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Missing: Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz, Portugal A 'Walter Mitty' private investigator who claimed to be an experienced secret agent was allegedly paid £300,000 from the funds raised to try to...
Tony Blair No weapons of mass destruction, thousands dead, yet Mr Blair won a fourth term in 2005. He resigned in 2007, becoming the UN's Middle East envoy and adviser to J P Morgan and Zurich Financial Services. He now...
Mark Whitacre, protagonist of The Informant!, believes himself to be "a serious man", with disastrous consequences. As played by Matt Damon, with a heavy paunch and a horrible salesman's moustache, Whitacre is an office drone...
Luna "Loony" Lovegood from the later Harry Potter books seems to suffer from a mild-to-medium case of this. As her father publishes the Wizarding World's equivalent of the Weekly World News (without the "for entertainment...
I'm no Harriet Harman, says Rowan Pelling, but how can professional women in the 21st century allegedly be called "bimbos" and worse? Jordan Wimmer claimed her boss brought a prostitute to a work function Photo: PA The world of...
There have been big changes on the UK hip hop scene since Lethal Bizzle dropped his last album, Back to Bizznizz, in 2007. Grime has been tossed away carelessly by an inattentive and fickle music mainstream media in a similar...
By Robert Lloyd - Los Angeles Times “Fanboy and Chum Chum,” which premieres Friday night on Nickelodeon before taking up its regular post Saturday morning, is a cartoon about two kids who live in a permanent state of playing....
From James Thurber’s pre-war story, Norman Z. McLeod’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is pleasant enough, with pleasant Danny Kaye, as Mitty, daydreaming himself into an array of heroic and adventurous roles, with a variety of...
Police found a wide range of weapons when they arrested Alexander As illegal gun dealer Paul Alexander starts an indefinite sentence for supplying guns to the criminal underworld, BBC News examines his criminal past. Despite...
An Aberdeenshire man with a "Walter Mitty" persona has avoided a jail sentence after attempting a £66,000 fraud. Michael Findlay, 32, of Alford, tried to defraud a bank with a cheque from a defunct account to buy property. He...
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