According to a BBC report, a 150 year old carpet known as 'Pearl Carpet of Baroda', meant for decorating the tomb of Prophet Muhammad in Medina was sold for nearly $5.5 million at an auction in Doha. The carpet was decorated with an estimated 2 million natural seed pearls....
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THE SHOW MUST GO ON !2009 Grammy Awards definitely didn’t disappoint.The evening was stunning with performance by U2, and it just kept getting better with other performers like Justin Timberlake and Al Green, Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Taylor Swift and Miley...
" Major lottery winner says he's a fraud victim Ex-carpet cleaner sues to recover more than $3.5 million Ian Mulgrew, CanWest News ServicePublished: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 VANCOUVER -- B.C.'s biggest lottery winner claims he was bilked of more than $3.5...
Difficulties and impediments can be overcome with determination. This is what these young people faced with serious troubles and obstacles must have told themselves as they struggled to change their situation and...
Michael J. Fox was first inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000, but he finally walked down the red carpet to accept the honour earlier today. Fox was one of many Canadians honoured for their work in...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Child witnessing the strangulation of their mother, at the hands of the father, one cannot imagine what goes on in the mind of a child. One wonders what life...
"Partying and celeb-spotting have elbowed aside the movie business at the Cannes Film Festival. Celia Walden reports 'What's 'Le Festival', Mummy?" asked the neat little French boy seated opposite me, as our TGV...
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The Sex and the City ladies and their manalo blahniks have stepped on to the red carpet at the London premiere."Hundreds of screaming fans have greeted the stars of the Sex and the City movie at its world...
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Miss Miley Cyrus has pulled out of her first scheduled public appearance since the Vanity Fair photo scandal emerged earlier this week."The 15-year-old star of "Hannah Montana" for weeks has been scheduled to...
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"It is the flat floor of the universe. The Quran views the earth as an equal, but opposite to the sky. Again there are seven similar earths. Some Muslims claim that Allah meant the seven layers of earth, which cannot be true because the Quran says similar earths. The...
Vice President Dick Cheney has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, as the country is facing the worst violence since the US-led invasion in 2001." U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday to discuss ways the country's fragile...
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Tapestries, gypsies, and cross-stitching at Gucci? I'm still stuck on the big gold glam of interlocking G's and sleek, svelte silhouettes. Recycle them rock clichés!"The vast Ukrainian-patterned carpet said it all about the boho-deluxe theme at Gucci on Wednesday. The...
Certainly disturbing, most likely devastating to all marine life which unsuspectingly wander into Mother Natures Killing Fields that suddenly crop up along the Pacific NorthWest."Margaret Munro ,
Canwest News...
"Despite the writers strike we do get to enjoy some award shows, like The Critics Choice Awards. Since it isn't a guild signatory, the WGA did not picket the event, which enabled stars to attend as both nominees...
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"Human trafficking flies below the radar of most people's consciousness, but it happens — even in New Orleans
By Sarah Andert
The Capri Hotel on Tulane Avenue was no place for human inhabitants in November 2005. Floodwaters from the levee breaches had inundated the building...