3-D spices up battle for Oscars animation glory
A record 20 animated films will vie for Oscars glory in a 2010 race stuffed with wildly popular 3-D offerings such as ‘Up’, ‘Astro Boy’, ‘Monsters vs Aliens’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’. Computer-generated films like ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’ will duel against stop-motion pictures like ‘Coraline’... 
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Taylor Swift makes history at Country Music Awards
Teenage singing sensation Taylor Swift claimed a piece of music history this week when she became the youngest artist ever to win the coveted title of Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Awards. Swift, 19, also claimed awards for Female Vocalist of the Year, Music Video of the Year for her...
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Anna Kuzmich
Krasnoyarsk: Anna Kuzmich, 20, reacts after she won the Miss Krasnoyarsk Region 2009 beauty contest in the Siberian city. The Miss Krasnoyarsk Region beauty contest is a regional stage of the Miss Russia 2009 national contest. reuters
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Shanghai to pay millions to make way for Disney
The cost of relocating villagers to make way for the first phase of the planned Shanghai Disney Park is expected to reach six billion yuan ($880 million), state media said. The local government has finished registering residents seeking compensation for the cost of moving from the four-square-kilometre...
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Chefs unveil Viagra-laced passion fruit dessert
A group of young Colombian student chefs have unveiled a new dessert made from passion fruit and Viagra, claiming it had afrodisiac effects on everybody who has tried it. “We got the idea four months ago when we were dealing with a nutrition project for older people,” Juan Sebastian Gomez said at an...
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Mini-dress student readmitted to university
A female Brazilian student who was expelled from a Sao Paulo university after her short dress sparked student protests has been allowed back after federal prosecutors opened an investigation into the case. The Universidade Bandeirante made the reversal after taking out advertisement space in Sunday...
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British police drop bike guide after mockery
British police chiefs said they will not go ahead with a planned 93-page guide telling officers how to ride their bikes, after its simplistic advice was mocked and its expense criticised.
The Police Cycle Training Doctrine included advice such as not to tackle suspected criminals while still...
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The anti-swine flu holy water dispenser
An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu - an electronic holy water dispenser.
The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like...
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Villagers confine rare turtle, offer prayers
Hundreds of poor Hindu villagers in eastern India have refused to hand over a rare turtle to authorities, saying it is an incarnation of god, officials said. Villagers chanting hymns and carrying garlands, bowls of rice and fruits are pouring in from remote villages to a temple in Kendrapara, a coastal...
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S Korea district to host blind dates to boost birthrate
Seoul’s Gangnam district, South Korea’s most prosperous area, has a single imperfection - one of the country’s lowest birthrates. Now the district government, which already provides cash incentives for couples to have more babies, is arranging mass blind dates for singles.
Today, 30 men and 30...
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Nails, coins, scrap metal found in Peruvian’s stomach
Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogramme of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man’s stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said. “The patient came in with severe abdominal pains. After examinations we discovered that he had hundreds of nails in his stomach,” Carlos Delgado, a surgeon...
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Teen proven innocent by Facebook
A New York teenager narrowly avoided a 25-year jail term for armed robbery thanks to a Facebook status update he posted about pancakes, his lawyer told AFP. Rodney Bradford was held by police for 13 days, accused of breaking into a Brooklyn residence, but was able to corroborate his alibi thanks a posting...
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Munch artwork stolen from Oslo gallery
Thieves in Norway have made off with a rare lithograph by Edvard Munch worth 240,000 euros, police said. The robbers smashed an art gallery window, grabbed the work titled ‘Historian’ and escaped, police spokesman Joern Joergensen told AFP. Several lithographs of the work exist, but the stolen one was...
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Golf ball thief hits a rough patch
A man who dived by night into water hazards at dozens of South Korean golf courses to collect lost balls has been arrested for theft, police said. The man identified only as Lee, a 42-year-old former golf club employee, is accused of stealing some 26,000 lost balls worth 13 million won ($11,226), police...
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YouTube going high-definition video
High-definition video is coming to YouTube. The Google-owned online video sharing website said that it will begin supporting snippets shot in formats as graphics rich as 1080 pixels next week, a resolution level used in high-definition televisions. “As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want...
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