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  • Uganda to Continue Leaked Letter Investigation Says Official

    A spokesman for Uganda's government says President Yoweri Museveni's administration will continue with investigations into a security breach despite, criticisms that it is contravening the constitution. "That is not true that the government is stifling freedom of the press or freedom of the people of Uganda,rdquo; said government spokesman Fred Opolot. "The police and the government [are] ...

  • Thailand urged to explore edible insect market

    BANGKOK -- Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating.The United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization released a study and handbook Tuesday on what they call 'six-legged livestock' - edible bugs and worms that can help meet global food demand that is expected to grow 60 percent by 2050. The agency says ...

  • Justin Biebers Monkey Adopted By Germany

    Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs at the end of March after Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal on his arrival in Munich. He was given until midnight on Friday to produce those documents. But customs spokesman Thomas Meister said the authorities had opened up ...

  • Chinese businessman pays record price for Belgian racing pigeon

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman has paid a world record 310,000 euros ($398,500) for a Belgian pigeon, highlighting Asia's huge and growing interest in racing ...

  • Tumblr Users Urge New Owner Yahoo To Keep The Site Weird

    When news of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr first hit, Tumblr users took their reactions online. The posts were quirky and sharp with plenty of worry about the ...

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Proof of Life

In Taylor Hackford's Proof of Life, Russell Crowe gets to keep his native Australian accent as Terry Thorne, an ex-soldier-turned-hostage-negotiator whose expertise is K&R (kidnapping and ransom). He deals mainly with extracting businessmen and politicians who are snatched by extremist groups in the farthest reaches of the world--Russia, southeast Asia, South America. He is calm, collected ... ...

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  • Baz Luhrmann gets last laugh at box office

    AUSTRALIAN filmmaker Baz Luhrmann is used to getting mixed reviews, but he's having the last laugh with The Great Gatsby. The Australian-filmed Gatsby has received some lacklustre reviews from the critics, but it has opened with a box office bang. "This morning internationally we were No.1 in the world against Iron Man and Star Trek," Luhrmann said during an interview on 7.30 on the ...

  • Bizarre Video Did Pope Perform “Exorcism”

    Prison Planet.com May 21, 2013 A bizarre video has emerged of Pope Francis appearing to perform an exorcism on a man in St Peter’s ...

  • Russia slams outrageous Eurovision vote

    MOSCOW has reacted angrily as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding no points to Russia's song appears to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries' foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan's top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been ...

  • Mahatma Gandhi blood sample up for auction in London

    Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale in London on Tuesday and are expected to fetch from 10,000 pounds to 15,000 pounds.The slides were obtained in 1924 when the father of the Indian independence movement was recovering from an appendectomy near Mumbai. He was thought to have donated the blood to the family he was staying with at the ...

  • It is important to move from cease fire to a true conflict settlement - analyst

    News.Az intervews Thijs Rommens, researcher at the Research Group Russia & Eurasia of the Institute for International and European Policy at the University of Leuven, ...

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