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  • 25 killed 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

    At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ...

  • Rosario Dawson suffers wardrobe malfunction by flashing undies at Cannes

    Rosario Dawson suffered a fashion mishap on the Cannes red carpet by accidently flashing her underwear to cameras while posing on the steps, on Monday. The 34-year-old actress looked gorgeous in a white beaded Elie Saab gown as she attended the premiere of 'As I Lay Dying', but she flaunted the front high-slit a little too much on the red carpet, Us magazine reported. After the mishap, Dawson ...

  • Paris Hilton planning to marry toyboy beau by year end

    Paris Hilton is looking forward to marry her toyboy boyfriend, River Viiperi, and the wedding could take place this year. The 32-year-old hotel heiress, who has been dating the 21-year-old for eight months, is hoping to be taken down the aisle in a lavish ceremony, the Mirror reported. She told the publication during Cannes that the wedding could happen anytime soon. "I trust him with my life ...

  • IMFs Lagarde questioned over French arbitration case

    By Chine LabbPARIS (Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde was questioned in court by French magistrates on Thursday over her role in a 285-million-euro (242 million pounds) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.Lagarde, in court the entire day, risks being placed under formal investigation when the hearing wraps up on Friday for her 2007 decision as ...

  • Video Why is Ryan Goslings new film being panned by critics at Cannes

    The Globe's film critic Liam Lacey joins Madeleine White from the Cannes film festival to discuss which films are panning and which films are quickly becoming ...


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Insomnia

Like the original, Christopher Nolan's remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg's 1997 Norwegian thriller Insomnia is less of a police procedural than it is a morality play. Pitting a seasoned police detective against an intelligent murderer, it moves along familiar lines for roughly half the film before everything becomes suddenly blurred when the detective and the killer join forces. All blacks ... ...

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  • Rafa Nadal Serena Williams enter French Open as clear favourites

    Used to be the French Open was the scene for clay-court specialists and surprise champions.Scan the list of past winners and runners-up. There's Gaston Gaudio and Albert Costa, Guillermo Coria and Martin Verkerk, Andres Gomez and Mariano Puerta. Not so much a "Who's Who." More like a "Who's He?"The women's list features fewer out-of-nowhere names, yet does ...

  • Nadal favored but not seeded No. 1 at French Open

    FILE - In this April 20, 2013 file photo, Spain's Rafael Nadal plays a return to France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga during their semifinal match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco. Nadal already owns a record seven titles at Roland Garros. The French Open begins Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, ...

  • New Jewelry Theft Reported in Cannes Festival

    Paris, May 23 (Prensa Latina) A diamond necklace valued at nearly two million euros disappeared at a party in a hotel during the Cannes Film Festival, it was reported today in the French Riviera. The jewel belongs to the Swiss house De Grisogono and the theft occurred during a gala in honor held on Tuesday in the presence of several movie stars attending the festival. Sources of Cannes police ...

  • Thieves make off with $2.62-million necklace in 2nd heist during Cannes film festival

    A $2.6-million necklace was stolen from an exclusive French Riviera hotel during the Cannes Film Festival this week. Thieves last week stole about $1 million worth in jewelry from the Riviera’s Novotel hotel, ...

  • Imperial and ‘monarchic’ scent–it could only be French

    CHARRIOL Royal White eau de parfum formen There's a certain kind of attitude and swagger--the French way of doing things. "The French behave as kings," Philippe Charriol explained the idea behind and the name of his house's new men's fragrance, Royal White, in last week's launch at The Peninsula Manila. "It's very monarchic," he said, enumerating ...

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