New ‘Mission’ sequel possible for Cruise
Tom Cruise is set to return in a fourth ‘Mission Impossible’ film, a move that had once seemed unlikely after the actor’s acrimonious 2006 split with Paramount, reports said. The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety reported that Cruise, 46, was being lined up to co-produce a new instalment about the... 
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A Father’s Day Salute to TV Dads
LOS ANGELES: Actor Frankie Muniz poses with girlfriend Elycia Marie as they arrive for ‘A Father’s Day Salute to TV Dads’, hosted by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. reuters
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Witherspoon prescribed ‘Pharm Girl’
Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon is to star in a new comedy about the pharmaceutical business ‘Pharm Girl’, entertainment industry reports said. The 33-year-old will play a woman who joins a pharmaceutical powerhouse only to see the industry’s underbelly as she rises through the company ranks. Witherspoon...
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Woody Allen wants French first lady to star in film
Woody Allen suggested that French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could star in one of his films, saying the former supermodel had the charisma to pull off an acting role. The US director was in Paris to promote his new film ‘Whatever Works’ and was asked what strong personality he would like to see...
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Music maestro Ali Akbar Khan dies at 88
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, best known for promoting classical Indian music in the West, died, the Press Trust of India reported. He was 87. Khan died at his music centre near San Francisco in the United States after a prolonged kidney ailment. The accomplished musician had played the sarod, a 25-stringed...
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Chubby people live longest: Japan study
Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longest.
People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average...
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Hunch: an online tool for making up minds
New online service Hunch wants to help people make up their minds about anything from dumping a boyfriend to choosing a car or getting a piercing.
Launched in March by Flickr co-founder Caterina Flake and a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates, Hunch.com uses machine learning...
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International Ballet Competition
MOSCOW: Ballet dancers warm-up during the International Ballet Competition at Bolshoi Theatre. reuters
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Cats and dogs meet up online in Colombia
Not satisfied with social networking sites for humans, a Colombian engineer has launched mypetbum.com, which aspires to become a Facebook for cats and dogs.
My Petbum users can search the site for other pets, get advice from veterinarians or schedule muzzle-to-muzzle or paw-to-paw outings.
“It’s...
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Google vows to fight porn in China after govt rebuke
Internet giant Google has promised to work harder to eliminate pornography from its Chinese Web pages as state media reported authorities had shut down some of its search services.
“Google has continually taken measures against vulgar content, particularly material that is harmful to children,...
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Brazilian fashion gets racy — and racial
Top model Gisele Bundchen and Madonna’s ‘toyboy’ Jesus Luz opened Brazil’s top fashion show this week, but the focus was just as much on race as the racy summerwear and celebrities on parade. For the first time, the Sao Paulo Fashion Week – Latin America’s pre-eminent fashion event – has imposed quotas...
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US teens using smart phones for cheating
A study released recently shows US teens are using smart phones and the Internet to cheat at school work or exams.
Slightly more than half of teens surveyed for a Common Sense Media poll admitted to using the Internet to cheat and more than a third of students with mobile telephones said they...
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British WWI veteran becomes world’s oldest man
British World War I veteran Henry Allingham was named Friday as the world’s oldest man after the death of the Japanese record holder – and his spokesman said he would “take it in his stride.” Guinness World Records said 113-year-old Allingham, who was born in Clapham, south London, on June 6 1896, took...
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Porn star bus driver faces the sack
A bus driver is facing the sack in Belgium after it emerged that she is a porn star. The driver, the reigning Miss Nude Belgium 2009, passed all her driving tests following a six week intensive course, reports The Sun. But the model, called Audrey, was ordered to choose a career after bus bosses spotted...
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Woman ordered to pay $1.92m in music piracy case
A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay nearly $2 million in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs over the Internet in a high-profile digital piracy case. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the Minnesota town of Brainerd, was found liable of violating music copyrights...
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Greece’s Acropolis Museum to open today
Greece’s Acropolis Museum will finally be unveiled today, an ultra-modern glass building at the foot of the ancient citadel originally intended to be open in time for the 2004 Olympics.
Designed by celebrated Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, it offers panoramic views of the stone citadel...
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