Miss Brazil 2009 BRAZIL: Newly crowned ‘Miss Brazil 2009’ Larissa Costa of Rio Grande do Norte state smiles after receiving the crown during the official crowning ceremony at the Latin America Memorial. afp

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Jennifer Lopez CALIFORNIA: Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez speaks at the Noche De Ninos benefit gala. ap

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Credit crunch dulls glitz of Cannes festival
The stars will still turn up and the movie line-up looks good, but the tone of the Cannes film festival will be more black and white than technicolor in 2009. The credit crunch means Hollywood studios are tightening their belts and conspicuous consumption is temporarily out of fashion. Deal making will...

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35 million photos mapped
Cornell University scientists announced that they downloaded and mapped nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the world.
The scientists used a supercomputer at the Cornell Centre for Advanced Computing (CAC) in Ithaca, New York to analyze and map...

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Malaysia to probe ‘nude run’ TV reality show
Malaysian authorities are investigating claims that an island in the Muslim-majority country was used as a location shoot for a ‘nude run’ on a European reality show, a report said Saturday. Photographs of a group of men and women running naked on a beach allegedly taken from an episode of Survivor...

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Archaeologists find remains of ‘Mayan king’
Honduran researchers believe they have uncovered the remains of one of the first kings of Central America’s Mayan civilization. Archaeologists working at Copan — a major site for Mayan civilization culture — believe they have found bones belonging to one of 16 Mayan kings. “We have found skeleton in...

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Creation by Moroccan designer Noureddine Amir Casablanca: A model displays a creation by Moroccan designer Noureddine Amir during the Festimode Fashion Show. reuters

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