Monday, 15 September 2014

Grand Theft Auto V's next-gen launch confirmed

Rockstar has dated both the new-gen and PC enhanced editions of Grand Theft Auto V .The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions will be available from November 18. The PC edition will land on January 27, 2015.Rockstar has cut a new...


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Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence hook up for new film

On-screen golden couple Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper have reunited in a trailer for the new film Serena .The pair, who previously starred together in Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle , play husband and wife...


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US news anchor tells viewers he has months to live

An American news anchor working for the WCIA Channel 3 news in Illinois told viewers on the show that he has brain cancer and only six months to live.In a heart-breaking video, co-host Dave Benton explained to viewers the update...


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Kiwi vampire film wins Toronto award

Taika Waititi and Jemaine's Clement's movie What We Do in the Shadows has won a Toronto Film Festival award.The vampire mockumentary won the People Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category of the festival.Clement was typically...


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Is romance blossoming for MP?

Sadly, the election has - so far - been free of even a whiff of sexual intrigue.Then we heard whispers of a possible hook-up between sexy Labour MP Jacinda Ardern, 34, and the newly-single radio personality Clarke Gayford, 36. The...


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Kanye demands wheelchair-bound fans stand up and dance

Kanye West has never been one to engage his brain before speaking and the rapper was at it again when he halted a performance and demanded everyone in the audience stand up and dance - only to find out that two fans were in wheelchairs.The...


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Police detain 'Django Unchained' actress in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) An actress who appeared in "Django Unchained" was handcuffed by police responding to a report of indecent exposure.The Los Angeles Police Department said Sunday that officers detained Daniele Watts and her companion...


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Gotham star's gruesome on set head injury

Ben McKenzie has been taken to hospital after he sustained a head injury on Friday, while working on the set of drama series Gotham .The 36-year-old actor shared several images on Instagram of himself in hospital.In one of the...


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Sunday, 14 September 2014

People's Choice Award to "Imitation Game" at TIFF

TORONTO (AP) A World War II code-breaker drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch has won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.Director Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" claimed the coveted Grolsch People's Choice...


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Paul Casserly: Electile dysfunction

The nightly news during the election foreplay stage is always arousing. And for this election, it has been verging on pornographic. We've had revelations of Dirty Politics , complete with it's ministerial scalp and the emergence...


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How Cumberbatch won over the Toronto film festival

A biographical picture of British codebreaker and war hero Alan Turing, featuring an Oscar-bait performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, has won the Toronto film festival audience prize for best picture.Turing was a brilliant Cambridge...


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Millie Elder-Holmes flaunts new love

Bereaved Millie Elder-Holmes has a furry new companion to help her heal after the death of boyfriend Connor Morris.She already has a tattoo of her dead lover on her thigh and now Elder-Holmes, 26, has a puppy that she has named...


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'Django Unchained' actress arrested after being mistaken for a prostitute

Daniele Watts, an African-American actress who has starred in Hollywood films such as Django Unchained , has claimed she was "handcuffed and detained" by Los Angeles police officers after being mistaken for a prostitute.Two police...


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Sendak collection leaving library in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (AP) A small Philadelphia museum that houses more than 10,000 pieces by illustrator Maurice Sendak will be returning most of the collection to the author's estate.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports trustees for Sendak's...


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Macdonald toasts her Prohibition role

The first thing people notice about Kelly Macdonald is that she is nothing like Margaret Rohan. Off screen, the Scottish actress looks and sounds completely different to the early 20th century Irish immigrant she plays on the HBO...


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Concert review: Joe Bonamassa, Auckland Town Hall

In an interview with TimeOut before this, his first and only New Zealand show, American guitarist Joe Bonamassa said in passing he knew the audience for the blues was small, but that there was an audience out there.And, as with...


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Dancers vie for places at world event

More than 500 dancers descended on the North Shore yesterday for the inaugural DanceBrandz Nationals competition.Competitors as young as 4 wowed a 1200-strong crowd at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna.Leah Winters (pictured)...


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Listen up: Let's find a cure deafness





THERE IS quite an age gap between me and my wife Emma but we have been together almost 20 years and managed to stay married when a lot of people said it would not last.


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The highs and lows of making a listed property your home





OWNERS of listed buildings will tell you all sorts of frightening tales about the restrictions placed on them by heritage officers but the simple fact is that if you cannot agree them, you should not buy such a home.


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'Incredibly emotional' Life-size Amy Winehouse statue unveiled in Camden





A LIFE-SIZE bronze statue of late singer Amy Winehouse has been unveiled in north London.


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