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Alice stays atop box offices for 3rd week (21 March 10:42) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disney adventure "Alice in Wonderland" stayed atop North American movie box offices for the third straight week, collecting $34.5 million and beating three new films ... |
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EMI in licensing talks to raise 400 mln stg - report (21 March 07:49) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - British music company EMI is in talks to allow rival labels to manage its back catalogue in order to raise funds and prevent a takeover from its lender, reported the Sunda... |
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Ailing Cuba tobacco legend celebrates 91st birthday (21 March 07:52) |
| SAN LUIS, Cuba (Reuters) - Cuban tobacco legend Alejandro Robaina celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday, weakened by ill health but surrounded by friends and family and the tobacco fields... |
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LA eatery charged with serving whale meat closes (21 March 12:10) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles-area sushi restaurant that made international headlines after it was charged with serving endangered whale meat will close forever as a "self-imposed pu... |
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New York food trucks turn to Twitter (20 March 06:07) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Whether it's fomenting revolution or telling people what you had for breakfast microblogging service Twitter seems to have it all.
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Court says no oil money for Anna Nicoles heirs (20 March 05:12) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the estate of late model Anna Nicole Smith was not entitled to one cent of the more than $300 million she sought from the... |
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Artist places sculptures on melting Arctic iceberg (20 March 04:57) |
| UUMMANNAQ, Greenland (Reuters) - A Dutch artist arranged two large sculptures on an iceberg in Greenland on Friday to raise awareness about climate change, and people will be able to monitor... |
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Ellen Web site give gay teen $30000 in prom flap (20 March 04:56) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and an inspirational Web site on Friday gave $30,000 toward the college education of a teenage lesbian whose high school prom was cance... |
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Rock poet Patti Smith to be honored by music industry (19 March 10:14) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award from the music industry next month in honour of her genre-bending 40-year career as singer, po... |
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Eva Braun no dumb blonde says new biography (19 March 09:16) |
| BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun has been treated as an inconsequential figure in the Third Reich by historians but the author of a new biography said on Friday sh... |
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Library book is returned -- 45 years late (19 March 09:06) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Staff at the Dinnington library are used to people bringing books back late but the package they received last month was in a class of its own.
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Secrets unravel as Breaking Bad returns to TV (19 March 08:06) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt White's wife has left him, his crystal meth partner in crime has gone into rehab, and his desperate double life as a chemistry teacher turned drug lord is in dan... |
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Travel Postcard 48 hours in Istanbul (19 March 06:00) |
| ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) - Turkey's largest city is a 2010 European Capital of Culture filled with the treasures of a glorious past from the Roman and Ottoman empires, while straddling the B... |
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The bees did it Taiwan solves yellow goop mystery (19 March 11:32) |
| TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - After being stung by complaints, Taiwanese officials have traced the mysterious yellow gunk that has splattered cars and laundry for weeks to a seasonal influx of be... |
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Cat-calling men give all men a bad name study finds (19 March 11:27) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Men who harass women with cat calls and sexual comments are actually harming their whole gender, a study has found.
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Travel Picks Top 10 Mediterranean beach towns (19 March 11:11) |
| SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - The days of vintage Mediterranean style are back in force, and here are the places where it all began, with website AskMen (www.askmen.com) coming up with a list ... |
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Cherry blossom forecasts weather change in Japan (19 March 10:49) |
| TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japan's countdown to spring traditionally began with a government announcement on when the cherry blossom season will start, but this year, the people are taking over... |
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New Zealands Madoff jailed for $13 mln fraud (19 March 10:34) |
| WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand banker defrauded clients of $13 million to fund a lavish lifestyle of prostitutes, property and wine, local media reported on Friday.
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The Oscar curse real or Hollywood invention (19 March 06:28) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They turn heads on the red carpet, are besieged by the world's top designers, give tearful acceptance speeches, and go home with a little gold man called Oscar.
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Sandra Bullocks husband seeks forgiveness (19 March 06:12) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The husband of actress Sandra Bullock apologized on Thursday for causing her "pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension" after recent claims he cheated on her while... |
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Davy Crockett star Fess Parker dies at 85 (19 March 05:59) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fess Parker, the tall, Texas-born actor who became a star of early television playing American frontier folk hero Davy Crockett and later portrayed Daniel Boone, die... |
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Polanski lawyers appeal demand sentencing in absence (19 March 05:57) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed an appeal on Thursday demanding the fugitive film director be sentenced in California for a decades-old sex crime even as he remains ... |
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Lady Gaga sued for $30 million by jilted producer (19 March 05:22) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former producer to pop sensation Lady Gaga has sued his one-time protege for more than $30 million claiming he was instrumental to her success but unable to profit fro... |
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Sandra Bullocks husband pleads forgive me (19 March 01:38) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The celebrity husband of actress Sandra Bullock on Thursday broke his silence on reports that he cheated on his Oscar-winning wife, telling People magazine he used "p... |
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Sony partners with Lovefilm rental service in UK (19 March 01:34) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Sony is teaming up with European movie-rental firm Lovefilm to offer TV viewers in Britain instant access to films from the Web, as a land grab for space on Internet-conne... |
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Auschwitz survivor Veil joins Academie Francaise (18 March 10:09) |
| PARIS (Reuters) - French feminist Simone Veil, who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and went on to become one of France's most popular politicians, joined the elite Academi... |
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Belgian sex shop must pay full tax rate - court (18 March 08:34) |
| BRUSSELS (Reuters Life!) - European judges have ruled that a sex shop with movie cubicles does not qualify for a reduced rate of sales tax because it is not a cinema.
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Caviar hunters push sturgeon to extinctions edge (18 March 08:07) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - After more than 200 million years, sturgeon are losing a battle for survival to poachers who have hunted the queens of caviar to the verge of extinction, a leading environ... |
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UK artist calls for postage stamps of Iraq war dead (18 March 07:22) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British artist Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize winner and acclaimed filmmaker, has called for portraits of soldiers killed in the Iraq conflict to be turned into posta... |
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Northern England town planning Luddite anniversary (18 March 06:49) |
| HUDDERSFIELD, England (Reuters Life!) - The people of Huddersfield are rising up again, but this time it's to celebrate the city's 19th century local weavers rather than smash modern technol... |
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For sale Nice little runabout fit for a queen (18 March 06:30) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - At first sight it seems just another second-hand luxury car for sale but this Jaguar included some special extras in its day such as emergency convoy lights and a di... |
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Singers musical journey reshaping Portugals fado (18 March 05:12) |
| ZURICH (Reuters Life!) - Portuguese fado singer Mariza treated a sold-out Zurich audience to a show pushing the boundaries of her genre.
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At 76 Steinem laments elusive equality for women (18 March 03:45) |
| BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 yea... |
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Universal Studios Singapore courts 8 for lucky launch (18 March 01:31) |
| By Nopporn Wong-Anan SINGAPORE (Reuters Life) - The world's fourth Universal Studios welcomed its first visitors on Thursday with a lavish ceremony aimed at attracting luck, and repeat busin... |
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Record pot on offer at Chinas uni-sex Pro-Am (18 March 12:32) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Male and female golfers will compete for Asia's richest individual prize of $1.28 million at the new Mission Hills Star Trophy, a Celebrity Pro-Am tournament that will de... |
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Lacey Brown out Urban survives on American Idol (18 March 11:22) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lacey Brown was voted off "American Idol" on Wednesday after struggling with nerves for weeks on America's most-watched TV show.
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US yuan critics are like cruel Avatar troops - China paper (18 March 09:45) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - First it was environmentalists and indigenous activists; now China's beleaguered financial officials are being compared to the giant, blue-skinned heroes of the mega bloc... |
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Extended family household on the rise in US (18 March 09:39) |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans are living in the same household with their extended family because of the poor economy and changing social factors, a research group said on Thursday.
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Hugo Boss says not recalling any clothes in China (18 March 09:15) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - German fashion house Hugo Boss is not recalling any clothes in China after a Chinese province said it had seized some imported top-end clothing carrying labels of well-kn... |
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A Minute With Joan Jett on life as a Runaway (18 March 09:02) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - She has been among the First Ladies of rock music since there were ladies playing hard rock, and now Joan Jett is seeing her pioneering days with all-girl band ... |
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Crafty stay-at-home US moms turn to online sales (18 March 08:21) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Lara Lewis used to be a stressed-out single mother whose teaching job left her little time for her young daughter, but now she works from home, selling an estimat... |
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Glee CSI among TV shows with a conscience (18 March 07:15) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The wheelchair episode of musical comedy "Glee" and a "CSI" program tackling race and prejudice in the police were among eight shows named on Wednesday as examples of... |
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Actor Antonio Banderas named UN Goodwill Ambassador (18 March 06:54) |
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) has named Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as a "Goodwill Ambassador" for the global fight against poverty, the agency announced ... |
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Former Sunshine star Breslin yearns for horror (18 March 04:59) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former "Little Miss Sunshine" star Abigail Breslin, currently bringing tears to the eyes of Broadway theater audiences as the blind and deaf Helen Keller, has a grown-up... |
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Bullock cancels trip amid talk of marriage trouble (18 March 04:39) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock on Wednesday pulled out of the London premiere of her hit movie "The Blind Side" as a U.S. celebrity magazine published a claim t... |
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Vatican probes claims of apparitions at Medjugorje (17 March 11:37) |
| VATICAN CITY (Reuters Life!) - The Vatican has opened an investigation into reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the small town of Medjugorje in southern Bosnia which have drawn more t... |
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Internet piracy taking big toll on jobs - study (17 March 10:36) |
| BRUSSELS (Reuters Life!) - Plenty of people download music from the Internet every day, but illegal downloading has a huge economic impact and could put more than one million people out of w... |
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Edinburgh Festival follows the sun to the Americas (17 March 10:28) |
| EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) spreads its wings westwards this year to bring to the Scottish capital the flamboyant and exciting cultures of the Amer... |
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Old age starts at 58 Britons think (17 March 10:02) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Many may beg to differ but according to a new survey, the average Briton believes youth ends at 36 and old age starts at 58.
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Caravaggio investigation result seen in May (17 March 07:57) |
| MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian anthropologists expect to have a definite result in their investigation into Baroque artist Caravaggio's death in May, hopefully unveiling a centuries old mys... |
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