Deepika Padukone inaugurates her ‘Yahoo Web Page’ Mumbai: Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone inaugurates her ‘Yahoo Web Page’. afp

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Yash Chopra says youthful themes keep him young
Bollywood veteran Yash Chopra, this year’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year, said there is one reason his career has lasted 50 years - he surrounds himself with youth. “For all these years I have been making what you call romantic movies,” the 77-year-old said on the sidelines of the Pusan International...

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‘Make-A-Wish’ Mumbai: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and President and CEO of Forbes, Steve Forbes, pose with children from the ‘Make-A-Wish’ foundation during a function. reuters

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Egypt battling for more relics after Louvre success
Many relics from ancient Egypt remain in foreign museums and Cairo is struggling to persuade other countries to send them back, like France which agreed to return a set of 3,000-year-old wall painting fragments. “It is the Egyptian people’s right to see works of art from their country’s civilisation,”...

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Miss Universe 2009 JAKARTA: Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez of Venezuela walks onstage during the Miss Indonesia beauty pageant. Thirty-eight contestants from 33 provinces in Indonesia took part in the pageant. reuters

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Marge Simpson is Playboy cover girl
Does Homer know? What will Bart think? Marge Simpson, Homer’s wife and Bart’s mother on the hit television show ‘The Simpsons,’ is the cover girl on the November issue of Playboy magazine. Playboy released a picture of the cover shot featuring Marge artfully concealed behind a chair in the shape of...

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Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish websites
Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages. Twitter’s website, Twitter.com, is currently only offered in English or Japanese. Biz Stone, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup,...

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Police thwart girl-boy Internet suicide
Police in Serbia and Romania prevented a young girl and boy from carrying out a suicide pact agreed on the Internet, the Blic daily reported. A Romanian boy who had swallowed poison told emergency services who arrived to help him that another suicide was taking place near Belgrade. Serbian police were...

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