How actress's risky audition ad lib paid off
In her 'Wolf of Wall Street' try-out, Margot Robbie realised she had 30 seconds left to do something big. 'The room just went dead silent' »
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BRIT Awards 2015: Kim Kardashian Has Epic Selfie Fail With Ant And Dec
The Queen of selfies suffered an awkward moment when her phone lock got in the way of her photo with Ant & Dec.
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Stop blaming Richard Osman! Deal Or No Deal banker's identity was revealed nine years ago
Turns out yesterday’s “exclusive” was almost a decade too late.
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BRITs 2015: Ed Sheeran Looks Worse For Wear And Causes Twitter To Explode
The star celebrated his BRIT wins in style
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'Jihadi John' Identified As Computer Programmer
The Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" has been identified as a Londoner called Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi was born in Kuwait and comes from a well-to-do family, according to the Washington Post. He grew up in northwest London and graduated from the University of Westminster with a degree in computer programming. Aged 27, he is believed to have travelled to Syria in 2012 and to have joined Islamic State (IS) later.
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Madonna says 'Intolerance' in Europe 'feels like Nazi Germany'
Rebounding from her stage tumble at the Brit awards, pop star Madonna told French radio Thursday that "intolerance" was now so high in France and Europe that "it feels like Nazi Germany."
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Welcome to Britain's most unaffordable spot - it's not London
A new study of house prices to earnings ratios across the UK reveals the top 5 most unaffordable places to live
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Beware, the sheep-eating plants of Chile
Was The Day of the Triffids in fact a documentary based on the life cycle of the Puya chilensis? The macabre desert plant appears to have a knack for luring sheep to their deaths and then feasting on the remains. The Puya chilensis grows in arid climates along hillsides in Chile. The Puya chilensis traps the animals in the sharp spikes that protrude from its base.
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Labour Candidate Steps Down After 72 Hours
The Labour candidate selected to fight Respect's George Galloway in Bradford West has stepped down just 72 hours after she was selected. Amina Ali, who had been a councillor from Tower Hamlets in London, tweeted: "I would like to stop the rumour mill, I have stepped down".
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J. Lo & Ben Affleck Had A Moment At The Oscars
If you thought John Travolta's stunt was this year's biggest Oscar scene, you may be wrong. The AP reports Jennifer Lopez and former fiancé Ben Affleck shared a moment at the awards show. The moment reportedly took place just after Citizenfour won the award for Best Documentary, according to the
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Justices appear to favor Muslim denied job over headscarf
WASHINGTON (AP) — Have you heard the one about the Sikh, the Hasidic Jew, the Muslim and the nun who walked into a job interview?
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Train returns to China from Spain on the world's longest rail route
The railways, dubbed the new 'silk route' connects the coastal Chinese town of Yiwu with Madrid, passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France.
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Prosecutor: Mom craved attention, poisoned child with salt
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of force feeding her 5-year-old son salt through a stomach tube reveled in the attention that a sickly child brought her, a prosecutor said Thursday at her trial.
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Inside Beyonce and Jay-Z's seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom LA mansion
Take a tour around the power-couple's current living space. It's everything you imagined it would be.
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How to Spot a Pickpocket
In recent years, Barcelona has earned a reputation as a pickpocket’s paradise. Just ask members of the Guardia Urbana, Barcelona’s street-level task force devoted to stopping petty theft. Keep your bag around your neck, and your wallet in your front pocket. This sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised at how many tourists you can spot on a crowded street with a bulging wallet peeking out of a back pocket or a purse draped lazily on one shoulder.
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Accountant told to demolish leisure centre he built in his back garden
The luxury 'playhouse' with bowling alley was built without planning permission
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Top 40 richest former apprentices
JCB Chairman, Lord Bamford, tops a new rich list revealing the 40 wealthiest former apprentices, published ahead of National Apprenticeship Week
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10 Things John Terry Wants You To Forget
John Terry is a hero to some, and a villain to many. Terry’s courted controversy since his earliest days in the game. Terry’s made more mistakes than a dyslexic child in a spelling bee. Terry’s never completely moved on from his past.
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Comet to be visible from Earth after surviving encounter with sun
An unusual comet that is unlike anything seen before by scientists is expected to become visible from Earth in the coming weeks. Nasa and the European Space Agency's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also called SOHO, spotted the comet as it skimmed past the sun. The is not thought to belong to any known family of comets and scientists have been left baffled as to how it survived its close encounter with the sun.
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Lupita Nyong'o's $150,000 Oscars dress stolen from hotel
The $150,000 pearl-studded, custom-made Calvin Klein dress worn by Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o at this year's Academy Awards has been stolen, police said on Thursday. The gown, embellished with 6,000 natural white pearls, was stolen from Nyong'o's room at the London Hotel in West Hollywood, during the day on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood said. "Ms Nyong'o was not in the room at the time of the theft," Deputy John Mitchell told Reuters. The Calvin Klein dress, custom designed by Francisco Costa, was one of the stand-outs on the red carpet at last Sunday's Oscars.
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US Christians back emerging private war on Iraq jihadists
After fighting with rebels in Libya and embracing the revolt in Syria, Matthew VanDyke has rolled up in northern Iraq, but the celebrity American revolutionary-cum-filmmaker has traded his fatigues for a three-piece suit.
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