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$2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival
CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...
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US band Hanson debuts MmmHops Beer
American pop-rock band Hanson has unveiled a new beer, which they have named 'MmmHops.' According to BeerPulse.com, the India Pale Ale - made with the help of a craft brewery in Oklahoma - was introduced by the band at 'The Hangover Part III' afterparty in Los Angeles on Monday night, People magazine reported. Debuting the uniquely named beer at the afterparty was no accident - the film opens ...
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Healthy heart ensures healthy kidney
Scientists have shown that a lifestyle that encourages a healthy heart could also shield patients with chronic kidney diseases from kidney failure and premature death, says a study. The findings, appearing in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), suggest that patients with kidney diseases should be encouraged to improve their heart's health, reports Science Daily. Poor ...
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Revelers brave cold to fight AIDS at Vienna ball
VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, singer Elton John and actor Hilary Swank joined thousands of costumed revelers on Saturday at Europe's biggest AIDS charity event, Vienna's Life ...
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Arrested Development Bluth boys
to set up a movie with a cluster of episodes that chronicled the exploits of each family member over the last half-dozen years or so. BATEMAN: When he explained that the attempt to educate the uninitiated about the characters and the events that have gone on in the Bluth family would take up so much of the [movie's] time, and that a more efficient and interesting way to do that would be ...
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Shine
Scott Hicks' "Shine" tells the story of a man who is almost ruined by his own gift. The man's name is David Helfgott, and he was an Australian child prodigy, a boy whose gift for playing the piano was so extraordinary that he seemed immediately destined for greatness. Unfortunately, David's life was ruled by his father, Peter (Armin Mueller-Stah). Their relationship is solidified early in the film ... ...
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Northern Educate sports training school eyes national expansion
Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John ...
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Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir…
Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir ANKARA - Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Suat Kilic visited the Founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's Mausoleum-Anitkabir on the occasion of May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk,Youth and Sports Day.Kilic laid a wreath on Ataturk's Mausoleum, and observed a minute of silence in his ...
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Seattle Times sports readers sound off
With the national sports media having a feeding frenzy on the number of drug-related suspensions given to Seahawks players, it's time for players to hear this message: We hold you and the coaches in high regard and appreciate your achievements to make the Seahawks a force to be reckoned with. You have made the winds and rain bearable in the long winter months, but with that comes a ...
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Fast Furious 6 Sung Kang says...
franchise doesn’t engage in too much narrative trickery. The plots are straightforward — and by straightforward, I mean there are cars and people who drive those cars and those people use their cars to fight other people in cars. Carfight! But there’s a surprisingly complicated aspect of the films’ chronology, and that aspect is the character Han, played by actor Sung ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color Cannes
Cannes 2013: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' is a seriously sexy three-hour French lesbian coming-of-age love story. Plus, Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix in 'The ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Grand Hyatt Dubai
I drove up to one of Dubai's newest luxury hotels, the Grand Hyatt Dubai, with it's towers majestically standing watch ...
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