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My husband broadcast on Facebook that he preferred this reincarnation of the Thanksgiving bird to the original meal.

A BRITISH scientist who wrote a racy blog and a best-selling book about being a prostitute has admitted that she misses some parts of her old job as a callgirl.

From left, Tom Sturridge, Rhys Darby, Will Adamsdale and Bill Nighy. Pirate Radio Watch the trailer Show times and theaters Buy Tickets! Running time: 2 hr.

Pirate Radio director, Richard Curtis , poses with the film's cast. Before filming began, Curtis put his cast through "boat camp" instead of boot camp.

Just to rub it in to Scotland fans what they will be missing, even New Zealand, famous for the oval ball and not the round variety, have qualified for the World Cup finals.

We all have favorite ways of giving back or paying forward. We write checks, participate in fundraisers, run deliveries, make phone calls, collate and stick our own stamps on mailings, donate blood and hair, roll up our sleeves to actually work face-to-face with and for those who need help.

The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants recently slammed Hezbollah for censoring Anne Frank's diary out of a school textbook.

Budgie smugglers hit the streets Hundreds of people strutted their stuff in nothing more than their budgie smugglers to raise money for charity.

Freedom of sleech has long been a problem in Belfast: the alluvial soil on which it is built is blamed for the opening of a large hole in Cromac Street, and for the listing of the Albert Memorial Clock .

The Berlin Wall anniversary reminds Ronnie Simpson of Glasgowa s Isa Music of being in East Berlin at the time for a music industry conference.

The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants has learned, with revulsion, that Hizbollah has censored Anne Frank's diary out of a school textbook.

The Russian newspaper, Pravda greeted the new Lisbon Treaty with a great dollop of "been there, done that, got the burn marks": "Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the EU is now a reincarnation of the Soviet Union." Clearly, it takes one to know one.

Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah slammed on Friday two Arab satellite providers for dropping a television channel from predominantly Shiite Iran as a "violation of freedom of speech and opinion." Censorship Anne Frank diary offends Lebanon's Hezbollah / AFP Private English-language school in western Beirut drops textbook containing excerpts from ...

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER Richard Curtis, best known for his work on hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Bridget Jones's Diary," got the idea to make a movie about pop music about 10 years ago.

Hugh Muir: What if the cure is worse than the disease? What if the disease doesn't exist? Tuesday, 03 November 2009 With the government's life blood ebbing away, what to do to create the odd pocket of popularity? Eureka, said ministers in the Department of Communities and Local Government.

Jeff Kinney's "Wimpy Kid" shoves Dan Brown from the top of the list; a TV show and a book are working some synergy; and don't look now, but Christmas books are landing on the list early.

Mexican match first in 3D, says broadcaster MEXICO CITY: The soccer match between top Mexican sides America and Guadalajara on Sunday will be screened in 3D, with broadcasters Televisa claiming on Wednesday it will be the first broadcast of its kind in the world.

Pim was packing for her biennial trip home to Bangkok, so instead of a leisurely lunch at a local eatery, we opted for a phone chat.

Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week.

THE BIG issue at the Frieze Art Fair, the UK's annual fiesta for contemporary art in Regent's Park, London, may be whether the art market can bounce back, but the curious are also wondering what Martin Creed, pictured below, is up to now.