Stephanie Pratt Los Angeles: Actress Stephanie Pratt arrives for the premiere of ‘Ninja Assassin’ at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. afp

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Oprah Winfrey to end show in 2011
International talk show superstar Oprah Winfrey, who rose from a childhood of abuse and poverty to become a globally-recognised star, will end her show in 2011, her production company said. “The sun will set on the ‘Oprah’ show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011,” Tim Bennett,...

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South Korean supermodel commits suicide
Twenty-year-old South Korean supermodel Daul Kim was found hanged in her central Paris apartment after an apparent suicide, the South Korean embassy said on Friday, citing French police officials.
Kim - a regular on the catwalks of London, Milan, New York, and Paris - most recently modelled clothes...

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Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2009 New York: Singer Sun Ho arrives at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2009. afp

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Google-powered netbooks to debut next year
Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year. Google-crafted Chrome OS will be tailored exclusively for applications hosted as services in the Internet ‘cloud’ and debut...

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Twitter wants to know
Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced the change in Twitter's tag line in a blog post on Thursday. "Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service - an easy...

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It’s a scrudle!
We’ve had spatulas, scoops, ladles and scrapers, but cooks will soon be reaching for the scrudle, if Heston Blumenthal has anything to do with it. The celebrity chef has judged the ‘scrudle’ as the utensil most likely to revolutionise Britain’s kitchens, and in doing so has set up a 65-year-old woman...

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