Friday when she won the first world title on offer in women's ski-jumping.
Placed fourth after the first round with 89 metres, Van, 24, soared the day's longest jump of 97m in the second round to win with 243.0 points.
First-round leader Ulrike Graessler...
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Hamburg - Belgian cycling talent Frederieck Nolf died in his sleep in Qatar where he was taking place in the Tour of Qatar, his team and race organizers announced on Thursday. He was 21 years old.
Belgian legend Eddie Merckx, one of the race organizers, announced the death and said that Thursday's stage was scrapped on order to...
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Chen Yanying made Olympic weightlifting history on Monday when she became the first woman to win successive gold medals in one event, the lighweight division at the Beijing Games.
The world record holder Chen, 29, had 106 kilos in the snatch and and 138kg in the clean and jerk for an Olympic record total of 244kg.
Marina Shayinova...
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Four world records tumbled in a remarkable second day of Olympic swimming Monday as American superstar Michael Phelps' attempt to win an unprecedented eight gold medals stayed on track. In shooting, Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event, while Japan's women toppled China's top-seeded 2004...
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The British Grand Prix will reaim on the
Forula One calendar but moves from Silverstone to Donington Park in
2010, the ruling body FIA announced on Friday. The FIA said in a statement that the decision came after talks on improvement of the Silverstone track were not successful.
'Finally the uncertainty is over. A contract has...
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US swimmer Dara Torres'
attempt to make it to the Olympic team begins Thursday. If the
41-year-old mother of one succeeds, she will become the first American
swimmer to compete in five Olympics.
On Thursday, Torres is to swim in the 100-metre freestyle preliminaries and semifinals.
Over the weekend, she will compete in the...
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 Only less than 24 hours since the unfortunate event of the death of Ryan Shay in the Olympic Games trials Marathon on Saturday, another marathon took place, the New York City Marathon, won by Paula Radliffe.The incident has cast a cloud over the Sunday’s marathon due to the fact that the athlete world of long distance running is like a...
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 According to recent reports, former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She found out about the disease on February 20, the day before she appeared at a GOP convention in Sacramento.Carly Fiorina underwent surgery at Stanford University Hospital Monday for breast cancer, her chief of...
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 The Relay for Life fund-raising campaign
in Patrick County,
Virginia was
finished late Saturday night. The raised sum is estimated to have reached
$75,000. The money will be used in finding an effective cancer treatment. Last
year’s record reached $62,000.
There were involved more than 500
people, who built 36 teams,...
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 As the start of a a two-day strike due to hit in the next couple of
days, thousands of registered nurses walked off their jobs at 7 a.m. at 15
Northern California hospitals.
Union officials said as many as 5,000 nurses were expected
to participate in the strike, which is directed at Bay Area hospitals
affiliated with the Sutter...
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Sales and attendances at the Sundance Film Festival have both slipped this year due to the flagging economy, while the overriding interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama as the US president has also diverted attention from the festival, trade paper Variety reported Monday.
As of Monday morning, only two major sales has been...
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 Soul Men stars Bernie Mac, the comedian who died three months ago. This is the first movie released after his death and presents rather ironical scenes in which Mac goes to the doctor who tells him that it’s nothing wrong with him. In addition, throughout the movie there are a lot of jokes about death. Another character that plays in the...
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 “Pirates of the Caribbean” has come to be a total franchise, through its leading character Jack Sparrow and all his adventures. A movie for children or a movie for adults? It doesn’t matter because Johnny Depp has already conquered everyone through his character and his funny ways to play it.And now…the 45-year-old actor together with...
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 It has been announced on Tuesday that the New York Film Festival held this fall, in late September, will be opened with the premiere of French director Laurent Cantet's "Entre les Murs" (The Class), winner of this year's top prize at Festival de Cannes.The New York festival, first held in 1963 in New York City, is one of the...
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May 29. Squads of people are blocking the entrance of
cinemas. The long-awaited “Sex and the City” movie is being released. July 12.
Less than 2 months after the big event, The New York Times informs that HBO is
working with Warner Brothers to develop a sequel.
Richard Plepler, co-president of the Home Box Office, told
the People...
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 Even though he passed away five months ago, the name of Heath Ledger is
still on everybody’s lips these days. And not because of the way he died, but
because of the way he acted.
“The Dark Knight” will debut in theaters in two weeks and
film critics can’t get enough praising Ledger’s final performance as The Joker.
All the...
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 Heath Ledger died a few months ago, in January, and played the villainous Joker in “The Dark Knight.”
The movie will open July1 8 and will represent a tribute brought to Heath, but also to the special-effects technician Conway Wickliffe, according to the Warner Bros. publicity web site. The movie will end with the words "In...
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 Directed by the young Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, “Reprise” tells the story of two young aspiring writers. Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman-Hoiner) are best friends and aspiring novelists. The first scene is a memorable one, resuming the dream of their life; they both stand on the street in front of a mailbox...
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 A special movie premiere took place at the Odeon Leicester Square
in London. The
glittering World premiere of “Sex and the City” provided a rare chance to see
the movie’s stars in person at a single event. Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia
Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis, reunited before this event at a benefit
for the Point...
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 Today, April 29 is Uma Thurman’s
birthday .Today is also the day she and her family have to testify in the trial
against her stalker who managed to make the last years an “emotional blackmail”
campaign, according to the prosecution.
Jack Jordan, a literature graduate from the Chicago University and also a former...
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 Movie icon Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen will be among U.S. directors
showing their work at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival next
month, BBC News reports. The 61st festival runs from 14-25 May in
the south of France.
Eastwood’s latest directorial outing is a 1920s thriller,
called “Challenging,” and it stars...
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 Talented Uma Thurman performed in a variety of movies,
ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to action thrillers and science
fiction. The actress is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino.
As she always liked a challenge, Uma got one with her new movie, “The Life
Before Her Eyes,” a dark drama about a mother...
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 The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick
Jagger and Ronnie Wood are due to attend the UK premiere of the Oscar-winning
Martin Scorsese’s “Shine a Light” based on the 46-year old band’s history. The new
documentary film interlinks the band’s history with footage from a 2006 concert
in New York.
Scorsese admitted...
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 Maysville is the small Kentucky
town where the Hollywood’s
most famous bachelor George Clooney, who recently denied the rumors that he was
about to make the big step, is going to have the premiere for his new movie “Leatherheads”
on April 4. The upcoming film will co-star along Clooney, Renee Zellweger and
John Krasinski. The...
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 Indie movies have their own Oscar and it bears the name of
Spirit Awards.
This year’s greatest movie based on a budget that hasn’t
outstripped the threshold of $20 million was the teen pregnancy comedy – drama
“Juno.” The movie earned the best feature title, but also its protagonist Ellen
Page and its screenwriter an...
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 Just before the Academy Awards, which is the most eagerly
awaited cinematographic event, another awarding ceremony took place. But not a
star-studded one.
This year’s stars of the Golden Raspberry Awards were
Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy, both of them being ‘winners’ of the worst
actors of 2007. But they haven’t avoided other...
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 As its title clearly suggests, “Vantage Point” is based on
the cinematographic technique of
alternative points of view.
Despite that fact that it brought remarkable recognition in
“Rashomon,” that combined brilliantly four perspectives on the same event, it
fails to earn director Pete Travis’ “Vantage Point” the same success. On...
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 The beautiful Angelina Jolie, accompanied by the
equally handsome Brad Pitt, attended Saturday the Santa Barbara International Film
Festival, where she won "Performance of the Year" award for her role in “A Mighty Heart”, where she portrayed
Marianne Pearl, the wife of the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl.
Angelina...
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 The press conference that is scheduled to take place on Sunday in order to announce the winners of the Golden Globes has been opened to all media, according to the New York Times on Saturday.Since it will clearly have a lot of press coverage, the event hosted by Hollywood's Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles is expected to have...
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 The “Grey’s Anatomy” star, Ellen Pompeo, tied the knot on Friday, one day before her 38 years old anniversary, having Mayor Bloomberg as witness at the City Hall, according to her publicist and the mayor’s office. Bloomberg shares the same roots with Pompeo, both of them growing up in the Boston area.She is the third person that got...
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 After his August suicide attempt,
38-year old Owen Wilson made his first public appearance in Los Angeles, at his
new movie premiere The Darjeeling Limited, accompanied by his cast-colleagues,
Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston and Jason Schwartzman and his friend, director Wes
Anderson.
The latter presented Wilson on the stage as...
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 The world of information hinders the top-secret projects, as
it is the case of the forth part of the legendary movie that has the focus on
protagonist Indiana Jones, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.
Information leaks about the plot have augmented once again, with computers
being stolen from the production offices...
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 The first thing to remember about Apple’s iPhone 3.0 special event, announced last Thursday and scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m PT), is that it has been billed as “an advance preview.” The company is holding the event for journalists at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters to introduce the third generation of the iPhone...
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 Although we are still one day away from Apple’s official announcement on the iPhone 3.0, rumors kept rolling. Digg founder Kevin Rose said during the South by Southwest festival held in Austin, Texas, that he had confirmation of one particular feature in the update, namely the copy-paste ability.According to him, users will be able to...
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 Apple is planning a launch event for the new iPhone 3.0 software as soon as next week, and has already handed out the invitations. According to the company, the event will take place on Tuesday, and will give attendees a sneak peek at what the new piece of software has to offer. The event is scheduled to take place at Apple’s Town Hall...
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 A new version of Apple's iPhone software will be previewed at a special event set to be held on Tuesday, March 17 at the Apple Town Hall.The invitation for next week's even, which comes just over a year after the company released the original SDK at the iPhone 2.0 software event, was sent out to journalists today. While few details are...
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 Cisco Systems has unveiled
yesterday through a press event from Dublin, Ireland, its new Cisco Industry
Solutions Partner Network, which represents a platform aiming to introduce the
certified Cisco partners to an amount of pre-defined solutions combining the
Cisco technology and the applications created by Cisco’s ISV partners....
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 Why is it important to get screening tests for colon cancer? Regularly screening for colorectal cancer can detect the condition at an early and thus more treatable stage and it can also prevent cancer from developing by removing precancerous polyps before they become cancerous. Studies have shown that a colonoscopy is 90 percent...
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No radioactivity was released outside the International Atomic Energy Agency's laboratory after a small plutonium container burst in early August, the IAEA reported Friday, citing independent analysis.
On August 3, less than one gram of plutonium spilled in the Agency's laboratory in Seibersdorf, around 35 kilometres south-east of...
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Women should have regular checks for cervical cancer, according to experts.
An annual check is advisable because a change in cells can be
recognized and treated even before any cancer develops, said Christian
Albring of the Munich-based professional association of gynaecologists.
In Germany, women born after April 1, 1987, who...
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 Just as the benefits of marijuana are taken into
consideration these days, a study published online this week in the Journal of
Psychopharmacology points to the medical use of “magic” mushrooms.
Researchers at the Johns
Hopkins University
in Maryland
discovered that the feelings of well-being and optimism brought by...
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 A new research study states that
there might be a link between regular unintentional daytime dozing and the risk
of stroke in seniors.
The study looked at 2,153 adults
with an average age of 73. The researchers asked the subjects involved in the
two-year study to say how often they nod off during daytime activities such...
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 After a remote number of patients developed a sudden hearing
loss, both with and without vestibular symptoms, the FDA has approved label
revisions for PDE5 inhibitors.
The FDA said it found 29 reports of sudden hearing loss,
sometimes temporary, associated with the erectile dysfunction agents after
scouring the Adverse Event...
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 According to US scientists in brain chemistry, a new factor
has been pinpointed which may explain why some people cope better than others
in the face of adversity.
They found a key pathway in mice differs in those who cope
well with stress, and those who do not.
The findings, published in Cell, could lead to new
treatments...
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 Canada
shelters on Sunday beginning 10 a.m. more than 900 runs in the memory of Terry
Fox’s battle against cancer and his belief that it can be cured, one day to
become history.
Since 1981 when the first Terry Fox Run was held, more and
more participants have joined the Canadian yearly event to help to raise funds
for research...
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 According to recent six year technological research conducted
by English researchers to find out weather the cell phone use is harmful or not.
The result was a reassuring one, no health problems being linked to the use of
the phone.
The research was done on a 10-year interval and could reveal
no relation between mobile phone and...
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The north Estonian town of Rakvere is an unlikely venue for a world championship of any sort, let alone the exotic rituals of Japanese Sumo wrestling.
Yet thanks to the feats of a local boy made good, Rakvere (population 17,000) will host the 16th Sumo world championships on Saturday and Sunday.
Around 400 competitors from 32...
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Twin brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner of Slovakia claimed their third successive Olympic gold medal in the men's canoe C2 doubles event Friday, beating the Czech Republic into second place.
The Hochschorners won with a time of 190.82 seconds while Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek got silver with a time 2.07 seconds slower...
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American swimmers scored a hat-trick of victories and set three world records at the Beijing Olympics on Friday as superstar Michael Phelps took his tally of gold medals to six.
Germany's Britta Steffen broke the US domination with a remarkable comeback in the women's 100 metres freestyle to give her country its first Olympic swimming...
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Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan successfully defended her Olympic title Tuesday when she beat France's Lucie Decosse in the final of the women's 63-kilo judo event at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Tanimoto secured Olympic gold by ippon with 3 minutes 34 seconds remaining.
In the first bronze medal match,...
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Guilia Quintavalle secured Italy's first judo medal of the Olympic Games Monday when she took gold in the final of the women's 57-kilogram category event Monday at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Quintavalle defeated Deborah Gravenstijn of the Netherlands, who won bronze four years ago in Athens, by yuko in...
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 According to the announcement by the International Olympic Committee on Sunday, the lighting of the Olympic flame is set to take place in the Greek sanctuary of Olympia, but not all could go well and as planned, since protesters angered by China's crackdown in Tibet might disrupt the high-profile event.In order to keep that from...
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 The US sprinter Maurice Greene, who had won two Olympic gold medals, as well as several other titles, and who is the former holder in the 100-meter dash, announced that he will retire from track and field.According to CNN International, the 33-year- old sprinter said that the cause of his retirement are the difficulties that he had due...
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 Bode Miller took the World Cup super- combined title in the event of the season that took place on Sunday in France, as he further increased his overall lead in the cup points race.With this victory, Miller's lead in the overall standings jumped to 122 points more than the second- place, which is held by Benjamin Raich of Austria.The...
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 Jean-Baptiste Grange of France put in a scintillating second run to win
the men's slalom in Wengen Saturday and register his third World Cup
win of the season.
Grange, who also claimed victory in Friday's super-combined event
at the Swiss venue, clocked a combined total of 1 minute 34.81 seconds
for his two runs.
Sweden's Jens...
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 Olympic three-time gold medalist Marion Jones on Friday was sentenced
to spend six months in jail for lying about using steroids and a
check-fraud scam, media reports said.
Jones, the first woman to claim five medals in an Olympics, could
have faced up to 10 years in jail for the offences, and even under a
plea deal faced up to 37...
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 After the start things looked really good for Asafa Powell, the world record-holder. The Jamaican reacted fourth at the sound of the gun and managed to gain a slight advantage over his main rivals, American Tyson Gay and Derrick Atkins of The Bahamas, at the 50-metre mark and looked on his way to win the world 100m title.But the day...
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Johannesburg - South African President Kgalema Motlanthe warned Friday that the global financial crisis posed a serious threat to jobs in Africa's largest economy, where manufacturing and mining have shed thousands of jobs in recent months.
Delivering the president's annual State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament in...
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South African Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said Tuesday that the country is not going to tighten border controls despite many illegal immigrants entering the country.
"Economic migrants will always find a way of moving into areas where they shouldn't be," she told reporters in Johannesburg, according to the...
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Kgalema Motlanthe, who was elected South Africa's third post-democracy president Thursday, is a self-effacing, former anti-apartheid activist with a reputation for making peace within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
Motlanthe, 58, replaces Thabo Mbeki, who stepped down four days before the end of his second five-year term...
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African National Congress (ANC) deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa's caretaker president Thursday after being elected in a landslide vote in the National Assembly in Cape Town.
Motlanthe easily defeated Joe Seremane, candidate of the official opposition Democratic Alliance, 269 votes to 50 votes out of 360...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe will be the party's candidate to replace President Thabo Mbeki until elections next year, the ANC confirmed Tuesday.
"It has been confirmed that Kgalema (Motlanthe) is the candidate for president," party spokesman Ishmael Mnisi...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma on Monday tipped ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe to become acting president after Thabo Mbeki tendered his resignation on Sunday.
"I am convinced, if given that responsibility, he would be equal to the task," Zuma told a press conference in...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma on Monday tipped ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe to become acting president after Thabo Mbeki tendered his resignation on Sunday.
"I am convinced, if given that responsibility, he would be equal to the task," Zuma told a press conference in...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma was due to hear Friday whether his attempt to have the corruption charges that threaten to mar his path to the presidency quashed has been successful.
Pietermaritzburg High Court is due to rule on an application by Zuma to have his case for alleged corruption, fraud and...
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 Former South African President Nelson Mandela, symbol of the anti-apartheid movement, is celebrating his 90th birthday. He planned to spend his birthday on Friday quietly with his family. However, according to BBC, celebrations in Qunu, his homeland village located in the southeast of the country, have increased rapidly. In the honor of...
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Construction on Durban's King Senzangakhona
Stadium, which will host a 2010 World Cup semi-final, is running ahead
of schedule, the city planner for Durban's World Cup projects has said.
'We are eight weeks ahead of schedule, the stadium is
65-per-cent complete,' said Julie-May Ellingson, who is also
responsible for the building...
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More than 350 people who were removed last
week from the South African embassy in the Zimbabwean capital Harare
after seeking sanctuary there from political violence were attacked
early Monday at the government camp, where they had been relocated.
About 20 men in military fatigues and balaclavas carrying shotguns
burst in on the...
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 September 11th is a day of celebration for the people of Ethiopia as
they cheer the coming of the third millennium.
The explanation for this lies in the history of the Western
calendar system. When Europe converted to the
Gregorian calendar in 1582, Ethiopians stuck with the Julian calendar, which
they had been using happily for...
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"We are trying to determine the cause of the
accident," spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said after a truck transporting
more than 100 soldiers and their families crashed. The accident took place on
Monday in the eastern part of Uganda,
Kampala, after
the truck hit the concrete side railing. The cause of the event is...
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 Millions of people were left without power on Tuesday, due to an unexplained equipment failure, devastating traffic in intersections and leaving some trapped in elevators.The massive blackout affected at least two million people, as the incident, which occurred at about 1:09 pm, caused the customer demand for electricity to exceed...
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 The loss-making US automotive concern Chrysler announced Sunday at the annual Detroit motor show that it was setting itself the goal of doubling international sales in less than five years.
Speaking at the event, Chrysler head Robert Nardelli said there was still room for global growth in the car manufacturing industry.
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 After recently posting the first profitable quarter in some time, mainly due to its overseas operations, General Motor says it will reduce the fuel consumption of its gasoline engines by making them run more like diesel engines. GM is the first company to demonstrate the technology in running concept cars, at the company's proving...
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Moscow - Former world number one Maria Sharapova remains sidelined in the wake of shoulder surgery last year, the Sport Express paper said on Wednesday.
The report said that the Russian tennis player has cancelled her appearance at next week's indoor tournament in Paris and will also miss the following week's event in...
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Melbourne, Australia - Serena Williams set the stage on Friday for what she hopes is a multiple-title performance at the Australian Open as she and sister Venus won the women's doubles crown.
The Americans defeated Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 for their eight major trophy together. It took...
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Novak Djokovic's upcoming defence of his Australian Open title was plunged into chaos on Tuesday as the Serb crashed out 6-4, 6-4 in his opening match at the Brisbane International.
The world number two was upset in his first match of the season and now has no chance this week of gaining ranking ground on Roger Federer competing in...
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Roger Federer will play only two tune-up events on clay in 2009, ahead of the only Grand Slam he has never won, the French Open.
The former world number one Federer said on his website that he will play at the Madrid and Rome 1000 Series (formerly Masters Series) events ahead of the May 24 French Open start in Paris.
Switzerland's...
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Venus Williams' title at the WTA Championships on Sunday marked the end of a turbulent year in women's tennis which saw six changes at the number one position after Justine Henin's retirement.
The Belgian Henin was tipped to dominate 2008 after an amazing unbeaten second half of 2007, but her win streak came to an end at the...
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David Nalbandian defeated compatriot Juan Del Potro for the second week in a row, earning a 6-4, 6-0 victory in the third round of the Paris Masters on Thursday.
Nalbandian's victory over his 20-year-old rival also mathematically delayed Del Potro's chance of formally clinching a place in the Masters Cup.
Del Potro has been nursing...
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Three-time Paris Masters champion Marat Safin floated the possibility of retirement after a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) first- round disappointment on Monday at the hands of Juan Monaco
But the 28-year-old Russian's immediate hope of just seeing the back of another so-so ATP season may have been stronger than any desire to actually chuck in his...
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Holder David Nalbandian had to fight past stubborn opponent Tomas Berdych at the Madrid Masters on Wednesday while American qualifier Robby Ginepri stunned fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko.
Argentine seventh seed Nalbandian was playing his first match since lifting the Stockholm title at the weekend in a rampaging start to an indoor...
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Roger Federer will end his short break from tennis after three weeks after confirming after he will be a starter in the Madrid Masters which begins Sunday.
The Swiss, who has spent the past days in Dubai, confirmed through his management that he would show up in the Spanish capital.
His manager had made a preliminary hotel booking...
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As he cracked a ceremonial cask of sake to officially open the Japan Open this week, local AIG company boss Robert Clyde admitted he was relieved to get his mind temporarily off the current world financial crisis.
"Believe me, it's a lot more enjoyable to focus on tennis right now," said the president and chief executive...
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Officials took cover indoors as rain from an approaching typhoon dampened the Japan Open for a second day on Tuesday, with teenaged tennis hero Kei Nishikori securing an opening win under the roof.
The 18-year-old, who claimed his nation's first ATP title in 16 years when he won Delray Beach in February, took two hours to overcome...
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Top seed Novak Djokovic crushed Germany's Simon Stadler 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday in a runaway start as top seed at the Thailand Open.
The Serbian world number three champion wasted little time in revving up his game, taking the first set in just 22 minutes over the world number 141.
Djokovic was broken in the second game of the second...
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Match-tough Finn Jarkko Nieminen schooled the kid brother of Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-0 in 46 minutes on Thursday in a harsh welcome to the teenager at the Thailand Open.
The 17-year-old Djokovic Jr, gained entry as a wild card thanks to the pull of his elder brother, the top seed playing the event for only the second time,
It was the...
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Match-tough Finn Jarkko Nieminen schooled the kid brother of Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-0 in 46 minutes on Thursday in a harsh welcome to the teenager at the Thailand Open.
The 17-year-old Djokovic Jr, gained entry as a wild card thanks to the pull of his elder brother, the top seed playing the event for only the second time,
It was the...
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Third seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta shook off her own jet-lag to reach the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank Classic on Thursday despite a distracting injury timeout from flagging opponent Anastasia Rodionova.
US Open quarter-finalist Pennetta was fuming as the 77th-ranked Russian took a 4-0 lead in the second set, then began...
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Roger Federer and Rafael
Nadal comfortably mowed down quarter-final opposition in dominating
style on Wednesday as the pair of powerhouse players edged closer to
their third potential final at the Wimbledon Championships.
Federer, aiming for a sixth straight title at the All England Club
after holding off Nadal for the last two...
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 Mardy Fish, the American tennis player that stunned first ranked Federer last week, was eliminated on Thursday, in the first round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.After managing to defeat No. 1 Federer, Fish has played in the finals in Indian Wells, but was defeated by Novak Djokovic, the winner of the Australian Open. At this Masters...
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 Lindsay Davenport managed to beat Olga Govortsova in straight sets on Saturday in the final of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championship in Memphis, as the former world number one has won the 55th singles title of her career.Since her returning on the court after giving birth to her son in last September, the player has recovered extremely...
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 Russia’s Maria Sharapova claimed her third grand slam title Saturday, winning the Australian Open for the first time.She defeated Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-3 in just over one and a half hour. The 20-year-old Russian entered the tournament as fifth seed, but during her ascension she outclassed top-ranked players like Lindsay Davenport, Elena...
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 Maria Sharapova continues her race for the Australian Open title
with a crushing victory over Jelena Jankovic in the tournament’s semifinals.
After outclassing Justine Henin in the quarterfinals and
ending her 32-match winning streak, Sharapova had to face another top-ranked
opponent.
But Thursday’s match was easier than...
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 The Hopman Cup took off on Saturday with the US team’s 2-0 victory over India, despite the absence of Serena WilliamsWilliams, the defending Australian Open winner and a champion at the eight-nation mixed team event in 2003 with partner James Blake, announced that she would not be able to arrive at the place until as soon as Sunday, due...
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 As the eight-nation Hopman Cup will begin on Saturday, the US team is due to start off the wrong foot since Serene Williams confirmed on Wednesday that she will not be able to attend to the first day of competition due to an unspecified illness.Williams, who is the seventh-ranked American, has been suffering of fitness problems in the...
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 Prior to Maria Sharapova’s exhibition this weekend in Singapore, the organizers have auctioned the hotel toilet seat that would be used by the Russian trendsetter."Since there's an interest for products that Sharapova will use during her stay here, we want to do this tastefully," organizer Jerry Goh told Singapore's New Paper...
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 The US broke a 12-year drought with a Davis Cup title win on Saturday
as the Bryan brothers completed a 3-0 sweep of Russia in the final.
Bob and Mike Bryan won their 13th career match against just one
loss in the competition, with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Nikolay
Davydenko and Igor Andreev.
"It's difficult to...
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 Roger Federer has won his second straight trophy at the Masters Cup, as he defeated David Ferrer 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, on Sunday.The victory brought the Swiss player his 53rd title of his controversial career and the eighth title of this season, including three of the four Grand Slams, bringing him eight million dollars.The player that started...
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 World’s top tennis players, Swiss Roger Federer and Belgian Justine Henin were named as the top seeds for the U.S. Open on Monday. The tournament is set to begin in New York next week.Federer, who just won his 50th career title at the Cincinnati Open, is looking forward to winning his fourth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows, while...
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 Since the first test tube baby, more and more women desire to have children by IVF. In 1987 the science evolved so much that it could help in the birth of Louise Joy Brown. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe from Cambridge University helped in delivering baby Louise, who is now 30, on July 25, 1987, by Caesarean. The event served as hope...
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The California Supreme Court prepares to decree that physicians
have no constitutional right to refuse medical care to gay people, as violation
of religious beliefs has nothing to do with their profession. The Court’s
initiative came on Wednesday, as a consequence of a prior event. Some doctors
refused to provide artificial...
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 Almost seven years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. emergency rooms are allegedly not prepared to deal with a dire situation like a suicidal bomb, as a report from the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee brings out.
The survey included seven major cities (New York, Los Angeles, Washington,...
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 A three-day simulation is being held in Indonesia, the country with the world's highest human death toll from bird flu. The purpose of this drill is to test people’s ability to deal with a pandemic triggered by the virus and to inform them on how they should handle things if their poultry gets infested.
The event is taking...
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 The issue of the effects that consuming foods and beverages packaged in polycarbonate containers made from the chemical bisphenol A has upon one’s health has long been debated in the media. BPA is most often found in the composition of baby bottles and water bottles, but many other edible products are packaged in containers of this...
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 Organs donated by a 15-year-old teen have led to the death of two people due to a undiagnosed cancer. Alex Koehne died a year ago from what was thought to be bacterial meningitis, which does not preclude organ transplantation after death. His parents agreed to give away their son's organs to save the lives of others, but instead they...
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 A bunch of
A-list stars might have got hepatitis A, after a bartender at actor Ashton
Kutcher’s 30th birthday party was found to have this highly infectious
disease. Unfortunately for them, hepatitis A is not something we can’t escape
just like that, because you’re a Hollywood
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 He initially thought it was flu;
unfortunately, just a few days later he was dead.
The young man who die was a
student at the Western
Washington University
and what he believed to be flu proved to be in fact MRSA pneumonia, which is a
rare drug-resistant infection. According to University officials, Chris Feden,
20 years old,...
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 A little boy that had been
missing from a care center was found on Sunday in a rural creek. Despite the
fact that he was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of CMC-University, he was
pronounced dead.
The child was 10 years old and he
suffered from autism. According to the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office, he had
run away from the...
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 According to health authorities, lack of vitamin D has been
blamed for everything from weakened bones to rickets, but now a study has
revealed it increases the risk of a heart attack.
The research, conducted in the United States, could have
major implications for Scotland – a country keen to shake off its "sick
man of...
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 Experts believe that a wearable digital camera may hold the
key to helping people who have memory problems.
Sensecam, produced by Microsoft, takes photos of daily
events every 30 seconds so they can be played back later at high-speed to jog
memory.
Trials showed it helped people recall the event and emotions
related to it....
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 According to recent Canadian n research, a stressful
workplace can be found fatal particularly to middle-aged workers who have
already suffered a heart attack.
The study, published in today's edition of the Journal of
the American Medical Association, found that workers who go back to a
chronically stressful job after an initial...
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 A new American study has concluded that antioxidants do not lower the risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event in older women. Nancy R. Cook, Sc.D., of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and her team of scientists have given either antioxidants or placebo to more than 8,000 women with an increased risk...
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 Legacy Locker, probably the most morbid online venture, has been launched. The service will automatically put your online affairs in order when you finally, and inevitably, kick the bucket. How beautiful is that?Due to the fact that for many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our...
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 A blackout hit Gmail from Google on Tuesday. The business of the e-mail service and its consumer users were all affected by the unhappy event. The popular e-mail service collapsed and went offline at 9:30 GMT and regained status after almost four hours. Statistics show that this has been the longest time for a Google downtime.According...
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 A report by the Federation of American Scientists, conducted by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, showed the potential mobile device and service threats that terrorists may use to coordinate future attacks. One of them is Twitter, the social network and microblogging site, which occupied two pages in the report. Twitter has...
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 On Tuesday AOL agreed to buy search software maker Sphere Source, for an undisclosed sum. Sphere Source has raised in its three years of activity about $4 million in venture funding from companies such as Hearst Publishing, Trident Capital, True Ventures and also from About.com founder, Scott Kurnit. Since its launch, it has gone through...
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 On Tuesday a congressional hearing on the
ever-growing popularity of Second Life and similar virtual worlds took place.
It seemed to be a very popular event, as the hearing was attended by academics,
business leaders, reporters and tech whizzes. Second Life founder, Philip
Rosedale, was present as well. Among the TV monitors...
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 Comcast Corp. promised yesterday that it would not
discriminate against specific Internet traffic. With more than 24 million
subscribers, the company is the largest cable TV and Internet provider in the U.S. The
announcement comes after criticism received by the company last year on the
alleged blocking of a software program utilized...
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 Microsoft Corp. has recently announced
a new service to its Windows Live services suite. Live Events will be an event
planning service, which will offer even more than the other existing online
invitation services currently offer. However, what will be similar to those
services is that Microsoft Live’s Live Events service will offer...
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 If you are a Skype fan, pay
attention! A new malicious worm targeting Skype and ultimately your computer
and the data within has started to quickly spread all over the Internet. So, it
is the security researchers’ job to warn us about the event; next it is only
about us to try preventing the problems the worm could bring.
The...
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 During this weekend anyone could
have read the source code of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s highly popular social
networking platform, as a blog called Facebook secrets (http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/)
has published it.
After several news web sites have
been alerted by this strange fact, a spokesperson for Facebook has...
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 So where is the love,
meaning that traditional relationship
between two partners involving flowers, a chocolate box for time to time, good
night kisses and long walks in the sunset’s obscure light? Well, it seems that
this “kind” of love doesn’t exist anymore. Man has managed to conquer time and
space via the interrelated network...
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 The 30th Dakar Rally, which was to have started Saturday in Lisbon, has
been cancelled because of security fears, the Amaury Sports
Organization (ASO) said in a statement released in the Portuguese
capital.
"Based on the current international political tension and the
murder of four French tourists last December 24 linked to...
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 The World Rally champion from
1995 Colin McRae has just been announced of having died in a helicopter crash.
The crash that has taken the 39-year-old legendary car pilot’s life has taken
place yesterday, the 15th of September; the Squirrel helicopter that
Colin McRae has been driving has crashed and burst into flames near the...
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 A steady Sunday rain over Brooklyn, Mich., forced NASCAR to postpone for noon ET Monday the Nextel Cup 3M Performance 400 scheduled for 3 p.m. ET Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.The weather forecast for today is, however, not significantly better than it was at the hour set for yesterday’s event. ESPN2 will broadcast the race....
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 Juan Pablo Montoya's NASCAR run for the rookie of the year award has been a success so far.The Columbian emerged victorious on the road from the Busch Series in Mexico City. He also won the Nextel Cup race on the road course at Infineon, finished second at the Brickyard 400, fifth at Atlanta and eighth at Texas.So far, he recorded a...
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 McLaren's Lewis Hamilton started the Hungarian Grand Prix from the pole position and led the race till the finish. With this win he increased his championship lead over his team mate Fernando Alonso to seven points. He finished 0.7 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Germany’s Nick Heidfeld finished third for BMW Sauber.The...
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 The start of this year’s Nurburgring European Grand Prix was one of the most astonishing seen in years after the heavy rain soaked the circuit and forced an early red flag.Hamilton, who started 10th after a brutal smash in qualifying on Saturday, reached the fourth position after a few corners due to a great display of maneuvering on the...
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 Barry Bonds failed to make himself a fabulous present for his 43rd birthday as he didn’t manage to close in on Hank Aaron’s home run record in the game lost 7-5 by his San Francisco Giants on Tuesday against the Atlanta Braves the in 13 innings at AT&T Park.The San Francisco slugger had a single and struck out on two occasions in the...
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 According to MLB commissioner Bud Selig, the league doesn’t intend to organize a celebration of the upcoming event which will see San Francisco’s slugger Barry Bonds break Hank Aaron’s career homer runs all-time record."That's up to San Francisco," Selig told reporters.Bonds began the first game of the three-game series against...
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 In the latest airline industry event caused by the US credit crunch the Eos Airlines announced this weekend that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said that it would totally stop operations on Sunday or as late as Monday.The all business class transatlantic airline is the fourth carrier in the United States to go out...
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 During its annual investor event today, Nokia has announced its forecasts for the next year, as well as its targets, while senior company executives talked about the company’s plans to move into the Internet services.The world's biggest maker of mobile phones rose 78 percent during the current year until Monday, when it fell 4.8 percent...
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 The French media concern announced on Sunday that it has reached a deal regarding merging with the US game producer Activision that is worth 18.9 billion dollars, according to a Vivendi spokesman.Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business that includes Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, the world's first place...
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 What’s up next in the spaceflight
industry? We will all probably find out thanks to this year’s International
Symposium for Personal Spaceflight that is to take place in Las Cruces, between
the 24th and the 25th of October 2007. The leading
companies and figures from the space industry will be there!
The event has been announced...
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 Boeing unveiled the 787 Dreamliner, its newest long-distance, fuel-efficient and carbon-composite jet. The event took place the company's Everett, Washington plant, in front of 15,000 employees and customers and with 25,000 others watching remotely from a football stadium in down town Seattle.Boeing already has $110 billion worth of...
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President Barack Obama is expected to meet on St. Patrick’s Day with Irish political leaders bent on preserving peace notwithstanding dissidents’ violent acts in Northern Ireland.Barack Obama intends to meet with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen in the Oval Office on Tuesday and subsequently see Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter...
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Sri Lanka held remembrance ceremonies in various parts of the island nation to mark the fourth anniversary of the devastating tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004, that claimed over 40,000 lives and displaced more than half a million people..
An island-wide two-minute silence was observed Friday morning as friends and relatives of those...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners in Thursday's first-round first-leg matches.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup).
After being...
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Third-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta shook off her own jet-lag to reach the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank Classic on Thursday despite a distracting injury timeout from opponent Anastasia Rodionova.
US Open quarter-finalist Pennetta was fuming as the 77th-ranked Russian took a 4-0 lead in the second set, then began feeling...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph at the Beijing Games.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win a slow-paced race a week after she dominated the 10,000m gold with the second best time in event...
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Roger Federer will begin
resuscitating his summer after last week's Canadian crash out, as the
opening day of the Cincinnati Masters was hit by a pair of late injury
defections on Monday. The Swiss superstar learned the name of
his opening opponent in Tuesday's second round, as US player Robby
Ginepri overcame Swedish veteran...
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 Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean is approaching Yucatan Peninsula and maybe it will head toward southern Texas. Local emergency management officials are monitoring it but aren’t excessively alarmed, saying the tropical storm doesn’t pose a threat yet to the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The emergency management coordinator for the...
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 Anglican bishops from all over the world were gathering in Canterbury for the
opening of the Lambeth Conference on Wednesday, with the once-in-a-decade
meeting appointed to be eclipsed by discussions regarding the position of women
and homosexuals.
The 650 bishops will have three days dedicated to prayer and
contemplation led by...
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 World Youth Day began Tuesday, with tens of thousands of young Catholics from all around the world. 100,000 individuals waited for a Mass opening the event which is considered by the Roman Catholic Church the biggest gathering of young people in the world.The official start of the 6-day-festival was at midnight when a huge countdown...
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Venus Williams may be heading into tennis orbit after winning her fifth Wimbledon title.
'It puts you in the stratosphere, to be honest, just because of what
this tournament means,' said the American who came third time lucky
against her younger sister Serena in the weekend title match at the All
England club. 'If I'd had...
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A woman suffering from a psychiatric disease died on the
floor, inside Kings County Hospital
Center in Brooklyn,
on June 19. A video tape that recorded the tragic event was handed over to the
attorneys of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The death of Esman Green, 49, was graphically revealed
yesterday when the...
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In an attempt to prove its commitment to halt its nuclear
weapons program, North Korea destroyed a water cooling tower that was part of
its Yongbyon nuclear plant where it processed weapon-grade plutonium.
The move comes a day after Kim Jong II’s regime submitted a
detailed inventory of nuclear plants and materials, which was...
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 A Pakistani military bus
transporting medical corps staff to work in the city of Rawalpindi was attacked by a suicide bomber Monday,
at 7.30 AM, outside the gate of the army's National Logistics Cell on a road
connecting the Royal Artillery Bazar to the General Headquarters in the nearby
garrison city.
Some media reports said...
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Look to the sky tonight as you will witness a rare and
amazing astrological event.
According to the Shanghai Observatory, on the 28 of August
we should be able to see a full lunar eclipse. This is not just any lunar eclipse,
for tonight the moon will turn bright red as the earth and sun align on either side.
It is the...
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 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is due to be decommissioned from service in 2008.
The vessel's owner, Cunard Lines, says it expects demand to be high for tickets on the ship's last scheduled voyage before it leaves for Dubai where it will converted into a floating hotel and museum.
"Many fans will take the opportunity to...
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 The seventh and final instalment in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series "Harry Potter" is set to previous sales records, according to its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be published on July 21 and amazon.co.uk has taken more than 1.4m pre-orders.The record...
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 J.K. Rowling is reportedly coming to the United States in October for the "J.K. Rowling Book Tour," which will include four events in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City (two events), of which three will only be open to schoolchildren. The New York's Carnegie Hall event will be open to fans of all ages. Rowling is set to...
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 T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless network
operator, announced that its android, G1, has been pre-ordered by 1.5 million
people. The phone is officially launched on October 22 and it seems like the
best bet against Apple’s iPhone. HTC, the Taiwanese firm that is manufacturing
the G1, was projecting that it would sell...
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 On Monday, South Korea-based Samsung Group released a new touch-screen smartphone. Also today, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference begins and the event is very likely to bring the new 3G version of the iPhone; this is most definitely not a coincidence.Samsung's Omnia was designed for easy Internet browsing; it features a wide screen...
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 This week, the New Orleans summit was attended by the leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada. Participants witnessed an event that could hardly be more inappropriate for such an official, diplomatic and high class gathering. While a meeting was in progress, a Mexican press attaché, Rafael Quintero Curiel, picked up several...
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 Apple has announced that it will release the iPhone SDK on March 6. Apple originally announced the iPhone SDK for February, but it looks like they couldn't release it this month. Yesterday's announcement came just a day after the company has announced a new firmware version for the iPhone, version 1.1.4.The Software Developers Kit will...
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 The US Patent & Trademark Office turns out to be a resourceful fountain of information for those patient enough to sift through the amount of data available publicly. Recently, some inquisitive eyes have spotted a patent application filed by Sony Ericsson- the joint venture of Swedish telecom giant Ericsson and Japanese electronics...
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 The eve of the election brought the highest ratings on Monday during the two-hour special edition of Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008. According to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49. Excluding the Olympics, the network won the first place in ratings on the night before the elections.14.4...
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 Personal life continues to follow a silent road beyond the stage. Far from the sparkling light of reflectors, in the sauna of her Idol apartment, Kristy Lee Cook's boyfriend gave her an engagement ring, a little present to make her remember her first elimination round as a finalist which was a lucky one. Reporters found out details about...
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 The music industry has a new favorite, young Miley Cyrus.
She’s popular among preteens, teens and parents, and she’s also becoming one of
the paps’ favorites. Miley has earned huge success with the “Hannah Montana”
show, her 3-D movie and performed impeccably at her sold-out concert-tour.
Besides all these accomplishments, Miley...
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 It looks like 9 p.m. enlarges its offers, besides Fox News’ Hannity
& Colmes and CNN’s Larry King, as MSNBC has plans to replace
its currently low-rated Live with Dan Abrams with a new show that would
bring Rosie O'Donnell back to TV, as the New York Times reported.
After her sudden leave from The View on ABC six months...
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 During the last gig of the fifth-season live Dancing With The
Stars, Marie Osmond delivered a double breath-taking performance. Her samba dancing
was enchanting, as we were expecting, but she did do something unexpected.
While waiting for the jury’s feedback, she collapsed, her
fall was blocked by her partner Jonathan Roberts and...
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 This year’s Emmy Awards ceremony will have Ryan Seacrest, the universal television host, including "American Idol," proving his entertainer skills.A last moment’s pick, Seacrest, 32, is "a consummate host of major live broadcast events and a proven talent who always makes it look easy, which makes him the perfect choice...
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 Princess Diana still sparks controversy, years after her tragic death. A new Diana-related row emerged between the royal family and Channel 4, which indends to broadcast a documentary titled Diana: The Witness In The Tunnel, incorporating graphic photos of her dying minutes."If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel would we...
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Under-23 players must be
released for the Beijing Olympics, world football supremo Joseph
Blatter said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
'The release of players below the age of 23 has always been
mandatory for all clubs. The same principle shall apply for Beijing
2008,' the FIFA boss Blatter said in a statement.
The statement...
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Sweden and Norway plan a
joint bid to host the Euro 2016 football tournament, a leading Swedish
football official said on Tuesday.
Sune Hellstromer, general secretary of the Swedish football
federation SFF, told Stockholm radio station SR that the necessary
documents would likely be sent to the ruling body UEFA in autumn....
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 A Lazio fan was accidentally killed by a policeman while he was heading to a Serie A game in Milan, on Sunday morning, according to outraged Italian media. Gabriele Sandri, who was 26 years old, has died at a motorway rest station as a cause of a warning shot of a police officer who was trying to stop a clash between the fans of Lazio...
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 An uncontrolled gesture of midfielder Christian Poulsen
unleashed the fury of Danish spectators, who stormed on the pitch, hunting the
referee during a Euro 2008 qualifying game.
Saturday was scheduled to take place another battle from the
Danish-Swede war on the football field, the 99th to be precise. The load was
even higher...
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 United States coach Bob Bradley named his roster for June's Gold Cup on Thursday calling up 12 foreign-based players into his 23-man squad.The latest winners of the Gold Cup will play a friendly match against China in San Jose on June 2 before their first group B match against Guatemala in Carson, California five days later.U.S. will...
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 After a trademark dispute between
Apple Inc. and the Beatles’ company, Apple Corps. Ltd., the American Apple has
just announced that John Lennon’s music will finally go digital! The American
company has announced that sixteen of the late singer and songwriter’s songs
will be heading for Apple’s iTunes online store, so that the old or...
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 Apple announced a revamping of its iMac desktop line Tuesday, bringing an end to Apple’s 17-inch iMac offerings. The new iMacs come with a new aluminum-and-glass design and 20- and 24-inch LCD display configurations.The processors will range from Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz to 2.8GHz in a custom order model. The machines will ship with a...
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 With World Wide Developers’ Conference just around the corner, analysts have already begun speculating on what this important event will bring for Apple’s shaken up stocks.PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster, cited by Appleinsider.com, said on Wednesday that an official launch of the craved iPhone is out of the question, since WWDC is...
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 Everybody seems to be focused on whether Chris Brown and Rihanna truly recorded a duet and, thus, reports confirming or rejecting the claim are flowing on cyber space.Yesterday, CNN confirmed the fact that the two stars had recorded a song together by citing an unnamed source. On the other hand, People magazine reported online that the...
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 Amid the legal trouble stemming from his alleged assault against girlfriend Rihanna in early February, R&B singer Chris Brown withdrew himself from the list of nominees for Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. Brown was nominated for Favorite Male Singer and Favorite Song.Though defended by the likes of P. Diddy, Akon and Kanye West,...
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 R&B star Chris Brown may have lost support deals for Wrigley’s chewing gum and the Milk Moustache campaign after being arrested in the alleged attack on his fellow singer girlfriend Rihanna, but children’s network Nickelodeon is right behind him.In spite of the fact that the violent incident in which Chris Brown was involved stirred...
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 While in London on Thursday, Michael Jackson announced he will perform his first set of shows in over 10 years. The King of Pop held a massive press conference in London in front of more than 300 journalists, who had been marshaled to capture the event, (he was an hour and a half late; no word on the excuse) in which he confirmed the...
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 From costumes to stage sets, to dancing routines everything is ready for the pop singer's most important event in her career over the past five years, the Britney Spears Circus Tour, which is mere hours from its kickoff in New Orleans. "You can expect spectacular-ness," her manager Larry Rudolph said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM...
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 Three months after the Vanity Fair photo
session, which left a bad taste in her mouth, the teen superstar Miley Cyrus
prepares to promote her first full-lenght album under her own name, entitled “Breakout.”
But it looks like the Vanity Fair photo
showing her bare shoulder, which was seen by some as a “naughty” one, continues
to...
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 Jessica Simpson’s new country girl image was not as
successful as she thought it might be. As the singer opened for Sara Evans at
the 15th Annual Country Thunder USA Festival in Randall, Wis.
on Saturday, numerous spectators started booing her.
Jessica Simpson, who is seeing Wisconsin
native Tony Romo, was jeered when she made her...
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 It had been rumored that Shannen Doherty was involved in
serious negotiations to play in the approaching spin-off of "Beverly
Hills 90210," reprising her role as Brenda Walsh.
The rumors then said she already joined the new 90210 cast,
getting ready to star several episodes of the series’ follow-up. The one...
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 Just as he promised, Jon Bon Jovi sang “nothin’ but the hits, baby, nothin’ but the hits” under the clear evening sky in the heart of Central Park. The free concert was a delight for tens of thousands of fans who sang along with the lyrics. Many of them had come from around the country six hours before the event. There were an estimated...
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 France’s First
Lady is releasing her third studio album, titled “Comme si de rien n’etait”
(“As If Nothing Had Happened”), showing the world that the man that she loves
is more powerful than hard drugs. Carla Bruni confessed that the source of
inspiration for her lyrics was her love for her spouse, President Nicolas
Sarkozy. The...
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 The MTV Video Music Awards will be getting
its old home. The biggest music awards ceremony of the fall would return to Los Angeles on September
7, for the first time in a decade, the lifestyle cable network announced on
Monday.
Since 1998, when Los
Angeles last hosted the event, the MTV Video Music Awards have been
held in New...
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 The Woodstock Museum continues the tradition of the Woodstock Festival, which represented the counterculture of the late 1960s – early 1970s and the “hippie era.” Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock” commemorates the event held at Max Yasgur’s 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969.The...
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 The four Neville Brothers will come back to the capital of jazz, where thousands of fans are anxious to see them again at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. This will be their first public appearance here after a long absence since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005.Art, the oldest member, also called Poppa...
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 Kanye West is back on the market, as he and his fiancée
Alexis Phifer have reportedly split. The breakup, attributed to the rapper’s busy
schedule, as he preps for his upcoming Glow in the Dark tour, was confirmed
when designer Alexis Phifer, Kanye West’s fiancée of 18 months, confirmed that
the pair’s engagement is off.
“It's...
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 Prince will join the Coachella Valley Music and Arts
festival, a rock event staged in the California
desert which runs April 25-27. Other music stars who will take part in the
event include Kraftwerk, Portishead, the Verve, Aphex Twin, My Morning Jacket,
Spiritualized, the Breeders and Serj Tankian.
The Purple One will play a full...
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 The next 14 weeks won’t be so bright for Pete Doherty!
As his record label announced, the British rock star was
jailed on Tuesday for the next fourteen weeks. A west London court sentenced the Babyshambles
frontman for breaching the terms of his probation.
The recent court decision makes it impossible for him to
perform at the...
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 After 17 years, George Michael is going to tour again in the
U.S. and Canada. This
event follows the Wham! star’s hit European tour from last year. His last U.S. tour,
“Cover to Cover,” took place in 1991.
Although in the last ten years his popularity has diminished
in the United States,
his album “Patience” placed at No. 12 in...
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 Tejano singer Emilio Navaira may not survive after the car
accident he had last week in Bellaire, west of Houston, doctor Alex Valadka
informed at the Memorial Hermann hospital, Reuters reports.
Emilio Navaira and his staff were returning home on Sunday,
in San Antonio, after playing in southeast Houston. The bus also had six
bad...
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 San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park will host the Outside Lands Music
and Arts Festival on five stages, which is going to last three days, August
22-24. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, producers announced Monday
that more than 60 bands and performers have signed for the event.
Among the artists set for San Francisco’s music...
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 The Rolling Stones’ leader, Mick Jagger, was almost killed 40
years ago if it weren’t for the bad weather that stopped the killers. According
to a new BBC documentary, the members of the Hells Angels gang organized a
naval assault on Jagger’s holiday home in the Hamptons, near New York city.
However, due to the storm, the boat that...
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 Justin Timberlake is going to induct Madonna into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. The event will take place on March 10 at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.
According to The Associated Press Timberlake has been working with the singer
on her upcoming album that is supposed to be released this year.
Madonna Louise Ciccone...
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 The New York Philharmonic arrived in North Korea on Monday, marking the first visit
of American musicians to communist North Korea, a country which was included by
President George W. Bush in the “axis of evil,” due to its nuclear weapons
program.
The 130 philharmonic members travelled by a
chartered Boeing 747, which landed at...
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 Radiohead and Jack Johnson will be the headlines of the
inaugural All Points West Music&Arts festival, Reuters informs.
The festival will be held August 8-10, in Liberty State
Park, in Jersey City. The festival will last three days, with Radiohead
performing the first two nights and Johnson the third. Singer/songwriter...
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 The Super Bowl is possibly the best known advertising show
broadcasted on television, but it’s not only advertisers who increase their
profits after the big game. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who performed four
of their best-known songs during the game, benefited a lot from the event.
With more than 97 million viewers...
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 This year, Valentine’s Day brought
some hope to people that really need it; in fact, Bono’s charity auction that
took place on Valentine’s night will bring $42 million to some people that
really know what to do with this huge amount of money.
Bono’s charity auction brought
together a significant number of stars and celebrities,...
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 Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and
former All Saints member Nicole Appleton decided to tie the knot on Valentine’s
Day. The couple secretly married in London
on February 14, after a relationship of eight years. They have a seven-year-old
son, Gene, who attended the ceremony.
Liam’s brother and Oasis
guitarist Noel did not...
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 It seems like Britney is planning
to start it all over again. She has been recently seen at Millennium Dance
Complex in Los Angeles,
where she is reportedly preparing for a new world tour.
Sources close to the pop star
told the New York Post that “Britney will be leaving the country in the next
few weeks, after training in...
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 R. Kelly cannot complain of lack of luck. On the contrary,
actually, as in the case of child pornography in which he is allegedly
involved, he was forgiven of having his bond revoked after he missed the Wednesday
hearing.
Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan scolded the R&B
singer, but he allowed him to leave and deliver his...
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After almost 30 years of absence from the stage the legendary British hard-rock band Led Zeppelin had its first major live performance, as the three surviving members and Jason Bonham, the replacement drummer for his late father, gathered together on London’s O2 Arena.The band sang their most loved songs, including Dazed And Confused,...
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 Actor John C. Reilly is facing another challenge, a prolongation of his role in the mock biopic “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” in real-life. He will incarnate the rock icon in a 7-city US tour and perform live. The “Cox Across America Tour” was presented by Columbia Pictures on Monday, being part of the promoting campaign for the movie...
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 Tameka Foster, R&B singer Usher’s wife, gave birth to a baby boy at 9:30 pm on Monday, at the Atlanta hospital, his publicist confirmed on Tuesday.The baby is healthy and it weights seven pounds and nine ounces and is expected to head home with his parents on Wednesday, according to the People magazine.This is the Grammy winning...
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 Extremely bad news to those over-the-head fans of legendary
rock band Led Zeppelin that made excruciating efforts to attend the one-off concert
of the rockers. Guitarist Jimmy Page has broken his finger and won’t be able to
perform during the next three weeks.
The gig of the reunited band was scheduled to take place on
November...
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 Led Zeppelin are as fashionable as the online era, now that they have announced that starting with November 13, their albums would be available digitally. The date is a double release for the band, apart from the revealed surprise, they are launching a double-CD compilation that reunites their best songs under the title “Mothership”.“We...
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 November, 26, 2007 promises to be a day of legend, now that
those from Led Zeppelin announced to re-unite for the O2 Arena in London gig.
Their one-off performance will represent probably the gist
of the charity concert to pay tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the one that founded
Atlantic Records and had been a music mentor for the band....
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 Brad Paisley and George Strait lead the nominations for the 41st
annual Country Music Association Awards, with five nominations each.
Both musicians are up for Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist, Album of the Year and Single of the Year.
Paisley is also nominated for Video of the Year, while Strait is in
contention for Musical...
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 I’ve had enough with this broad. I mean... Does she really
have to always be in the center of attention??? Can’t she just give up...? Well
you know...I mean, she does so many things just so people notice her, for what?
First the DUI high speed race down to Las Vegas with a police escort…maybe someone
should have told her about...
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 The nominees for this yea MTV Video Music Awards have been announced and pop stars Justin Timberlake and Beyonce are topping the list with seven nominations each, followed by rapper Kanye West and Rihanna who both got five nods. The nominations were revealed during a special broadcast of Total Request Live Tuesday.British neo-soul singer...
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 Iconic ‘80s rock band The Police have began their much-anticipated reunion, with a concert in Vancouver on Monday night.
The Police fans in Vancouver were treated to a special preview show at the city's GM Place, where the 4,000 people in the audience were all members of the club.
Sting (birth name Gordon Sumner), drummer...
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 Incubus made fans feel like it was Christmas when the rock band played a surprise concert at this year’s KROQ-FM Weenie Roast y Fiesta in Irvine, California, managing to completely steal the show.
2/5 of the rock band Incubus from Southern California stole the show at Saturday’s KROQ-FM Weenie Roast y Fiesta, when they...
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 Madonna has written a new song especially for the July 7 Live Earth musical event; available for free, the first million downloads will result in a donation to a climate protection group.
Live Earth organizers announced Thursday that Madonna has written a new song for the Live Earth concerts that will take place around the world on...
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Tokyo - They are as soft as silk, no larger than half a thumb, and conquer Japanese hearts every spring: cherry blossoms, known in Japan as "sakura."
Anticipation starts building across the country in February. When the first buds open in the south-west, national euphoria breaks out. Newspapers follow the north-easterly...
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Tokyo - Tokyo may be one of the world's greatest metropolises but Japan Olympic Committee (JOC) members said Friday that the city intends presenting itself as the world's most compact stage in its effort to host the 2016 Olympics.
As the IOC emphasizes legacy, Tokyo says it will limit the use of taxpayers money by recycling...
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Beijing - Chinese officials have appealed for calm ahead of several sensitive anniversaries in Tibetan areas and claimed that life has returned to "normal" after violent protests by Tibetans in March, state media said Wednesday.
"Everything is back on track," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Nyima...
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Tokyo - Mitsubishi announced Wednesday that it is quitting the Dakar Rally due to the global economic crisis.
"The sudden deterioration of the global economy made it necessary for the company to focus its resources more tightly, leading to today's announcement," said the carmaker in a statement.
Mitsubishi quit the Dakar,...
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Around 78 families coming to the lone church in Wana, the main town of the tribal district of Islamic militancy dominated South Waziristan, expect their day-long Christmas celebrations on Thursday to take place in an atmosphere of peace and good will.
"We have no fears. We are going to sing our traditional Christmas songs, cut a...
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Around 78 families coming to the lone church in Wana, the main town of the tribal district of Islamic militancy dominated South Waziristan, expect their day-long Christmas celebrations on Thursday to take place in an atmosphere of peace and good will.
"We have no fears. We are going to sing our traditional Christmas songs, cut a...
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Subaru on Tuesday quit the world rally championships (WRC) just 24 hours after fellow-Japanese company Suzuki, like them citing the global economic crisis.
Subaru won three straight world rally constructors titles 1995-1997 and three drivers titles from Britons Colin McRae (1995) and Richard Burns (2001) as well as Petter Solberg of...
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South-East Asian foreign ministers Monday formalized a charter that transforms the 41-year-old bloc of half a billion people into a a more united community.
The charter sets out rules of membership, transforms the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) into a legal entity and proposes a single free trade area by...
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Iran warned Paris of "unsuitable consequences" in a formal protest against remarks by French President Nicolas Sarkozy critical of his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
The Iranian foreign ministry summoned Bernard Poletti, French Ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday,...
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Foreign ministers of 10 nations will meet in Jakarta next week to celebrate the new charter of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the regional grouping said Tuesday.
The event at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on December 15 will mark the effective date of the regional bloc's guiding constitution, the Secretariat...
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called upon India Thursday to show restraint following last week's terrorist attacks, which New Delhi claims were carried out by some "elements" in Pakistan, while putting pressure on Islamabad to assist in the investigation.
"It is extremely important if something like that has...
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A blue-and-white signpost on a snowy village street points the way. After a long journey, the "Tomb of Jesus" is close by. But this is not the Middle East, but Shingo, a small village in Aomori prefecture, northern Japan.
The 3,000-inhabitant village, about seven hours by road north of Tokyo, attracts visitors not only with...
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Former Bangladeshi prime ministers and arch political rivals Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia exchanged greetings Friday at a reception to honour the country's military. It was their first face-to-face meeting in 18 years.
Private television channels aired live footage of the two meeting at the Armed Forces Day reception in Senakunja in...
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Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan Monday headed to Peru for the November 22 leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, becoming the highest-ranking envoy from the island to attend the annual event.
Leading a 13-member delegation of foreign and economic affairs experts and officials, Lien was to stop...
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An airstrike by a US drone aircraft killed 12 people Friday in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district, a known hub of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, Pakistani officials said.
The pre-dawn attack in north-western Pakistan targeted a militant hideout in Waladeen, a remote village some 75 kilometres west of Miranshah, the...
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Gilles Simon put himself into position for a possible spot in the semi-finals of the Masters Cup with a Friday victory, but will have to await the fate of Roger Federer.
The French debutant pounded alternate Radek Stepanek 6-1, 6-4 in 65 minutes, breaking three times and never in danger against the Czech who filled in at the last...
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Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman marked the end of his career at age 36 as he and partner Kevin Ullyett bowed out in doubles at the Masters Cup to Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland 6-2, 1-6, 10-6 on Friday.
The round-robin loss put and end to the career of Bjorkman, winner of all four Grand Slams - with four different partners...
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ATP executive candidate Brad Drewitt on Thursday defended the decision to increase the 2009 player workload in exchange for more prize money after Andy Roddick charged that an over-heated schedule is leading to injuries on court.
Roddick withdrew with some frustration on Wednesday after rolling his ankle in training and handing a...
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Andy Murray rolled into the semi-finals in his debut week at the Masters Cup, defeating Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-4, 6-2 in a Red group showdown on Wednesday.
The Scot polished his record to a perfect 2-0 as he beat the last player to enter the eight-man field. Simon gained a place at the last minute when world number one Rafael Nadal...
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Andy Roddick withdrew from the Masters Cup shortly before his match on Wednesday, citing a right ankle injury he suffered during training the day before.
The American, who lost his opening match to Andy Murray, will be replaced in the Red group by Czech Radek Stepanek.
The American dropped his bombshell a few hours before he was...
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Title holder Roger Federer fell to a 4-6, 6-4, 6- 3 defeat in his opening Red group match at the Masters Cup on Monday as Gilles Simon turned the tables for victory. It was the second straight year that the Swiss got off to a surprisingly poor start at the season-ending event he has won four of the last five years.
The victory in...
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Syria hopes that the new US president would change the US foreign policy, said Syrian Minister of Information said on Wednesday.
"We hope that the US drop its policies of wars and boycott and would adopt diplomacy and dialogue," reported the Syrian news agency SANA quoting Hohsen Belal.
Belal added that he would wish for...
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Democrats Abroad members will be gathering in special venues throughout Asia, from a secret "watering hole" in alcohol-free Kabul to a popular barbecue house in Bangkok, to watch the US election results on Wednesday, Asia time.
If pre-election interest is anything to go by, the turnout to watch the televised results...
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Taiwan announced Wednesday it will send former vice president Lien Chan to the November 22 leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
The announcement was seen as a breakthrough in the island's relations with China, which for years has opposed allowing any prominent Taiwan leader to attend the event,...
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It is an open guess whether the truth will come to light beyond a shadow of doubt as to whom the US soldiers killed in their raid on a remote village in Dayr As Zawr.
Were they really only construction workers and children, as official Syrian media say, or were they possibly self-appointed Islamic "holy warriors" on their...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not quit his post when his term officially ends on January 9, the Ramallah- based al-Ayyam daily reported Monday.
The daily quoted Abbas as telling newspaper columnists at his office Sunday night that since the Palestinian election law states that presidential and legislative elections should...
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Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan army patrol by the mountain border with Pakistan, Islamic insurgents surround and pound the unit into disarray.
The surprise attack from forested slopes around the troops' positions lasts 20 minutes, during which they are pinned down and barely able to hit back,...
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Timo Glock of Germany led the way for home team Toyota in Friday's free practice for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix.
Glock clocked 1 minute 18.383 seconds in the day's second session on the 4.563-kilometres course at the foot of Mount Fuji.
The Singapore GP winner Fernando Alonso came second in a Renault in 1:18.424, followed...
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A suicide bomber killed least 27 people, including an opposition politician and former military officer who spearheaded military operations against Tamil rebels, and injured 94 others in north-central Sri Lanka Monday, police said.
Retired Major General Janaka Perera was taking part in the opening of a political office of his party -...
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An undersea earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale struck early Tuesday evening off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.
The quake struck at 6:15 pm Jakarta time (1115 GMT), about 163 kilometres south-east of Dili, the capital of East Timor, according to...
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The Philippines and Australia signed agreements to receive tsunami warning information from the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) on Friday.
These countries can now use CTBTO data from the organization's 232 seismic monitoring stations that were set up all over the globe to detect nuclear weapons...
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Taiwan's leading female ultra-marathon runner has had to have both legs amputated after blisters on her foot developed into an infection, press reports said Tuesday.
Chiu Shu-jung, 51, remains in a coma in a French hospital following the amputation of her left leg on August 31 and of her right leg on September 1, the China Times daily...
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Russia's synchronized swimming team collected their third Olympic gold medal in succession Saturday at a sold-out National Aquatics Centre in Beijing.
Anastasia Ermakova and Anastasia Davidova, winners of the duet gold three days ago, led their team to victory with a total of 99.500 points.
European champion Spain took silver with...
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The ad hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Beijing turned down Saturday protests by Spain and Italy over the decision to award the 49er category sailing gold medal to Jonas Warrer and Martin Ibsen.
The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) took the move after having two...
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Russia's Maxim Opalev finally made it to the top of the Olympic medal podium Saturday when he won the men's C1 500- metre canoe race at the third attempt.
Meanwhile in the K1 500m, Ken Wallace of Australia took gold in the men's event while Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine prevailed in the women's race.
Spain's Saul Craviotto and...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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Britain aimed Friday to improve even further its sensational medal haul at the Beijing Olympics in the presence of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and amid hopes that the good results will last beyond the 2012 Games in London.
Brown on Friday watched the fencing portion of the women's modern pentathlon after which Heather Fell was placed...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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Yin Jian of China won the women's RS:X windsurfing event in Qingdao Wednesday to give China its first ever Olympic sailing gold while New Zealand's Tom Ashley won the men's RSX event.
Yin, the 29-year-old silver medallist from Athens four years ago, kept her nerve to finish with 39 points from the 11 races and claim a one-point...
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Chen Yibing and He Kexin continued China's strong showing in the gymnastics disciplines with victories in the men's rings and women's uneven bars Monday while Poland's Leszek Blanik took gold in the men's vault.
China also took gold in the women's trampoline when He Wenna finished ahead of Canada's Karen Cockburn and Jekaterina Chilko...
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Great Britain continued its powerful showing on the cycling track Monday, taking Olympic gold in the men's team pursuit event while Marianne Vos of the Netherlands won the women's cycling points race.
The British team of Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Thomas Geraint and the men's individual pursuit champion Bradley Wiggins defeated Denmark...
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Chen Yibing of China beat compatriot and newly- crowned all-around Olympic champion Yang Wei to take gold in the men's rings gymnastics event Monday at the National indoor stadium.
World champion Chen proved too strong in his speciality discipline, securing gold with a total of 16.6000 for his routine.
Yang had to be satisfied with...
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Ukraine's Artur Ayvazian took gold in the men's 50-metre prone rifle Friday to deny defending Olympic champion Matthew Emmons of the United States a second successive winner's medal in the event.
Ayvazian secured the win with a total of 702.7 points, one point clear of Emmons with Warren Potent of Australia third on 700.5 points.
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Host China got a first swim gold at the Beijing Olympics from Liu Zige with a world record 100 metres butterfly performance on Thursday while Alain Bernard gave France its first- ever gold in the showpiece 100m freestyle sprint.
The Australian women's 4x200m relay team smashed the world record to take the gold and Japan's Kosuke...
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A thunderstorm on Thursday forced Olympics organizers to halt the canoeing and kayaking slalom races and move them to Friday.
Thursday's events fell victim to the adverse weather after just one race, the first men's C2 semi-final won by Germans Felix Michel and Sebastian Piersig.
The other semi and the final, as well the...
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The Dalai Lama warned Wednesday against isolating China and said instead Beijing should be nudged by dialogue to accept democracy and freedom.
China was the world's most populous country and wanted to be part of the international community, the Tibetan spiritual leader told journalists during a 12-day private visit in which he also...
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Thailand's Supreme Court issued arrest warrants Monday for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife after they fled to England rather than face court cases in Thailand.
The Supreme Court for political office holders ordered the warrants and seized 13 million baht (389,222 dollars) in bail deposited by the billionaire...
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Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Monday said he and his family would live in England to escape persecution by his political enemies in Thailand.
"I have decided to live in England," Thaksin said in a hand-written statement he sent to Thai television stations. He will presumably seek political asylum.
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China remained on course a sweep of Olympic diving gold medals when Lin Yue and Huo Liang were unstoppable in the men's 10 metres platform synchronized event at the Beijing Games.
The world champions Lin and Huo claimed the gold with 468.18 points, with Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein on silver with 450.42 points and Russians Gleb...
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Berlin - Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio was to receive Monday the Cinema for Peace award for his efforts in promoting peace and tolerance in the international movie business.
One of Hollywood's most prominent activists in the fight against global climate change, 34-year-old DiCaprio is to receive the award at a gala ceremony in...
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Vienna - Actress Nicollette Sheridan, one of the stars in the US TV series Desperate Housewives, will add sparkle to this year's Vienna Opera Ball as guest of Richard Lugner, the Austrian socialite announced Wednesday.
In order to promote his Vienna shopping centre, Lugner traditionally pays a celebrity to accompany him to Austria's...
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 The winner of the second season of the “American Idol” show,
Ruben Studdard, got married with Surata Zuri McCants. The wedding was held in a
suburb of Birmingham, Alabama,
at a Canterbury United Methodist
Church. One of the Birmingham
News reporters was present at the event.
The ceremony, which took place on Saturday, lasted...
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 Twenty-five outfits worn by James Gandolfini, best known for his portrayal of the HBO series “The Sopranos,” have been sold at auction on Wednesday.
The collection displayed at the event includes not only the actor’s personal costumes, but also outfits belonging to other lead characters in the well-known TV series....
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 MTV went on with its annual movie awards at the Universal
Studios lot on Sunday, just a few hours after a huge fire devastated chunks of Hollywood history nearby, Reuters reports. The host of
the 17th annual MTV Movie Awards was Mike Myers.
“Transformers” is the winner of best movie at the 2008 MTV Movie
Awards, and director...
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 The Cannes
film festival will roll out the red carpet Wednesday, with “Dirty Harry” and “Indiana
Jones” leading this year’s line-up. Clint Eastwood, turning 78 this month,
makes a new try for Cannes’
Palme d'Or for best film with a drama set in the 1920s starring Angelina Jolie.
Also on the famed red carpet, but out of the...
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 This year’s CMT Awards hosts were father and daughter Miley
and Billy Ray Cyrus. But this was essential information before the ceremony,
after it we focus on something else. That’s right, we want to know the big
winners of the Country Music Television Awards!
Kellie Pickler was Monday night’s queen, winning three
trophies at the...
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 The Madden brothers are very busy boys, actually. Besides
spending time with his fiancée, Nicole Richie and daughter, Harlow (that would
be Joel Madden, of course) and partying with Paris Hilton (we’re making reference
to Benji), the two opened a store.
The official opening of the DCMA Collective on Melrose took place on
Friday...
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 The much-waited for first
encounter between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston has been postponed, Now
Magazine reports.
They were expected to meet at the
pre-Oscar party on Saturday at the Warner’s Night Before Party at the Beverly
Hills Hotel. The two actresses have never met face to face since Jennifer and
Brad broke up...
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 Take good care of your change, it might pay off in a couple
of centuries! A collection of 301 rare pennies earned its owner the incredible
sum of $10.7 million at an auction this week-end.
Walter Husak was still flabbergasted at the end of the event
that took place at the Long Beach
Convention Center,
calling the total...
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 On Valentine’s Day is not all about romantic love, but also
about love for our peers. U2 frontman Bono and artist Damien Hirst bet on this
idea and succeed to raise a “preposterous” 8-figure sum to alleviate AIDS
condition in Africa.
The charity auction organized by Bono, Hirst, Sotheby’s and Manhattan's Gagosian
Gallery was held...
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 Sometimes dreams come true too late.
The United States Embassy granted Amy Winehouse the coveted
visa, however the British artist sticks to the initial back-up plan and will
sing via satellite at the Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
Due to the late positive answer, Winehouse is unable to
leave in time for Los Angeles,
even...
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 Setting: The lawns of the United Nations in New York. Time:
Wednesday night, just after celebrities were wiping their eyes after the
cancellation of the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Host: Madonna. Sponsor: Gucci. Goal:
Raising money for children in Malawi.
Story: In order to raise funds for UNICEF and her own
charity organization,...
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 The 26-year-old heiress Paris
Hilton was honored yesterday at Harvard, one of the most prestigious
universities in the world. The event overwhelmed even the most notorious
heiress in the world. Paris couldn’t contain
herself from saying “Harvard is hot!” when she was handed over the Harvard
Lampoon Humor Magazine's Woman of the Year...
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 Music lovers will be able to indulge themselves at the annual
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this year, as the list of more 100 acts
includes great names such as Metallica, Pearl Jam or Kanye West.
The seventh edition of the festival will take place from June
12 to 15 at the famous 700-acre farm Manchester,
Tennessee. The...
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 What’s better than winning an Oscar? Winning an Oscar and
then attending a fancy party along with other Hollywood
A-listers.
This year the most glamorous party – the exclusive Vanity
Fair party - was canceled, due to the ongoing writers’ strike. Even though
there have been hints that the parties are coming closer to striking...
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 Television and movie writers are
deliberating whether to put an end to the strike or not. Their strike has
entered the fourth month and has led to the cancellation of important award
shows like the Golden Globes, or to the postponement of studio blockbusters, according
to the New York Times. Additionally, many people have lost their...
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 Ladies in red joined at the New York’s fashion district on Friday to
raise awareness upon an extremely serious matter: the greatest threat for
American women is heart disease.
The First Lady Laura Bush explained the theme of the event
by saying “Nothing draws attention like a little red dress.” Thus the red dress
became the...
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 Eleven weeks after the screenwriter’s strike began, the Hollywood directors reached an agreement over the payment for the next three years with the main producer's organization on Thursday, in an attempt that is hoped to put pressure on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in order to end the strike that has stopped the film and TV...
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 With the ongoing screenwriters strike causing the cancellation of the
Golden Globes ceremony, industry reports Thursday said the Oscar show
could be next.
The Oscar show is set for February 24, with nominations scheduled
on January 22. According to The Hollywood Reporter preparations for the
biggest night in the Hollywood calendar...
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 The Los Angeles Times reported that the Writers Guild of America and the United Artists have reached an agreement that allows screenwriters to finally begin working for the studio that is leaded by Tom Cruise, while in the same time NBC television announced it has cancelled the coverage of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which was...
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 The 35th edition of American Music Awards had in the center
of the prize-attention two American Idol stars.
Former competitors in the popular show Carrie Underwood and
Chris Daughtry won a hat-trick of awards each, leading in the top
winning artist of the Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater event.
Underwood, who has very recently won...
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 The February, 24 Hollywood’s
night will be lightened up by satirist Jon Steward, as The Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts & Sciences announced this morning. Steward will return for
the second time to present the 80th edition of the most expected movie event of
the year.
Jon Steward received mixed reviews after the 2006 Oscar...
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 A Brazilian judge revoked an earlier ruling which was blocking the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Live Earth global series of concerts. The judge overturned her injunction after organizers secured approval from Rio's police department and addressed security concerns for the event. "I overturn the prior opinion (and therefore) authorize...
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 “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” nabbed some serious booty in just six days and shattered box office world records.
The numbers say it all:
• $153 million since opening last Thursday night = fifth biggest opening ever; biggest Memorial Day holiday weekend gross;
• $404 million worldwide in...
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 Sharon Stone is not in Cannes only for the sun and fun. The actress hosted a glamorous AIDS benefit soiree that raised some $ 7 million.
Sharon Stone is at the Cannes Film Festival in France but it’s not all fun and play as the beautiful actress helped raise an impressive sum of money for the American Foundation for AIDS...
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US abstract artist Mark Rothko has set a new record, posthumously, as one of his paintings became the most expensive contemporary work ever to be sold at auction.
Last night saw a momentous event as Sotheby’s auction house in New York sold a canvas painted by the Latvian-born Mark Rothko for an astounding $72.84 million. The...
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 After a successful launch on Sunday, Discovery went through some new challenges as it began its journey to the International Space Station. The launch went on without any incidents, and the first ground assessment said the space shuttle had no debris to worry about on its way to the ISS. However, just a few hours later, NASA TV reported...
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 As the world prepares for more bad news on global warming, and over 2,000 scientists prepare to attend the Copenhagen gathering where they will present their findings, another event taking place in New York warns about global warming nonsense.While news of global warming have gotten worse every year, and countries all over the world are...
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