Debutante dominates British music charts Leona Lewis continued her run at the top of the British single and album music charts, out Sunday, while Christmas golden oldies began to creep back into the fray.
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Author to unveil US Masonic past A sequel to the blockbuster thriller "The Da Vinci Code" is set to lift the veil on mysterious Freemason symbols carved into the very fabric of the historic streets and buildings of the US capital.
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Romanian drama wins European Award The film "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days", a drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's communist-era Romania, won the top prize at the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday.
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Trailblazer singing for big break Barry Cox's journey from working-class Liverpool to a nightly performance at a giant Macau casino all began in a chip shop.
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South Africa holds World AIDS Day concert Tens of thousands of people filed into a Johannesburg stadium on Saturday for a 10-hour music extravaganza beamed to millions around the globe for World AIDS Day.
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Miss China on top of the world Pre-contest favourite Miss China won the Miss World 2007 title in her own country late Saturday, much to the delight of the audience, in front of an estimated two billion viewers around the globe.
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Jolie, Witherspoon best-paid actresses Screen stars Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon are Hollywood's best paid actresses, netting 15-20 million dollars per picture, local media reported Friday.
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Striking Hollywood writers reject new offer Striking Hollywood writers have rejected a new contract offer from producers, the two sides said Thursday, three weeks into a dispute that has disrupted the film and television industry.
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Angry Julia Roberts turns tables on paparazzi Hollywood icon Julia Roberts angrily gave chase to a car carrying paparazzi photographers after spotting them filming her near a school, reports said Thursday.
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Broadway back in business after strike The curtain went up across Broadway for the first time in almost three weeks on Thursday, ending a strike that had shut down most of New York's theater district and cost the city millions of dollars.
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Pamela Anderson planning retirement Former "Baywatch" star and pin-up queen Pamela Anderson says she plans to quit her showbusiness career within five years and retire to her native Canada, it was reported.
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Bollywood star Dutt released from prison Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt walked out of a prison in western India on Thursday after being granted bail on a six-year sentence for possessing illegal weapons.
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Argentinian poet scoops Spanish literary prize Argentinian poet Juan Gelman was Thursday awarded the Cervantes literary prize, considered the equivalent of a Nobel in the Spanish-speaking world, Spain's Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molina announced.
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Iran cracks down on 'obscene' rap music Iran on Thursday said that it planned to launch a crackdown on rap music, complaining that the words used by rap artists were "obscene", the state IRNA news agency reported.
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Pierce Brosnan won't be charged over scuffle Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan will not face charges following an alleged scuffle with a paparazzi photographer in Malibu, Los Angeles prosecutors said.
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Bollywood actor, Sanjay Dutt, was jailed for six years by TADA court in Mumbai on the last day of an epic trial into India's worst terrorist attack, the bombings in Mumbai in 1993 that claimed the lives of 257 people.
