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2011-11-22T16:30:46Z

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2011-10-24T06:30:24Z

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2011-07-06T10:30:20Z

Hundreds of Harry Potter fans have been camping out for days in London's Trafalgar Square to secure a prime spot at Thursday's world premiere of the final film in the epic series.

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2011-05-23T15:30:12Z

LONDON (Reuters) - A British politician defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to prevent newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair.

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2011-05-23T06:30:19Z

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2011-03-23T15:30:30Z

Algerian-born singer Cheb Mami was paroled Wednesday less than two years into a five-year sentence in France for trying to force an ex-lover to have an abortion, his lawyer said Wednesday.

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2011-02-17T03:30:13Z

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - For almost a decade, the appropriately shoe-string outfit The Fringe Report has played a lead role in helping actors and audiences to navigate their way through the maze of low-budget theatres in London and beyond.

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2011-01-14T11:30:22Z

BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Danish star Ulrich Thomsen is reportedly attached to star in the period drama "The Face" from Swiss director Markus Imboden.

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2011-01-03T14:30:44Z

"The Archers", the world's longest-running soap opera, celebrated its 60th birthday over the New Year long weekend with a major storyline set to shake up the BBC radio serial.

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2010-12-12T19:30:32Z

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2010-06-02T13:00:22Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unlike most emerging Hollywood stars, there's nothing Russell Brand won't talk about. At 34, he's practically already said and done it all.

The British, brash, self-confessed former sex, heroin and crack addict, whose pranks and antics included being forced to resign as a

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LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Christopher Cazenove has died at the age of 64 after losing a battle with septicemia, his family said on Wednesday, the second "Dynasty" star to die in the past week.

Cazenove, who attended the upmarket school London to plant a kiss on the waxy cheek of British actor and teen pin-up Robert Pattinson on Thursday as Madame Tussauds unveiled a lifesize model of him.

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2010-03-16T14:16:06Z

Madrid will host the host the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony on November 7, organisers said Tuesday.

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2010-04-16T06:57:19Z

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England footballer, pop star in marriage split

2010-04-16T06:59:20Z

Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole and his pop star wife Cheryl have split, her publicist said Tuesday, following allegations of his infidelity.

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Residents of London's exclusive Mayfair district have hit out at British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, with the local council slapping restrictions on his pub and the nightly partying by its celebrity punters.

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London residents hit back Thursday at British filmmaker Guy Ritchie and the celebrities that frequent his pub, with the local council slapping restrictions on their nocturnal partying.

Residents of London's upmarket Mayfair neighbourhood complained that The Punch Bowl hotel had been transformed into a rowdy party venue since Ritchie, the former husband of Guy Ritchie and the celebrities that frequent his pub, with the local council slapping restrictions on their nocturnal partying.

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Spain appealed Friday to Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar to end her 19-day hunger strike, saying it was pressing her case with Moroccan authorities.

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