Friday 30 January 2015

Jay-Z business makes bid for Aspiro music streaming company

NEW YORK (AP) " A business controlled by rapper Jay-Z has made a $56 million offer to buy the Scandinavian music streaming company Aspiro.Project Panther Bidco Ltd. has offered 1.05 Swedish kroner (13 cents) in cash per share of...


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Piers Linney announces his departure from Dragons' Den





AFTER more than 200 pitches and nine deals, digital entrepreneur Piers Linney has announced he is quitting Dragons' Den - after two years on the popular BBC show.


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WATCH: 'Avenge them' Epic Game Of Thrones season five trailer leaked online





FANS of Game of Thrones are getting excited for the show's upcoming fifth season, after an epic two-minute trailer was leaked online.


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Steve Braunias: The secret diary of ... Eleanor Catton

Monday Interesting questions of gender and identity are raised at the Jaipur literary festival in India when I'm judged to have lost the egg and spoon race.I don't wish to complain. But it's vitally important for writers and...


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'Gotham' star Taylor delights fans with his Penguin villainy

NEW YORK (AP) " Although filmed in the real Gotham City, Fox's "Gotham" inhabits a New York all its own. What resides here is part reverential mythmaking (it recounts Batman's genesis), part free-floating film noir (whose 1940s manners...


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StarCraft 2 getting new games in 2015 and 2016





ACTIVISION Blizzard are set to launch a new StarCraft 2 game in 2015.


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Girlfriend supports partner through sex change: 'We’re in love and that’s what matters'





A WOMAN met the man of her dreams online, but just three weeks into their relationship he revealed that he wanted to have gender reassignment surgery.


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Childhood sweethearts banned from getting engaged as teenagers finally wed - 35 YEARS late





CHILDHOOD sweethearts Carolyn Walker and Ian Cook have finally married - 35 YEARS after they were banned from getting engaged as teenagers.


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Sweet love! Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer celebrate marriage with ANOTHER wedding cake





THEY got married at the beginning of this month, but it seems Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer are still celebrating as they enjoyed their second wedding cake in Cambridge.


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Concert review: Paul Simon and Sting, Vector Arena

Paul Simon and Sting may sound like a somewhat unlikely pairing. At 73 and 63 respectively, they're from opposite sides of the Atlantic, and found fame in different decades with different genres.But more than 40 years on, their...


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Katie Hopkins gives Katie Price's body her seal of approval after they SHOWER together





THEY have turned out to be uncanny friends after being stuck together in the Celebrity Big Brother House.


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Fifty Shades of phwoar! Co-stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in steamy shoot





THEY'RE set to be the biggest movie stars of the year and it looks like Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are very close.


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Movie review: The Crucible

Cast: Richard Armitage, Samantha Colley, Adrian Schiller


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BT announce ultrafast broadband coming to homes





BT have announced plans to launch ultrafast broadband into millions of homes across the country.


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A timeline of Suge Knight's legal and medical troubles

A look at Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight's troubles over the past 20 years:" 1996: After badly beating a rival with Tupac Shakur at a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel shortly before Shakur suffered fatal gunshot wounds,...


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Lawyer says Suge Knight was behind wheel in deadly crash

COMPTON, California (AP) " A lawyer for Marion "Suge" Knight says the Death Row Records founder was at the wheel of a car that struck two men, killing one, in a Los Angeles suburb.The accident in Compton occurred shortly before...


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Weekend Watch: Murder, madness and magicians

The Bachelorette, Sunday TV 2 at 10.30am Whilst everyone is swapping rumours about The Bachelor NZ and basking in the suntanned glory of The Bachelor Australia , there's a tiny gem buried deep under the layers of sludge that...


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Suspect nabbed in killing of former Miss Venezuela, husband

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) " Venezuelan authorities say a man sought for a year in the killing of a former Miss Venezuela and her husband has been caught, bringing to 11 the number of suspects detained for the crime.Attorney General...


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Ryan Gosling's New Zealand 'confusion'

He's halfway across the world shooting The Nice Guys in Los Angeles, but Russell Crowe isn't one to forget about his homeland.The famed 50-year-old helped present the award for Best Supporting Actress in Film at Sydney's AACTA...


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Fizzy drinks and fruit juices with added sugar causing diabetes





FIZZY drinks and fruit juices with added sugar are the chief causes of soaring levels of diabetes, research has confirmed.


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