Evan Rachel Wood
Beverly Hills: Actress Evan Rachel Wood arrives at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s installation luncheon held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. afp
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China ‘regrets’ WTO order on films and music, may appeal
China said it ‘regretted’ a World Trade Organisation decision ordering it to ease some of its curbs on foreign films, music and print, warning that it might appeal. The decision from the WTO settlement dispute panel said China was breaching international trade rules by blocking foreign-owned companies... 
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Michael Douglas ‘devastated’ by drug charges against son
US actor Michael Douglas said his family was ‘devastated’ by the arrest of his son, Cameron, accused by authorities of selling large amounts of methamphetamine. “The family is very disappointed in Cameron’s recent behaviour,” Douglas and his ex-wife Diandra said in their first reaction to their son’s...
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Award-winner Mamet to direct Disney ‘Anne Frank’ remake
Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet will direct a movie based on ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ for Disney, the Hollywood trade magazine Variety reported. The film will be based on the diary of a teenage Jewish girl written while her family hid from Nazi police and sympathisers in an Amsterdam...
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Stallone to be honoured at Venice Film Festival
US actor and film director Sylvester Stallone will receive a top prize at next month’s Venice Film Festival, organisers said. The “Glory to the Filmmaker” award will honour a “very original filmmaker” whose films are “capable of tenderness even when dripping with blood,” the festival organisers said...
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Miss Slovak Republic Denisa Mendrejova
Nassau: Miss Slovak Republic Denisa Mendrejova poses during a fashion show event at the Miss Universe 2009 competition. ap
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Foreign porn producers sue South Korean Internet users
Foreign pornography producers are suing South Korean Internet users for breach of copyright by uploading their content onto local websites, police said. In an unusual case, a local law firm representing 50 US and Japanese porn producers has filed suit against about 10,000 heavy uploaders. The lawsuit...
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College e-textbooks go to class in iPhones
US and Canadian college students can pack textbooks into their pockets instead of spine-bending backpacks courtesy of an iPhone application released by CourseSmart. The northern California supplier of electronic textbooks released free software that makes digitised forms of college textbooks available...
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Women pickier than men about one-night stands
Women are far more choosy about casual sex than men, who don’t specially care whether a woman is moderately or exceptionally attractive as long as she hops into bed, new research says. But German men are pickier than Americans and Italians - in that order - about who they spend a night in bed with,...
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Butter deployed in battle against burglars
Residential property managers in northern China have turned to butter in their battle against burglars as a cheap alternative to repairing their broken surveillance system. They smeared 100 kilogrammes of butter on the gas pipelines that run outside the buildings on the Mingdemen estate in the city...
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Olympic cyclist fined for dawdling
An Olympic cyclist has been fined £60 by police in Croatia - for pedalling too slow. London 2012 medal hopeful Robert Kiserlovski was accused of holding up traffic during a training run in Bakrac.He and training partner Bojan Rafaj were pulled over by police who told them they were committing a traffic...
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‘Lucky’ tattooed fish
Pet shops in a city in southwest China are offering fish tattooed with patterns and lucky characters intended to bring their owners good fortune and happiness. The Qingshiqiao pet market in Chengdu sells a variety of ornamental ‘fortune fish’ decorated with flowers, rainbows and characters, the Huaxi...
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