Penelope Cruz Berlin: Spanish actress Penelope Cruz signs autographs as she arrives at the German premiere of the film ‘Broken Embraces’. reuters

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Jackson’s mom gets custody, seeks say in estate
Michael Jackson’s 79-year-old mother was awarded custody of the singer’s three children and given more time to spell out objections to having two music executives administer his multi-million dollar estate. Judge Mitchell Beckloff officially admitted the pop singer’s 2002 will into probate court...

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Nintendo DSi users get to share pictures on Facebook
Nintendo said that it is updating DSi software to allow users to upload pictures from the camera-equipped handheld videogame devices to hot social-networking website Facebook.
The Facebook photo-sharing feature is to be live after 5:00 pm in California and usable with a free system update to...

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Prostitutes ‘more trustworthy’ than officials in China
Prostitutes are considered more trustworthy in China than government officials and scientists, a recent survey of more than 3,000 respondents showed. The online survey of 3,376 Chinese showed that 7.9 percent of respondents considered sex workers trustworthy, putting them in third place after farmers...

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Mirranda Kerr Sydney: Australian model Mirranda Kerr displays a creation from the Willow label during the David Jones fashion launch. afp

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Tot tipped as tennis champ
A Leicestershire toddler is being tipped as a future Wimbledon champion after learning to play tennis at the age of two. Jonah Ziff has already mastered forehands, backhands and the over-arm serve - even though he is still in nappies, reports the Daily Mail. The two-year-old takes lessons four times...

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Farmer’s home-made helicopter
A Chinese farmer with only a basic school education has made his own helicopter out of wood. Wu Zhongyuan, 20, of Luoyang, in central China’s Henan province, took nearly three months to complete his home-made aircraft. He says he used his memories of middle school physics lessons to make the machine...

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Esperanto is easy to learn, fans say
Fans of Esperanto, the artificial language devised in the late 19th century Poland by Ludwik Zamenhof, say it’s relatively fast and easy to learn, pronounce and use. Some 75 percent of Esperanto’s vocabulary comes from Latin and Romance languages, notably French, and around 20 percent from Germanic...

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