Inglourious Basterds NEW YORK: Actress Lindsay Lohan attends a Cinema Society screening of ‘Inglourious Basterds’. ap

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Unheard studio banter part of BBC ‘Beatles Week’
The BBC will air a documentary next month featuring hitherto unheard out-takes of conversation between the members of the Beatles at London’s Abbey Road recording studios. ‘Beatles Week’, to be aired on BBC2 and BBC4 from September 5, coincides with the September 9 release of the digitally-remastered...

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Jackson’s burial set for August 29: Dad
Michael Jackson’s father has said the ‘King of Pop’ will be buried at a Los Angeles cemetery on August 29, which would have been his 51st birthday, a newspaper reported. Joe Jackson told the New York Daily News that the plan was finalised in recent days. Media reports last week said Jackson was buried...

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In death, as in life, Jackson surrounded by wackiness
Michael Jackson’s outlandish life is being overshadowed in his death by events so preposterous they seem to come from a fiction writer’s overactive imagination. They include a petition to award him a Nobel peace prize; a growing list of people who claim to be the real parents of Jackson’s children;...

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Miss India Ekta Chowdhry Bahamas: Miss India Ekta Chowdhry poses on the runway in the evening gown segment of the 2009 Miss Universe Preliminary Competition. ap

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IBM sees future of microchips in DNA
IBM said it was looking to DNA ‘origami’ for a powerful new generation of ultra-tiny microchips. The US computer giant collaborated with California Institute of Technology researchers to develop a way to design microchips that mimic how chains of DNA molecules fold, allowing for processors far smaller...

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Court says Nazi slogan is legal in English
Nazis’ slogans banned in Germany may be legal if they are translated from German into English, one of the country’s highest courts has ruled. The Federal Court of Justice said it had rescinded a conviction against a man fined 4,200 euros for possessing 100 T-shirts due for sale emblazoned with the words...

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English Wikipedia hosts 3m article
The English version of user-generated online encylopedia Wikipedia hosted its three millionth article recently. Wikipedia announced the milestone on its homepage at en.wikipedia.org. “The English-language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 3,000,000 articles!” it said. Wikipedia said...

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Sleepless in Beirut, sin city of the Middle East
From nudist beach parties and wild bashes hosted by the likes of Paris Hilton, to gay clubs, gambling and showgirls, Beirut is rapidly earning a reputation as the sin city of the Middle East. Clubbers don’t bat an eye in popping $1,000 for a bottle of champagne to guarantee attention at a trendy nightspot,...

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