Duplicity Paris: Actress Julia Roberts (L) and British actor Clive Owen arrive for the premiere of ‘Duplicity’ by US director Tony Gilroy. reuters

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Three charged with supplying drugs to Anna Nicole Smith
The late Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend and two doctors have been charged with illegally providing the ex-Playboy model with addictive prescription drugs, two years after she died of an overdose.
California’s attorney general on Thursday said that Smith’s boyfriend and attorney Howard K Stern...

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Jennifer and John end relationship
Actress Jennifer Aniston and musician John Mayer have ended their relationship for a second time, weeks after a high-profile date at the Oscars ceremony fueled rumours of marriage, People Magazine reported Thursday. “They had some disagreements and decided to not continue to see each other,” according...

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Los abrazos rotos’ (Broken Embraces) Madrid: Actresses Penelope Cruz (L) and Blanca Portillo (R) pose with Spanish director Pedro Almodovar (L) during a photocall to present Almodovar’s new film ‘Los abrazos rotos’ (Broken Embraces). afp

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Creations by Japanese fashion designer Toshikazu Iwaya Paris: Models present creations by Japanese fashion designer Toshikazu Iwaya for fashion house Iwaya For Dress 33 as part of his Fall-Winter 2009-2010 ready-to-wear collection. ap

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www.20yearsold — World Wide Web feels its growing pains
The World Wide Web (www) on Friday marked its 20th anniversary and one of its founders admitted there are bits of the phenomenon he does not like.
The creation of the web by British computer software genius Tim Berners-Lee and other scientists at the European particle physics laboratory (CERN)...

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Cuppa tastes better from favourite mug
A psychologist says tea and coffee really do taste better from your favourite cup or mug. Dr Tom Stafford, of Sheffield University, says our brains are trained to believe the daily ritual of making coffee or tea should be done in a certain way. “Drinking tea and coffee is very ritualistic and people...

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29th Paris’ Book Fair Paris: A man visits the Mexican stall during the 29th Paris’ Book Fair, where the special guest this year is Mexico. From Alfonso Reyes to Octavio Paz (1914-1998), winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. afp

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Google programme turns voicemail into email
Internet search giant Google on Thursday expanded its push into the telephone market, offering a service that provides a single number for home, work and cell phones and turns voicemail into email.
Google Voice automatically transcribes voicemail messages into email or SMS text messages and provides...

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100 — on 30 bars of choc a week
A Devon woman who eats 30 bars of chocolate a week has just celebrated her 100th birthday. Peggy Griffiths, of Abbotsham, has scoffed an estimated 70,000 Cadbury’s Dairy Milk bars in her time. Her lifetime chocolate consumption has been estimated at an incredible four tonnes, reports The Sun. Peggy...

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Driver wakes up in coffin
A Croatian motorist who crashed through an undertakers’ window woke up to find himself in an open coffin. Radoslav Pokrajac, 30, was thrown from the car through an open window and sailed through the air before landing in a display of the funeral director’s special offers in Sibinj. “He was very frightened,”...

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Hen adopts puppies
A hen in China has reportedly adopted two orphaned puppy dogs after their mother died. Owner Cao Fengying, of Majiaqiao village, Jiashan town, says the hen was best friends with the puppy’s mother. But the dog was poisoned just ten days after giving birth to puppies, reports Today Morning. Cao said:...

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