Aladin
MUMBAI: Bollywood actors Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandes and Amitabh Bachchan pose for a picture during the music launch ceremony of their forthcoming movie ‘Aladin’. The movie is directed by Sujoy Ghosh and is scheduled to be released on October 23. reuters
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Disney characters go online as digital books
Mickey Mouse and scores of other Disney characters are going online as interactive digital books. The Walt Disney Co unveiled a website Tuesday featuring a digital library of more than 500 full-colour illustrated storybooks for young readers. DisneyDigitalBooks.com, an initiative of Disney Publishing... 
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Spot streaming Hollywood movies to mobile phones
US mobile entertainment company mSpot on Tuesday began offering full-length movies for streaming to mobile phones. The Palo Alto, California-based mSpot said it has agreements with Paramount, Universal and Weinstein Co studios to bring movies to the tiny screen.
The company said more than 300...
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Russian Silhouette competition
Moscow: Model presents creation by fashion design students during the final of the Russian Silhouette competition. reuters
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UN declares tango part of world cultural heritage
The United Nations has declared the sultry tango dance steps of Argentina and Uruguay part of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage”, UNESCO diplomats told AFP. The United Nations cultural organisation is holding a meeting of 400 experts in the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi to agree on list of world arts...
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India’s Parsis use new technology to keep ancient religion alive
India’s Parsis, the modern-day descendants of migrants who fled persecution in Iran more than 1,000 years ago, are turning to new technology to keep their ancient Zoroastrian religion alive. Websites, blogs, on-line directories and matchmaking portals are being used by the close-knit but scattered and...
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Polanski ‘gets five francs a day’ in Swiss jail
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski is being held in a ‘rudimentary’ jail cell in Zurich and receives five Swiss francs ($4.85) in pocket money daily, a Swiss newspaper reported. “We have been able to meet him outside his cell,” Marek Wieruszewski, Poland’s consul in Bern, told the French-language...
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