‘A Christmas Carol’ leads North American box office
If it’s the second weekend in November, it must be Christmas in Hollywood. Walt Disney Co’s high-tech adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ topped the North American box office on Sunday with lower-than-expected ticket sales of $31 million. Industry pundits had forecast a three-day haul... 
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Britney Spears ‘upset’ over Australian tour complaints
Britney Spears has done it again, hitting the headlines during her first Australian tour over a row about lip-synching and a lacklustre performance that her tour promoter said had left her “extremely upset”. Australian media reported that fans walked out of the first of Spears’ 14 Australian performances...
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Rihanna describes night of attack by Chris Brown
R&B singer Rihanna broke her silence on TV about the night her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown attacked her, saying he had bitten her, put her in a headlock and left her bleeding and swollen. “It wasn’t the same person that says ‘I love you.’ It were not those... eyes,” Rihanna, 21, told Diane Sawyer in an...
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Alleged Aussie burglar caught napping
An exhausted Australian man fell asleep while apparently trying to pick the lock of a shopping centre after a “long night”, police said. The 35-year-old man was found snoozing outside a Perth shopping complex with a lock-breaking wire still in his hand, police spokesman Samuel Dinnison said. Keys found...
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Miss World contestants
London: Miss World contestants pose for photographs during a photo call to promote the event. The final of the Miss World contest takes place in South Africa on December 12. ap
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French driver suspected in bank heist becomes Internet star
A French security van driver suspected of making off with 11.6 million euros ($17.2 million) in cash has become a rising star on the web. Several Facebook groups have cropped up to discuss the heist allegedly carried out by Tony Musulin, a 39-year-old employee of the Loomis security firm who disappeared...
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China police hunt for 2m unsafe condoms
Police in central China have closed a factory producing fake and unsterile condoms and are tracking down over two million of the unsafe contraceptives already on the market, state press said. The condoms were made in a factory in Hunan province and are believed to have been sold nationwide under a variety...
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Gold-plated Hindu statuette stolen in Nepal
A 300-year-old gold-plated statuette of a Hindu god was stolen from the ancient town of Patan on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, police said. The figure of the Laxminarayan deity was taken last week from Patan’s Durbar Square, part of the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO world heritage site,...
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