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Tom Hanks: Personally I would never sign on to The Circle

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, who plays a Silicon Valley tycoon in an upcoming film "The Circle" which is based on a company run experiment...

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Environment

Plan To Pump Cold Water On To Barrier Reef To Stop Bleaching Labelled 'Band-Aid'

A proposal to use $9m to pump cold water on to the Great Barrier Reef’s tourist hotspots to stave off coral bleaching has been described as a “band-aid” s...

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Hollywood

Isabelle Huppert's 'Elle': The Provocative Rape-Revenge Film Earning Raves

The opening scenes of Elle, the latest provocation from Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, telegraph the birth of what might become a new kind of razor-edged woman’s story....

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Environment

Destruction of kelp forests by tropical fish shows impact of ocean temperature rises

Herbivorous tropical fish have destroyed kelp forests in northern New South Wales, showing that even small increases in ocean temperature can lead to kelp deforestation, an...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - All That Glitters

China is considered an Asian Tiger and an economic superpower to be feared by the First World countries. In India, Shanghai is seen as a model of urban development, and all...

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Kaleidoscope - Glimpses Of Kabul

Western women who do not have to live under oppressive conditions in strictly patriarchal countries like Afghanistan tend to romantisize the country's beauty and the nobili...

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Environment

The Rise In Sea Levels Could Be Almost Double Previous Estimates

Sea levels could rise an additional 39 inches by the end of the century — almost doubling previous estimates of the total potential increases in sea levels — du...

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Human Rights

On The Margins In A City Of Dreams

A week after a fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, fires in smaller pockets continue to blaze. But toxic smoke is only an addition to a long list of prob...

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Overall Telephone Subscriber Base Rises To 999.71 Million: Trai

The total telephone subscriber base in the country rose marginally to reach 999.71 million at the end of April, on the back of growth in wireless users, sectoral regulator ...

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Gender

After Retirement, Esther Ritz Became A Full-Time Painter At 55 And Never Looked Back

The art world has an alluring, if somewhat illusory, exterior. It gives off the impression of being progressive, fluid, experimental — a space for outsiders of all ki...

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