Man charged for extortion of Cindy Crawford
A German man has been charged with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her husband over a photo of their daughter gagged and bound to a chair, authorities said. Edis Kayalar, the man at the centre of the probe, was charged in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday,... 
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Radcliffe denies smoking cannabis
‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe has denied smoking cannabis at a party, after allegations appeared in British tabloid the Daily Mirror. “We categorically deny the allegations regarding Daniel Radcliffe published in today’s Daily Mirror,” his spokeswoman said in a statement on Friday. “Daniel does...
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Rihanna lets music do the talking in new album
Pop star Rihanna flaunted a blonde look recently to present new album ‘Rated R’ but let the music speak for itself, refusing to answer any questions on ex-boyfriend Chris Brown who assaulted her in February. The 21-year-old, now on her fourth album in four years, explained the darker, edgier sound was...
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‘Let them eat vegetables’, Bardot tells EU
Brigitte Bardot, one-time French screen goddess turned animal rights activist, wants the European Union to institute a ‘Vegetarian Day’ as part of the battle against global warming. In a letter this week to European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barrosoa, Bardot said “a few weeks before the Copenhagen...
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125-year-old woman living in remote Turkey
A 125-year-old woman who could be the oldest person ever recorded has been found living in Turkey’s remote Kurdish region, local authorities were quoted as saying. Halime Solmaz was born on July 1, 1884, and lives in the village of Besiri in the southeast, local registry office director Irfan Ertas...
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Iran creates Internet crime unit
The Iranian police have created a special unit to monitor Internet crime, particularly political offences, a senior police officer was quoted by the ILNA news agency as saying. “A special committee has been created to monitor the Internet... and it will act against attempted fraud, illegal advertising,...
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Hundreds of reindeer drown in Sweden
About 200 reindeer drowned in northern Sweden after they fell through the ice of a river they were crossing, local authorities told AFP. A herd of about 3,000 reindeer “walked on the ice over a river. The ice broke,” Erik Gustavsson, incharge of natural resources for the Norrbotten region, told AFP....
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Brazil arrests British would-be spider smuggler
A British man has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro airport after security X-rays discovered he was trying to smuggle 1,000 live spiders out in his luggage, reports said. The man, unnamed in online reports by the state Agencia Brasil and other outlets, was apprehended for violating laws banning the export...
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Flocking to ‘Cinderella’ ball for monetary bliss
Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish ball in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, lured by the dream of a possible fairytale match with a millionaire. More than 7,000 women from all over the country are applying for one of just 40 tickets to attend China’s version of Cinderella’s ball,...
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Ryanair jet blows tiles off house roof
An 82-year-old German woman living near Hamburg-Luebeck airport got a shock this week when a Ryanair plane coming in to land sent several roof tiles crashing into her garden, police said. “The aircraft flew over and the elderly lady, the owner of the house, was in the garden at the time clearing up...
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‘Archaeologist of erotica’ revives lost world of brothels
The sign hung at 12, rue Chabanais, in the days when the building housed the most prestigious of Paris’ infamous bordellos, read ‘Welcome to the Chabanais: The House of All Nations’. With the brothels closed down 60 years ago, nowadays the skinny eight-storey building on a tiny street near the Louvre...
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