Forbes’ Highest-Paid Hollywood Players
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s highest-paid celebrities. In this top 20 countdown you’ll find pop stars, TV moguls, movie directors and eye-watering amounts of money. Click through the gallery to see which personality was named Tinseltown’s top earner for the last 12 months… 20. Britney Spears: $58 million Britney [...]
Eight ways China is changing your world Continue reading the main story China’s New Leaders How China is ruled Profile: Xi Jinping Profile: Li Keqiang Country profile China’s ruling Communist Party meets from 8 November to rubber-stamp sweeping changes that will put in place the country’s leaders for the next 10 years. Here are [...]
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Mauritania leader Abdelaziz ‘accidentally’ shot Mr Abdelaziz’s life is apparently not in danger Continue reading the main story Related Stories General wins Mauritania election Thousands protest in Mauritania Mauritania profile Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has been shot and wounded in what officials say was an accident. They say he is now being treated for [...]
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SOCIAL MEDIA Carriers react as social messaging kills SMS The telecommunications industry is losing billions to competition from social messaging apps like Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber, a report says. The industry knows it’s time to fight back. On a recent trip abroad, I had barely spent an hour in the country before purchasing a SIM [...]
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Ghana’s former first lady Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has been nominated as a candidate for the December presidential poll. She cut ties with the ruling party, founded by her husband, in order to run. Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the wife of Ghana’s ex-president, Jerry Rawlings, split from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Party that her husband founded in [...]
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In what’s being labeled as a crucial speech, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has laid out his foreign policy. Despite criticism for Obama, Romney had little to offer in terms of alternatives. In what was his seventh foreign policy speech, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney presented himself as a moderate conservative who strongly criticized the [...]
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iPhone 5 Perhaps you’ve heard of it. The sixth version of Apple’s pioneering phone went on sale in stores Friday and boasts a larger screen, more powerful processor, better camera and the ability to run on faster 4G LTE wireless networks. Apple took 2 million pre-orders for the phone in the first 24 hours. Samsung [...]
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Anti-Japan protests have broken out across China, with thousands of people mobbing the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Tensions between the two countries have risen over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea. Thousands of protesters hurled rocks and bottles at the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, as tensions between Asia’s two [...]
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Comedian Rosie O’Donnell In Secret Wedding The US comedian and chat show host reveals she married her lover Michelle Rounds in secret two months ago. O’Donnell and Rounds began dating in the summer of 2011 Rosie O’Donnell has announced she has married her fiancee, Michelle Rounds. The 50-year-old US chat show host revealed on her [...]
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The famous faces behind some of your favorite cartoon characters You may know them for their onscreen work featuring their famous faces, but these stars have also lent their voices to some of your favorite animated characters. Mila Kunis She’s been acting since she was a young girl, but aside from her screen roles [...]
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