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 Sir Cliff Richard arrives for the world film premiere of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" in London´s Royal Albert Hall, Wednesday Dec. 7, 2005. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)   (js1)
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Cliff Richard turns to jazz to mark 70th birthday
China Daily
| Veteran British singer Cliff Richard will mark his 70th birthday with the release of an album of jazz and swing music, he announced on Tuesday. | The evergreen performer, a chart topper before the Beatles arrived who has sold an estimated 250 million records over more than 50 years, will sing cove...
Actor Irrfan Khan - Bollywood - India(jsen2)
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Irrfan khan want more
The Siasat Daily
| New Delhi, March 10: Irrfan Khan, popular for his serious and comic roles in Bollywood, is increasingly making inroads into the western world with projects like “A Mighty Heart”, “Slumdog Millionaire” and even an American TV show. He admits that being an international actor gives him a hig...
Feel free, Mr Husain. Go paint Qatari leaders
Deccan Chronicle
| Now that M.F. Husain has settled in Qatar where there is total freedom, he is free of the shackles imposed by the Indian system on freedom of expression. All those who appreciate his art would now eagerly await his imaginative paintings of the lead...
The Ski Gods
New Yorker
| ABSTRACT: THE SPORTING SCENE about skiing and the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The writer recalls watching the 1980 Winter Olympics when he was ten years old. By the time those games were over, he had come to regard Olympic skiing as the pinnacle of ...
Neighbours shock as actor smashes up set
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| RAMSAY St - famous across the globe as the setting for iconic Aussie soap Neighbours - was not so neighbourly after an actor smashed up a set and was escorted from the studio by police, the Herald Sun reported today. | Neighbours executive producer...
Australian Journalist Nigel Brennan opens up on ordeal
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| NIGEL Brennan says it's surreal. Strangers hug him; paint him; nominate him for bachelor of the year. | All a far cry from the 15 months the Australian photographer spent held captive by Somali kidnappers. | Mr Brennan and a fellow captive, Ca...
Tibetans-training-internet-websites-PC-computers-people-Dharamshala, India
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Pens, Typewriters, Computers, Blood!
The Examiner
| Even if you have to use an inkwell, write! © Engraver | Dreamstime.com | The caveman used cave walls. As time moved on we advanced to animal skins then parchments, finally a few...
John Malkovich
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Malkovich to play serial killer on Toronto stage
CBC
Actor John Malkovich plays a serial killer in The Infernal Comedy, and is shown with singers Laura Aikin and Aleksandra Zamojska, left. (Luminato) | American actor John Malkovich w...
Ted Strickland
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Gov. Strickland launches Council on Women and Girls as report shows mothers now primary breadwinners
The Examiner
| Frances Strickland works on education, the environment, renewable energy, and inclusion. (Photo/Gov.Ohio) If you like this ... Ohioans asked to help select next great Ohioan to j...
Novelist Chang-Rae Lee
On Point
| Acclaimed author Chang-Rae Lee on love and war in his new novel, “The Surrendered.” | Guest: | Chang-Rae Lee, author of the novels “Native Speaker,” “A Gesture Life,” and “Aloft.” He teaches in the C...
Fighting a War of Words About a Lot of Words About a War
The New York Times
| A momentous passage in American journalism strides stiffly across the stage of New York Theater Workshop in "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," a fact-packed drama by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, journalists with distinguished car...
Konkona and Ranvir to play on-screen lovers
The Siasat Daily
| Mumbai, March 10: After more than three years, these off-screen lovers will share screen space again. Konkona Sen Sharma and Ranvir Shorey will play the lead roles in Amitabh Verma's untitled romantic suspense thriller. The couple is currently acti...
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Mothers and daughters make connections
Houston Chronicle
| In Girl World, girls talk openly about Facebook attacks, racy cell-phone photos and mean girls at school. | But in Girl World, girls don't swap their stories with friends. Instead, they confide in the one person they're increasingly likely to avoid: Mom. | Rosalind Wiseman's Girl World Tour brings girls and moms together for role-playing, confess...
Culture
 Sir Cliff Richard arrives for the world film premiere of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" in London´s Royal Albert Hall, Wednesday Dec. 7, 2005. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)   (js1)
(photo: AP/Letteris Pitarakis)
Cliff Richard turns to jazz to mark 70th birthday
China Daily
| Veteran British singer Cliff Richard will mark his 70th birthday with the release of an album of jazz and swing music, he announced on Tuesday. | The evergreen performer, a chart topper before the Beatles arrived who has sold an estimated 250 million records over more than 50 years, will sing covers of classics including "Let's Fall in Love" and ...



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