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A French judge probing Wall Street financial conman Bernard Madoff's dealings in France will be questioning Patrice de Maistre, the wealth manager of scandal-hit L'Oreal billionaire Liliane Bettencourt.
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Britain's Mark Cavendish produced another of his trademark explosive final sprints to claim his second straight stage win in the Tour of Spain on Friday.Spain's Igor Anton of the Euskatel team retained the leader's red jersey after the 196-kilometre ride from Rincon de Soto to Burgos in north-central Spain.Cavendish, of the HTC Columbia team, edged his great rival, Norway's Thor Hushovd of Cervelo, in a mass sprint finish. Third was another sprint specialist, Italy's Daniele Bennati of Liquigas.
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Will Ferrell's Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi padre has fortified its cast with Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who worked together in the 2001 movie Y tu mama tambien.
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A French judge probing Wall Street financial conman Bernard Madoff's dealings in France will be questioning Patrice de Maistre, the wealth manager of scandal-hit L'Oreal billionaire Liliane Bettencourt.
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The government of Zimbabwe has banned South African band Freshlyground over a Spitting Image-style music video which portrays its ageing president Robert Mugabe as a chicken afraid to relinguish power.
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Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is to team up with Speed director Jan de Bont to make an English version of the Chinese legend Mulan.
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CBCSports.ca invites fans to join Nigel Reed and Jason de Vos for CBC Sports Soccer Plus+, a live and interactive online soccer show, on Friday Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. ET.
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Families of Robert Pickton's victims are expressing relief and hope now that a public inquiry has been called into their loved ones' deaths.
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Confident, bold and sassy: trousers are striding fearlessly back into the game. The Dutch model Anna de Rijk shows how.
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The queen of recycling, Orsola de Castro, takes on Junky Styling to create a red carpet outfit out of old clothes and designer waste for eighties pop princess Sinitta.
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Towering Frenchman Teddy Riner, now a triple world heavyweight judo champion, faces an unlikely possible challenge from Japan's Olympic winner turned mixed martial arts fighter Satoshi Ishii.Ishii, 23, quit judo after winning the over-100 kilogram title in his Olympic debut at the 2008 Beijing Games, but said he was considering competing in the sport again at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games as a US citizen.
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TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who worked together in "Y tu mama tambien," are joining Will Ferrell in "Casa de mi padre," a Spanish-language comedy that will be told in an overly dramatic telenovela style.
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A Florida pastor who planned to burn copies of the Koran on September 11 called off the event shortly after Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary urged him not to go ahead.
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PARIS (AP) -- Oscar-winning actress Olivia de Havilland, whose memorable performance in ''Gone With The Wind'' still touches hearts 70 years later, has been awarded the Legion of Honor by the president of France.
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A giant telescope, 50 meters (164 feet) across, will this year start unraveling mysteries of the birth and death of galaxies up to 14,000 light years away, from atop a Mexican volcano.Resembling a massive white satellite dish, the Large Millimeter Telescope will be the largest and most sensitive single-aperture telescope operating at its range.It sits at a height of 4,580 meters on the summit of Sierra Negra, an extinct volcano in the central state of Puebla, which lies alongside Mexico's highest mountain, the snowy-peaked Pico de Orizaba.
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Economist Robert Chote is set to become the new head of the Government's tax and spending watchdog, it was announced today.
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Economist Robert Chote is set to become the new head of the Government's tax and spending watchdog, it was announced today.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Barclays Private Equity plans to raise at least 1.5 billion euros ($1.91 billion) for a new fund as it prepares to fly the nest and spin off from its parent bank in a few months, the firm's co-head of private equity said. "The day we think the fund is what we want it to be, we will become independent," Gonzague de Blignieres told a Reuters private equity forum in Paris on Thursday.
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Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck has not been selected for the world road race cycling championships to be held in Australia later this month, the national federation said Thursday.Luxembourg's three-man team will instead be led by the oldest of the Schleck siblings, Frank, who is currently preparing for the September 29-October 3 event, to be held in Geelong south of Melbourne, at the Tour of Spain.Andy Schleck will finish off his season by trying to win the Tour of Lombardy, the 'race of the falling leaves' which is held on October 16.Luxembourg teams
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PARIS (Reuters) - Barclays Private Equity plans to raise at least 1.5 billion euros ($1.91 billion) for a new fund as it prepares to fly the nest and spin off from its parent bank in a few months, the firm's co-head of private equity said. "The day we think the fund is what we want it to be, we will become independent," Gonzague de Blignieres told a Reuters private equity forum in Paris on Thursday.
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