The 61st Annual Directors Guild of America Awards takes place tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The nominees this year are Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire, David Fincher for The Curious...
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Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, the governor of Pakistan's central bank, has been listed in the ten outstanding women leaders in Asia. "KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar has been listed...
A massive coordinated series of raids in California has arrested more than 1,150 illegal immigrants. The people arrested were those that had received deportation orders and not left the country."Federal immigration agents arrested more than 1,150 people in the largest...
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"LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Two Nebraska wrestlers, including one who won an NCAA championship in 2007, have been dismissed from the team after posing naked for videos and photographs on an Internet pornography site. Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan were let go Tuesday, three days...
His name was cited as one of the acheivers in the Hall of Fame of OFW Acheivers-an anthology of OFW Acheivers in Saudi Arabia, 1990 to 2000. At Riyadh Hospital where he was the medical director, he earned...
Obama Asks Top Moneyfolks to Help Clinton Retire Her Debt " June 24, 2008 ABC News has learned that on a conference call with his national finance team this afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, asked his...
Today marked the end of Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern's 11 years in office, as he handed in his resignation to President Mary McAleese." Ahern announced his resignation at the beginning of April amid ...
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"Will the great mystery surrounding the sudden death of Princess Diana ever end? On the 10th anniversary of her death in Paris, the British Establishment insist that Diana's death was a tragic accident, end of...
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"Finishing with Harry Potter was more painful than divorce, the author of the boy wizard blockbuster tales J.K. Rowling said Tuesday.
The billionaire author, who wrote her seventh and last Potter tome last year was tearful as she accepted an award for outstanding achievement...
"A visit to the Republic of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II is inevitable, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has said.
Mr Ahern was speaking on RTE radio on Christmas Eve when he made the comment.
"I think she will...
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"From hairspray and gangsters to old men -- get the star-studded SAG noms right now!
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
George Clooney / Michael Clayton - "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Daniel Day-Lewis / Daniel...
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"They say in football there is always the next match - and indeed, the next tournament. And qualifying for the next major tournament - the 2010 Word Cup - may become England's sole focus if Russia beat Israel on Saturday and finally put the Three Lions' wounded Euro 2008...
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A non-profit in the US is using video games to try and raise awareness of the experiences of migrants."The rules are simple:
Keep a low profile. Don't shoplift. Steer clear of immigration officers.
And you might avoid ending up in a deportation facility.
ICED, a video game...
The Motion Picture Association of America has funded and implemented two DVD-sniffing dogs in its quest to secure the distribution deals of its member studios. Pirates find these canines far less cute, placing a bounty on their elongated heads. After Reading this, I bet...
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"The leader of the project to get a Cold War Vulcan bomber airborne again has won a national award.
Dr Robert Pleming, chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, was named preservationist of the year 2007...
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