Home The Best People Pics Bradley Cooper tells GQ “I didn’t want to win the Oscar” 0 Share Tweet Bradley Cooper took home nomination after nomination for his work on the critically acclaimed, Silver Linings Playbook but says that wrapping the awards season with no hardware, is just fine with him. “I don’t want to…
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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Mon Mar 4, 2013 5:08pm EST (Reuters) – Syrian opposition fighters captured the northeastern city of Raqqa on Monday and crowds toppled a statue of President Bashar al-Assad’s father, opposition sources and a resident said. The fall of Raqqa on the Euphrates River would be a significant development in the two…
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The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse visited a polling station as people queued to vote Votes are being counted in Kenya after an election that observers describe as the most important in the country’s history. Polls were due to close at 17:00 (14:00 GMT) but officials said those in queues at that time would be allowed to vote. Earlier attacks by machete-wielding gangs around the port city of Mombasa killed at least 15 people. With more than 10% of votes counted, the two presidential front-runners were well …
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Human rights groups have warned of the poor conditions at Koranic schools Nine children have been killed by a fire at a Koranic school near the centre of Senegal’s capital, Dakar. The blaze broke out as 45 children aged from six to 12 slept inside a single room with wooden walls and zinc roofing in the Medina district, witnesses said. A candle is thought to…
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4 Mar 2013 21:00 It is suspected the attack is the work of dissident Irish republicans who have not signed up to the peace process Checks: Experts study van PA Terrorists plotting a mortar bomb massacre were stopped with minutes to spare when police rammed their van. Today three men were in custody in Northern Ireland. It is suspected the attack is the work of dissident republicans who have not signed up …
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St Mary’s churchyard, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. Photograph: Mike Faherty/ geograph.org.uk At Henstridge crossroads we have three choices: straight ahead across the Somerset border for Dorset and the coast, right for Sherborne (Dorset) and Yeovil (Somerset), or left across Blackmore Vale towards Wiltshire. Thomas Hardy wrote a discouraging poem about the…
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks about the effects of the sequester from the White House in Washington February 25, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES – Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) – RTR3EADO By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON | Mon Mar 4, 2013 3:42pm EST (Reuters) – Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Monday cautioned airline passengers to get to the airport extra early because U.S. spending cuts have already led to long lines at some security checkpoints, and said the coming furloughs will only make…
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By George Obulutsa and Joseph Akwiri NAIROBI/MOMBASA, Kenya | Mon Mar 4, 2013 3:19pm EST (Reuters) – At least 15 people were killed in attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Monday as Kenyans voted in large numbers in the first presidential election since a disputed 2007 poll unleashed weeks of tribal bloodshed. Initial provisional results began trickling in moments after polls closed, showing Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta slightly ahead of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, with ballots in from 10 percent of the polling stations, but it was still too early to …
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TMZ’s Harvey Levin has listed his house in West Hollywood, CA, for $5,300,000. The 2,996 square foot Sunset Strip home sits on a .31 acre sloping lot well above the street. The Spanish style mini-villa was originally built in 1937 and features 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a formal dining room, a sunken living room with wood floors and stone fireplace, kitchen with Viking appliances and eat-in kitchen, an office nook with custom-built desk and cabinetry, a laundry room, …
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Amateur video showed a statue of Hafez Assad, the former president and father of the current president, being pulled to the ground At least 40 Syrian soldiers and several Iraqis have been killed in western Iraq, officials in Baghdad say. They were among a group who fled across the border into Iraq at the weekend to escape an attack by rebel fighters. They were being driven back to the border in Anbar province when they were attacked by gunmen, officials said. Inside Syria, opposition activists said rebels …
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If you’re one of the 1% of Americans who control over 40% of the country’s wealth, life is full of choices. Among them — how best to keep all that money away from the government? The U.S. economic system offers no shortage of loopholes allowing the ultra-rich to shortchange Uncle Sam. Source: TopAccountingDegrees.org
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Some 3,000 delegates from across the country are attending the Congress China’s National People’s Congress is set to open in Beijing, beginning the final stage of the country’s once-in-a-decade leadership change. The key event will be the “work report” from outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao, which is expected to focus on the economy. The Congress, China’s parliament, will also…
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The annual contest to discover the best Cornish pasty-makers in the world took place at the Eden Project, Cornwall, on Saturday. Known to those in the know as the Oggy Oscars, the intense day of competition, supported by the Cornish Pasty Association, celebrates Cornwall’s most famous food export in advance of St Piran’s Day on 5 March. Meet the winners, the judges, the fans and the acts who entertained the
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LONDON | Mon Mar 4, 2013 11:35am EST (Reuters) – New Zealand opera star Kiri Te Kanawa will act, and sing, in an upcoming episode of the hit British stately home drama “Downton Abbey”, a spokeswoman for the ITV series said on Monday. The 68-year-old singer will play a house guest staying at Downton Abbey, joining the award-winning cast in the fourth season of the period drama that has won large audiences in Britain and the United States. Created by British screenwriter Julian …
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Reinol Fernandez’s elephant statue was loaded onto a trailer and driven away from his home Sunday after The Hidden Ark offered it refuge. Damaris Fernandez and Reniel Aguila spoke about the match many might say was made in heaven. Man Puts Giant Elephant Structure Outside Home in Southwest Miami-Dade A man has built …
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An empty spot on the wall marks the place where the stolen Henri Matisse painting was in Rotterdam’s Kunsthal art gallery in the Netherlands October 16, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Robin van Lonkhuijsen By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM | Mon Mar 4, 2013 9:51am EST (Reuters) – Dutch police arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman on Monday in connection with the audacious…
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The US military is planning to use fleets of small ships as platforms for unmanned aircraft to land and take off. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) said it needed to increase its airborne “surveillance and reconnaissance”. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known as drones, are commonly launched on land – but deploying them at sea is harder because they need to refuel. They currently require large aircraft carriers with long runways. The new project has been dubbed Tern (Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node) after a …
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Ms Park said South Korea could not afford to lose “one second” South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has warned that the country is facing “unprecedented” political deadlock which is hampering economic progress. Ms Park was sworn in as president last week, but has not yet been able to form a cabinet. She has failed to reach agreement…
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REUTERS A man casts his ballot at the Kisumu Central polling centre during presidential and parliamentary elections in Kisumu. Related Stories Mombasa – At least four Kenyan police officers, deployed to keep the peace in a tense presidential election following hundreds of deaths after a 2007 vote, were hacked to death by a gang hours before polling stations opened on Monday, a senior officer said…
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