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  • Iran council cleric says woman on ballot not approved by law

    Iran's constitutional body, the Guardian Council, has ruled out women's participation in presidential elections as candidates. The final list of candidates will be announced on Tuesday, with only few names expected on the ballot, the BBC News reports. A clerical member of the Guardian Council Mohammad Yazdi has said that the constitution rules out any participation of women in elections, ...

  • Paintings return to England for first time in 230 years

    A world-class collection of oil paintings returning from Russia to England is like the treasures of the Forbidden City returning to Beijing, the exhibition curator said. The bulk of the collection of oil paintings brought together by the first British prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in the first half of the 18th century is returning from its current Russian home in the Hermitage Museum in ...

  • Fergie plans to drink all vineyards dry post retirement

    Retiring Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has joked that he planned to drink all the vineyards dry following his retirement. The Scot, who will hang up his watch after Sunday's visit to West Bromwich Albion, said that he is planning on imbibing a good amount of alcohol as a part of his relaxation after a hectic 26-year coaching career, the Mirror reports. Ferguson is also reportedly ...

  • Hodgson Bernstein urges lead England football figure Becks to reconsider retirement

    England national football team manager Roy Hodgson and FA chairman David Bernstein have paid tributes to the football star David Beckham and urged him to stay at the game, saying that he is a charismatic and talented player the football world cannot afford to lose. The tributes follow Beckham's retirement announcement, the Mirror reports. Hodgson looks at Beckham as all-time-great talent and ...

  • Will Prince William be in the delivery room with Kate

    This 4,800-sq.-ft.home is the grand prize in the lottery that benefits the VGH Burn Fund. Numerous fireplaces, sumptuous finishing and all the extras, such as a wine fridge and theatre room, complete ...


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North by Northwest

North by Northwest

It was originally titled "In a Northwest Direction." Then it was tentatively called "The Man on Lincoln's Nose." It was produced by MGM in 1959, a once-great movie studio that was then on the brink of financial collapse because it refused to let go of the old studio system while other studios were moving on. It was originally supposed to star Gregory Peck and Cyd Charisse, but the director, Alfred ... ...

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  • Philip Hammond breaks ranks on gay marriage

    Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, pictured, broke cabinet ranks to suggest that there was "real sense of anger" among voters over the legislation, currently going through Parliament, to allow gay weddings. He said there was no great demand in the country for change and criticised the amount of parliamentary time devoted to the issue. "I have just never felt that this is what ...

  • Tory activists are mad swivel-eyed loons says Cameron ally

    The publication of remarks made by a senior Tory about 'mad, swivel-eyed loons' is an embarassment for David Cameron. Photograph: Brendan ...

  • Bedroom tax prompts surge in pleas for council aid

    bedroom tax ".More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments (DHP) to help cover their rent in April, compared with 5,700 in the same month last year, according to an analysis of 51 councils by the Independent.The government has substantially increased DHP funding for local authorities to help those most affected by the withdrawal of what ministers call the "spare ...

  • Anderson bowls England back into first Test

    England James Anderson took his 300th Test wicket and then ended a bold counter-attack by New Zealand's Ross Taylor as England fought back in the first Test at Lord's.The two players lit up a Lord's bathed in artificial floodlight to counter the overhead gloom of Friday's second day, which ended with New Zealand 4 for 153 in reply to England's first innings 232 - a ...

  • Notes from a small island Is Sealand an independent micronation or an illegal fortress

    We embarked from the Thames Estuary in the dead of night. This, I was assured, was in order to catch the tide, but it gave our journey a whiff of mystery. Soon we were swathed in fog, as seagulls rose from the surface of the water, ghostly in the light cast by our 45ft fishing boat, the Charlotte Joan.Four-and-a-half hours after we left, looming out of the darkness, there it was: the Independent ...

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