Inglourious Basterds Melbourne: German actress Diane Kruger poses on the red carpet at the Australian premiere of US filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s new film ‘Inglourious Basterds’ at the Melbourne International Film Festival. afp

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Shilpa dismisses temple complaint
Indian actress and reality television star Shilpa Shetty reacted furiously to allegations she was involved in a film shoot that breached protocol at a Hindu temple. Authorities at the Sakhigopal temple in Puri lodged a police complaint about the Bollywood star and her crew filming inside the sacred...

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New robots help humans cope with illness
Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world’s biggest annual gatherings of new technology enthusiasts.
Standing 58 centimetres tall and with a plastic shell for...

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Newly-discovered pieces by Mozart presented in Salzburg
Two newly discovered piano pieces, which scholars now say were almost certainly composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, were performed on Sunday in the composer’s birthplace of Salzburg.
The partitions, a four-minute concerto for piano and a one-minute prelude, were found in Mozart’s sister Nannerl’s...

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First International Salsa Festival Hanoi: Vietnamese salsa group BESAME perform during the first International Salsa Festival. Salsa has grown in popularity in Vietnam over the last few years. ap

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World Unity Jember: A model wearing a colourful outfit takes part in a fashion carnival in Indonesia. Around 400 participants took part in the carnival, where the theme this year was ‘World Unity’. afp

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Potter prank baffles police
A message that seems straight from the latest ‘Harry Potter’ movie was scrawled onto about 80 stop signs in a Milwaukee suburb, where just below the word “stop”, someone added Voldemort’s name. As if by magic, the vandalism first appeared on signs scattered across this town of 45,000 residents just...

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Austrian has Indiana Jones moment in Mongolia’s Gobi desert
Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an Indiana Jones film. For Austrian-born Michael Eisenriegler, it was a real-life adventure. The 40-year-old amateur archaeologist was in the Gobi over the weekend, helping to unearth Buddhist relics that had been buried...

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