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Fake That: The uncanny world of America's biggest celebrity-lookalike convention
Holy mackerel! Look over there! Isn't that Richard Gere, with his dreamy silver hair and professorial wire spectacles, taking a leak in the Gents? And OhMiGaaaad, am I seeing things or is that Sarah Palin holding a conversation with (pinch me, somebody) Arnie Schwarzenegger in a serious gun shop?
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Peruvian gang 'killed peasant farmers for their fat'
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Police claim bodies were drained by killers seeking to sell lipids for use in cosmetics
US senator calls for return of Lockerbie bomber to jail
Saturday, 21 November 2009
A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted on the assumption that he had only three months to live because he was suffering from prostate cancer.
Hurricane Katrina: It was not an act of God
Friday, 20 November 2009
Judge's ruling that negligence led to flooding may lead to a huge government payout
'Daily Show' Brit gets own comedy series
Friday, 20 November 2009
John Oliver graduates from Jon Stewart's hugely successful US news satire
Behind Asia's nice manners, tough lessons for Obama
Friday, 20 November 2009
Frustrating tour of Asia has left America with much to think about
How Ashcroft became the banker to paradise
Friday, 20 November 2009
Stephen Foley : Much is known about Lord Ashcroft's involvement in the Caribbean territory of Belize. But the British public has heard less about his interests in the Turks and Caicos islands.
Happy holidays – without Santa Claus or pumpkins
Friday, 20 November 2009
The Grinch stole Christmas back in the days of innocence, but today climate change and sexual alarmism are doing just as good a job as Dr Seuss's mean critter.
Oprah Winfrey quits TV show after 25 years
Friday, 20 November 2009
Oprah Winfrey, the reigning monarch of daytime chat and occasional champion of presidents and authors, is to announce on her television show today that after nearly a quarter of a century of syndication success she is preparing to quit her show for good the year after next.
Girl tasered by police with mother's permission
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Now the US town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate.
Meteor turns midnight into daylight sky - Video
Thursday, 19 November 2009
A streaking fireball briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level conditions, surveillance footage shows.
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