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Nicole Kidman vamps it up in steamy Cannes contender
Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy", marking the US director's return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit "Precious".
The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida...
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Oil prices rebound on bargain hunting
Oil prices rebounded slightly on Thursday as investors went bargain hunting after New York crude slumped below $90 a barrel the previous day, analysts said.
New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for delivery in Jul...
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Eurozone tunnel darkens, after EU summit stalemate
Eurozone tensions rose again on Thursday with grim signals from business, and a flight of capital into Germany after an EU summit disagreed on solutions to the crisis.
Hanging over European Union governments, and business and finance, i...
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Vatican Bank head ousted as Holy See fights scandal
The Vatican Bank ousted its president on Thursday after he failed to clean up the image of an institution that has come to symbolise the opacity and scandal gripping the Holy See's administration.
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was forced to resig...
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Suu Kyi to make landmark foreign trip next week
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Bangkok, according to her party.
The former political prisoner's plan to leave her hom...
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Troubled Iran nuclear talks spill over into 2nd day
Tough talks aimed at helping resolve the decade-old crisis over Iran's nuclear programme enter an unscheduled second day on Thursday with world powers and Tehran seemingly wildly at odds.
On Wednesday at the meeting in Baghdad the P5+1 po...
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Button tops times in Monaco practice
Jenson Button topped the times for McLaren at the end of Thursday's two opening free practice sessions ahead of this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix.
The 2009 world champion outpaced Romain Grosjean of Lotus by three-tenths of a second on a d...
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Man detained in Etan Patz's 1979 disappearance
New York's police chief said Thursday that a man has been detained after implicating himself in the disappearance of a young boy in 1979, an unsolved crime that has haunted Americans ever since.
"An individual now in custody has made stat...
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Goal-line technology for England friendly - FIFA
Goal-line technology will be tested in an international match for the first time, when England take on Belgium in a Euro 2012 warm-up, FIFA said on Thursday.
The system, developed by British firm Hawk-Eye, will be put through its paces du...
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Eurozone private sector downturn worsens: PMI
Eurozone private sector activity suffered its worst monthly slide in nearly three years in May, a survey showed Thursday, which analysts said indicates it is locked in a dismal downturn.
The flash Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) compiled ...
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