Michael Caine is not the retiring type
With more than 100 films under his belt and two Oscars nestling on his mantelpiece, Michael Caine could be forgiven for contemplating retirement after more than half a century on the silver screen.
Yet though the 76-year-old actor’s latest role sees him playing an aging magician struggling to... 
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Bruce Springsteen performs
Los Angeles: Bruce Springsteen performs with the E Street Band in a concert. ap
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YouTube global orchestra plays Carnegie Hall
A symphony orchestra composed of 96 musicians from 33 countries chosen online via YouTube won applause Wednesday in New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall. They ranged in age from 15 to 55 years old and came from as far as Australia, South Korea, Russia, Sweden, Israel and Cuba with the notable exception...
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Conde Nast Traveler hot list party
New York: Socialite Lydia Hearst attends the Conde Nast Traveler hot list party. ap
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South Korean city plays Cupid to boost birth rate
A wisecracking professional matchmaker breaks the ice as 40 people aged in their twenties and thirties gather at a hotel for a blind date.
Mass blind dates are common in South Korea but there’s something unusual about this event in Asan: the city government is the one playing Cupid.
“Matchmaking...
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Rally in West Bank
Jenin: A Palestinian school girl holds a balloon near a mural of the Israeli separation barrier during a rally in the West Bank town. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. ap
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Man bites python
A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday. Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast.
When...
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Council to leave potholes to calm traffic
An Essex parish council wants to leave potholes unrepaired - because they are the “original traffic calming measure”.The idea has infuriated residents in picturesque Navestock village who say it poses a danger to road users, reports the Daily Mail.
The parish council says it will not report potholes...
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Burger King to scrap ad after complaint
Fast food giant Burger King apologized Tuesday for an advertisement featuring a squat Mexican draped in his country’s flag next to a tall American cowboy and said it would change the campaign. Mexico’s ambassador to Spain said posters released in Europe for Burger King’s new Tex-Mex style “Texican whopper,”...
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