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Huntsville approves entertainment districts
http://bit.ly/1aeMVoU ) the Huntsville city council on Thursday approved two separate entertainment districts. People will be allowed to walk around with an alcoholic beverage in the districts on Thursdays and Fridays starting June ...
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Wikileaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may claim to be a champion of transparency, but when an Oscar-winning filmmaker wanted to shine a light on his rise to fame after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables on his website, Assange was none too ...
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Cannes Magic Magic Stars Juno Temple Michael Cera on Culture Shock in Chile
Temple credits Cera's friendship for helping her get through the emotional scenes in Sebastian Silva's psychological thriller, which screened in the Directors' Fortnight ...
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German Soccer Rules Europe Can It Conquer the World
Murdoch's Sky Deutschland Scores Big With Bundesliga Rights For the 200 million viewers who will watch the first-ever all-German Champions League final on Saturday, the message is clear: European soccer now speaks with a German ...
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Robert Redford to Direct Segment in 3D Doc Series Cathedrals of Culture
(2012), will helm the second part of the series, a look at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, which was built by the architect Louis Kahn. Redford's Sundance Productions and @radical.media in New York will produce the segment together with Wenders' Berlin-based shingle Neue Road Movies. The other directors in the series are ...
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Kid Rock Rolling Stones Ticketmasters Jared Smith on Scalping Summer tours
Rick Diamond/Getty Images for GJ Memorial Kid Rock performs at the funeral service for George Jones at The Grand Ole Opry on May 2, 2013 in Nashville, ...
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Amanda Bynes Arrested See Photos of Handcuffed Star Being Taken Into Custody
arrested Thursday night in New York City after she allegedly threw a bong out her apartment window after police arrived in response to call that the actress had purportedly been smoking marijuana in the building's ...
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Attack casts spotlight on radical preachers and the terror group al-Shabab
LONDON - Two Muslim hardline preachers say that one of the suspects in the killing of a London soldier was interested in their teachings. And a British government official said one of the men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the terror group al-Shabab. Here's a look at the preachers and al-Shabab. OMAR BAKRI MUHAMMED Spiritual leader and founder of the group al-Muhajiroun. ...
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Syria to take part in peace talks
The Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States, Russia's foreign ministry said today.The Syrian government had "agreed in principle" to participate in the conference in Geneva which is expected within two weeks, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks.Mr Lukashevich, however, ...
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European Commission issues two-year ban on pesticides harmful to bees
The European Commission is to ban for two years beginning in December, pesticides blamed for killing the bees that pollinate food and fruit crops.EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg said the decision to ban the three insecticides, made by chemicals giants Bayer and Syngenta, "marks another milestone towards ensuring a healthier future" for bees.The companies insist their products are not ...
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Varadkar those with access to garda records must respect confidentiality
The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said that anyone with access to garda records needs to respect confidentiality and keep them private.It follows questions in the Dil about an incident involving the Justice Minister Alan Shatter and a breathalyser test in 2011.Alan Shatter has admitted he was asked for a breath test at a routine checkpoint in 2008 or 2009, but failed to give it because he ...
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Bray garda faces trial for allegedly forging a letter from DPP
A garda based in Bray, Co Wicklow is facing trial for allegedly forging a letter from the Office of the DPP.Catherine McGowan has appeared in Dublin District court accused of using a copy of a false instrument at Bray Garda Station on June 21 2011.The 46-year-old is charged under section 28 of the 2004 Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offences Act.The book of evidence is due to be served on her ...
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PAC chairman suggests civil servants are leaking information
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has suggested that civil servants may be leaking information to the media. John McGuinness's claims comes after the spending watchdog revealed yesterday that more than EUR250,000 was spent on refurbishing Deputy McGuinness's office when he was a Junior Minister. The meeting also heard that at the time, officials requested that only ...
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Hayes Shatter has done a very good job answering questions
The junior Finance Minister said the Justice Minister has answered questions about why he failed a breathalyser test at a Garda checkpoint on his way home from the Dil, but if there are further questions about the incident, he will answer them. Minister Shatter said yesterday he failed the test because he has asthma, after Independent TD Mattie McGrath raised the issue in the Dil.It is expected ...
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New website displays celebrities of Jane Austens youth
The What Jane Saw website, launching on Saturday, will allow the public to experience the 1813 exhibition of Joshua Reynold's paintings, as seen by ...
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After 61 films including The Hangover Part III Heather Graham admits she still likes to boogie
She has come a long way from Roller Girl - but in her latest role in 'Hangover' franchise, she proves she can still bring a movie to life. So why is she always on the fringes of the A-list? Lesley O'Toole meets ...
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British security services in spotlight after soldier murder
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence ...
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Platini warns of match-fixing mafia
UEFA president Michel Platini has warned of mafia involvement in match-fixing - but his call for a Europe-wide sports police force has fallen on deaf ears.Platini said match-fixers were not "petty criminals" but money launderers and that such a police force could also tackle hooliganism.In his speech at the UEFA Congress in London, Platini said: "We are protecting our sport from ...
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Taoiseach criticises commentary on Irelands corporate tax rate
The Taoiseach has criticised much of the commentary around Ireland's corporate tax rate.Speaking at the second EU Asia conference in Dublin, Enda Kenny defended our tax regime again - after a US Senate Committee heard that Ireland had agreed a special tax rate with the computer giant Apple.The Taoiseach said the Irish tax regime is fully transparent - and hit out at reports surrounding the ...
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US child beauty pageant not telling parents to tan their kids
One of America's most controversial child beauty pageants is promising the parents of would-be Irish contestants that they do not have to put fake eyelashes and tan on their children.Texas-based "Universal Royal Beauty Pageant" will stage its first-ever show in Ireland this September.The EUR20,000 event for both girls and boys, which will see babies, toddlers and teens compete ...
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CSO reveals 85 rise in price of potatoes in just over a year
The weather is being blamed for the rising cost of potatoes. According to figures released by the Central Statistics Office, the price of the humble spud has soared by about 85% since January 2012.Irish consumers spend about EUR162m every year on potatoes. Ross Keogh from Keoghs potato farm in North Dublin says the continuing wet weather since last April is driving up the price of the ...
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GHAMRO Jailed Music Pirates 10 Years
Carlos Sekyi, GHAMRO Chairman Five music pirates who were arrested from their various hideouts in Accra recently by the tasked force of the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO), have been jailed by the AMA Motor and Sanitation Court at Abeka in Accra. The courts fined the five pirates 500 penalty units each (300 million old Ghana cedis) or in default collectively serve 10 years in prison ...
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‘Ghana Meets Naija’ Concert Returns
Bola Ray (middle) in a pose with Edem (left) and WizKid On June 29, Ghanaian music fans would witness the much awaited historic musical concert dubbed 'Ghana Meets Naija', at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) in Accra at 8:00p.m. The music concert, organised by the nation's entertainment powerhouse, Empire Entertainment, would witness an unprecedented list of some ...
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A blending of dance and music
When Sabrina Jaafer told her friend from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York that she and the Nai- Ni Chen Dance Company were going to perform at the Publick Playhouse in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, her friend gushed. "Oh, you're going to love it!" the friend told Jaafer. "They have the best audience." After a stringed prelude by the Ahn Trio, ...
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BINTM Enter Our Insta-Model Competition
.Submit a picture of yourself doing your best pout through either Instagram or Twitter, making sure you’ve used the tags #BINTM and #pout. This competition starts on Monday 27 May at 12pm and will finish on 11. 59pm on Sunday 3 June 2013. We’ll have two more mystery contests coming up afterwards, so make sure you keep your eyes on the BINTM Twitter and Facebook so you don’t ...
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