Judge allows Jackson auction to proceed
A judge on Friday denied Michael Jackson’s attempt to rescue his Neverland Ranch possessions from an auction that will include memorabilia from the height of his 1980s popularity, but the pop star will get another hearing before the sale happens. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brett Klein ruled in... 
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Premiere of the ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’
California: Actress Anna Maria Perez de Tagle arrives at the world premiere of the ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’ at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. afp
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Reality TV star Jade Goody buried
The funeral of British reality television star Jade Goody, who died of cervical cancer last month, took place Saturday with as much flamboyance to mark her death as she showed in life. Goody died on March 22 aged 27. She lived her whole adult life in the media spotlight after finishing fourth in the...
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Charlotte Ronson and JCPenney party
Los Angeles: Kim Kardashian arrives at the Charlotte Ronson and JCPenney party. ap
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McCartney says meditation helped stabilize Beatles
The surviving members of the Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, will perform at a concert to raise funds to help children learn a meditation technique McCartney said helped stabilize the band at the height of its fame. McCartney and Starr will perform separate sets at the “Change Begins Within”...
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Anti-Chris Brown song wins radio play
A song criticizing Chris Brown is getting air play. The song is called “My Flow So Tight” by a little-known hip-hop group called Smoke Jumpers. It features the repeated line: “Chris Brown should get his ass kicked.” A Web site for the group hyped the song as “the official Chris Brown dis record.” Radio...
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Bollywood producers go on strike over box office takings
Bollywood film producers went on strike Saturday, refusing to release new movies because of a row with multiplex cinema owners over box office takings.The producers are standing firm until big cinema chains across the country agree to equal revenue sharing in line with practices in other countries.But...
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Iraq plans to open Saddam museum
Iraq plans to open a museum filled with weapons, statues, paintings, furniture and artefacts that belonged to the nation’s toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, officials told AFP.The items collected and catalogued in the six years since the US-led invasion are being handed back to the Iraqi government,...
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Paper mache pandas
FRANCE : A girl plays with paper mache pandas as 1,600 have been set up by members of World Wildlife Fund. afp
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Google in talks to take over Twitter
US Internet giant Google is in negotiations to acquire micro-blogging sensation Twitter for over 250 million dollars, technology blog TechCrunch reported. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, TechCrunch said Google would be making an offer below the 500 million dollars Facebook proposed to Twitter...
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Painting 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony'
Paris: A visitor looks at a Joos van Craesbeeck (1605-1662) oil on canvas ‘La Tentation de Saint-Antoine’ (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) (around 1650) at the Grand Palais during the exhibition ‘Une Image peut en cacher une autre’ (An image can hide another one. The exhibition, which takes place...
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Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste
Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing. Skip related content. “We don’t know if he had bad teeth,” a police spokeswoman in Rostock said .” Noticing his bulging jacket, a store worker grabbed the...
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Exam cheaters jailed on state secret charges
Eight Chinese who used high-tech communications equipment, including mobile phones and wireless earpieces, to help their children cheat at university entrance exams have been jailed on state secret charges, local media said.The eight, from the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang, got together in 2007...
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Man crashes motorised bar stool
A US man has been arrested and charged with drink driving after he crashed a motorised bar stool. The 28-year-old man invented and created the bar stool which he says can reach speeds of 38mph, reports the Newark Advocate.Police reports said he rolled the Frankenstein-esque lawnmower and bar stool combination...
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BBC fined over lewd phone call scandal
Britain’s media regulator fined the BBC 150,000 pounds (220,000 dollars) on Friday for lewd phone calls made by its highest-paid presenter Jonathan Ross to a veteran actor. The broadcaster suspended Ross for 12 weeks without pay over the calls last November, in which he and comedian Russell Brand left...
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Artist hails Cuba by turning village into artwork
From his second-story studio, Cuban artist Jose Fuster looks out over what he has wrought in the seaside village of Jaimanitas and, with a big smile, says, “I am completely crazy.” Below, wildly colorful mosaics and large, fanciful sculptures cover his home and fill his yard in an explosion of art that...
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