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Arabtec workers stage strike in Abu Dhabi Dubai
Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec has confirmed thousands of its workers have stayed away from work on Sunday demanding better wages, Reuters has reported. Two Arabtec employees who asked not to be identified told the news service several thousand workers engaged on various projects did not report for duty on Sunday and stayed in their accommodation. "We are working to resolve ...
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Arts Under the Oaks brings unique items to Long Beach
LONG BEACH, MS (WLOX) - A variety of jewelry, bags, painted wine glasses and baked dishes could be found at Arts Under the Oaks in Long Beach on Sunday. Located next to the Harbor View Cafe, vendors of all sorts brought their handmade items to be sold to those looking for something different. There were wreaths made of oysters to brightly colored t-shirts and freshly made pecan pie. All ...
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Montreal’s ‘Gandhi of hip hop’ takes on the musical
A telling thing happens as Josh Dolgin, the Montreal musical performance artist who goes by the moniker "Socalled," sits down to talk about his two latest projects. Dolgin spent the winter creating a soundtrack album ...
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Daft Punk’s new album dance music that’s both danceable and humanistic
, Daft Punk, the visionary dance-floor duo with the serious visors, has achieved the obvious and the counterrevolutionary: Dance music that is danceable and humanistic. As a comment on the record's retro fetish, someone posted on YouTube an ...
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Kenya Revenue Bill enters second stage in Senate
Debate on the proposed law, which gives direction on how national revenue is to be divided between the national and county governments, will be the major task of ...
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Ozzy Sharon united on red carpet
Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon put their rocky few months behind them on Saturday to walk the red carpet together at a star-studded event in Hollywood. The Osbournes have been dogged by rumours of marriage problems and were said to have been living apart as the Black Sabbath star battles a recent drug and alcohol relapse. But they put their troubles behind them to make a public ...
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Critics Notebook Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis Is Popular at Cannes
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Books of The Times Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When readers of ...
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US India dance awkwardly around the man who might be Indias next leader
India's main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi gestures during a campaign rally for the upcoming state elections in Bangalore, India, April ...
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Arsenal dance on pitch but still look out of step against Newcastle
Arsenal reins 17 years ago. As he embraced Mikel Arteta at the final whistle at St James' Park there was a huge sense of relief but also vindication after defying his critics and finishing in the top four for the 16th successive year.Contract speculation, rumours of unrest within the coaching staff, the worst start since 1994 and a contentious rant at the media have certainly made this ...
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UPDATE 1-Indian cinema on a mission at Cannes to dispel Bollywood image
Sun May 19, 2013 3:54pm EDT * Bollywood films have struggled at global box office * Four Indian films screened at Cannes film festival * Industry keen to lure investment to India (Adds Bombay Talkies premiere) By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, May 19 (Reuters) - Indian movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at the Cannes film festival - to show that their industry, which turns ...
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Bates raises creep factor
There have been many shows about towns full of pathological weirdos - Twin Peaks, of course, and Picket Fences and Eerie, Indiana to name a few. Bates Motel is definitely one of them. Uneven in tone from episode to episode, A&E's "contemporary prequel" to Hitchcock's Psycho airs its season finale Monday having nonetheless amassed a fair-sized list of creepy, ...
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Foley plays for laughs in Games
Can you image competing with your brothers and sisters for your inheritance? That's the premise of The Goodwin Games, a new comedy premiering Monday that stars Scott Foley, Becki Newton and T.J. Miller. Foley plays an uptight doctor, Newton plays an actress and Miller portrays an inept criminal. These three are siblings at war over a $23 million inheritance. Their eccentric father (Beau ...
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How do you organise your books
Tate Britain purely to look at some Turners in which case you could just follow the arrows to the Ts and give the Reynolds and the Stubbs a miss.Or you could curate an exhibition in the way I have arranged my books at home. Most people looking at my shelves might assume they were stacked randomly; but that is far from the truth. It's just that they are arranged in a way to reflect both the ...
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Television Review The Goodwin Games With Beau Bridges on Fox
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Television Review Motive New Crime Drama on ABC
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The power of photography time mortality and memory
We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? We asked writers and artists, including Grayson Perry and Mary McCartney, to pick a shot they treasure - and tell us the role photography has played in their ...
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Visconti wins gruelling Giro stage
cycling is in dire need of a heroic figure who can capture the public's imagination and bring pizzazz and sponsorship money back into the sport. That gap - and its underlying reasons - was thrown into clear relief when the slightly truncated 14th stage of ...
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Musical world celebrates Wagners 200th birthday
BAYREUTH, Germany--Opera houses the world over are scrambling to pay tribute to Richard Wagner, the controversial German composer often referred to as Hitler's favorite, who would have turned 200 this ...
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Lets go Bulworth... If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president which films should he copy
Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ...
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Graham on one-hour orgasms
The Hangover star Heather Graham has detailed her past sex hang-ups in a revealing new movie screenplay. The actress admits she was scarred by religious teachings, which suggested that kids who had sex before marriage were on the fast track to hell. She says, "When you grow up Catholic and you're told that you're going to go to hell for having pre-marital sex, then how do ...
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Mellencamp-King musical to debut
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A musical by John Mellencamp, writer Stephen King and T Bone Burnett will debut in Bloomington this fall before embarking on a tour of 20 U.S. cities. "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" will debut Oct. 10 at the Indiana University ...
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Dubai laborers stage rare strike for more pay
DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labor protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff ...
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Photography top tips for storing and viewing your images
Printing your images out and putting them in an old-fashioned album with amusing captions, just like my Dad used to, is still my favourite way to look at family snaps. You could use an electronic photoframe, but I think they're a bit Alan Partridge, usually run from the mains and not very ...
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Hey British moaners Germans want to be more like us | Stephen Evans
Aaron Barschak had not only walked through security but he had climbed on stage next to the prince. The accounts got ever more colourful (and perhaps fanciful). It was said that the "comedy terrorist" had been directed by a policeman through Windsor Castle: It's just down there, Sir, first on the left.In America, this would have been a matter of great seriousness. The news anchors ...
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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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