Marion Cotillard Los Angeles: French actress Marion Cotillard arrives at the Los Angeles Film Festival for the premiere of ‘Public Enemies’. afp

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Sarah Jessica Parker has twins via surrogate
‘Sex and the City’ actress Sarah Jessica Parker and her actor husband Matthew Broderick had twin daughters via a surrogate mother, the couple’s publicists said. Parker, 44, and Broderick, 47, who already have a six-year-old son said their daughters - named Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge - were...

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annual religious festival ALIAGA: Devotees, locally known as children of mud with their bodies covered in mud and doning banana leaves, light candles during a religious festival north of Luzon in Philippines. Hundreds of devotees marking the feast of St John the Baptist attended the annual religious festival. afp

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Oldest instrument ever found
Stone Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone with their teeth but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known. Found in the Ach Valley of southern Germany, the nearly intact five-hole flute was meticulously carved...

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Milan designers show colourful man for spring
From soft suits to sporty leisure wear, designers at Milan’s fashion week sought more to reassure rather than provoke with easy, familiar styles and vibrant colours for men next spring.
The trend at the spring/summer 2010 menswear shows - which ended on Tuesday - was for a mix of tailoring and...

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The Pink Panther 2 Los Angeles: The Pink Panther character poses outside Pinks Hot Dog stall to promote the release of the film ‘The Pink Panther 2’ to DVD and Blu-ray. afp

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Teacher loses against pupils’ web rankings
A German teacher who had sued to shut down a website where pupils rank their instructors according to competence and ‘coolness’ lost her battle in court. The Federal Supreme Court, Germany’s top civil tribunal, rejected the claim of the teacher, Astrid Czubayko-Reiss, that her right to privacy was violated...

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Bangladesh soap opera aims to help farmers
The creators of a new television soap opera in Bangladesh said they were hoping the show will teach farmers in one of the world’s poorest nations new tricks to boost their income. The Dhaka branch of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has produced the eight-episode drama, which will air...

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Pre-Raphaelites in comeback with new London show
Victorian art is making a comeback in London this summer with a major exhibition, and the biggest retrospective to date, of works by John William Waterhouse, who died in 1917. The exhibition at the Royal Academy, which runs from June 27 to September 13, is seen by critics as the latest step in a broader...

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