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13-Year-Old Downloads 1 Billionth App to Get Prize
We already covered the subject of Apple's run for the 1 billionth application downloaded via App...
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Iranian Nobel laureate awarded German Dignity Award
Berlin (dpa) - Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi was awarded one of Germany's top prizes...
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The New York Times Wins 5 Pulitzers
The leader of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes ceremony was The New York Times. The NY Times...
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Nobel laureate's papers found in rubble of German archives
Cologne, Germany - A novelist's papers, including the scroll awarding him the 1972 Nobel Prize for...
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Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor Wins 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The most prestigious award in the field of architecture, the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize went...
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Schindler's list resurfaces in Australia
Sydney - The list of 801 Jews threatened by Nazi persecution that was drawn...
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Swiss to auction off Einstein's doctorate diploma
Geneva - An art house in Lucerne, Switzerland, will auction off this summer the doctorate diploma...
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Creator of “To Kill a Mockingbird” Script Dies at 92
Horton Foote, a playwright and screenwriter whose works about the yearning and efforts of people...
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Jimmy Fallon’s “Late Night” Is a Winner in Ratings
In spite of the fact that NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” drew mixed...
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Jimmy Fallon Kicked Off New Era of NBC’s “Late Night”
While Jimmy Fallon was preparing to debut as the host of NBC’s signature show “Late...
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Oscar Buzz: What’s It Gonna Be?
The annual Oscar ceremony represents a grand scene where anything can happen. From big winners...
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“The Secret Life of Bees” Named Outstanding Film at Image Awards
“The Secret Life of Bees,” starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson,...
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This Year’s Westminster Dog Show; Bird’s Eye View
Stump, a Sussex spaniel, was crowned "best in show" at the 133rd annual. Westminster Dog...
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Spaniel Wins Westminster’s Best in Show at Age 10
At the respectable age of 10, Stump the Sussex spaniel should be living his second childhood....
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DGA Gives Oscar Boost To ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Pushing the rags to riches story one step closer to receiving Hollywood’s biggest filmmaking...
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Neil Gaiman Blogs About Newbery Medal For ‘The Graveyard Book’
Widely popular fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is “amazed and delighted” after being awarded...
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Razzie Awards Love Mike Myers’ ‘Love Guru’
When it comes to awards, major movie disappointments get a second chance to recognition with the...
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8th Idol Season Began!
One of the most popular reality TV shows that has taken over American entertainment is...
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Collection of MLK Papers Available Online for the First Time
Numerous groups across the United States are preparing various events in anticipation of the Martin...
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American Idol, Back For The 8th Time
There is an inner voyeur in all of us, which makes us want to gossip, buy tabloids, access...
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Queen Latifah Will Host The 35th People's Choice Awards
It’s the award collecting season in Hollywood! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association...
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13: Fear is Real – Cliché Concept, Bad Execution
People like adrenaline and do the craziest things to get flowing through their bodies, whether...
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Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter Dies at 78
British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, who has been considered the most influential and...
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FBI Agent Mark Felt, Watergate’s “Deep Throat,” Dies at 95
Former FBI agent Mark Felt, better known as “Deep Throat,” the man who helped...
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'Survivor' Celebrates Its Oldest Winner Yet
A 57-year-old physics teacher from Maine, Robert "Bob" Crowley, emerged as the winner of...
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Singing with the Green Ogre in “Shrek the Musical”
Being green is far from being easy. However, when true love is
brought into play, it offers even...
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Odetta’s Left Behind an Abiding Talent
Odetta Holmes, a folk and blues singer often referred to as
“The Voice of the Civil Rights...
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Tony Award-Winning “Miracle Worker” Playwright Dies at 94
Tony Award-winning playwright and novelist William Gibson,
whose best known work, “The Miracle...
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Black Friday Brings Discounts From Apple
Black Friday is the Friday that immediately follows Thanksgiving and though it‘s not an official...
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Novelist Juan Marse wins "Spanish Nobel"
Madrid - Novelist Juan Marse, 75, was Thursday awarded the Cervantes Prize, regarded as the...
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Movie Reviews
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“Inkheart” Gets the Characters Out of the Book
When you think about the “Inkheart” story and the fact that the movie has been inspired...
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“The Wrestler”: The Battle Ring Seen as Life Scene
In spite of the fact that we all know pro wrestling is
simulated and that, generally speaking,...
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“The Day The Earth Stood Still” Leads This Weekend Box office
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” magnetized moviegoers into
theaters across North America, rising...
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“Doubt” Is Undoubtedly Magnificent
The power of doubt is often more intense than overwhelming
certainty and this is perhaps the most...
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Film Review: In the End, There’s No “Doubt”
“Doubt can be as powerful and sustaining a bond as certainty,”
a character utters with confidence...
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“The Day The Earth Stood Still,” Aliens Invaded
Robert Wise’s 1951 sci-ficlassic “The Day the Earth Stood Still” represented
a straightforward...
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“The Dark Knight” Is Now Available On DVD
“The Dark Knight” saw the second-best total domestic gross
of all times and, obviously, made its...
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Slums Of Mumbai Explored By ‘Trainspotting’ Director’s Latest Film
Director Danny Boyle is not your run-of-the mill film maker. His portfolio includes the bitter...
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Review: “Slumdog Millionaire” - A Must-See And A Must-Feel
A garish, stunning stream of shade, resonance and action, “Slumdog
Millionaire,” the most recent...
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U.S.
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MIA, Efron, Obamas on Time's most-influential list
Los Angeles - Global hip-hop star MIA and young Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron have joined US...
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US captain's rescue may mean trouble for other hostages
Nairobi - Three shots from US Navy snipers, and the drama was over. Three Somali pirates lay dead...
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Reclusive Swiss architect wins coveted Pritzker Prize
San Francisco - Reclusive Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on Sunday won the coveted Pritzker Prize,...
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Al Gore: Stimulus Plan Will Help Counter Climate Change
With the economic crisis in focus over the past couple of months, many people probably forgot about...
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Barack Obama Is TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year
TIME magazine on Wednesday named its Person of the Year in 2008. No surprise here as United States...
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Obama names agriculture, interior ministers
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named his cabinet picks for the agriculture...
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Obama names agriculture, interior ministers
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named his cabinet picks for the agriculture...
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Obama Is Expected to Meet With Former Vice President Al Gore
President-elect Barack Obama will meet
today with former Vice President Al Gore and Vice...
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Forget Detroit, America's Car Future Is In California
Los Angeles - These days the big news in the US auto industry seems to be coming from Washington...
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Obama, McCain and VP Nominees Make Final Moves
Barack Obama and John McCain are making the final appearances before Election Day and are now...
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Studs Terkel, Chicago Radio Personality And Writer, Dies At 96
The Chicago Tribune reported that Studs Terkel, the writer,
radio-TV personality and social...
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Schwarzenegger pumping up McCain on campaign trail
Washington - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hit the campaign trail on John McCain's...
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"Stars' War": Celebs raise big money for Obama
New York - Left up to Hollywood, Barack Obama would be a clear shoe-in for the White House on...
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US Economist Paul Krugman Wins 2008 Nobel Economics Prize
Stockholm - The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United...
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Health
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Discovery May Offer New Targets for Drug Development to Slow Alzheimer’s
Researchers at Genentech of South San Francisco and the Salk Institute of La Jolla have...
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Ends Debate between American and French Researchers
The long-running debate between US researcher Robert
Gallo and French scientist Luc Montaginer...
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2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Three AIDS, Cervical Cancer Researchers
2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
has been awarded to the German scientist Harald zur...
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Sarkozy Congratulates French Nobel Prize Winners
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday personally congratulated Luc Montagnier and...
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Harald zur Hausen - Nobel honour for cancer research
Berlin - Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who shared the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday,...
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Three European Scientists Win The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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Vitamin C May Weaken Chemotherapy Effect
Wednesday, an United States study has revealed that higher
doses of vitamin C might reduce the...
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Distinguished Biochemist Robert Tjian Elected as President of Howard Hughes Institute
Robert Tjian, a distinguished UC Berkley biochemist
and gene researcher, has been named president...
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This Year’s Lasker Awards for Medical Research: Top Five
Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist who
discovered the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug, was...
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Five Renowned Researchers Honored with This Year’s Lasker Awards
Akira Endo, 74, of Biopharm Research Laboratories in Tokyo was one of the five scientists awarded...
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Thomas H. Weller, American Virologist Who Shared Nobel for Polio Work, Dies
Thomas H. Weller, the American virologist who
shared a Nobel Prize for developing techniques to...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grants $600 M for Med Research
The Howard Hughes Medical Institutes announced it will spend
more than a half billion dollars to...
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A New Study Warns About Nanotechnology Cancer Risk
A new study concluded that certain forms of carbon nanotubes
could be as harmful as asbestos if...
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Ex Polish President Lech Walesa Leaves Clinic after Heart Surgery
Former Polish President Lech Walesa was discharged from a Houston hospital Tuesday,
four days...
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Antidepressant Might Lengthen Life
A team of U.S. researchers reported on
Wednesday that according to a new study conducted on worms,...
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Cancer Patient Invents Possible Targeted Cure Of Cancer
Researchers from University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer center
and Rice University combined two...
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First Lady Assumes Higher Public Role Outside U. S.
This Sunday, on American television, Mrs. Laura Bush highlighted her role as the President’s...
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US and UK Researchers In Genetics Get Nobel 2007 Medicine Prize
The successful manipulation of embryonic mice cells by a
research team formed by Sir Martin Evans,...
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Science
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French physicist wins million-pound Templeton Prize
Paris - French physicist Bernard Espagnat was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize, worth 1...
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National Book Awards Also Welcome Debutants
The National Book Awards are a prestigious institution in the United States, ranking close to the...
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Computers at Reading University Almost Pass Turing Test
Mathematician Alan Turing, who is considered the father of
modern computer technology, designed a...
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Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Green Fluorescent Protein
This year, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three
scientists that used a protein taken...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien - US scientists
Washington - Martin Chalfie, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York,...
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2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry, Also With Three Winners
The Nobel Prize is a foundation that celebrates discoveries and excellence in a number of fields,...
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Three Reseachers Get The Nobel In Physics
In 1895, Alfred Nobel’s will was the cornerstone of the Nobel Prize: one of the wishes written in...
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Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To Three European Scientists
The 2008 Nobel Prize
for medicine was awarded on Monday. Two French scientists who discovered...
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Ig Nobel Prize Winners Know How To Make Potato Chips Sound Fresher
Each year, around the time when the Nobel Prize recipients
are announced, the Ig Nobel Prize...
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UCLA Scientists Find Longest Mersenne Prime Number - 12,978,189 Digits!
The challenge of finding the largest prime number ever known
seems like an impossible task,...
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WhiteKnightTwo Offers Space As The Ultimate Tourist Destination
Space, the ultimate tourist destination! It sounds out of
this world, but as science technology...
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NASA Dreams Of Establishing Permanent Research Base On The Moon
We are just two decades apart from the moment humans will set
foot on the Moon once more,...
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Kavli Prizes Awarded to Seven Scientists
The first recipients of the Kavli Prizes, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...
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Howard Hughes Institute Grants $600M to 56 Scientists
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded more than $600 million in research funding...
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Albany Medical Prize Goes to Female Researchers
For the first time in its eight-year history, the Albany Medical Center Prize went to two female...
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PETA: $1 Million Prize For The First In Vitro Meat Producer
PETA is serious: the first
person to succeed in producing in vitro meat (in commercially...
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Chaos Theory Scientist Edward Lorenz Dies At 90
On April 16, the world lost yet another
remarkable scientific figure that marked the 20th century...
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The First Ever Rocket Race Debuts August 1st
The Rocket Racing League (RRL)
announced on Monday in a press conference that the First...
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Visionary Physicist John A. Wheeler Dies At Age 96
The world lost a remarkable scientific figure of the 20th
century on the morning of April 13,...
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Polish Professor Is Awarded $1.6 Million Templeton Prize
The Templeton Prize, granted by
the Templeton Foundation for “progress toward research of...
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'Foresight' Wins The Apophis Mission Design Competition
The Planetary Society chose the
winner of the Apophis Mission Design Competition from 37...
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Ten Teams Compete In Google’s $30 Million Lunar Prize X Project
Ten teams aligned for Google’s
Lunar X Prize competition and are ready to fight for the $30...
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Scientific World Loses Genetics Pioneer Joshua Lederberg, 82
Scientific world has lost Joshua Lederberg, University
Professor and president emeritus of the...
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Virgin Galactic Boasts New Space Plane Design: SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space travel agency, has opened on Wednesday. Branson enlisted...
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Study Finds Global Warming To Reduce Atlantic Hurricanes
What do we know about global
warming in terms of positive effects? Not much, as the possible...
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Scientists Warn about Rapid Arctic Melt Due to Global Warming
The Arctic ice is threatening to become open water in an
extremely short time due to global...
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New Discovery Reveals Tuberculosis Is 500,000-Years-Old
A new discovery made by the scientists from The University
of Texas at Austin
revealed that...
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First Private Team Interested in Google's X Prize
Back in September, Google amazed everybody when it announced it would sponsor with no less than $30...
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UN Experts Warn of Irreversible Climate Changes
United Nations experts have agreed on a 20-page draft report which warns of the effects of climate...
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World
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Maldives president wins Anna Lindh Prize for climate campaign
Stockholm - The president of the Maldives was Wednesday named winner of the Anna Lindh Prize, a...
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Prince Charles visits Nefertiti's new home during German trip
Berlin - Britain's Prince Charles visited Berlin's newly renovated New Museum on Thursday,...
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Arctic counries meet to discuss climate change
Oslo - Nobel Peace laureate Al Gore called for more action to tackle global warming Tuesday on the...
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Voting underway in South Africa's fourth democratic poll
Soweto, South Africa - Voting was under way Wednesday in South Africa's fourth general election...
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Dalai Lama absent as China hosts World Buddhist Forum
Beijing - The Dalai Lama was a notable absentee on Friday as religious leaders...
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Sarkozy calls for "moralization of capitalism"
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday opened an economic symposium in Paris by...
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Calls Grow For China To Free Charter '08 Dissident
Beijing - Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates...
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Buddenbrooks Film Touches A Nerve In Recession-hit Germany
Hamburg - Rarely has the adaptation of an historical work of fiction touched the nerve of the times...
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UN Nuclear Watchdog Leaves Much To Do For New Director
Vienna - As Mohamed ElBaradei is about to enter his last year as head of the International Atomic...
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"Will Brussels Kill What Moscow Couldn't?", Poles Wonder
Gdansk - Tourists visiting Poland's Baltic coast often snap photos at the gates of Gdansk's...
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Afghan Youth Silent At Sister-Killing Trial In Germany
Hamburg - An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own...
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The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican Faith Symbol
The Virgin of Guadalupe or Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic icon from Mexico, which...
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Director, Egyptian Fans Find Common Ground On Mahfouz Novel
Cairo - Egyptians who flooded a cinema hall in downtown Cairo were curious to watch a movie based...
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Georgia, Ukraine Set For Disappointment At NATO Meeting
Brussels - Despite intense lobbying, Georgia and Ukraine look certain not to be offered a fast...
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Czech President: EU's Most Outspoken Global Warming Doubter
Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus, one of the most prominent climate change doubters, is about...
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Authors Saviano, Rushdie Say Free Speech Under Threat
Stockholm - Freedom of speech is under threat worldwide Italian author Roberto Saviano and British...
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Dalai Lama "disappointed" by Sarkozy, no Paris visit
Paris - Exiled Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama will not attend a planned meeting of Nobel...
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Nobel Peace laureate Ahtisaari deplores Middle East deadlock
Stockholm - Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's former president and winner of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize,...
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Merkel Wants Cooperation with China over Financial Crisis
Beijing - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said her country wanted to cooperate with...
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It's All Smiles again for Mr Brown,British PM Wins in Crisis
London- Gordon Brown is on a roll. No more gloomy poll news for the fingernail-chewing British...
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Adiga wins Booker for tale of two Indias
Washington - Nothing prepares you for Aravind Adiga's India - a deep, oozing, festering sore that...
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American Literature – Eliminated A Priori From the Nobel Run?
For years, Americans have been complaining that the Swedish
Academy is turning a blind eye to...
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Selection of peace candidates a tricky matter
Oslo - The selection of a Nobel peace laureate often generates controversy and questions as to why...
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Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Wins Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to French writer
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, renowned...
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The 2008 Nobel For Physics Shared By Three Reseachers
The Nobel committee offered the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics
to two Japanese scientists and a...
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Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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Alternative Nobel Prize to Peace Work, Social Justice
Stockholm - Winners from Germany, India, Somalia and the United States were cited Wednesday for...
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Gorbachev to start political party with Russian billionaire Lebedev
Moscow - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is planning the launch of new Russian political...
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Google Rewards Show-Stopping Ideas With $10 Million
Internet superpower Google decides to again give back to the
community. Their newest project is an...
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Music
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Peter Gabriel and Venezuelan conductor Abreu win Polar Music Prize
Stockholm - British pop musician Peter Gabriel was Tuesday named co-winner of the Polar Music Prize...
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Billy Elliot nabs 15 Tony nominations, ties record
New York - The British play Billy Elliot, about a coal-miner's son with a passion for ballet,...
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Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” Claims No. 1 Spot on Album Chart
Throughout a week that covered the Grammy increases, as well as Valentine’s Day sales,...
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M.I.A. Has a Boy
M.I.A gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday. The news came on the singer’s My Space celebrity...
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Jennifer Hudson Was a Winner at Sunday Night’s Grammys
Jennifer Hudson did her best to attend the Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday night and her effort...
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Grammy Night Belonged to Krauss and Plant
The 51st annual Grammy Awards ceremony was led by a legendary rock artist who won peoples’...
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Artists Getting Ready for the Grammy Honors
For the Grammy Awards on Sunday, it seems that former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and Alison...
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“Shrek the Musical” Opens On Broadway
Being green is far from being easy. However, when true love is
brought into play, it offers even...
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Lil Wayne Collects Eight Grammy Nominations, Tops Contenders List
Following the outstanding success of his third album, “Tha Carter III,” rapper Lil Wayne is close...
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Lil Wayne Gets Most Grammy Nominations
Lil Wayne's name came up a lot on Wednesday night when the nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy...
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Lil Wayne, Coldplay Top Grammy Contenders List
This year’s Grammy nominees are far from being the annual
award ceremony’s usual contenders, as...
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Kanye West’s New Album More Introspective Than Ever
He has just won the first couple of American Music Awards of
his career, including the prize for...
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Chris Brown Is Top Winner At Sunday’s AMAs
He may be only 19, but he is surely aware of the true
meaning of success. R&B singer Chris...
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Kenny Chesney Wins CMA Top Award… Again
Although he had been nominated in seven categories and won
only one Country Music Association...
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Kenny Chesney Owns CMAs, Again, Shania Surprises
Country star Kenny Chesney received the Country Music
Association’s top honor Wednesday night,...
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South African Singer Miriam Makeba Dies Aged 76
Miriam Makeba, the Grammy Award-winning South African folk
singer also known as “Mama Afrika,”...
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US actress Scarlett Johansson to host Nobel Peace concert
Oslo - US actress Scarlett Johansson was Tuesday named as one of the hosts of the upcoming Nobel...
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Last Night Was the Official Britney Night
Ever since she met K- Fed, her whole life and career went downhill for Britney and after that...
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Kanye West, Christina Aguilera and T.I. Join Britney on VMA List
Although this year’s MTV Video Music Awards are just one
step away from starting the ball rolling,...
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Library of Congress Chose Stevie Wonder as Its Gershwin Prize Winner
Stevie Wonder would better tidy up his award shelves. He was
named on Tuesday the winner of the...
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London Celebrates Nelson Mandela with Anniversary Concert
The 46664 concert in London celebrated both Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday and 20 years from the...
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Leona Lewis Smashes The Billboard Top 200
"X-Factor" winner Leona Lewis became the first British female artist to debut at No. 1 in...
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American Idol: Another Beatles Night
Kristy Lee Cook should be already packing her bags, but we'll have to wait and see the results! It...
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Brooke White Leads Girls' Performances on American Idol
Tuesday, the top 10 guys on American Idol performed: David Archuleta, Robbie Carrico, Jason Castro,...
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Oscar Peterson, Jazz Legend Dies at 82
Oscar Peterson, Internationally renowned Canadian jazz pianist and trumpet player died at age 82,...
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Patti LaBelle and Michael Bolton Star in NBC Charity Show
NBC reality show “Clash of the Choirs” airs Monday with big
names in the music industry; among...
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Juan Luis Guerra Top Winner At Latin Grammy Awards
The singer-songwriter from the Dominican Republic bagged no less than five trophies during last...
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Rapper TI Arrested Hours Before BET Hip-Hop Awards
The US
famous rapper TI was arrested on Saturday by the agents of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco,...
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Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys Vie for Mercury Prize
The contenders for this year’s Mercury Music Prizes have been announced and among them are...
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Technology
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YouTube Unveils Movies, TV Shows Section
YouTube, the Google-owned highly popular video site, on Thursday unveiled the fact that it added TV...
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NASA Promotes A Brilliant University – Singularity University
Starting this summer, the world’s leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will...
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“Singularity University” Kicks Off in Silicon Valley
Futurologist Ray Kurzweil has teamed up with space promoter Peter Diamandis and Google to set up...
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Visionary Scientists and Tech Leaders Launch Singularity University
NASA, Google, and entrepreneurs Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis announced the launch of a new...
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Obama’s League of Extraordinarily Green Gentlemen
The hopes and dreams of pro-environment partisans all over America and the world are much closer to...
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CNN Boosts Audience With Hologram Technology
In order to explain polls and other election events, the Cable News Network (CNN) used holograms....
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Artificial Intelligence Entity Fools People Into Thinking It’s Human
Have we crossed the boundaries between humans and machines? This
is the question one might ask...
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The Value of 243,112,609 - 1 in Cash
Mathematics is regarded as a pure science, working with pure
concepts, concepts that outside...
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Google Offers $10 M for World's Best Ideas
Google promised to offer 10 million dollars as prize money
in a competition designed to transform...
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Apple CEO’s Untimely Obituary Published
Wednesday afternoon, Bloomberg Magazine released an obituary
of Steve Jobs, Apple’s Chief...
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Branson’s Virgin Presented the White Knight
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by British entrepreneur
and adventurer Richard...
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Being A Loyal Microsoft Search Shopper Pays Off
How desperate is Microsoft to
steal a piece of Google and Yahoo’s share of loyal searchers? Pretty...
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NYC Auto Show Unveils $10 M Competition For Cars Of The Future
How will the cars of the future
look like? We can’t tell yet, but 60 teams have already lined up...
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Over 30,000 Prizes Awarded To Office Live Workspace Beta Testers
You would think that Microsoft’s
initiative on Monday to open up the beta testing to the wide...
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Google Co-Founder Says "Microhoo" is "Unnerving"
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin said after an event at the Mountain View-based company's...
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Three Robots Cross DARPA Urban Challenge Finish Line
Three robotic cars have crossed the DARPA Urban Challenge finish line in the allotted time. The...
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Hitachi Announces 4TB Disk Drives through New Head Technology
Hitachi Ltd. announced that its hard drive division is going to push way past today's storage...
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IBM Opens New Doors to Quantum Computing
IBM is once again in the avant-garde of technological breakthroughs: its engineers have recently...
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Fake Steve Jobs Blogger Busted
The author behind the satyrical Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) blog postings has been discovered by a New...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Searching for New Talents
Once John Doe, then a star! Many
of us have asked ourselves how filmmakers found their cast...
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Movies
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Monsters versus Aliens wins box office sweep
Washington - The animated Monsters vs Aliens took the US weekend box office prize, bringing in an...
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“Slumdog Millionaire” Grabs Eight Oscars, Including Best Picture
As expected, last night’s Academy Awards ceremony marked an unwritten union between Hollywood...
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Heath Ledger Becomes Second Actor to Win Posthumous Oscar
Even before “The Dark Knight” hit theatres last summer, Hollywood showbiz figures...
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“The Wrestler” Wins Best Picture at Spirit Awards
“The Wrestler,” a film which has already collected numerous significant awards, was...
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Quick Debate On This Year’s Oscar Movies
The Oscar hysteria is growing as the greatest movie event of the year is on the verge of beginning...
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And the Oscar Goes to…
The Oscar telecast used to be the only place you could see a movie star on TV - for free.
The...
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Matilda Ledger Will Own Father’s Oscar If He Wins
The three-year-old daughter of late Australian actor Heath Ledger, who has been nominated for an...
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“Slumdog” Gets All Awards
Let’s face it: “Slumdog Millionaire” had an unbelievable success. The Oscar...
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‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Bags More Awards Ahead Of the Oscar Night
While anticipation builds up ahead of this weekend’s Academy Awards, “Slumdog...
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“Slumdog Millionaire” Wins Big at BAFTAs
“Slumdog Millionaire” added to its escalating awards-season poll on Sunday seven awards...
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Lincoln’s 200th Birthday, an Occasion to Re-Examine Abe the Man and the Myth
The Abraham Lincoln bicentennial on February 12, the birth date of one of America’s most...
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“Milk,” “Slumdog Millionaire” Take Over the WGA Awards
Saturday, Academy Awards nominees “Milk” and “Slumdog Millionaire”...
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'Milk,' 'Slumdog Millionaire' Shine at Writers Guild Awards
As expected, "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire" were the stars yesterday at the...
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All the Awards Go to “Kung Fu Panda”
The DreamWorks Animation movie, "Kung Fu Panda" dominated the Annie awards ceremony, held...
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Another Honor for “Slumdog Millionaire”
On Saturday night, Danny Boyle won the top honor from the Directors Guild of America, by being...
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‘Push’ Scores Big Win at Sundance Film Festival
"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire" was the star of the ceremony as it won three...
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Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” Wins Top Producer Award
Danny Boyle's “Slumdog Millionaire” has won the top prize at the Producers Guild of...
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“Slumdog Millionaire” Makes Great Debut in India
Slumdog Millionaire, the Mumbai-based movie nominated for 10 Oscars including best film, has...
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Heath Ledger Nominated for Oscar
In a twist of a cruel fate the late Heath Ledger won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his...
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Mike Myers And Paris Hilton Lead The Razzie Awards In Nominations
The annual Razzie Awards announced its nominees earlier today, with Mike Myers’ The Guru...
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Mickey Rourke And Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler”
In spite of the fact that we all know pro wrestling is simulated and that, generally speaking,...
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Sundance Film Festival Seeks for Good Movies
The Utah/U.S. Film Festival was the name which the Sundance Film Festival had back in 1989, when...
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"Slumdog Millionaire” Sent a Lot of Enthusiasm Back to India
„Slumdog Millionaire” went home to India with four Golden Globes, including the one for...
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Slumdog, Globes’ Favorite
Last year, the usually glamorous Golden Globe ceremonies were suspended, and the red carpet event...
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“Slumdog Millionaire” Tops the Golden Globe Awards Winners’ List
Sunday, when the Golden Globe Awards were presented, Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog...
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Slam Dunk for "Slumdog Millionaire" at Golden Globe Awards
There were several winners at this year’s edition of the Golden Globe. Among them, there were...
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The Golden Globes Honors
“Slumdog Millionaire” dominated the night for movies, winning best original score, best...
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Slumdog Millionaire shines as Oscar favourite after Globes win
Los Angeles - The Mumbai-based drama Slumdog Millionaire emerged as the favourite...
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PETA Too Sexy for the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is known to have the most expensive, the most creative and the sexiest commercials....
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New Steps Towards Rechargable Cars
Toyota’s President Katsuaki Watanabe revealed that the Japanese automaker is planning to develop a...
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Penguin Wins Back Publishing Rights on J. Steinbeck’s Works
A Manhattan federal appeals court reversed a ruling which had previously granted John Steinbeck’s...
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comScore: Microsoft's Search Evolution - June Brings 15% More
It's too early to say whether it was Live Cashback that did wonders for Microsoft's search ranking...
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Getty And Flickr Team Up At Last
Getty Images will now have a whole new photo archive to choose
from, as the agency recently signed...
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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin To Fly In Space
Space Adventures, the US company that offers space trips
for the millionaires and billionaires,...
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Yahoo Files Lawsuit against Unknown Spammers
Yahoo filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of spammers on May 16. According to the company, the...
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News Corp. Cancels $580M Bid for Newsday
News Corp decided that it doesn't make sense to meet or exceed a competing bid for Tribune Co.'s...
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News Corp, Murdoch Drop Bid for Newsday
When Rupert Murdoch said he isn’t investing in newspapers anymore he really meant it.The media...
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PETA Offers $1M for Perfect Fake Meat
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has announced that it offers a $1 million prize...
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Societe Generale under ‘Shock’ after the Century’s Biggest Hit
Societe Generale SA on Sunday accused trader Jerome Kerviel, 31of losing 4.9 billion euros ($7.2...
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SpaceShipTwo To Offer The Ultimate Travel Adventure
For all the travel maniacs out
there, the ultimate trip is coming your way. The SpaceShipTwo...
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Wolfowitz Out, Blair Could Be In
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz announced his
resignation Thursday, effective June 30, a World...
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People
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Nottage only second black woman to win Pulitzer for drama
New York - Black women always play central roles in the plays of US playwright Lynn Nottage.
In...
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‘Slumdog’ Child Actors Get Homes from Mumbai Government
Following the Oscar success of “Slumdog Millionaire,” Indian authorities will repay the...
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Heath Ledger Wins an Oscar Posthumously
Sunday night, late actor Heath Ledger became the second person to receive a posthumous...
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Rapper M.I.A. Is Mother to a Baby Boy
Saturday, rapper M.I.A announced on her MySpace blog that she had given birth to a baby...
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MIA Delivers A Baby Boy
Grammy- and Oscar-nominated rapper M.I.A has announced on her MySpace blog that she had...
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Nick Cannon Thinks “America’s Got Talent”
Nick Cannon is taking over America’s talent.
The 28-year-old musician and actor will serve...
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John Updike Never to be Forgotten
John Updike, the prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning author for fiction novels capturing the mood and...
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John Updike Passed Away
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction novels capturing the mood and emotions...
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Fellow Writers Remember Late US Novelist John Updike
Tributes to Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who died Tuesday after losing the battle with lung...
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer John Updike Died at 76
John Updike filed the literature with poetry, novels, short stories and literary criticism works....
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The World Is Facing a Great Loss: John Updike
John Updike’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, announced that Updike, who lived in Beverly Farms,...
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Heath Ledger’s Daughter Matilda To Keep His Golden Globe Award
She may be a little too young to know what exactly a Golden Globe Award means, but the 3-year-old...
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The Most Popular Hollywood Stars Were Awarded According to That
"The Dark Knight" swiped off all the awards it was nominated for Wednesday at the 35th...
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The 35th People's Choice Awards With Queen Latifah
It’s the award collecting season in Hollywood! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association...
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Actor Sam Shepard Charged With Drunk Driving In Illinois
Famous actor, playwright and director of both stage and screen, Sam Shepard, was pulled over by...
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Sam Shepard Charged With Speeding And Drunken Driving
Sam Shepard was arrested early on Saturday in central Illinois and was charged with speeding...
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Famous Actor Sam Shepard Arrested in Normal
Police in Normal, Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested Saturday at about...
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Sam Shepard Got Arrested for Speed and Drunken Driving
Sam Shepard, the famous actor and playwright, was caught by the police on Saturday in central...
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Nobel Prize Laureate Harold Pinter Died on Christmas’ Eve
Harold Pinter lived his life through literature’s most important fields. Born in 1930, Pinter...
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Harold Pinter, a Playwright Who Really Made a Difference, Died on Christmas Eve
Harold Pinter’s wife announced the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s death after a long...
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It’s All about Etiquette in the Scandal Involving Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne is being investigated by the Los Angeles police for minor battery after Megan...
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Kanye West’s “808s & Heartbreak" More Introspective Than Ever
He has just won the first couple of American Music Awards of
his career, including the prize for...
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Kenny Chesney Owns CMAs For The Fourth Time, Shania Surprises
Country star Kenny Chesney received the Country Music
Association’s top honor Wednesday night,...
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Studs Terkel Passes Away At 96
Louis “Studs” Terkel was born in 1912, in New York, in a Russian Jewish family. When Studs was...
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Writer, Activist, Chicago Radio Personality Studs Terkel Dies at 96
Prize-winning author and radio broadcast personality Studs Terkel, the man who captured the essence...
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Actor Michael Caine to Co-Host Nobel Peace Concert
Oslo - British actor Michael Caine is to co-host the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Concert along with...
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Nick Nolte’s Home On Fire, But Actor Manages To Escape
Nick Nolte found himself under fire on Tuesday and this time
the actor wasn’t on the film set. The...
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Czech Former President Havel Awarded Germany's Point Alpha Prize
Prague - Czech author and former president Vaclav Havel was Tuesday awarded Germany's Point Alpha...
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Christina Applegate’s Life Lessons
Celebrities certainly are great role models in some cases.
Attending the first award ceremony...
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Dan Gheesling, High School Teacher, Wins 10th Season of Big Brother
Dan Gheesling, a 25-year-old Catholic high school teacher
from Dearborn, Mich., has become the...
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