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  • Paris Hilton signs deal with hip-hop label

    Paris Hilton has become the newest member of one of hip-hop's hottest labels - Cash Money Records. The heiress and reality star has signed with the record label, which is home to hitmakers Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Drake, CNN reported. Cash Money's co-founder Bryan "Birdman" Williams tweeted a welcome to Hilton on Wednesday, causing Hilton's name to cruise at the top of the social media's ...

  • Singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki dies

    Singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki died Thursday in the French Mediterranean city of Nice, his family said. He was 79. A Greek native, Moustaki grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and arrived in Paris in 1951. He began performing at nightclubs and came to know masters of the "chanson franaise" such as Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Moustaki met Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and ...

  • 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 ...

  • France calls for consensus between Lebanon rivals

    Patrice Paoli said in remarks published Friday.Paoli told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that a consensus among political leaders is required in light of the gun battles ...

  • Kenya Film Pact to Allow Kenyan Filmmakers to Shoot in France

    The Kenya Film Commission (KFC) and the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) have signed a memorandum of understanding to fortify film activities in the two countries. The 14-clause agreement highlighted areas of mutual cooperation ranging from film co-production, festivals, training and institutional strengthening. Under the agreement, the two institutions have committed to support cinema ...


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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

I am neither a scientist nor a theologian, although I have great personal stake in both areas, so I will not pretend that I can address in any substantially meaningful way the arguments and claims made in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. This has not, of course, stopped many, many oth ... ...

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  • Serenas biggest challenge herself at French Open

    Venus dispatched, Serena next for Brit Robson Based on form, Serena Williams is a stand-out favourite to win a second French Open title, but her record at Roland Garros means she approaches the tournament with a touch of apprehension and fearful of the "lady in the mirror". Williams is world No 1, unbeaten in 24 matches and has won four consecutive tournaments, yet she remains ...

  • Briton John Steele found hanged in French jail

    John Steele, 38, was found by prison guards hanging in his cell on Tuesday, four days after he was remanded in custody. Steele, who had lived near Paris for some years, was believed to be behind a scheme which took more than 1 million in loans from French banks. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the death of a British national in France on 21 May and we stand ready to ...

  • Is the French Military the Best Counterterrorism Response in Mali

    According to Fiona Blyth, France's intervention in Mali shows that the West's 'war model' for dealing with international terrorism is alive and well. We may still prefer the model, she observes, but that shouldn't stop us from considering the merits of other counterterrorism strategies. By Fiona Blyth for International Peace Institute ...

  • IMF chief is back in court over 2007 payout to a French tycoon

    IMF chief Christine Lagarde is back in court today facing more questions over her role in a controversial payout made to a French businessman. If the judges feel she has a case to answer she will be placed under formal investigation and could lose her current job. Although she’s not being accused of benefiting from the 400 million euro payout, she is being questioned over an alleged ...

  • Ishkq In Paris movie review

    Love, as the sages say, is a many-splendoured thing. You can look at it as an occasion for stress and heartbreak (which is why we fall, never rise, in love). Or love can be a celebration of life. Director Prem Raj's debut film Main Aur Mrs Khanna took a quaint capricious look at love during times of adultery. On this occasion (Ishkq in Paris) he takes flight in a Parisian paradise where ...

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