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Invasive Asian stink bugs threaten fruit crops in Michigan
An invasive insect from Asia first spotted in Michigan two years ago could pose a major threat this year to fruit growers, officials say. The brown marmorated stink bug was reported in 12 counties last year, The Detroit News reported Saturday. While it has not yet been seen in Macomb County, just north of Detroit, growers there are apprehensive. Paul Blake grows strawberries, peaches, cherries ...
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Randy Travis files new lawsuit
Country Singer Randy Travis is pictured in this booking photo supplied by Grayson County Texas Sheriff's office in 2012. (Grayson County Texas Sheriff's ...
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Love exhausted by memoirs
Courtney Love's memoirs are keeping her out of trouble - because her deadline has left her little time to party. The rocker landed a lucrative deal with publishers HarperCollins to detail her life and she admits it's proving more difficult and time consuming than she thought. Love tells Bust magazine, "It's one of the reasons why I stay home and watch 30 Rock - because ...
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Gary Hume I couldnt hold down a job. Thats why I became an artist
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York - and why he now confines his excesses to the ...
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At Sony Investors Challenge Brings Unwanted Suspense
NOWHERE is the opulence of Old Hollywood more palpable than on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City. Arching just inside the front gate is an eight-story rainbow. This grand $1.6 million sculpture, a condition of a lot expansion, rose last year and became a symbolic link between past glories ...
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Garry Winogrands classic and unseen photographs – gallery
Garry Winogrand is seen by many as the father of American street photography. His output was so prolific, he left many images unseen in his lifetime, on contact sheets and thousands of undeveloped rolls of film. The best of this treasure trove is included in ...
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Osbourne on dads relapse
Jack Osbourne is playing down the drama surrounding his father Ozzy's recent relapse, insisting he was not surprised when the heavy rocker started boozing and using drugs again. As a recovering addict himself, the reality TV star insists no one is guaranteed full sobriety after kicking their bad habits - and his dad is just like millions of troubled souls who slip back. In a taped ...
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Santambrogio claims Giro 14th stage
Italy's Mauro Santambrogio celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, from Cervere to Bardonecchia, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Santambrogio won in a time of 4 hours, 42 minutes, 55 seconds in in rainy, windy and even snowy conditions, beating the leader of the race Vincenzo Nibali in a final sprint at the top of the ...
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Paris Hilton cries at Cannes
Socialite Paris Hilton was moved to tears during the premiere of The Bling Ring at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday because it made her relive the "violating" burglary she was subjected to in the late 2000s. Sofia Coppola's new movie is based on the so-called 'Bling Ring' thieves, who snatched more than $3 million worth of goods from the Hollywood homes ...
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Waltz on Cannes gun scare
Jury member actor Christoph Waltz waves as he arrives at the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez on the eve of the opening of the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Jean-Paul ...
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Gary Hume at Tate Britain – in pictures
Supposedly 'the quiet one' among the YBA generation, Gary Hume made his name with his household-gloss door paintings. Here is a selection of paintings from his solo show ...
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Santambrogio takes victory in stage 14
Mauro Santambrogio took the stage victory but overall leader Vincenzo Nibali was the big winner as the poor weather dominated stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia. Organisers were forced to remove the day's major climb as snow, rain and fog hit, but Santambrogio and Nibali emerged from the mist at the mountain-top finish after launching a late attack from the peloton to reel in the remnants ...
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Skylight Music Theatre delivers an intimate Porgy Bess
Skylight Music Theatre 's "Porgy & Bess." Directed by Bill Theisen - his last production as Skylight's artistic director - this "Porgy" relies on a chamber-ensemble cast and orchestra to tell a tale usually told with a huge chorus and full orchestra. The Gershwin brothers' opera is set on the southeastern American coast, in the impoverished, ...
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Beyonce slams baby reports
Pop superstar Beyonce has taken aim at gossips speculating she is pregnant again by posting a defensive note on her Instagram.com account. The Crazy In Love hitmaker has refused to address ongoing reports she and husband Jay-Z are set to welcome a sibling for 16-month-old Blue Ivy, but she vented her frustration about the speculation on Friday. Beyonce uploaded a scathing note to her ...
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UPDATE 1-Workers stage illegal strike at South Africa chrome mine
Sat May 18, 2013 1:03pm EDT (Recasts with company statement) By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG May 18 (Reuters) - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group Lanxess have been suspended since Thursday after some 470 workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the company said on Saturday. The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) northwest of ...
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Virginia GOP convention LG candidates take turns on stage
The seven candidates for the GOP lieutenant governor nomination are taking turns addressing the delegates at the Richmond Coliseum. Former Rep. Allan West, R-Florida, introduced Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter, R-Prince William. West, as a young captain commanding a divisional rocket battery at Fort Riley, Kan., served under Lingamfelter, who was his commanding officer. Oliver L. North introduced ...
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Santambrogio Takes Giro Stage 14 Nibali Extends Lead
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Walk Through British Art – review
opened last week - not that the old one was ever fully closed, just partially boarded up by the gallery. After almost two years it's now possible to walk right round the museum and see the history of British art unfold before your eyes. That is the main claim, at any rate, but while the much-touted return to chronology cannot be denied - the start date of 1540 is set in gold on the floor, ...
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100 years of Indian cinema and how Bollywood songs have kept pace with time
Bollywood is celebrating its 100 years in existence, and one can't deny its effect on the masses in this time period. Here's a fond look at some of the old and new songs, which form an integral part of Hindi ...
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Opposition is acting against the interests of poor says Rahul Gandhi on Food Bill
Food Security Bill in Parliament, and asserted the UPA Government was determined to enact the legislation for the benefit of people."I am sad that the Opposition is acting against the interests of the poor IndianI can understand politics. But I cannot understand political parties hurting the poor of the country," Rahul told a party rally in Thiruvananthapuram."We have been ...
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Ken Jacobs and His Films Feted in 80th-Birthday Tributes
There are artists who burn out at 30 and others who, accelerating as they mature, begin to seem like forces of nature. One such force is Ken Jacobs, who turns 80 next Saturday ...
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Social Development Ministrys Undersecretary Chairs Preparatory Meeting of the 3rd Gulf Theatre Festival for People with Disabilities
Manama, May 18. (BNA) -- The Social Development Ministry hosted the second meeting of the high committee of the Third Gulf Theatre Festival for People with Disabilities, due to be held in Bahrain by the end of this year. During the meeting, chaired by the Social Development Ministry's Undersecretary Hanan Mohammed Kamel and attended by representatives of GCC countries, the panel ...
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Derry city of culture looks to a better future as it gets its musical kicks
As tourists flock to the city, local heroes like the Undertones and visitors like BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend are helping to give it a feelgood ...
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UAE cinema makes a splash at Cannes
fter days of heavy rain, the sun finally arrived in Cannes on Friday just in time to celebrate a glittering day for Arab filmmaking at the glitzy French festival. In the morning, the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's terrific love triangle ...
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Ballroom dance contest inspires 5th-graders
It's not often that the introductory notes of a rhythmic Argentine tango flavored with accordion, violin and percussion elicits a roar of excitement from a roomful of fifth-graders.The finals of St. Louis Dancing Classrooms is no ordinary affair.After 10 weeks of training twice a week, select St. Louis public and private schools from Normandy to Imperial competed for bragging rights as ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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