Rural-to-runway ‘Salt’ spices up Milan
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Rizwan Beyg showcased his dazzling white spring/summer collection 2010 at this year’s Milan Fashion Week. Titled ‘Salt’, it centres on the applied arts in the Pakistani tradition. With the generous use of niwar - a cotton tape commonly used to make beds in Pakistani... 
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‘New Moon’ vampires take bite out of Rome film fest
The vampires of ‘New Moon’, the sequel to the popular teen movie ‘Twilight’, hit the blood-red carpet at the Rome film festival last week, with fans getting a 20-minute preview of the picture before next month’s release. Three young actors playing the mean blood suckers of the Volturi coven and the...
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‘Paranormal Activity’ is unexpected box office delight
Fuelled by rave word-of-mouth reviews and clever marketing, micro-budget horror film ‘Paranormal Activity’ has taken the box office by storm to become one of the year’s most unlikely hits. Following in the footsteps of 1999’s ‘The Blair Witch Project’, director Oren Peli’s acclaimed film - made for...
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Miss Ashida 2010 collection
Tokyo: A model displays a cocktail dress with flower shaped organdy during the Miss Ashida 2010 spring and summer collection designed by Tae Ashida. afp
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Twitter entries satirise works of literature
Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university students who have written a book of Twitter entries that summarise and satirise works of literature.
'Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter', which Penguin releases next...
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Facebook revamps home page feed
Facebook on Friday modified its news feed feature to let members of the world’s leading social-networking service catch up on tidbits they may have missed while away from the website. Facebook now lets members switch between getting real time streams of news or activities taking place, and highlights...
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New from NASA, an iPhone application
NASA is coming to the iPhone. The US space agency announced on Friday that it has created a free NASA application for the popular Apple smartphone and the iPod Touch. NASA said the application, available through the Apple App Store, provides “information, videos, images and news updates about NASA missions”....
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Primate fossil called only a distant relative
Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it ‘the link’ that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn’t even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their...
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