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Anthony Wong, Yin Tao to Lead Epic Tang Drama
Big Content: ludicrous to expect DRMed music to work forever
Recession-hit brothels offer novel promotions
Alarm over Somalia's child soldiers
Basement Jaxx carnival shakes up Jisan fest
Chimps born to appreciate music
GIANT JELLYFISH PICTURES: Japan's Nomura Invasion
Lee Byung-hun Returns With Film 'G.I. Joe'
X-ray shows dog swallowed nine golf balls
Bringing Out The Dead: New York Dolls On Their Highs And Lows
From humble tool to global icon
Zhang Yimou's 'Guns' Gets Sony Boost
Found NINE years after she disappeared, Muffy the mutt turns up 1,200 miles from home
Nashik International Film Festival begins tomorrow
Scientists discover why we never forget how to ride a bicycle
Prolific page turner, 91, borrows 25,000th library book (with no overdue fines)
Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future
Scientology mounts a PR pushback
Phil Spector's biggest fan: Charles Manson
Downloads Beat Cinemas for Movie Fans
Germany Closes Two Flat-Rate Brothels
Now men get control pants to improve 'posture and lift'
Blue M&Ms 'mend spinal injuries'
EXCLUSIVE: Shinya Tsukamoto and the dream of TETSUO America
The cost of body parts around the world
Police: Man inhaled 28 cans of whipped cream at Walmart
Young Japanese Women Vie for a Once-Scorned Job
Baby's mother jailed after hospital release
Message of 'Overheard': Don't Be Greedy
North Korea opens US-style fast-food restaurant - but don't mention the hamburger
Kwon Sang-woo May Make Hollywood Debut
Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide
Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher
Revealed: How NO-ONE gets the top broadband speeds claimed by internet service providers
Merce Cunningham, Dance Visionary, Dies
William Shatner reads Sarah Palin's resignation speech as a poem
Park Chan-wook's 'Thirst' is a vampire film sans cliches
Documentary sparks uproar at Jewish film fest
SF Chronicle: Obama Position on Wiretapping is "Mind-Boggling"
Dorset Dinosaur Removed Under Police Escort
POETRY : Lead singer for defunct punk rock band returns to feature at Nightbird
Chinese hack film festival site
Don't Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy!
Hominids’ African Origins, 50 Years Later
Cell phones in cars - the danger and the denial
Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?
Sonic Youth ages gracefully, noisily
A Muslim meld of punk and piety
Two toddlers shoot siblings in US
Outcry over disowned US rape girl
Young N.Koreans Find Adapting to School in South Hard
Gibson Interview: Patti Smith on Rock and Roll, Poetry and Lullabies
Cornish coming back from the brink
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up
Q&A: Sir Ian McKellen Takes On The Prisoner’s Number One Tormenter
Convicted pastor says he's 'one of the prophets'
Q&A With Director Tak Sakaguchi
Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools
Pet Yarn Chic and the Critter Knitter Guild give a whole new meaning to 'dog blanket'
Russia acts against 'false' history
Divorce and Viagra blamed for soaring rate of sexually-transmitted diseases in over-45s
Actor Hiroshi Mikami surprises fans once again in new TV movie 'Yukai'
Teens Love Sex - Violet Blue: The UK can deal with it, why can't we?
Kim Jong-il's Grandson Is a 'Rain' Fan
Paint stripping... Body artists celebrate their work at world festival
An Italian job on a Japanese thriller
South Korean creates kimchi that won't smell
'Sick' Detective Deng Smells out Clues
German language adds 5,000 words
God is not your bitch - This just in: It is hugely unlikely God cares much about your sex life
Japanese director takes flight again with new comedy
Morrissey & the mystery of the cancelled gigs
California issues formal apology for past discrimination against Chinese
Japan gets a taste of bracing 'in-yer-face theater'
'Downloading has cheapened music'
Final 30 minutes saves overdone sports flick
Food tattoos: tasty or tragic?
The Supremes fashion exhibition opens in Bath
Turning Japanese: Fukuoka's music scene
More bodies go unclaimed as families can't afford funeral costs
Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative
Ancient Silla armor comes to light
Irish Travellers: 'A house is like a prison'
The rise and fall -- and rise? -- of Hong Kong cinema
Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools
Why 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen Eighty-Four
Korean Chef Serves Up Fine French Cuisine in Napa Valley
Thousands of England's worst families to be placed in 'sin bins' to improve behaviour
All parents to sign 'behaviour contracts'
Stanley Kwan, Christopher Doyle Chase Solar Eclipse for New Film
The world's most unusual museums
Now you see me, now you don't: The artist who turns himself into the Invisible Man
China sky watchers marvel at total eclipse
Li Bingbing back to Tang Dynasty
France falls out of love with topless sunbathing
Goat's crowning as king of Ireland in doubt
The evolution of hate mail - They had it in the '30s. They had it in the 1600s. They had it in caves
UK 'is losing 52 pubs each week'
Actor Hiroshi Mikami surprises fans once again in new TV movie 'Yukai'
'Flawed' copyright law takes effect Thursday
Phone gadget to diagnose disease
Taller men DO make more money - about £235 a year per extra inch, to be precise
Comic cooks - Japan's manga cultivates a niche for gourmet heroes and villains
Yakusho joins 'Thirteen Assassins'
Transgender Woman Makes Cut in Super Model Contest
All at sea for Japanese indie - Latest Pia Film Festival scholarship film continues commercial trend
Alarming Africa male gay HIV rate
Think you have food allergies? Think again
Korean Filmmakers Turn to International Co-Production
Children investigated for laughing too loudly
Anti-Racist Gang Leader Arrested On Extortion
How Poles cracked Nazi Enigma secret
Abacus enjoying renewed popularity in Japan
Surfing the North Carolina Coast
Battle Film "Wheat" to Be Released in September
10 Ways to Look Good in Photos
Population of older people set to surpass number of children, report finds
Foreigners Pick Hero Jae-jung as a Star They Want to Date the Most
Movies 101: Who are the top young Asian American leading men in Hollywood?
Who will play Kato in 'Green Hornet' movie?
A chef perfects the paleta of childhood
I watched as my parents faced their dignified, peaceful death - together
Cloned sniffer dogs begin duties
President Lula and the Brazilian Cybercrime Bill
Where the Bodies Aren’t Buried
A Jewish Film Festival sampler
Meat Puppets Return From A Decade Of Turmoil
Marijuana Is Gateway Drug for Two Debates
Alt Text: Rate Your Internet Dependency Level
Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management
"It was impossible to have a revolution in Romania. So it had to be staged."
In pictures: Indian spice market feels heat
Another possible Zodiac suspect put forth
One-Legged Man Pulls Gun Over Missing Straw
Enduring allure of Egyptian belly dance
Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto honored by France
Gary Numan's principal pleasures
UC to award honorary degrees to interned Japanese American students
Dick Turpin efit puts face to notorious name
How to dismantle a nuclear bomb
Video: Vietnamese noodle soup - Five Minute Food
The Catholic church learns to love Oscar Wilde
Marquis Fetish Ball Returns - Violet Blue: The world's premiere name in fetish-fashion culture brings upscale, debauched couture to SF
Korea's largest genre film fest opens
Germany opens 'Nazi' gnome case
Jackie Chan praises kung fu of Will Smith's son
Dachshunds and corgis have short legs thanks to wolf gene
Bra recycling – newest trend in eco-consciousness
Julius Shulman dies at 98; celebrated photographer of modernist architecture
Teenage Girl Publishes Novel in English
In pictures: Iraqi Shia festival
Low-calorie and melt-resistant: Swiss manufacturer creates the perfect chocolate
US man convicted of hate crime for killing transgender woman
Jellyfish the size of dustbin lids wash up on Scottish beaches as climate change heats up sea
The ten most controversial films in cinema
Love beats the recession in Japan
Voodoo Ritual Kills Trans Woman?
Japan's new 'boxed-lunch men' learning to cater for themselves
7 Million People Direct Descendants Of Single Smooth-Talking Ancestor
Episcopal leaders vote to lift ban on gay bishops
Darwin Drama to Open Toronto Film Festival
Crop circle 'vigilante': Farm worker who turned his gun on UFO hunters is arrested
Forensic artist helps John Does get a name
Lee Jun-ki and Song Hye-gyo Chosen as Foreigners’ Favorites
Child abuse cases keep rising, set new record
Gay Rights: The Ups and Downs of Going Mainstream
Monkeys can identify other primates by shape of face
Man accused of extorting money in punk rock scene
Sheer elegance in a frozen soufflé
Critics Give Thumbs-up to "One Night in a Supermarket" Ahead of Release
David No: More Than an Action Guy
Beat Takeshi to make appearance in pilot of Shingo Katori’s new TV series
Will history repeat itself in Afghanistan?
Stephen Chow Exits "Green Hornet"
