Oprah, Dr Oz sue over alleged false endorsements
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and television expert Dr Mehmet Oz, a frequent guest on Winfrey’s show, sued more than 50 businesses, saying they had falsely claimed the pair endorsed various beauty products and dietary supplements.
Winfrey’s companies Harpo Inc and OW Licensing Co, and Oz and...

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Beyonce guard probed over paparazzi clash
A personal bodyguard of US R&B star Beyonce - named the world’s fourth most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine in June - was held for questioning in Croatia after being caught on film clashing with a cameraman in the coastal resort of Dubrovnik, police said. The Croatian police action came after...

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Label hunts hackers who stole Lewis-Timberlake song
Record label SyCo and music trade body IFPI have called in the police to help them hunt down computer hackers who leaked a track by Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake on the Internet. The song, ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, is being considered as the first single release from the ‘X Factor’ winner’s next album,...

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Chutima Durongdej, Miss Thailand 2009 Bahamas: Chutima Durongdej, Miss Thailand 2009, pre-tapes her opening number for the Miss Universe 2009 competition at Atlantis, Paradise Island. reuters

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Job hunting? Take those wild party pics off Facebook
Nearly half of US employers research the online profiles of job candidates on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn, according to a new survey. 45 percent of the employers surveyed for CareerBuilder.com, the largest US online job site, said they use social networking sites to check on...

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‘World of Warcraft’, the magazine
Media group Future announced it has teamed up with videogame publisher Blizzard Entertainment to launch an official magazine about the hugely popular videogame ‘World of Warcraft’. Future said the subscription-only ‘World of Warcraft: The Magazine’ will be a quarterly publication and will launch simultaneously...

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Symantec lists ‘Dirtiest Web Sites’
Symantec unveiled a list of 100 ‘worst of the worst’ websites, nearly half of which used porn to lure people to pages booby-trapped with viruses. The US computer security titan’s list of ‘Dirtiest Web Sites’ discovered in recent months included names such as firstsexyteen, schoolbad, and cheatsarchive....

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