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New film honors Valentino, "last king of fashion" (Reuters)

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By Silvia Aloisi 4 minutes ago VENICE (Reuters) - Eight months after tearfully bowing out of fashion, Valentino returned to the red carpet with a film celebrating the man who dressed some of the world's greatest beauties...                    

Coen brothers' spy comedy divides Venice critics (Reuters)

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By Mike Collett-White 2 hours, 15 minutes ago VENICE (Reuters) - The Coen brothers' latest film, the madcap comedy "Burn After Reading," has sharply divided the critics, unlike last year's acclaimed "No Country For Old...                    

Ulster fall to Worcester

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Winger Mark McCrea scores for Ulster's only try against Worcester Ulster's experimental team proved no match for a virtually full-strength Warriors side in a pre-season match at Ravenhill on Wednesday night. Worcester...                    

Venice opens with Pitt and Clooney (Reuters)

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VENICE (Reuters) - Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in a madcap comedy by the Coen brothers in which two Washington gym employees get caught up in the cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage, with results both...                    

Hemingway confidante brings author's Havana to life (Reuters)

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By Anna MacSwan Wed Aug 27, 8:35 AM ET EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - She was a teenager from Dublin looking to make her name as a journalist when American author Ernest Hemingway entered her life in 1959. Decades later,...                    

Hunt for Dalek parrot with classical taste

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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A British couple are appealing for help in finding their missing parrot Leonard which accurately imitates Dr Who villains the Daleks, but can also reproduce parts of Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth...                    

Hadgkiss has something brighten day

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Aug 27 2008 by Our Correspondent, South Wales Echo DAVID Hadgkiss produced a moment to savour when he grabbed a hat-trick for Panteg III. But it was all in vain as their Division One clash with Tonyrefail & Edmundstown...                    

Protesters take on war in Iraq

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The largest mass march on the first day of the Democratic National Convention was by protesters railing against the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees and others as they marched through downtown to Denver's federal...                    

MDC warns Mugabe parliament moves threaten talks

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC warned on Monday that President Robert Mugabe's appointments of parliamentarians were a threat to power-sharing talks after it said police had arrested two of its members in...                    

French general sees overconfidence in Afghan deaths (Reuters)

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PARIS (Reuters) - Overconfidence was probably a factor in the incident that led to the deaths of 10 French soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan, the French commander in the region was quoted as saying on Monday. "In the...                    

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