Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Rating: 3 stars

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly

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George H. W. Bush Honored With Liberty And Justice For All Award

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Odisha set to implement Climate Change Action Plan

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Africa: ‘Green Economies’ for Africa’s Sustainable Development

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Cuba: The Meaning of Human Rights

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As a resul...

World Innovation Summit for Health 2013: Obesity is a global public health pandemic

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Building partnerships with patients is critical to improving health reform practices

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Bollywood stars Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, John Abraham, Anushka Sharma express disappointment on Twitter over Supreme Court verdict on homosexuality

Bollywood celebrites on Wednesday voiced disappointment over the Supreme Court verdict that criminalised homosexuality, calling it “violative of basic human rights". ...

Ending the AIDS epidemic is a matter of human rights

HIV has taught us that health and human rights are intricately linked and that we need to protect and respect human rights and be
courageous enough to confront society...