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The Israeli American interviewer, Daphne Barak, whose work over the years have included many celebrities has started to film a documentary on the very complicated life of Amy Winehouse. Since Amy is not doing anything important in music right now,...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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Best-selling author Kaye Gibbons has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after twice posing as a doctor to get prescription pain killers.
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Bruce Vilanch is sitting at a folding table in a windowless room at the Kodak Theatre. “Writers Room,” reads a piece of yellow paper taped to the door....
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The Paris mayor’s office says it has decided to provide exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin with a rent-free apartment in the French capital.
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For those who might not know.....if you are going to use the words of another individual, make sure you put those words in quotes and credit that individual. Using...
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An Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction” has pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol in a fatal...
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The high drama smear campaign characterising the American elections played out in Kenya, thousands of miles away in the land of Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s...
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a Dumpster, but since she didn’t, I should
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An Australian writer accused of defaming Thailand’s royal family in his 2005 novel was arrested at Bangkok’s international airport as he was about to board...
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A man convicted of killing “Curious George” collaborator Alan Shalleck in South Florida has been spared the death penalty.A judge sentenced Vincent Puglisi...
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A jury convicted a man Tuesday of killing Alan Shalleck, who collaborated with the co-creator of “Curious George” to bring the mischievous monkey to TV and...
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Rajbir Deswal interviewed Khushwant Singh at his summer retreat in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) on June 16. The candidness of the maestro is typical of his honest style....
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ...” wrote Charles Dickens, whose life...
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Livescribe has come out with a smart gadget called Pulse that is a pen that converts your writing into searchable computer files. It is like adding audio recording...
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Romance writer Cassie Edwards and publisher Signet Books have decided to break up after allegations emerged in January that in several of her books she lifted passages...
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Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal, will appear in a commercial to run before the April 3 return of NBC’s “My Name is Earl.” In the...
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The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen is living in a ‘stateless’ situation in search for refuge after being hounded out of her motherland. After spending a couple...
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Two days after dismissing allegations that romance writer Cassie Edwards lifted material from other sources, publisher Signet Books has decided “the situation...
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Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who fled death threats in her home country, complained Friday that the Indian government was not allowing her to meet friends or...
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After doing exceptionally well in varied fields like acting, modeling, being a UN goodwill ambassador and above all mother of her kids, Anjelina Jolie will now take up...
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