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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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He was the brightest literary figure of his time, says Mir Waliuzzaman about his friend the late author Mahmudul Haque.
Friends and fellow authors reacted with shock to the news of Mahmudul's death Monday, saying his passing away had created a great vacuum in the book world. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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The Guardian He pulled his troops out of Iraq, was an avid art collector and had an intriguing, and tragic, sex life - of all the Roman emperors, Hadrian seems the most recognisable. But, as the British Museum explores his legacy in a new exhibition, Mary Beard asks to what extent he is our own creation |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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AP, LOS ANGELES - Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office record. Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, "The Dark Knight" set a one-day box office record with $66.4 million on opening day, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Saturday. The movie's Friday haul surpassed the previous record of $59.8 million set last year by "Spider-Man 3." "The Dark Knight" might break the opening-weekend record of $151.1 million, also held by "Spider-Man 3." |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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AP, PARIS - Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins early Saturday left the French hospital where she gave birth, the Fondation Lenval said Before dawn, the Hollywood superstar left the clinic in the Riviera city of Nice with twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, according to a hospital statement. It was not immediately clear if the twins' father, actor Brad Pitt, was with them. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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REUTERS, LOS ANGELES - Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C and says she probably contracted the liver disease from drug use more than 30 years ago.
"The virus, found during a routine examination, is likely the result of her drug use many decades ago," her publicist said in a statement released on Wednesday. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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REUTERS, OTTAWA - The lead singer of the popular Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies will fight a recent cocaine charge in the United States, the band said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday. Steven Page was arrested last Friday in an apartment in Fayetteville, New York, and charged with possession of a controlled substance. Court documents show Page allegedly told police "Yeah, it's cocaine", when asked about a white powdery substance in his possession. |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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AP, FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. - The singer and guitarist for the band Barenaked Ladies has been arrested on drug charges in upstate New York. Police say Steven Page was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday in the Syracuse area. |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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AP, BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Michael J. Fox will return to series TV with a four-episode guest role on FX's "Rescue Me." FX also announced on Tuesday that Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock") will be joining the Glenn Close legal drama "Damages" as a second-season series regular, while Ted Danson will return to the show for several episodes. |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Even the most hardened celebrity watchers were taken aback by reports of an $11 million deal for exclusive rights to the first photographs of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newborn twins. Despite Hollywood duo "Brangelina" being one of the world's most famous couples, experts said it would be almost impossible to make back the money through increased sales and advertising. |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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AP, LOS ANGELES - Jessica King is out and Comfort Fedoke is getting another shot on "So You Think You can Dance," Fox TV said Monday. An injury forced King to leave the dance show, the network said. The nature of the ailment was not disclosed, but Fox said the top 10 contestant was quitting on her doctor's advice. |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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TOKYO (AFP) - Covering her face with her hands, 20-year-old Riyo Mori of Japan heard the MC's voice and the thunderous cheering of the crowd telling one year ago that she was the new Miss Universe With a 250,000-dollar tiara on her head, Mori walked confidently on the stage as Japan's first Miss Universe in 48 years as an estimated one billion people watched around the world on television. |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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PARIS - The Brangelina twins are here: Angelina Jolie has given birth to a girl and a boy. The obstetrician who delivered the twins, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told The Associated Press that the actress, the babies and Jolie's partner, actor Brad Pitt, "are doing marvelously well." |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bobby Murcer succeeded Mickey Mantle, played in pinstripes with Don Mattingly and watched proudly from the broadcast booth when the New York Yankees returned to power. A cherished link from former Yankees greats to the club's current stars, Murcer died Saturday due to complications from a malignant brain tumor, the team said. He was 62. |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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AP, NHA TRANG, Vietnam - Eighty of the world's most beautiful women have converged on a stretch of the Vietnamese coast better known for war than glamour. They were preparing for the 57th annual Miss Universe competition, which will be broadcast by NBC to millions of viewers across the globe on Sunday night. |
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
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AP, LOS ANGELES - Genie Francis is checking back into "General Hospital." The 46-year-old actress again will reprise her role as Laura on the ABC daytime soap opera beginning Aug. 26. The character's 1981 fairy-tale wedding to Luke (played by Anthony Geary) was watched by 30 million viewers and landed the couple on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Francis began playing Laura in 1976. |
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
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REUTERS, LOS ANGELES- Matthew McConaughey's Brazilian girlfriend has given birth to a boy, People magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday. The child -- the first for McConaughey and model Camila Alves -- was born on Monday evening, the report quoted the actor's publicist as saying. |
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
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AP, BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors cleared JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother Wednesday in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen, saying they were "deeply sorry" for putting the family under a cloud of suspicion that hung heavy for more than a decade. New DNA tests, which focus on skin cells left behind from a mere touch, point to a mysterious outsider. They came too late to clear the name of JonBenet's mother, Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006. |
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
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AP, CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - Christie Brinkley's lurid divorce trial came to an abrupt end Thursday when lawyers for the former supermodel and her fourth husband reached an out-of-court settlement that gives her custody of their two children. The settlement was reached at 6:15 a.m. after an all-night session that resolved all issues between Brinkley and her estranged husband, architect Peter Cook, Brinkley's lawyer, Robert Stephan Cohen, told the court. |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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Bdnew24.com Popular TV actress Suborna Mustafa has wedded director Badrul Anam Soud. "Only those close to the families of the bride and the bridegroom were present at the wedding," entertainment magazine Anandadhara assistant editor Arif Khan told bdnews24.com Monday. |
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Officials with the Department of Narcotics Control arrested a film actress, a model and their friend with Yaba tablets in Pallabi on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, the officials raided a flat of Rupnagar Housing in Pallabi around 10:30pm, DNC assistant director Fazlur Rahman told bdnews24.com. |
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