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Dominik Hrbaty and Dominika Cibulkova led the Slovak Republic to a third Hopman Cup title on Friday with a storming 2-0 victory over Russia.
It marked the second honour at the team competition for veteran Hrbaty, who outlasted longtime friend and rival Marat Safin 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3).
Teenaged Cibulkova began the win with an...
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 After years and years in which Cuban travelers inside the country were forced to sleep over at friends, the Castro government has finally decided to allow the island’s citizens to check into Cuba’s hotels, which were previously reserved only for foreign travelers.The hotels employees confirmed that from now on, Cubans wishing to stay at...
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 Former President Lech Walesa of Poland leaved a Houston
hospital, four days after surgeons implanted a pacemaker.
The device is supposed to help Walesa, 64 year-old, avoid a
heart transplant, and it was implanted during a two-hour procedure at Methodist
DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center.
“My health is very much...
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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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 Penelope Cruz won the best supporting actress Academy Award
on Sunday for her fiery, funny role of a woman in a three-way relationship with
her ex-husband and an American woman in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona, saying
it was a sign of changing times in American film for foreign actors.
The achievement made Cruz the first...
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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 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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 Wednesday was another special day for the Westminster Kennel
Club Winner, the Beagle called Uno. The 3-year-old dog took a victory lap for
another honor in Illinois,
the Chicago Tribune reports. Uno demonstrated that he is playful by jumping
around in circles with Aaron Wilkerson, his handler. As a result, when Gov. Pat
Quinn asked...
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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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US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Their discoveries were linked to describing the smallest building blocks in nature and nature's order, the academy...
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Edwin O. Guthman was 89 when he died on Sunday. The Seattle Times journalist had won the Pulitzer Prize back in 1950 for his articles which cleared a professor who was accused of communist sympathies. After this important step in his career, Guthman held top editing list at the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The...
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Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely
town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy
tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert.
With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is
hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or
rival...
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 A San Francisco jury found a New Jersey man guilty of felony hate crime charge of false imprisonment on Monday in the assault on Holocaust survivor and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel in 2007. Other charges were crime allegation, battery and elder abuse for pulling the 79-year-old Nobel laureate from a hotel elevator in February...
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 May 30 – All the attention will
be headed towards a handful of top spellers that will reach the Washington’s stage
tonight in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A record was
breached this year’s competition when 288 children managed to enroll to the
Thursday’s Preliminary rounds.
Harsh competition, but the...
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 Dith Pran, 65, resident of Woolbridge, N.J, known as a human
rights advocate, journalist and New York Times photographer, died March 30 of
pancreatic cancer at Robert Wood Hospital
in New Brunswick, N.J.
He was portrayed in the well-known movie “The Killing
Fields.” It tells the story of the journalist, played by...
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 The former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan is the winner
on NBC's “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The audience for Thursday's two-hour live
finale of the popular show was 12.1 million viewers, the largest since December 15, 2005, the
Daily News reports.
“The performances were all really good and the show itself
was really good,”...
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 Calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” was the fatal error for a Barack Obama foreign policy adviser. After using the word “monster” when referring to the rival Democratic presidential candidate in an interview with a British newspaper, Obama’s aid was forced to resign. Samantha Power, a foreign policy aide on the Illinois senator's White...
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 Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada
caucuses on Saturday in the latest contest to represent each party
ahead this year's US presidential elections.
With 97 per cent of caucus sites reporting, Clinton led the
Democratic vote with 51 per cent over chief rival and fellow senator
Barack Obama, who had 45...
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 With no clear leader yet to emerge in the bid for their party's
nominations, US presidential contenders face key tests in South
Carolina and Nevada later Saturday as they scramble for their party's
presidential nomination.
Most of the focus will be on the centre-right Republicans in South
Carolina, the first southern state in the...
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 Four years after all the major record labels have teamed up with Pepsi in order to offer 100 million free songs through Apple’s iTunes, the miracle happens again, as Pepsi and Amazon are collaborating for Pepsi Stuff, which is a massive collect-and-get program where consumers can download the most DRM-free MP3 music available...
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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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Two South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates have petitioned President Kgalema Motlanthe to establish a commission of inquiry into a controversial multibillion-dollar arms deal, The Star newspaper reported Wednesday.
In a letter dated December 1 and delivered by hand to Motlanthe's Cape Town office on Tuesday, former president FW de...
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Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said Thursday that he and former United States president Jimmy Carter planned to forge ahead with a visit to Zimbabwe at the weekend, despite their visit being rebuffed by President Robert Mugabe's regime.
Annan, Carter and Mozambican social activist Graca Machel, members of The...
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Reacting to the announcement that France's Jean- Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the Nobel prize for literature, renowned South African author Andre Brink told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Thursday he was glad, if unsurprised.
"I'm very glad about that. I think he's (JMG Le Clezio) certainly a worthy person and has been for...
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Johannesburg - Nelson Mandela, South Africa's national hero and anti-Apartheid fighter, has a dispute with his own family.
Johannesburg's The Sunday Times reported Sunday on its front page about
a 'bitter' feud which is dividing the family of the Nobel Peace Prize
laureate. The dispute even led his ex-wife...
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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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 Ghanaian President John Kufuor on Thursday ended his mediation efforts
in the Kenyan election dispute without any visible success as
newly-elected President Mwai Kibaki began swearing in his new cabinet
in Nairobi.
Further talks would be chaired by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, Kufuor said before flying back to...
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 The opposition in Kenya on Friday demanded that President Mwai Kibaki
step down after his controversial election victory and prepare the path
for new elections within three months, an opposition official said as
some protests continued.
According to the secretary-general of the Orange Democracy Movement
(ODM), Anyang Nyongo, the...
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 Violence erupted around the Kenyan capital Nairobi as voters demanded
the electoral commission reveal the presidential election tally and
charged that the results - which put the top two contenders a few
hundred thousand votes apart - were rigged.
Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent, closed the margin Saturday between
himself and...
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 Preliminary results on Friday from Kenyan presidential elections held
the previous day showed opposition candidate Raila Odinga establishing
a commanding lead over incumbent Mwai Kibaki, in polls seen as a test
of democracy in the East African nation.
If Odinga wins, and Kibaki relinquishes power, Kenya will be one of
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Hanoi - Officials and executives at a Vietnam-Myanmar trade fair have signed several deals to boost trade between the two countries, Vietnamese media reported Thursday.
Vietnam government representatives signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to import more than 5 million dollars of wood from Myanmar by 2010 at the...
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Tokyo is presenting itself as Asia's fashion capital as JFW International Fashion Fair opened at Big Sight Tokyo on Wednesday, drawing 730 companies from 15 nations and regions from around the world.
The three-day trade fair, which invites more than 30,000 visitors including buyers, provides an opportunity for the designers of...
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Police in Ankara on Friday seized a small arsenal of weapons buried in the grounds of a former anti-terrorism unit chief who was arrested on Wednesday and suspected of involvement in a possible coup plot, Turkish media reported
Using metal detectors and wearing forensic white uniforms, police scoured the grounds just outside the home...
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Around 40 people were taken into custody Wednesday in the latest wave of arrests connected to a shadowy nationalist gang that prosecutors claim was conspiring to overthrow Turkey's moderate Islamic government, Turkish media reported.
Those taken into custody on Wednesday included retired generals, former police officers, academics and...
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Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates on Tuesday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, who is believed to be facing subversion charges for organizing a charter for democratic reform in China.
More than 150 leading US and European-based intellectuals, including...
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The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia welcomed international support for the couple on Wednesday, as the European Parliament prepared to award its top human rights prize to him in absentia.
"It is not only for us, it is also for all Chinese human rights defenders," Zeng Jinyan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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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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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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The Nobel Peace Prize went to the right hands, said the premier of Kosovo, which declared independence on guidelines laid by the recipient, Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari.
"The Nobel Peace Prize accorded to President Ahtisaari is a prize given to the right person, to the man ... who contributed so much for global peace and...
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A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced Leyla Zana, a former parliamentarian and winner of the European Parliament's 1995 Sakharov Peace Prize, to 10 years imprisonment after finding her guilty of belonging to a terrorist group, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The court in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir ruled that a number of...
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A popular Myanmar comedian known for his criticism and satire of the country's military junta was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison in a closed-door court session in Yangon, an opposition spokesman said.
Zarganar, who had provided food and water to monks involved in anti-government demonstrations in September 2007, was...
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One of the few positive stories coming out of war- torn Iraq in recent years has been the success of their national football teams.
Since 2003, when the country sent an under-23 team to the Asian Cup and managed to qualify for the quarter-finals, Iraqi teams have been grabbing their fair share of international headlines.
In 2004,...
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Prominent Myanmar dissident Min Ko Naing and eight other student activists have been sentenced to 65 years in prison in an ongoing judicial crackdown on opposition to the ruling junta, witnesses said Saturday.
The Special Court of Maubin, a town in the Irrawaddy Division about 95 kilometres southwest of Yangon, sentenced Min Ko Naing,...
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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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The Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki was nominated Wednesday for the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a government source.
The government nominated Maliki for his efforts in sustaining peace in Iraq, the Iraqi national information center said in a statement quoted by the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
Since the Shiite...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said her country wanted to cooperate with China as a key part of efforts to resolve the global financial crisis.
"Cooperation with China is of utmost importance" for Germany, Merkel told reporters after talks on the financial crisis with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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His name was familiar to US President George W Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao months before he won the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights, yet just a few years ago China's most prominent dissident was a largely unknown activist for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Hu Jia's international reputation grew while he...
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu on Friday congratulated former Finish president Marti Ahtisaari for winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying it was given to the most deserving person.
"This remarkable prize was without a doubt most deserved," local media quoted Sejdiu as saying.
Praised by the Nobel Committee for his...
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More than 1,000 experts, business leaders and scholars from 20 nations gathered Thursday in an eastern South Korean city to draw up strategies on how to accelerate the development of ecologically friendly energy sources.
The three-day World Global Energy Forum opened amid growing concerns about climate change and the threat it...
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Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.
The three - Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US citizens Martin Chalfie and Roger Y Tsien - were cited for "the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP."
The three share...
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The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, was taken to hospital in the Indian city of Mumbai with complaints of stomach pains, news reports and officials said Friday.
"There is nothing major to feel concerned about," his personal secretary Tenzin Taklha was quoted as saying by the Times of India...
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 Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, head of the Tibetan government. He is believed to be the reincarnation of his predecessors. Tenzin Gyatso was proclaimed the rebirth of the 13th Dalai Lama two years after he was born. Since 1959, the Dalai Lama has ruled over the Central Tibetan Administration...
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Lighter lunches, less alcohol and even streamlined cutlery are on the menu on Asian airlines as they shed excess weight in scores of little ways in a bid to cut down escalating fuel costs.
With every gram carried on board equating to fuel, airlines are taking a closer look at what's on board and making some inventive changes to cut...
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UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari, after five days in the country, has failed to see either opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi or any senior junta officers.
Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest in her family's Yangon home for the past five years, refused to get in a government car to meet Gambari on Wednesday and did not...
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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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Iran's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi Thursday condemned what she called a smear campaign against her daughter by an official news agency.
The official news agency IRNA quoted an unnamed source as saying Ebadi's daughter last year converted to the illegal Bahai religion.
Unlike Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism,...
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Up until a few years ago, renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang's works could not be shown in China, and back then he could not imagine he would be selected to be the visual and special effects director of the Beijing Olympic Games' opening and closing ceremonies.
The New York-based award winning Cai views his return to his home country two...
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 The Dalai Lama arrived Thursday for a five-day visit to Germany. The
exiled Tibetan spiritual leader plans to give four lectures, in Nuremberg, Bamberg, Bochum and Moenchengladbach, and a final speech Monday in
front of Berlin's
Brandenburg Gate, the Associated Press reported.
He will meet with two state governors from...
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 Even though Chinese officials depicted the Dalai Lama as a “jackal
clad in Buddhist monk's robes and an evil spirit with a human face and the
heart of a beast,” the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said that the Beijing government is ready to talk with Tibet’s
spiritual leader, the Kyodo News Agency said.
Yang made the...
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 China
claims “Tibet
independence forces” are planning to use suicide attacks, while the Prime
Minister of Tibet’s government-in-exile denies the allegations, affirming
Tibetans are committed to a “nonviolent path,” the Associated Press reports.
Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping said Tuesday that
“the next plan of the...
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 The Prince of Wales’ spokesman admitted Prince Charles would
meet the Dalai Lama when he visits Britain in May, the Associated Press reports. Yesterday,
Britain’s
Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his desire to meet the exiled spiritual
leader of the Tibetans. China’s
foreign ministry claimed he was...
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 Myanmar
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met on Monday with a special United Nations
envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, in Yangon.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been under house
arrest for 12 years, talked to Gambari, representing U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, at a military facility. Their conversation lasted about 45...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin
Rudd has engaged on a brief visit to East Timor Friday, to show support for the youngest
Asian country and to assess the situation after the assassination attempt on
Jose Ramos-Horta, the country’ s president.
Australia’s PM met United Nations
and Australian officials in Dilli, and also the...
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 East Timor’s president Jose Ramos-Horta, 58, was
admitted to Australia’s Royal Darwin
Hospital, Monday, after
he was shot in the arm and stomach outside his residence in Dili, East-Timor’s
capital, during a raid planned by the rebel soldiers led by Alfredo Reinado, officials say.
Three hours after the shooting, he was taken...
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 The US is considering allowing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
and the US military to conduct more aggressive covert operations in
Pakistan's restive tribal areas, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Quoting unnamed administration sources in Washington, the paper
said the new policy would involve CIA agents and military...
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 US President George W Bush threatened further sanctions against Myanmar
if its leaders don't move toward democracy, saying he was "deeply
disturbed" by a report from a UN human rights envoy to Myanmar that
found a crackdown against anti-government protesters in September was
continuing.
UN envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro,...
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 The Portuguese writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and became well-known to the readers for his books of subversive perspectives on historic events, in which he emphasizes the human factor rather than the officially sanctioned story. Jose Saramago, 84, has recently released his newest book, entitled “Death with...
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A member of the Nobel Academy said on Friday that the Swedish Academy is worried that somebody might have found out earlier than the award night that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was going to be given the Nobel Prize for Literature. Still, Horace Engdahl, the academy's permanent secretary, told a local paper that he will look at the...
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 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, 68, a French author, won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The Nobel Swedish Academy said that Le Clezio is a writer “of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." His travels helped him imagine a poetic world...
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 Salman Rushdie, the Indian-British novelist and essayist who won the Booker Prize for his second novel “Midnight’s Children,” won a special award marking the 40’th anniversary of his novel. He also won the 25th anniversary Booker prize in 1993. The novel is an example of Rushdie’s magical realism style. The dominant theme of his novels...
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 Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll reveals more than
150 interviews and thousands of documents in “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family
in the American Century,” an exciting history of bin Laden’s siblings, the
famous villain who orchestrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The book is a family biography and not...
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 One of the French avant-garde icons, author Alain
Robbe-Grillet passed away on Monday. He was 85 years old.
Robbe-Grillet died at the Caen
University Hospital
in western France.
He was hospitalized during the week-end due to cardiac problems.
Robbe-Grillet became made a name for his innovative writing
style, which had a...
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 The British Library has acquired the complete archive of the greatest living British writer and playwright, Harold Pinter, for the amount of 1.1 million pounds.The acquisition was possible thanks to a grant of 216.000 pounds from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), added to the existing British Library funds and private...
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 Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari’s driver, has received the trophy at the traditional gala evening of the sports controlling body FIA, just one month after he has won the drivers' world championship."I am very happy to be here to receive this trophy that comes with winning the World Championship. This has always been my goal and I am...
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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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 Russian star tennis player Maria Sharapova won over the No. 5 seed and defending champion Daniela Hantuchova 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 on Wednesday, which has extended her unbeaten 2008 record to 18-0 and sent her directly into the women semifinals of the 2.1 million dollars Pacific Life Open.Australian Open champion Sharapova fired six aces in the...
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 Former best
tennis player in the world, Monica Seles announced her official retirement from
professional tennis yesterday.
Seles had
not participated in tennis competitions for five years because of an unlucky
succession of foot injuries, but she had not actually retired until now.
“Tennis has been and will always...
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 Lindsay Davenport became the leader of the richest tennis players with her first-round win at the Australian Open on Monday, which brought her career earnings to the amazing amount of 21.9 million dollars.The recent mother won in the match against the Italian Sara Errani with 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory that propelled her on the top of the...
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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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 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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 The New York City Opera announced on Sunday that it commissioned
the Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based
on the 1997 short story “Brokeback Mountain,” by Annie Proulx,
that the source of the film of 2005, directed by Ang Lee and
starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, the New York
Times...
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 Directed and co-adapted by Laurent Cantet, “The
Class” (known as “Entre Les Murs” in French) won the top honour, the Palm d’Or,
at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
The documentary-like story, set in a Paris neighbourhood, follows
a year in the life of a French schoolteacher; it portrays in a naturalistic way
the energy and...
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 The Academy Award-nominated and Inspiration Award Winner film
director Guillermo del Toro is directing “The Hobbit” and its upcoming sequel,
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army," New Line Cinema announced Thursday. He
has directed a wide variety of films, but his fans appreciate him especially for
“Pan’s Labyrinth,” which won...
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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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 Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men" has another award in its basket and gained by now what seems to be unstoppable momentum for the upcoming Academy Awards. The movie has won the top prize in sound mixing at the 44th annual Cinema Audio Society awards on Saturday. Oh, and the best contemporary film at the 12th annual...
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 The 35th annual
edition of the Annie Awards, which celebrates animation movies, designated its
mega-winner Friday. Nominated for 13 categories, “Ratatouille” managed to take
home nine awards, including the most important award of the evening, for best
animated feature. The Disney and Pixar film beat “Bee Movie,” “Surf’s Up,”...
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 No Country for Old Men, Joel and
Ethan Coen’s drama, received the Hollywood
producers’ top prize on Saturday; this award is another proof that Coen
brothers’ movie is a front-runner in the race to the Oscars.
Only a few days ago, the movie’s
directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, were also named the year’s Best Directors by
the DGA...
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 As the Screen Actors Guild Awards took place in Los Angeles on Saturday night, it had celebrated one of the most successful television shows, maybe for the last time, The Sopranos, while Daniel Day- Lewis, who won the prize for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role, dedicated the award to the promising actor that had...
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 Ethan and Joel Coen were given Saturday the award for the
best directing team by the Directors Guild of America, for the thriller “No Country For Old Men”, based on the novel of
Pulitzer Prize winner American writer Cormac McCarthy. The duo was awarded within
the 60th annual Directors Guild ceremony held at Hyatt Regency
Century...
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 The Golden Globes Awards were announced on Sunday in a show format that was never before used, as the more than three hours glamorous ceremony was replaced by a televised press conference that lasted half an hour, during which television presenters announced the winners.Without any presentation of the prizes and no speeches made, the...
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 The thriller No Country for Old Men kicks off the film awards season, as US critics named it the best movie of the year, in the first major film awards of the year.The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has named the dark thriller that was written and directed by brothers Ethan and Joel Coen to be the best movie of this year,...
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 At the 2007 European Film Awards that took place on Saturday, Helen Mirren received the prize for best actress for the role of British Elizabeth II in The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears.The ceremony took place in Berlin, where the star was crowned, adding this prize to the Oscar and Venice Film Festival awards that she won for the...
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 Love In The Time Of Cholera cheers its own worldwide-recognized
personality and gathers for its movie adaptation many personalities to complete
its masterpiece value as a movie, as well.
It is known that we are now talking about the most beloved Spanish-written
book of the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, a writing...
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 Yahoo Inc. announced that it will launch a new social network on Monday aimed to help college students to get career help, created by a young Yahoo unit charged with advancing product innovation.The California company, named Sunnyvale, is releasing Kickstart, which was created for students, alumni and recruiters, in order to gather...
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 Canadian Stephen Ames has won the Children's Miracle Network Classic that took place at Disney and which he had played until the last hole, on Sunday.Ames won his last PGA Tour 17 months ago, at The Players Championship last year, where he made a double bogey and still blew away the toughest field in golf by six shots at the TPC...
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 The United States Olympic trials are going to take place in New York’s last 25 miles of Central Park, on Saturday morning, being expected that they would have around 200.000 spectators.The specialists have declared that Central Park is a challenging place to run, due to its undulating terrain. In order to settle the team for the Olympic...
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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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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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Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday for work on developing a key tool used for tagging bioscience processes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.
The three - Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US citizens Martin Chalfie and Roger Y Tsien - were cited for "the discovery and...
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Russia's foreign minister added his voice to the controversy over South Ossetia's status hopes on Thursday. Georgia's separatist province, he said, has no intention of joining Russia, news agencies reported.
Sergei Lavrov interrupted a press conference in Poland, where he was discussing US missile defence plans, to clarify Moscow's...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.
"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the...
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 Gerhard Ertl, a member of the Max Planck Society in Berlin
was awarded with the 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for outstanding
breakthroughs in the chemistry domain, chemical reactions on solid surfaces.
He is credited with creating a methodology for demonstrating
how different experimental procedures can be used to provide a...
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 In order to explain polls and other election events, the Cable News Network (CNN) used holograms. On Tuesday, the news station used a hologram technology that allowed the company to virtually “beam” a person from a distant location into the studio to talk with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper. The first people to test the technology were...
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 X Prize
announced on Thursday that more than 60 teams from nine countries were ready to
race in chasing the $10 million prize the foundation is giving to the
manufacturer of the best green supercar ever! The foundation wants the car to
be a record breaker when it comes to fuel efficiency and environmental issues.
The X...
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 Virgin Galactic unveiled on
Wednesday a spaceship the company hopes to become the first tourist spacecraft
ever! Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic’s executive, said that test flights were
scheduled to start later this year. In 2009, SpaceShipTwo, as Virgin Galactic’s
model is called, should be able to start taking paying...
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 A Pentagon sponsored robot race at a former Air Force base in Victorville, California, took place on Saturday in the final event of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge. The race consisted in a 60 miles course in a simulated city that had to be finished in less than six hours.The race proofed that even...
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 Although it is likely for some of
us to think that all this technology around us is something normal, the truth
is that it is not quite so. Although our children are already born in a world
where the high technology seems to have been there since primordial times, the
speed that currently characterizes the technical field has started...
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 Starting with Thursday, the 13th
of September, and till Sunday, the 16th of September, the worldwide
famous Wired Magazine’s annual Wired NextFest exhibition will be showcasing the
new brilliant ideas and technologies, as well as their creators, that will someday
change our world in a positive way, hopefully. Through this...
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 A recent experiment showed that peeling sticky tape emits X-rays strong enough to scan a human finger. U.S. researchers used a motorized peeling machine to unwind a roll of Scotch tape at a rate of 3 centimeters per second. The report, which appeared in Nature journal, measured X-rays strong enough to X-ray a human digit. A well known...
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 People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) leaders have given scientists everywhere a new research direction, as they have promised a prize of $1 million to whoever can manage to mass-produce artificial viable meat. Although the offer comes with a deadline, the summer of 2012, there should be enough time to figure out a solution for...
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 John A. Wheeler, a well- known physicist that had a decisive role in the development of the atom bomb and who gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died of pneumonia at age 96 in his home in Hightstown.Wheeler died on Sunday, his daughter Alison Wheeler Lahnston said.During his life, the scientist was a professor at...
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 On Tuesday, Norway revealed
a frozen vault that will be storing millions of seeds against wars and natural
calamities wiping out food crops from all around the world. The vault was
created deep within an Arctic mountain, so that it could be put into danger by
any natural or man-made disasters.
The “doomsday”
vault represents...
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 Google and The X Prize Foundation
announced yesterday the ten top finalists to register for the race towards winning
the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize. The ten international groups that
remained in the battle will compete to land on the Moon a privately funded
robotic craft, which will also have to roam the Moon’s surface for at...
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 Delegates at a UN world climate conference in Bali on Saturday secured
an agreement on an outline for reaching a pact to fight global warming
after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The "roadmap" deal was reached following a dramatic final session
of the marathon talks which saw the US delegation drop its objections
to...
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 Former US vice president Al Gore and Rajendra Puchauri, chair of the UN
climate panel, received standing ovations Monday when they were awarded
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos said Gore, 59,
and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had helped "lay the
foundations for...
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 In Bali, the United Nations talks regarding climate change have entered the critical second week, as the environmental groups are warning that if the delegates do not act together, the meeting will fail its purpose."Today in Oslo the IPCC and former US Vice President Al Gore are being awarded the Nobel peace prize for their works in...
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 In its attempt to pursue the recently announced Google Lunar X Prize, Astrobotic Technology, Inc. has selected Raytheon Company announced that it would collaborate with Raytheon Company, which will be its supplier of advanced lunar landing technologies.Dr. William L. "Red" Whittaker, Astrobotic's Chief Technology Officer and...
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 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said "global sweeping concerted
action" was now needed on climate change, as the final "synthesis"
report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released
Saturday.
The worst-case scenario envisaged by the report was as frightening as a science fiction film, Ban...
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 Google embarks in the ultimate
business: the robotic race to the Moon, which is a contest organized by the X
Price Foundation inviting private teams to build a high tech robotic rover for
exploring the Moon’s surface. The device will have to be capable of strolling
the Earth’s natural satellite’s surface for at least 500 meters and...
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 American television is testing the American
endurance, the tolerance and taste for Japanese game shows of its viewers. ABC’s
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show” which premiered Tuesday, June 24, performed
well and pulled in 8 million viewers. It was the winner in the competition with
Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” which brought in front of the...
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 NBC’s reality show “America’s Got Talent” has its
Season 3 premiere, USA Today reports. “Talent” was TV’s top-rated show last
summer, averaging 11.5 million viewers!
The quest for 15 minutes of fame managed to attract nearly
200,000 hopeful contestants this season aiming for the $1 million prize.
Last season’s...
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 Even though he conquered the hearts of many teenage girls
with his pretty face and his long dreadlocks, the 20-year-old Jason Castro
messed it up with his performance this week and was eliminated from the most
viewed show, “American Idol.” As the final of the competition arrives, three
more contestants are left to battle for the top...
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 Oprah Winfrey has done a lot of remarkable things in
television and firstly, we should note her talk show’s outstanding popularity
in a TV world marked by white male hosts. Then we should note that her book
club set reading again as trend also assorting certain titles in worthy and
unworthy. Winfrey has her own network and founded a...
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 The names of the 14 stars that are going to take part at the "Celebrity Apprentice" have been made public by NBC on Monday, after almost a month since they were introduced to members of the press, which had to sworn secrecy, in a door closed news conference.Trace Adkins, Nadia Comaneci and Gene Simmons, who already has his own...
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 Wednesdays at 10 p.m. we get to see the next designers whose
works we will worship in the future. Or at least this is what the contestants of
the Bravo reality show hope.
Project Runaway returns with the forth season, fresher and
stronger, with a mixture of contestants coming from various domains. The most
outstanding fields in...
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 Out of the four contestants left on the show, Terry Fator impressed the most with his performances and was crowned the winner of “America's Got Talent” second season. Beating up stiff competition from singers Cas Haley and Julienne Irwin and beatbox extraordinaire Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton, Fator bagged the million...
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 As expected, David Beckham didn’t play in the Los Angeles Galaxy's SuperLiga match against Mexico’s Pachuca on Tuesday. The former captain of England’s national squad struggles with a lingering ankle injury and his new coach Frank Yallop says he needs more time to recover.Asked whether the 32-year-old midfielder would play in Galaxy’s...
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A prominent dovish Israeli professor who was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home warned Friday that the attack against him underscored the collapse of the rule of law in the occupied territories.
Police believe the bomb was placed at his doorstep by right-wing Jewish extremists angered by Professor Zeev Sternhell's...
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A pipe bomb exploded early Thursday morning next to the home of a prominent Israeli political scientist and critic of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, lightly injuring him.
Some hours later police found leaflets offering over one million shekels (290,000 dollars) to anyone who kills a member of the dovish Peace...
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 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Khalid Meshaal, an exiled leader of Hamas, and his deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk met again on Saturday morning. Carter, the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, went to Syria to talk with leaders of the militant group Hamas and the unusual visit was considered a study mission and a part of U.S.'s...
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 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that he intends to meet in Syria with leaders of the militant group Hamas. Although Condoleezza Rice criticised his plans to visit the Middle East and to meet a senior Hamas leader, saying that there would be nothing to gain after a talk with a leader who has a different opinion upon...
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 As off July 15, Israel has a new president in the person of Shimon Peres who succeeds embattled Moshe Katsav. The 83-year-old prominent politician won the run-off held one month ago, Knesset members giving a vote of confidence to the former vice premier.His election was cheered by most politicians, headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert...
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 Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres will surely be the next president of Israel after his two opponents withdrew from the presidential race due to lack of support shown in the first round of voting.Peres could have won from the first run-off, but he lacked only three votes to make the majority of 61 needed. The rest of votes to 120 were...
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Hamburg - In a case alleged by prosecutors to have been an "honour killing," an Afghan-born man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for stabbing to death his own sister.
Morsal O, aged 16, was knifed to death on May 15, 2008, a day after she approached welfare officials in the northern German city Hamburg for...
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The ceremony to mark the bicentenary of the separation in 1809 of Finland and Sweden got under way in Stockholm Thursday in the presence of Swedish King Carl Gustaf and Finnish President Tarja Halonen.
The year 1809 has different connotations in the two countries - if remembered at all as a historic date, as several speakers and...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday opened an economic symposium in Paris by calling for the "moralization" of the capitalist system.
"We must work, not for the destruction of capitalism - which would be a catastrophe - but for its moralization," Sarkozy said at the opening of the symposium New World, New...
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Former Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel described British playwright Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve aged 78, as an "outstanding dramatist whom I have admired since my youth."
"His plays are wonderful," he continued.
The two writers met in the 1980s when Pinter visited the dissident Havel in the...
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Germany voiced concern Monday at the enforced closure of the Tehran office of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
"We regard it as a further sign that the room for manoeuvre of those who defend human rights in Iran is getting smaller," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Berlin.
Iranian media reported Sunday the...
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An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own sister in Germany.
The May 15 stabbing death of Morsal O, 16, in Hamburg attracted enormous attention at a time when Germans were concerned at a rash of "honour killings" by immigrants from archaic central Asian societies.
The term...
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Cheered like a superstar, former US vice president Al Gore told climate negotiators Friday they faced "a moment of fateful decision" in saving the planet from global warming and urged them to finish a treaty within a year.
Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign to draw attention to the issue, painted a...
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An internet site launched Thursday about the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, four months after his death.
The author's widow, Natalia, launched the Russian-language site on the day Solzhenitsyn, who died August 3 in Moscow, would have turned 90 years old.
The site (www.solzhenitsyn.ru)...
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The French co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Stephane Hessel, was on Wednesday awarded a UNESCO prize for his life's work.
The 91-year-old Hessel, who was honoured on the 60th anniversary of the document, said that it remained difficult today to implement human rights in the world.
As one example, he...
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The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari on Wednesday urged "all the parties involved" to work for a solution to the Middle East conflict.
"The credibility of the whole international community is at stake," Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president, said in his acceptance speech in Oslo City Hall....
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The France-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday named jailed Cuban journalist Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso its 2008 Reporter of the Year.
The award was bestowed on the dissident Cuban "for helping an independent press to survive in Cuba," the group said on its web site.
Gonzalez was arrested in...
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Turkish author Yasar Kemal on Thursday was awarded Turkey's highest cultural honour when he was presented with the state Culture and Arts Prize at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.
The controversial author of Kurdish descent has been a long-time critic of various Turkish policies concerning the Kurdish problem,...
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Norwegian Parliament Speaker Thorbjorn Jagland was Wednesday named new chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The veteran Social Democrat has also held the posts of prime minister and foreign minister but earlier this year said he was leaving Norwegian politics.
Jagland, 58, succeeds...
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Myanmar was the only country that used landmines in the past year, an international coalition reported Friday, adding that Turkey, Greece and Belarus failed to meet their deadlines to destroy stockpiles of the weapon.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines also said Russia was still considered a violator as it had not reported...
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A Spanish discotheque Thursday cancelled a prize draw which had sparked a storm by advertising a breast augmentation operation as the jackpot.
The discotheque in the eastern city of Valencia apologized to those who might have felt offended, after the local authorities and the health ministry announced the possibility of...
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A Spanish discotheque Wednesday came under criticism for organizing a prize draw with a breast augmentation operation as the jackpot.
The draw was to be held between all the visitors who paid 20 euros (25 dollars) to enter the discotheque in the eastern city of Valencia.
The discotheque justified the draw by saying there was a lot...
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France is planning to hold another international summit on the economic crisis in January, the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday.
Sarkozy and former British prime minister Tony Blair will co-host the summit, which will be held on January 8 and 9 in Paris.
Those who have already agreed to participate include Nobel...
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A new award has been launched to honor efforts to respond to environmental emergencies, the United Nations said Monday, in an attempt to encourage action to curtail the impacts of man-made and natural disasters.
The non-monetary Green Star Awards will first be awarded next May in Brussels to charities, government and companies that...
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Threatened Italian author Roberto Saviano and British-Indian author Salman Rushdie have accepted invitations to lecture at the Swedish Academy, the body that selects the Nobel literature prize said Tuesday.
Saviano and Rushdie were to speak November 25 on the theme "Freedom of speech and lawless violence."
The academy...
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Danish author Naja Marie Aidt on Tuesday accepted the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize, worth 350,000 kroner (59,000 dollars).
In remarks at the award ceremony, Aidt referred to her childhood in Greenland where she was born in 1963, recalling the distinct contrasts between light and darkness during different seasons.
Her...
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An Anglican bishop from Zimbabwe was Tuesday named winner of a Swedish human rights prize for "having given voice to the fight against oppression."
Bishop Sebastian Bakare was also cited for his work to promote "freedom of speech and of opinion in a difficult political situation."
He was due to accept the 2008...
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The international ski federation FIS has agreed to the hosting of a parallel slalom in Moscow on January 2 with prize money totally 160,000 euros on offer.
According to FIS race director Guenter Hujara, Austria's Hermann Maier, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway and American Bode Miller have already agreed to take part in the race, which is...
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Italian author Roberto Saviano, who has been threatened for his writings on the mafia, has been invited to give a lecture at the Swedish Academy, a spokesman for the body that selects the Nobel literature prize said Friday.
The academy decided on the invitation at its weekly meeting on Thursday, Odd Zschiedrich, administrative...
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The European Parliament on Thursday awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia, a Chinese civil rights activist, rejecting warnings from Beijing.
Hu Jia was picked from a shortlist of candidates that also comprised Aleksandr Kozulin, a former presidential candidate in Belarus, and Apollinaire Malu Malu, who chairs the...
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The European Parliament (EP) defied Chinese warnings Thursday and awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia, a Chinese civil-rights activist.
The decision was a rebuke to Beijing, which had said that honouring Hu Jia could "seriously damage" China's relations with the European Union.
Hu Jia was picked from a...
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A stamp featuring former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, winner of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, iss to be issued December 10, the Finnish Philatelic Centre said Wednesday.
The stamp will go on sale the day Athisaari receives his Nobel prize at a ceremony in Oslo. He is being honoured for his mediation efforts in international...
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There's a decidedly Italian flavour to this year's International Rome Film Festival - the third time the event is being held, but the first under the city's new, centre-right mayor.
Before his election in April, Gianni Alemanno campaigned on a ticket which included a pledge to sweep the Festival's red carpet clean of...
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Former Botswana president Festus Gontebanye Mogae received the 5-million dollar Mo Ibrahim award, recognizing his achievements in African leadership.
The announcement of the awarded, the second of its kind, was made MOnday by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in London.
The prize, which is endowed with 5 million dollars over...
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The credit crunch is slowing down peacemaking in the world's conflict zones by undermining the economic development of war-torn countries, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said in London Friday.
"It will not help us to solve conflict with no economic development in those countries...We are avoiding taking the tough...
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The Frankfurt Book Fair opened for business Wednesday, with world publishers to spend five days trading book rights and discussing how to cope with the internet age.
Some 280,000 visitors are expected at the annual event, which is being held in Germany for the 60th time. This year Turkey is guest of honour.
Turkish President...
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, citing his work on international trade and economic geography.
The academy cited Krugman for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" in awarding him this...
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Acclaimed Czech-born writer Milan Kundera turned in a Western agent as a student during the Stalinist era, leading to the man's imprisonment at a labour camp, a magazine reported Monday.
Police records show that Kundera, who later gained fame as an anti-communist and the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, denounced a young...
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, citing his work on international trade and economic geography.
The academy cited Krugman for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" in awarding him this...
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Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday.
The prize was awarded to Ahtisaari, 71, for his efforts to solve conflicts on several continents and over three decades, the Nobel Committee said.
Committee Chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos said...
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Veteran peace broker Martti Ahtisaari, 71, on Friday crowned a distinguished career as a diplomat, statesman and peace broker by winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The former Finnish president has been involved in numerous missions aimed at solving international conflicts, ranging from Northern Ireland to the Indonesian province of Aceh...
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Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish ex-president and veteran peace broker, has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday.
Ahtisaari, 71, was cited "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts," the...
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The Spanish edition of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia on Thursday erroneously said French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio had died of a heart attack on hearing that he had won the literature Nobel Prize.
"On hearing the news, because of the surprise, he suffered a heart attack and was taken in critical condition to the...
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Human rights activists from China, Russia or Vietnam topped speculations on the eve of the announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The five-member Nobel Committee advises nominators not to announce their proposals but there are no rules against the procedure, allowing fodder for speculation before Friday's...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday urged leaders of the divided island of Cyprus to end its decades-old division.
Carter, Tutu and Brahimi arrived on Cyprus late Wednesday as part of a meeting of the organization The Elders, a group...
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, who won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday, is a "cosmopolitan author and nomad" with European roots, the Nobel academy's permanent secretary Horace Engdahl told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in an exclusive interview.
Frenchman Le Clezio was "not a classical European author" but...
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Top German literary critic Sigrid Loeffler called Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio "a fairly bizarre choice" for the Nobel literature prize, dismissing his work Thursday as "boring."
Speaking on MDR Info radio, she declared herself surprised and shocked at the award, and suggested Le Clezio may have won simply...
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On the eve of Thursday's announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature, punters seemed to favour a winner from other countries than the United States.
At least according to two online betting sites.
The speculation mirrors that of Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter that in a survey Wednesday concluded that 85 per cent of all...
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Italy's scientific community is up in arms over what it charges as the unfair exclusion of an Italian researcher from this year's Nobel Prize for physics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the prize to US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, for...
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US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Their discoveries were linked to describing the smallest building blocks in nature and nature's order, the academy...
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 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French scientists together with German researchers Harald zur Hausen, sheared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday. The three Europeans discovered different viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer which helped doctors to fight against these diseases.The French scientists...
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German Harald zur Hausen on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer.
He shares the prize with French scientists Francoise Barre- Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who were awarded the prize for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The...
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French virologists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, will always be associated with the discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.
In 1982, Montagnier headed a team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, of which Barre-Sinoussi was a member, that was asked for assistance in...
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Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who shared the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday, was honoured for his research which led to the development of a vaccine against cervical cancer.
Born in Gelsenkirchen in the West of Germany, zur Hausen studied medicine in Bonn, Hamburg and Dusseldorf. After graduating in December 1960 he...
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The findings of a virus that causes cervical cancer and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
German Harald zur Hausen was awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday congratulated Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.
After extending his "heartiest congratulations," in his own name and that of the nation, Sarkozy noted, in a...
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Los Angeles - The unlikely duo of former hard rocker Robert Plant and bluegrass queen Alison Krauss won five Grammys Sunday night, including the coveted album of the year for their collaboration Raising Sand. The duo also won Record of the Year for their haunting hit Please Read This Letter.
Coldplay won four awards, including...
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 According to Esquire men magazine, actress Halle Berry is the Sexiest Woman Alive. Even if the 42-year-old actress has already a child, men all around the United States still consider her to be the sexiest woman they have ever seen. On Tuesday, an article from the magazine’s website showed Halle Berry in a parody of a 2000 cover...
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 The Emmy Awards 2008 announces the big winners of the night: “Mad Men” and “30 Rock!” The ’60 drama “Mad Men” gained on Sunday night as the first basic-cable show which won a top series awards. Also “30 Rock” staring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin went home with a lot of prizes.Tina Fey took the best comedy series award for her late-night TV...
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 Kanye West was nominated for three awards
at this year’s Black Entertainment TV (BET) awards and he won the prize for
Best Male Hip-Hop artist and best collaboration for Good Life featuring T-Pain.
Hip-hop group UGK was named best group and also won video of the year for “International
Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)” featuring...
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 The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August:
Osage County,” the Tony winner for best play, including four other awards, “Rogers
and Hammerstein’s South Pacific,” which earned seven awards, “In the Heights,”
which won the award for best musical, “Boeing-Boeing,” the winner for best play
revival, “South-Pacific,” nominated for 11 Tony...
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 “South Pacific” won five prizes at the
Drama Desk Awards, including best musical revival. The first-ever revival of
South Pacific also received prizes for actor-musical, Paolo Szot;
director-musical, Bartlett Sher; sets-musical, Michael Yeargan, and sound
design, Scott Lehrer.
The musical, with music by Richard Rodgers,
lyrics...
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 Kids nowadays have the right to choose and they have been
doing it for 21 years at the Annual Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
This year was no exception and kids chose their favorites,
casting 88 million votes to express their opinion, breaking the last year’s
record number of 40 million.
The 21st annual edition of the awards...
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 The You Tube awards have become more and more popular. The
online prizes have reached their second year and they are very in style, all
the nominees being viewed about a quarter-billion times. This is for sure an
easy way to be promoted and to become famous.
This year, on the second annual You Tube Video Awards the
fans votes on...
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 Millions of Mega Million ticket buyers from California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio,
Texas, Virginia
and Washington
were disappointed to discover that it is not them who won the fabulous sum of
$270 million.
The lucky ones were from Georgia. A couple from Portal, a
small town about...
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 Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp and Oscar winner Reese
Witherspoon were selected by the US public as their favourite movie
stars at a scaled-down People's Choice Awards.
The Hollywood writers strike caused the show's organizers to revamp
its format, changing it from a live show complete with Hollywood
glamour to a...
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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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 Three-time Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright Woody Allen will make his operatic stage debut in the fall of 2008 with the Los Angeles Opera's production of Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi," Hollywood Reporter says."I have no idea what I am doing, but incompetence...
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 This year’s Cannes Film Festival honored Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and his brave movie set in the Communist period with prestigious Palme d'Or for the best film.
Cristian Mungiu, 39, wrote and directed “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” in 2007. It is only his second feature film, but it has made as history, as...
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 Already announced as one of the most interesting, expensive and craved gadgets of 2007, Apple’s iPhone has already received an award from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, although it is not yet on the market.Jurors of the 2007 National Design Awards discuss the current state of design in America and the selection process for this...
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 The daring text message that generated the violent confrontation between Chris Brown and his fellow singer girlfriend Rihanna had reportedly been sent by the R&B star’s manager, who is twice his age.Tina Davis, who turns 40 this month, sent Chris Brown the infamous three-page text that “talked about hooking up later,” celebrity...
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 Studs Terkel was a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His oral histories were best-selling and, as he used to say, he dedicated them to all the “non-celebrated” people. Terkel died on Friday at home. He was 96 years old and had a “peaceful, no agony” death, as his son Dan Terkel, told the Associated Press. This is...
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 Anne-Christine Massullo, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge, released on Monday a tentative ruling saying that Sharon Stone can’t obtain her son’s custody. Roan, 8, has been living with his father, the newspaper executive Phil Bronstein. A court order from 2007 gave Bronstein permanent custody of Roan. Massullo didn’t allow the...
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 Sharon Stone, 50, lost custody of her older son again. Roan, 8, has been living with his father, the newspaper executive Phil Bronstein. A primary judge from San Francisco said that the actress hadn’t requested any primary custody. On September 12, he ruled that the executive’s house is more stable and clean. A court order from 2007...
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 Britney Spears’ new advertise video for the VMA this year is out. The pop-star is joking with Russell Brand, the MTV’s Video Music Awards host in the two commercials for the show. The background of the videos also includes a 9,000 lb. elephant.Russell Brand asks the singer “You are Britney Spears, right? I’m not dreaming this am I?”...
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 Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza, was crowned Miss Universe 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Since the end of the Vietnam War, this was the major USA-based broadcast from the southeastern Asia country. Also, this is the first time that the Miss Universe competition was held in 1080i HD.The winner’s prize package included cash, travelling around...
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 And the Parents of the Year prize goes to…Sarah Jessica
Parker and Matthew Broderick, who are amused to see their 5-year-old son is on
his way to become a smoker.
Not that they encourage him to become one, but they
certainly do not have the correct attitude either.
At the screening of Broderick's new film...
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 Famous actor and comedian George Carlin, aged 71, well-known
for his rough, but witty humor, died of heart failure on Sunday in a Los
Angeles-area hospital.
The Associated Press reported that Carlin died at 5.55 p.m.
PDT in Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, after being admitted earlier
that day for chest pains....
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 Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian,
actor and author George Carlin will be awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize
for American Humour. Carlin will be honoured for his 50-year career, the John F.
Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday.
George Carlin is especially noted for his
political and black...
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 Robert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist, who rose
to fame in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, died Monday
of heart failure, as it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his
representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York. He was 82.
His unique artistic style, which mixes odd articles...
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 Who said that moms shouldn’t have a top list? Mingling Moms
Organizations decided to honor 20 of the best celebrities' moms in Hollywood. As a result, 2008
Top 20 Long Island Mothers of Celebrities was just released. Furthermore, you
will be surprised to find out that even Dina Lohan, the mother of the troubled
actress Lindsay Lohan...
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 Sean “Diddy” Combs was not involved in the 1994 Tupac Shakur
shooting and the Los Angeles Times admits this. After three weeks since the
story that linked Combs to the shooting of Shakur which appeared on the LA
Times Web site, The Smoking Gun, the hoax was finally retracted. Pulitzer
Prize-winner Chuck Philips, who wrote the story,...
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 Since dancing is one of her greatest passions, why shouldn’t
she actually host a dancing show? Well, she does. Elizabeth Berkley is going to
host the new Bravo unscripted series “Step It Up and Dance” which is going to
premiere this Thursday. Nevertheless, Berkley
will have to divide her time very well because in parallel with the...
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 It seems that Jessica Simpson has a positive effect on the
men that she dates, because on Monday’s Cosmopolitan ceremony her boyfriend and
two of her former ones were honored with the Fun Fearless Male of the Year title.
Moreover, this trend began last year when her ex-husband Nick Lachey received
top honors at the same...
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 The director of the nine time Oscar winner The Last Emperor and The Last Tango, Bernardo Bertolucci, will be celebrated for all his career, as he will receive on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, according to Variety, on Thursday.The 67-year-old Italian director’s star is scheduled to be revealed on February 19, during the Los Angeles Italia...
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 Former Beatles’ member Paul McCartney will be honored with a
special Brit Award, as a sign of recognition of his remarkable artistic career.
McCartney is due to receive the special prize for
Outstanding Contribution To Music in the February 20 ceremony that will take
place at London’s Earls Court. The music legend is said to have...
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 There are times when the best comes forward, even though it
has been kept in the dark, ignored and unnoticed. This is the case of almost-underdog
Anne Enright, that was awarded the Man
Booker prize for her novel “The Gathering”.
Enright persuaded the judges - poet Wendy Cope, journalist Giles
Foden, critic Ruth Scurr, actor...
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 This year’s Nobel prize winner, Doris Lessing, has been
struggling (successfully!) for over 60 years to accomplish her work that
introspects serious matters, like social justice or gender roles, but was
oblivious that today was the big day. So she learnt that she became the most
significant personality of the year from a reporter...
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 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who left his home country Yugoslavia for the United States when he was 16, will be awarded two major honors today, including the country’s 15th poet laureate by the Librarian of Congress. The 69-year-old writer, who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, started writing poetry in English only a few...
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 American model Jaslene Gonzalez, born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois, is the winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 8. The Latina beat out Natasha Galkina, the 21-year-old hot Russian-born college student from Dallas."Every little girl has a dream to be something," Gonzalez said, eyes brimming with happy tears. "And to be...
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 A crowd of about 46,000 celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 90th
birthday on Friday at a party held for the South African Nobel Peace Prize
winner in London.
Twenty years ago, a similar concert was held to celebrate
Mandela’s 70th birthday and to raise awareness of his imprisonment.
Even though he looked frail as he was leaning on his...
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 At the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
in Manchester, Tenn., Kanye West was scheduled to perform
at about 2: 30 a.m. But after Pearl Jam performed an hour longer than planned, the
crew had problems in building his elaborate set, which included an
interplanetary landscape of a wavy black platform and a video screen above....
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 Apparently, this was an extraordinary year for young singer
T-Pain,whose real name is Faheem Najm. His collaboration with other artists got
him five nominations at the Black Entertainment TV Hip-Hop Awards. The 22-year-old
singer is the one who got the most nominations in this ceremony, which will
take place in Los Angeles
on 24...
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 Bob Dylan, one of the most influential songwriters of the
past half century, won an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, due to his “profound
impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of
extraordinary poetic power,” the BBC News reports. The award carries a prize of
$10,000 and marks the first...
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 The 50th Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday night kicked off with Alicia Keys’ duet of Learnin’ the Blues with the late Frank Sinatra, whose image appeared on a screen while Keys was performing and playing the piano.Thanks to a waiver granted by the Writers Guild of America, the ceremony took place as scheduled at the Staples...
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The most promising artist to release a debut album is Adele
Adkins, as Brit Awards Critics’ Choice prize demonstrates it.
The award is designed to recognize the talent of a young
artist and to encourage and launch his or her artistic career. Adele’s
remarkable soul voice made the jury believe that she was to become the new...
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 African-American saxophonist and jazz composer Ornette Coleman has collapsed because of heat stroke at the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. After collapsing on stage, the 77-year-old saxophonist was rushed to a nearby medical tent and given intravenous fluids, Billboard reported.Coleman was then taken to a local hospital Sunday and...
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 English four-piece rock band Arctic Monkeys are making an attempt at conquering America (too). "We're not bothered about not breaking America. We want to come here and enjoy it, not see it as a job," said drummer Matt Helders to Reuters.Their last American gig this year will be Sunday, May 20th, at the Hard Rock Live in...
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 The 42nd annual Academy of Country Music Awards show was glorious for Kenny Chesney, who was named entertainer of the year and Carrie Underwood, who left with the most trophies.
This year’s Academy of Country Music Awards show took place in Las Vegas on Tuesday night (May 15). Reba McEntire hosted the awards show, which included...
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 The Phoenix Suns won Game 4 of their Western Conference semifinals against the San Antonio Spurs, 104-98, after a 12-1 run to at the end of the game which saw Amare Stoudemire scoring back to back baskets.STAT led the way for his Phoenix Suns with 26 points, seven rebounds and converted all his free throws.Suns playmaker Steve Nash...
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