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Santambrogio Takes Giro Stage 14 Nibali Extends Lead
BARDONECCHIA, Italy ...
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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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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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Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP
Amid rampant weeds and crumbling stones, Matteo Giunti makes his way to the tomb of Francis Horner MP, a Scottish Whig who co-founded the Edinburgh Review and died, in 1817, in what he would have known as the prosperous Tuscan port of Leghorn.But, as he reaches the once imposing grave, Giunti stops first at the Nike trainer and plastic bottle that have been left there overnight - not, ...
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After Health Issues Influential Conductor Back At Met Opera
classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about conductor James Levine's return to the Metropolitan Opera after a series of health problems kept him away for two ...
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Vidya Balan It felt really special to be on stage with Amitabh Bachchan
Actress Vidya Balan is on this year's Cannes jury and is fully conscious of the "august" company she is in. At Cannes, Vidya told NDTV's Noopur Tiwari: "It's extremely exciting and invigorating to be on the same jury as Spielberg, Ang Lee and others. It's going to be a great learning experience for me. It's also a very proud moment for me as an ...
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Children take dance class in temporary tent in Lushan
Children take a dance class in a temporarily-erected tent in Lushan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2013. More than 100 children frequently participate in extra-curricular activities at this temporary school, which was opened on April 29 by volunteers and provides reading, painting and dancing classes to local children. The county was jolted by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
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Cornelia Parker Ive always been happy to sleep with the enemy
Cornelia Parker came to public prominence she has been associated with an exceptionally wide variety of work. She was initially known for pieces in which she violently destroyed objects and then eerily suspended the resulting debris from gallery ceilings. ...
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Whites-only matric dance fury
The DA and the Mpumalanga Education Department on Friday condemned claims that the parents’ committee at the Hendrina Combined School in Middelburg decided on ';only-white'; and ';only-black'; matric dances, citing ';cultural ...
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I never set out to be a role model but its great to be one IN THE HOTSEATBetter known by his stage name Wretch 32 Jermaine Sinclair is a 28-year-old rapper from London. In 2011 his debut album Black and White sold over a million copies and scored
Gillian Anderson is fired up in 'The Fall', but Whicher is suspiciously dull ; The former 'X-Files' star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in ...
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From fact to fantasie discovering the real Schumann
People have a craving for knowledge about the lives of the great composers. Instrumental music is unequalled among the arts in its magnificent, even defiant abstractness. It suggests infinite possibilities, without offering any definitive answers. What could be more tantalising?But Schumann's music excites further curiosity, because it is not only lofty, but personal. Excruciatingly ...
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Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary
From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon ...
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John Abraham proved his mettle with his acting in Shootout at Wadala
John Abraham admits when he was offered to play gangster Manya Surve in Sanjay Gupta's recent blockbuster Shootout At Wadala (SAW), he doubted his ability. He was strongly convinced that his macho image would come in the way of the dramatic role at hand."I was worried, stressed and scared but I said this was a make-or-break situation for me in life. If I can play Manya Surve, I will ...
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Family life | Hen-house holiday Morris mynah and Subzi kuku
This photograph of my father and me was taken on holiday in 1947. For 50 weeks of the year, he paid into the holiday club at the engineering factory where he worked so we always had a summer holiday.We stopped going to stay in seaside boarding houses after visiting one called the Pendennis. Those were the days when the landlady waited at the door to make sure everyone left the premises before ...
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Audra McDonald A Broadway Star Gone Roaming Comes Home
. She's gotten divorced and remarried, absorbed the shock of losing her father in a plane crash and watched her daughter, Zoe, grow up from a kindergartener to a middle-schooler. Last year, McDonald returned to New York, starred ...
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Aguilera Green to return to The Voice
Singers (from left to right) Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green pose during a media event for "The Voice" in Los Angeles March 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Mario ...
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Yahoos $1.1B Tumblr acquisition almost at final stage
Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications.The Sunnyvale, California, company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr ...
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Jacksonville sets Stage for 100 jobs
A new distribution center is expected to bring as many as 100 jobs to Jacksonville in its first year, a board member with the Jacksonville Economic Development Corp. said.Board member Barry Hughes said local Stage Stores Inc. intends to purchase or lease a facility at North Bolton Street and U.S. Highway 69, which would be used as a new distribution center. The property is the former Astro Air ...
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Garderen Wins 6th Stage
SAN JOSE, Calif. | Tejay van Garderen raced to a dominating individual time trial victory Friday in the Tour of California to extend his overall lead over Australian Michael ...
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Linda Munk left the life of luxury to reinvent herself through the arts
Linda Munk was married at 19 in dreamy resplendence, right down to hand-stitched Parisian lace and a ballroom filled with the elite of Toronto. It was 1956.A handful of years later, she had shrugged off her Dior skirts and Yves St. Laurent gowns, peered from beyond the house of marriage and stepped into an independent future. Her husband, Canadian businessman and philanthropist Peter Munk, ...
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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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