Witherspoon Hollywood’s top-paid actressFri, 30 Nov 2007 14:30:59 GMT
‘Rendition’ star earns $15-20 million per movie; Jolie No. 2, Diaz third
Akon to face charges in fan-tossing caseFri, 30 Nov 2007 14:59:12 GMT
Akon faces criminal charges after a fan said she suffered a concussion when the hip-hop star tossed a teenager off the stage and onto her in the concert crowd, police said Thursday.
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Hollywood heavyweights Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunited on the red carpet in New York Wednesday night for the premiere of their new crime thriller “Righteous Kill” — their first film together since making 1995’s “Heat.”
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The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country.
Army Spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the orders in a brief interview with Geo News on late Thursday night.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he will not accept military action or new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities.
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As the world marks the seventh anniversary of 9/11, some European experts say security improvements in the US have been undercut by fairly basic mistakes. Among the remedies is more trust in America’s laws and allies.
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David Miliband has allegedly come in for a rather undiplomatic tongue-lashing from his Russian counterpart.
The Foreign Secretary was apparently given a furious dressing down by Sergei Lavrov over the telephone.
Mr Miliband’s criticism of Russia’s recent incursion into Georgia is believed read more ... Africa News
PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa - A South African judge ruled Friday that prosecutors were wrong to charge ANC President Jacob Zuma with corruption, effectively clearing way for the 66-year-old former freedom fighter to become the country’s next president.
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Thailand’s political turmoil deepened Friday when the ruling coalition failed to turn up to parliament to reelect leader Samak Sundaravej as prime minister.
Lawmakers from the six-party coalition did not attend an emergency session of parliament called to choose a prime minister, three days after a court stripped Samak of power for accepting payments for hosting read more ... |
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A French official reports firefighters have succeeded in extinguishing a blaze that broke out on Thursday in the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France. However, train traffic beneath the English Channel remains suspended while inspectors test the tunnel’s structural integrity. The fire reached temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius and it is feared that structural elements may have been weakened by the extreme heat. Eurotunnel chairman Jacques Gounon had said that read more ...
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