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  • New Man U boss Moyes imprints identity by axing Fergies backroom staff

    New Manchester United boss David Moyes has started to imprints his own identity on the club by wielding the axe on former boss Sir Alex Ferguson's backroom staff at United. The former Everton boss booted out No.2 Mike Phelan, who had been Ferguson's right-hand man since 2008, and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, as he reportedly wants his own assistants in Old Trafford, the Mirror reports. The ...

  • Exhausted Vettori faces black cloud over Test future after Leeds Test pull out

    According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds, fearing that his body cannot cope with the strenuous exertion in the five days that will follow. According to Stuff.co.nz, although the former captain was poised to overtake Stephen Fleming for a record 112th ...

  • Prince William very excited about becoming dad

    Prince William is very excited at the prospect of becoming a father, the chief executive of a charity has revealed. "He is looking forward to being a dad. He's very excited about it," People magazine quoted Seyi Obakin, chief executive of the charity Centrepoint - whose aim is to help homeless young people -, as saying. During the secret visit to Centrepoint's Bruce House in London earlier ...

  • Bikers pay tribute to Drummer Lee Rigby

    Bikers pay tribute to Drummer Lee Rigby HUNDREDS of bikers rode to Woolwich Barracks this afternoon (May 25) to pay their respects to murdered soldier Drummer Lee Rigby. They shared a moments silence and the Ode of Remembrance was then recited in tribute to the young father. He was hacked to death in John Wilson Street on Wednesday as he was returning to the barracks after spending ...

  • Lee Rigbys murder in Woolwich provokes backlash across UK

    A member of the mosque in Gillingham, Kent, boards up a smashed window after an attack THE murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich has provoked a backlash of anger across the UK, including the attacking of mosques, racial abuse and comments made on social media. An unemployed 28-year-old has been charged by police after allegedly posting an offensive message on Facebook. Sussex ...


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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse [DVD]

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse [DVD]

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, an utterly absorbing documentary about the torturous three-year production of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), begins the only place it could: at Coppola's press conference following the u ... ...

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  • Entrepreneurs into the final of national competition

    By Bruce Thain A group of entrepreneurs have made it to the final of a national business competition where they could win a prize worth 10,000. B'Spoke, based in Tottenham, have made it to the final of the TestTown competition run by Carnegie UK Trust to help revitalise Britain's high streets. B'Spoke is a community enterprise is based on the Broadwater Farm estate ...

  • Sporadic fighting in London as German fans await Champions League final

    Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich fans gather in Trafalgar Square in London before the Champions League final. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty ...

  • Riots spread outside Stockholm Sweden in sixth night of violence

    Rioting spread beyond the Swedish capital Stockholm, with youths torching vehicles and buildings on the sixth straight night of street violence, officials said. Specially trained police from Gothenburg and Malmo backed up local officers in Stockholm, the BBC reported Saturday. The disturbances began Sunday in Stockholm, but spread Friday to Orebro, where about 25 masked youths set fire to ...

  • Priest killed by Mafia one step closer to sainthood

    A priest killed by the Mafia in 1993 has been beatified in a ceremony in Italy attended by more than 50,000 people, Catholic Church officials said. The Rev. Giuseppe Puglisi is the first victim of organized crime to be declared a martyr, the BBC reported Saturday. A cardinal representing Pope Francis, 40 bishops and government ministers were present at the ceremony in Palermo, which is the ...

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