Sunday, 16 November 2014

Game preview: Far Cry 4 is breaking bad

With his frosted blond fringe and sharp pink suit, Pagan Min looks more like a flamboyant fashion designer than a psychotic despot.Fans of the Far Cry series agreed, leading to an outcry when images of the antagonist in the fourth...


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GTA 5: Rockstar braced for online launch chaos after revealing heists plan





ROCKSTAR have told fans they should brace themselves for online teething problems during the launch of GTA 5 on Xbox and PS4.


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Jennifer Lawrence: Privacy loss takes heavy toll

NEW YORK (AP) " Jennifer Lawrence says she knew being a movie star would bring with it a certain loss of privacy. What she didn't know, she says, was the deep emotional and even physical toll it would take."I knew the paparazzi...


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Bill Cosby won't comment on sex abuse claims - lawyer

Bill Cosby will not dignify "decade-old, discredited" claims of sexual abuse with a response, his attorney said, the first reaction from the famed comedian to an increasing uproar over allegations that he assaulted several women in...


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'Dumb and Dumber To' tops box office with $38.1M

NEW YORK (AP) " Twenty years later, "Dumb and Dumber" is back atop the box office.The Jim Carrey- Jeff Daniels sequel, "Dumb and Dumber To," opened with $38.1 million at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday....


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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley looks angelic in a heavenly Tom Ford number





MODEL Rosie Huntington-Whiteley looks almost angelic as she runs along a beach in a daring sheer gown.


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Revealed: The new Block owners

A professional couple in their late 20s splurged $1.472 million on their first home at the auction of four properties from the reality home-building TV show The Block .The couple, from Pt Chevalier where the four renovated Newell...


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Stars reprise Band Aid for Ebola battle

Same studio, same month, but several new faces, most of whom were not born when the first Band Aid single was recorded three decades ago.Yesterday saw the remaking of Do They Know It's Christmas? , the charity single that raised...


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Theatre review: Famour Flora, The White House

An historical excursion into the salacious underbelly of Auckland's nightlife finds a suitably lascivious venue in the central hall of the White House - an "adult entertainment centre" housed in a neo-classical temple built for the...


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Holy DVD, Batman's sharp

No surprise: Adam West has an excellent sense of humour. The actor, after all, was immersed in a madcap brew of scenery-chewing villains and pun-filled dialogue in the 1960s TV series Batman and yet managed to portray the caped...


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Classical review: Auckland Choral, Town Hall

Auckland Choral's Waves upon Waves certainly benefited from one of the most imaginative programme covers of the season.The subtle undulating blues of Elizabeth Thomson's Kermadec image lifted my spirits from time to time during...


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Actor Patrick Dempsey honored for cancer care

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) " Maine-born actor Patrick Dempsey returned home to accept an award for his work helping cancer patients.Dempsey " most famous for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd in the TV series "Grey's Anatomy" " and the Jackson...


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'No Botox, no facelifts' Noel Edmonds on how he stays looking young at 65





SOME may argue that he hasn't changed much since his days of wearing woolly jumpers on Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, and now Noel Edmonds has come clean about his exercise regime.


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'I’m King Kong’s mother' Susan Boyle opens up about her struggle with Asperger’s syndrome





BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Susan Boyle has opened up about suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, saying it leaves her feeling "depressed".


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'Adele is doing nothing' Singer ignored Sir Bob Geldof's calls for Band Aid 30





HE'S managed to secure most of the biggest names in music right now, but there was one person that Sir Bob Geldof couldn't convince to take part in Band Aid 30.


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Kajaki The True Story: The utter hell faced by 3 Para





JOHN Nichol, a former RAF Tornado Navigator shot down in the 1991 Gulf War, met survivors of one of the Army’s worst recent tragedies, which is about to be portrayed in a dramatic new film.


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Country yokels prefer being soft-soaped





SPARE a thought for Sean O'Connor - He's the editor of The Archers on Radio 4 and the poor chap is currently being blamed for the downfall of middle England, or specifically its fictional outpost, Ambridge.


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BBC apologises after Len Goodman appears to swear live on Strictly Come Dancing





LIVE television can be unpredictable at times, and that was the case on Strictly Come Dancing last night.


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Yummy mummy-to-be Catherine Tyldesley shows off baby bump in skintight navy dress





SHE may be heavily pregnant but that didn't stop Catherine Tyldesley from slipping into a sexy gown for a night out yesterday.


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VIDEO: Joanna Lumley reads a Walter de la Mare Christmas poem just for us





YOU CAN"T fight it it: irresistible Christmas cheer with Joanna Lumley, Jim Broadbent, Hermione Norris and Stephen Tompkinson on new album Christmas Words For You


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