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  • Rihanna sues Topshop

    Pop star Rihanna has reportedly sued British retail brand Topshop for $5 million for using her image on their products without her permission. The brand has been selling women's T-shirts printed with an image of Rihanna in an oufit from her iconic "We Found Love" video. "Rihanna's management asked Topshop a number of times to stop selling her image and were told, 'We do what we want'. They buy ...

  • Jimmy Saviles half-century of sex abuse to be made into musical

    Jimmy Savile's history of sex abuses against children is to be made into a musical by a British scriptwriter. Punch and Judy will tell the "dark, irreverent tale" of how the "cheekiest chappy in the land" turned into a sex-hungry monster, the Daily Star reported. The musical will use song and comedy to look at how the late television presenter managed to rape and abuse vulnerable ...

  • RiRi suing UK retail giant for $5m over image used without consent

    Rihanna is set to file a 5-million-dollar lawsuit against UK retail giant Topshop over alleged unauthorised use of her picture on their products. The 25-year-old singer was reportedly angry after finding out that the High Street Fashion chain had been selling women's T-shirts printed with an image of her from her 'We Found Love' video and is apparently taking legal action after eight-months of ...

  • British travelers to face longest ever US immigration queues

    Millions of British holidaymakers and business travellers heading for the United States this summer are facing longer queues than ever for their applications to be processed by immigration. Research by The Independent has revealed that budget cuts at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have sharply increased airport queues, with the worst delays in Florida. The research revealed that ...

  • Botham confident about Anderson surpassing him as Englands leading Test wicket-taker

    English legend Sir Ian Botham has said that he is confident that James Anderson will surpass him as England's leading Test wicket-taker after the fast bowler took three more Test wickets against New Zealand to reach 301, 82 short of Botham's England record. Welcoming the Lancashire player to the exclusive 300 club, Botham said that he had told Anderson that his next target should be 384, then ...

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Basic

Basic

In a scene near the beginning of Basic, John Travolta, who plays Tom Hardy, an ex-Army-Ranger-turned-DEA-agent, is speaking with Col. Bill Styles (Timothy Daly), the commander of an Army base in Panama. Hardy has been brought in by Styles because of his expert interrogation skills. An Army Ranger live-fire exercise deep in the jungle has gone terribly wrong and the only survivors arent tal ... ...

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  • Two sentenced for robbery bid on Indian-origin mans shop

    A 19-year-old man and a 15-year-old accomplice who tried to rob a shop owned by an Indian-origin man in Britain last year have been sentenced by a court in Britain. Kevin Francis Smith has been sentenced to two-and-half-years detention while the 15-year-old accomplice has been given a two-year youth rehabilitation order under supervision by the Leicester Crown Court Friday, the Leicester ...

  • Brits spent 49bn hrs at work last year

    People in Britain spent a record-breaking 49.4 billion hours at work last year. A new study has found that UK workers put in an average of 950.3 million hours a week in just the first three months of this year, the Sun reported. The data collected by the Department for Work and Pensions is the highest quarterly figure since records began, and 20million hours more a week than the same in 2012 ...

  • ECB mulling over interviewing players linked to Rajasthan Royals following IPL spot fixing scandal

    In a response to the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the Indian Premier League (IPL), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) may reportedly arrange interview any player under its jurisdiction who has had links to the Rajasthan Royals. Three of the Royals players - Ankeet Chavan, Ajit Chandila and the former international seamer S Sreesanth - were arrested on Thursday along with 11 ...

  • Julian Assange vigil costs British taxpayers more than $5 million

    Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks gestures as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. Assange who faces extradition to Sweden over sexual assault, claims which he denies, took refuge in the embassy in June. The estimated cost to Britian of keeping him contained is more than $5 ...

  • Teenage sex abuse victim in tears as SEVEN different barristers brand her liar in court

    A shattered teenage sex abuse victim broke down in tears after SEVEN barristers had repeatedly branded her a liar during the trial of her paedo attackers.The child - just 15 when she was first targeted - was one of five girls who fell prey to a gang who used them to satisfy their own vile lusts before selling them on to other perverts across Britain.But after her torturers were finally caught, ...

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