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  • $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival

    CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...

  • Healthy heart ensures healthy kidney

    Scientists have shown that a lifestyle that encourages a healthy heart could also shield patients with chronic kidney diseases from kidney failure and premature death, says a study. The findings, appearing in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), suggest that patients with kidney diseases should be encouraged to improve their heart's health, reports Science Daily. Poor ...

  • HTCs Facebook phone launch postponed in UK and Europe

    The phone, called the HTC First, was first released in the US in mid-April and aimed to base its success around Facebook Home - a "super app" that overlays the phone's home screen with news and pictures from the user's Facebook account.Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, launched the software on 4 April, claiming it would "change the relationship" users had with their ...

  • Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports

    Getting slapped by a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan. I remember being invited to see a practice session at the Isenoumi sumo stable in eastern Tokyo back in the early 1960s shortly after I arrived for my first stay in Japan. Obese young sumo wrestlers grappled with each other and ...

  • Bryan Burwell Yes golf is the sport of gentlemen but rumbles are allowed

    ST. LOUIS - The kind and gentle folk who package professional golf to the masses as the sport of splendidly proper sportsmen would surely have enjoyed a casual stroll around Bellerive’s pastoral acreage on Thursday afternoon in St. Louis. Even with storm clouds lurking over the opening round of the Senior PGA Championship, golf’s over-50 set of old lions were on their best behavior. ...


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Godzilla 2000 (Gojira ni-sen mireniamu)

Having already starred in two TV shows and close to 30 movies in which he defeated Megalon, Gigan, Monster Zero, Mothra, the Smog Monster, the Sea Monster, and the Cosmic Monster, not to mention having been reinvented in digital glory by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin ("Independence Day"), one would think that Godzilla wouldn't have much left to offer. ...

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  • Psy to perform in Indonesia South Korean diplomatic celebration

    South Korean pop star Psy will perform in Indonesia at a concert celebrating diplomatic ties between the two countries, his management agency said Saturday. The performance -- which will not be staged as a solo concert -- will mark Psy's first visit to Indonesia, the Jakarta Globe reported. The "Gangnam Style" singer will perform July 6 at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in ...

  • Leave sports to sportspersons Omar Abdullah

    "I am personally of the view that sports bodies should be administered by sportspersons -- that is the great favour we can do to sportspeople," he ...

  • Thousands watch as murdered anti-Mafia priest is beatified in Sicily

    Pope Benedict , put Puglisi on the fast track towards sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church when he signed a decree last year recognizing that Puglisi had been killed "in hatred of the faith." That meant he could be beatified - the last step before sainthood - without a miracle being attributed to his intercession with God. A miracle is required for him to be declared a saint, ...

  • Google Apple and Facebook stage bidding war over buying crowdsourced GPS app Waze

    Crowdsourced navigation app Waze is reportedly at the centre of a bidding war with the company "fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties", Bloomberg ...

  • Spot-fixing effect New law soon to deal with malpractices in sports says Sibal

    In the wake of shocking allegations of spot-fixing in IPL, a new standalone law to deal with such "dishonest practices" in all kinds of sports will be enacted soon.Announcing this in New Delhi on Saturday, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said the new law was favoured by Attorney General G E Vahanvati as activities like match-fixing or spot-fixing are not covered under the present laws.He told ...

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