Vidya Balan MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Vidya Balan poses for a picture during a sapling distribution drive. reuters

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SpongeBob turns 3.16227766-squared - or 10
This week the world will reach a cultural landmark - or maybe watermark is more appropriate - as a lovable if slightly annoying cartoon character who lives in a pineapple under the sea turns 10.
Yes, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ will be 10 on Friday and to kick-off festivities in his honour, VH1,...

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Peru unearths ancient remains
Peruvian archeologists have uncovered the remains of a woman from the pre-Inca Chimu culture who was sacrificed at the ancient Chan Chan citadel in the north of the country, scholar Arturo Paredes said on Tuesday. “The remains are of a woman who died during a sacrifice,” Paredes told AFP from the city...

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UK’s Royal Ballet dancers HAVANA: UK’s Royal Ballet dancers, Spain’s Tamara Rojo and Cuban-born Carlos Acosta, perform during the Royal Ballet rehearsal in Garcia Lorca theatre. afp

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Bastille Day celebrations Paris: Fireworks burst over the Eiffel Tower, 120 years old this year, during traditional Bastille Day celebrations. afp

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‘Tasks’ software is Gmail Labs first graduate
Google Labs brainchild Tasks graduated from the sandbox on Tuesday as the Internet giant seeks to entice computer users to switch from packaged software to programmes offered online as services. Tasks is the first Gmail Labs project to become a fixture in Google’s general free web-based email and will...

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US writer publishing novel a ‘tweet’ at a time
An American writer who failed to find a publisher for his novel is putting the book on Twitter - 140 characters at a time. Matt Stewart, a San Francisco-based novelist, began ‘tweeting’ his first book, ‘The French Revolution’, on the micro-blogging service on Tuesday - appropriately Bastille Day. “As...

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