Heath Ledger music video debuts 20 months after his death
A rap music video directed by the late Australian actor Heath Ledger was posted on video sharing website YouTube on Friday, nearly two years after he died from an accidental drug overdose. The 3-and-a-half minute video of a song called ‘Cause An Effect’ by rapper N’Fa, also known as No Fixed Abode,...

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Mumbai Film Festival Mumbai: Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee poses for a picture at the opening ceremony of the Mumbai Film Festival at a multiplex. reuters

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NASA set for Atlantis launch on November 16
NASA has given the green light for the space shuttle Atlantis mission to launch on November 16 carrying six astronauts to the International Space Station. Liftoff is set for 2:28 pm (1928 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Centre near Cape Canaveral, Florida, the US space agency said following a “flight readiness...

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outlines new privacy policy
Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy and asked for feedback from the social network’s more than 300 million users. Vice president of communications and public policy Elliot Schrage, in a post on the Facebook blog, said members will have until November 5 to send in their comments about the...

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Blame your genes for bad driving
No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you - he cannot help it, US researchers reported. They found that people with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people with a different DNA sequence.
The study may explain...

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Dubai Fashion Week Dubai: A model presents a creation by Michael Cinco Fashion Designs during Dubai Fashion Week . reuters

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Ban on tight trousers for Aceh women?
Women may soon be banned from wearing tight trousers in parts of an Indonesian province that practices strict Islamic law, and offenders could see their attire cut up. Aceh is the only province in predominantly Muslim Indonesia to use Islamic sharia for its legal code. The previous provincial government...

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Byron letters sale breaks record
A collection of correspondence by Lord Byron broke the world record price for a group of letters or manuscript by a British romantic poet, auction house Sotheby’s said. The collection, which came from the library of 1894-1895 prime minister Archibald Primrose, the Earl of Rosebery, was sold for £277,250...

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No job? Less money? Divorce is off the budget
Financial woes often drive couples apart but the current recession seems to be having the opposite effect, with less couples able to afford the cost of a divorce. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) said more than half of the respondents to its latest survey among its 1,600 members had...

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