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FIRST ACTRESS NEWS
AP - Venice is on its way to having its first official female gondolier.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japan's gay and lesbian community marched in Tokyo on Saturday at the first gay parade in three years, campaigning for greater acceptance in a socially conservative country where being openly gay remains taboo.
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İstanbul police seized more than 140 kilograms of heroin and detained six people in operations in İstanbul and Düzce yesterday. In the first part of the operation, police stopped a car with a European license plate that they had been notified was carrying heroin while it was driving toward Europe.
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MOSCOW (AFP) - The first planeloads of US aid for the Russian wildfire tragedy arrived in Moscow Saturday, as Russia battled a fire close to a nuclear site but claimed success in cutting the area ablaze nationwide.
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The first planeloads of US aid for the Russian wildfire tragedy arrived in Moscow Saturday, as Russia battled a fire close to a nuclear site but claimed success in cutting the area ablaze nationwide.Firefighters sought to contain one of the worst remaining fires close to the country's main nuclear research centre but officials insisted that no strategic object in Russia was at risk from the blazes which have claimed 54 lives.
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Hakan Dinçer, who was detained on Wednesday for killing a police officer in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, said in his first testimony on Thursday that he killed the officer because he was depressed.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Saturday 20 million people had been affected by the worst floods in the country's history as the UN confirmed the first cholera case.Independence day celebrations were cancelled as floods continued to bring misery to millions and aid agencies warned of a "second wave" of deaths from disease."The floods affected some 20 million people, destroyed standing crops and food storages worth billions of dollars, causing colossal loss to national economy," Gilani said in a televised address to the nation.
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Danielle Kang defeated Sydnee Michaels on the first hole of a playoff Friday and advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
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South Africa is basking in the glory of successfully staging the first World Cup on African soil but the country's thoughts have already shifted to another top sports event - the Olympic Games.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said next Saturday's vote would be one of the "closest, tightest races" in the country's history as she took the lead in neck-and-neck polls.Gillard, Australia's first female leader, gained four points to lead Tony Abbott's conservative Liberal/National coalition 53 percent to 47 percent heading into the campaign's crucial final week.The latest Nielsen poll of 1,356 voters showed a three-point gain for flame-haired Gillard in the preferred prime minister stakes 52 percent to Abbott's 38 percent.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday after a cholera outbreak stoked fears of a second wave of deaths from disease. The devastating floods have affected millions of people and killed more than 1,300.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday after a cholera outbreak stoked fears of a second wave of deaths from disease. The devastating floods have affected millions of people and killed more than 1,300.
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Hong Kong director Christopher Sun arranges toy action models in front of a massive penis-shaped fountain, the easiest way to explain his intentions to the multilingual cast of what has been billed as the world's first 3D porn film."I can't ask my crew to do this and the best thing is you can get (the action models) naked without any complaints," he told AFP at a secluded studio in Hong Kong.The director is in a race against time to complete his 3.2 million-US-dollar film "3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy", which is due for release in May.
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Hong Kong director Christopher Sun arranges toy action models in front of a massive penis-shaped fountain, the easiest way to explain his intentions to the multilingual cast of what has been billed as the world's first 3D porn film.
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Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood go head to head for the world No 1 spot when the WGC Bridgestone Invitational tees off in Akron, Ohio, tomorrow. The pair were yesterday drawn together in the first two rounds at Firestone, with so much to play for. Woods, who has won at Firestone on his last four trips and a US Tour record seven times in all, is under threat from both Westwood and Phil Mickelson at the top of the rankings.
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RWE's First-half Net Profit Drops 8%
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China's golden Olympic figure skating pair Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo fell in love on the ice. Next month, they will throw a long-delayed wedding party on ice, with several of the sport's biggest stars.Shen and Zhao capped a 18-year storybook partnership with China's first Olympic figure skating title in Vancouver in February. They then announced their retirement from the sport, and said they wanted to start a family.Though they have been officially husband and wife since 2007, when they won a third world title, they never threw a wedding celebration.
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Nestlé posted a 7.5 per cent rise in first-half profits yesterday, but warned that its markets face headwinds in the second six months of the year.
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Norway beat France 2-1 in a friendly match in Oslo on Tuesday. The game was a crucial test for new French coach Laurent Blanc and his new squad of 13 uncapped players and 16 French league players after the team’s woeful World Cup performance.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australians in the country's vast outback have cast the first votes of the August 21 election, with chances growing of a hung parliament which could add further uncertainty to whoever takes power.
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