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Viola Davis is among the presenters at this Sunday's (29.01.12) Screen Actor Guild Awards as is Glenn Close, Berenice Bejo, Bryan Cranston, and Shaile...

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Baghdad ( 16 )

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber detonated [...]

Europe ( 16 )

Europe's largest bell will ring to start a £27m Olympic opening [...]

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Celebrity Big Brother ( 8 )

The wild haired teenager has got some strong backing in the form of his old X Factor mentor Gary Barlow.

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A man whose headless body was found on fire was blasted with a shotgun before being decapitated, police said today.Related StoriesJailed juror refused appealHunt for violent prisoner'Scotland's Stephen Lawrence' case to be re-openedFound: 'Lost' [...]

Music

Ticket Details ( 7 )

Band follow NME Awards show with 18 further dates

London

Organisers ( 2 )

London 2012 organisers are to take control of the Olympic Village site in a ceremony to mark six months until the Games begin.

Politics

Stephen Hester ( 5 )

London mayor Boris Johnson calls award 'bewildering' and Labour leader Ed Miliband describes it as 'disgraceful'Ed Miliband and Boris Johnson have joined the chorus of criticism over the decision by the Royal Bank of [...]

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Seattle ( 10 )

Does your iPhone battery life get you down? Don’t worry. Two enterprising Seattle geeks believe they’ve solved that ongoing frustration with the SolMate, a innovative iPhone case whose razor-thin solar panel and 16-bit microcontroller [...]