zSwift, Jackson lead American Music Award nominees
Country ingenue Taylor Swift and dead pop star Michael Jackson led the contenders for the 37th annual American Music Awards, and will both vie for the artist of the year prize, organisers said. Swift scored six nominations, followed by Jackson with five and rapper Eminem with four. R&B star Beyonce,... 
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Disney’s old man takes UK box office by storm
Disney-Pixar’s ‘Up’, fresh from its major chart success in America, topped the UK box office over the weekend with one of the biggest opening takes of the year, according to Screen International. The animated story of a cranky old man on a balloon-powered adventure made 6.4 million pounds and dwarfed...
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Fluid on the lungs killed Boyzone singer
A post mortem carried out on Boyzone singer Stephen Gately on the Spanish island of Majorca revealed on Tuesday that he died of fluid on the lungs, a court official said. The preliminary findings of the post mortem were given to the deceased Irish singer’s partner Andrew Cowles by the judge of Court...
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‘Time has made us grow, affected our music’
Howie Dorough of Backstreet Boys talks about the band’s journey over the years and their new album
The Backstreet Boys began as a group of wide-eyed teenagers but 16 years later, after battles with drug addiction and the loss of loved ones, believe their seventh album shows they have matured....
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NASA invites Twitter fans to space shuttle launch
NASA invited fans on Twitter to get front-row seats for next month’s launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Registration for a NASA ‘Tweetup’ will open on Friday, and the first 100 people to sign up will get to spend two days at the space centre, touring the facility,...
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Twitter launches tool for nailing spammers
Twitter added a tool that lets users flag accounts of spammers at the globally-popular microblogging service. Hitting a ‘Report as spam’ button newly added to the Action section of Twitter pages alerts Twitter’s safety team to check out what, if anything, should be done about a purportedly abusive profile....
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Schwarzenegger vows action over wife’s cellphone bust
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger went into ‘Terminator’ mode after his wife Maria Shriver was caught breaking the state’s car cell phone laws. California’s First Lady was twice snapped by entertainment website TMZ with a cell phone held up to her ear, in clear breach of a 2008 law which requires...
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German firm offers Europe’s first ‘personalised paper’
Two young German entrepreneurs presented what they described as a Europe-wide first on Tuesday: a newspaper tailored to readers’ individual wishes and delivered to their door before 8:00 am. Customers of the paper choose what topics they want to read about - be it sport, politics, fashion or any from...
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Cali Exposhow 2009
Cali: A model wears a dress by Colombian designer Amalin de Hazbun during the Cali Exposhow 2009 in Colombia. ap
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