Creation by designer Abed Mahfouz
London: A model presents a creation by designer Abed Mahfouz at the Arabian Fashion World. reuters
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Dickens’ home up for sale
The former seaside home of British writer Charles Dickens, where he wrote part of the novel “David Copperfield”, has gone on sale for two million pounds, an estate agent said Monday.
The cliffside house in Broadstairs, in the southern English county of Kent, was built in 1801 and has six bedrooms,... 
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Half of French approve of locking up bosses
Almost half of French people believe it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs to lock up their bosses, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday.
Staff at French plants run by Sony, 3M and Caterpillar have held managers inside the factories overnight, in three separate incidents,...
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Nigeria’s ex-president pursued for ‘naira abuse’
A Nigerian group is seeking the prosecution of former president Olusegun Obasanjo for “spraying currency on dancers” at his 70th birthday party, local media said Tuesday.
The Nation newspaper said the Human and Environmental Development Agenda has written to Nigeria’s attorney general accusing...
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Body Worlds
Haifa: A woman looks at bodies at the ‘Body Worlds’ exhibition, a traveling exhibition of preserved corpses, in the northern Israeli city. Exhibitions like ‘Body Worlds’ that opened in Haifa Monday, displaying Chinese cadavers whose bodily fluids have been replaced with plastic to show how the inner...
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Paris race track offering free dung to help planet
Paris race-goers are to get a free bag of horse-dung next weekend, but not any old poop, a bagful of champion trotters’ stuff.
In an operation titled “Champions’ Dung,” the Paris-Vincennes trotting track will be handing out “high-end, 100 percent natural, guaranteed non-genetically modified,...
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British government website links to Japanese porn
Britain’s interior ministry homepage mistakenly linked to a Japanese pornography website, a government spokesman said Monday.
The Home Office, which has since removed the link, was alerted to the issue by the BBC on Monday after a private Internet user informed the broadcaster. “It was a link...
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German DJ breaks world endurance record
A German DJ broke the world record for the longest continuous radio show Monday when he finished his “morning” programme over a week after beginning it, his station said. By presenting his show for a consecutive 169 hours, 26-year-old Dominik Schollmayer from Hit Radio Antenne in Hanover, central Germany,...
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‘Belly of Paris’ to get a makeover
Despite worries about the economic crisis, Paris city council on Monday approved a one-billion-dollar makeover for Les Halles, the former marketplace at the heart of the French capital.
The mammoth project to renovate the shopping complex, surrounding gardens and one of Europe’s busiest metro...
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Woman caught breastfeeding while driving
Police in Australia arrested a teenage mum - for breastfeeding while driving her car.
Just before she was pulled over in Alice Springs, the 19-year-old mum almost crashed into a police car, reports The Sun. She was so drunk she couldn’t give a breath test - and already banned from driving from...
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Plane takes off without pilot
An aircraft took off on its own when the pilot could not get into the cockpit in time after starting the propellor manually. Hundreds of visitors to an air show at Goodwood airfield watched in horror as the runaway biplane took off, soared into the air and then crashed into trees, reports the Daily...
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Astronaut to send Twitter updates
NASA, which used Twitter to send updates about the Mars Phoenix Lander program, is turning to the micro-blogging service again. The US space agency announced on Monday that astronaut Mike Massimino would be using Twitter to provide a behind-the-scenes look at his training for an upcoming space shuttle...
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115th birthday celebrated
The world’s oldest person celebrated her 115th birthday on Monday with music, cake and a letter of congratulation from US President Barack Obama. Gertrude Baines, who became the planet’s longest living human in January following the death of Portuguese woman, Maria de Jesus, also 115, marked her birthday...
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Skeleton found in tree after 29 years
The skeleton of a German retiree who tied himself to the top of a tree and shot himself to death nearly 30 years ago has been found by a hiker. German police in the southern town of Landshut said on Monday the 69-year-old man disappeared in 1980 and had been classified as missing. An 18-year-old hiker...
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Bollywood’s leading men unite in box office takings dispute
Bollywood’s two leading actors Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan on Tuesday called for an overhaul in the distribution of box office takings to end a stand-off between producers and multiplex owners.
Both men, rivals who have been locked in a personal battle for cinematic supremacy in recent years,...
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Singer Chris Brown denies Rihanna assault
R&B singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty on Monday to felony charges of allegedly attacking his pop-star girlfriend Rihanna earlier this year.
Brown, 19, spoke in a barely audible whisper to formally deny charges stemming from his alleged assault of Barbados-born ‘Umbrella’ singer Rihanna following...
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Hard-up Nicolas Cage sells German castle
The global recession has forced Hollywood star Nicolas Cage to tighten his purse strings and sell his sumptuous castle in Bavaria in southern Germany, the actor told a magazine Tuesday. “Due to the difficult economic situation, unfortunately, I was no longer able to keep it,” the 45-year-old told German...
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Star Trek
Sydney: Australian actor Eric Bana poses with his wife Rebecca at the world premiere of the movie ‘Star Trek’ at the Sydney Opera House. reuters
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‘Fast & Furious’ speeds to box office pole
Car chase movie ‘Fast & Furious’ left its box office rivals for dust at the weekend, speeding to pole position in North American theatres on its debut, final figures showed Monday.
Starring Vin Diesel, the car-centred action flick netted a whopping $71 million, placing it at number 28 on the...
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Hollywood warns Bollywood on ‘Benjamin Button’ remake
US studio Warner Bros on Monday put its Bollywood counterparts on notice that they would sue for breach of copyright if the hit film ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ was remade here. Advertisements were placed in the Times of India and trade magazines stating that Warner Bros is the joint author...
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