Bollywood multiplex ‘strike’ boosts DVD market
A boycott of multiplex cinemas by Bollywood producers has entered its second month, with no end in sight to the standoff over shares in box office takings. But as audiences dwindle to a trickle and with no new films being released, one section of India’s entertainment industry is taking full advantage-... 
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Farrah Fawcett to air video diary of cancer battle
Actress Farrah Fawcett is going public with her two-and-a-half year battle with anal cancer, telling the story her way through a video diary to be broadcast on US television.
The former ‘Charlie’s Angels’ star chronicles her private struggles and her treatments in ‘Farrah’s Story’. “I’ve never...
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‘Billy Elliot’ leads race for top US theatre honours
‘Billy Elliot, The Musical’ led the race for US theatre’s top honours with 15 Tony Award nominations, while Geoffrey Rush, Angela Lansbury, James Gandolfini and Jane Fonda were among the actors up for honors. The Tony Awards winners, voted by about 750 industry professionals, will be announced on June...
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Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes
New York: Actors Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes attend the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. ap
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Wings in the fire
Skopje: Members from Bulgarian theatre group ‘Temp’ perform ‘Wings in the fire’ during the International Theatre Festival. afp
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Famed Nefertiti bust a fake: Swiss art historian
The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians, according to Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin.
Stierlin, author of a dozen works on Egypt, the Middle East...
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Family’s ‘boiling hot’ floor
An Italian family fear their house could be haunted after the floors mysteriously got so hot they began to ‘boil.’ It happened on Sicily which is home to the almost constantly erupting Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Italian experts say there were no scientific reasons for the...
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Language lover on quest to save ‘Chinglish’
Oliver Radtke says he first discovered the odd and wonderful world of Chinglish in 2000 in a Shanghai cab, where he saw a curious sign reading, ‘Don’t forget to carry your thing.’
Nine years later, the German multimedia producer has written two popular books on the subject, and is working hard...
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Model displays sapphires and diamonds bracelet, necklace and earrings made by Harry Winston
Geneva: A model displays sapphires and diamonds bracelet, necklace and earrings made by Harry Winston during an auction preview at Sotheby’s. reuters
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German court shoots down triple-barrelled names
A German married couple, the Thalheim-Kunz-Hallsteins, lost a battle before the country’s top court to defend the use of triple-barrelled names. The plaintiff, a woman born Frieda Thalheim, had argued that a law passed in 1993 to ban couples from stringing more than two family names together violated...
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British charity worker wins ‘world’s best job’ in Australia
A British charity worker has won ‘the best job in the world’ as caretaker of a tropical island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after an unprecedented global search. Ben Southall will spend six months swimming, snorkelling and sailing around the tourist paradise of Hamilton Island, earning $150,000...
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