Carlos Santana Mainz: Mexican singer Carlos Santana performs on stage during an open air concert. afp

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Two decades after ‘Achtung Baby’, U2 rocks Berlin
U2 rocked Berlin, returning to the German city where almost 20 years ago the Irish band came to reinvent themselves and make ‘Achtung Baby’, for many fans their best album. “Thank you for coming to our ‘grosser party’,” singer Bono told a crowd of 90,000 people during a two-hour set in the Olympic Stadium....

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BMW heiress in new sex video blackmail case
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of trying to blackmail Germany’s richest woman with footage of her steamy encounters with a con man known as the ‘Swiss Gigolo’, prosecutors said. BMW heiress Susanne Klatten “received a letter in mid-June demanding 800,000 euros and a BMW vehicle, while...

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Miss Coruna Estibaliz Pereira Rabade Mexico: Miss Coruna Estibaliz Pereira Rabade smiles after winning the ‘Miss Spain 2009’ beauty contest in the resort town of Cancun. reuters

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Amazon sends Orwell to ‘memory hole’
Amazon fended off accusations of ‘Big Brother’ like behavior after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers’ electronic book readers this week. Customers on Amazon’s web forums said copies of the British author’s dystopian classics ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ were mysteriously...

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Artpole Kiev: Women in ethnic costumes sing at an alternative ethnic visual art and world music open air festival ‘Artpole’ (Art field) on the bank of the river Southern Bug in Vorobiyivka village about 350km south-west from Kiev in Eastern Europe. reuters

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School scares pupils with alien stunt
A Sussex primary school has been accused of terrifying pupils after pretending a teacher had been abducted by aliens. The stunt by Southway Junior School in Burgess Hill was intended to promote creative writing skills, reports the Daily Mail. Head Diana Goss told pupils an alien craft had crashed near...

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