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  • Brit Muslim accused of war crimes in Bangladesh willing to clear name in fair trial

    A British Muslim leader from London indicted in Bangladesh for war crimes has said he is willing to face a fair trial to clear his name. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who was born in Bangladesh, is accused of playing a role in the abduction and killing of 18 people during the 1971 liberation war from Pakistan. According to the BBC, the 64-year-old, who lives in north London with his wife and four ...

  • Chinese tycoon to buy British firm making James Bond yachts

    A Chinese billionaire is buying a UK company that makes James Bond's yachts for 320 million pounds. Wang Jianlin is buying Sunseeker yachts, and said that all 2,300 jobs in the company were safe. According to the Independent, Jianlin is one of the world's richest men with an estimated six billion pounds fortune from karaoke centres, department stores and cinema complexes. Sunseeker yachts ...

  • Murray set for IPL-style tennis tournament to go where the money is

    British tennis ace Andy Murray is reportedly set to join Mahesh Bhupathi-masterminded lucrative Indian Premier League-style international tennis tournament to 'go where the money is'. The Scot's new commercial guru Bhupathi is the mastermind behind the new International Premier Tennis League tournament (ITPL), which will have franchises in six cities and sell the stars at an auction in January ...

  • Madrids Higuain gives nod to record 22 mln pound Arsenal move

    Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain has reportedly agreed to come to Arsenal even as the Gunners record 22 million-pound deal for the player comes closer to a conclusion. Higuain and his agent father Jorge are believed to have agreed personal terms in excess of 130,000 pounds-a-week as Arsenal prepare to smash their transfer record and wage structure, the Mirror reports. The Spanish giants ...

  • Murrays former mentor brands Wimbledon seedings as 100 percent joke

    British tennis star Andy Murray's former coach has branded the Wimbledon seedings as a '100 per cent' joke. According to Brad Gilbert, who also coached Murray's boyhood hero Andre Agassi, said on Twitter that the Wimbledon seedings are a joke as David Ferrer seeded over former world No.1 Rafael Nadal, The Sun reports. Despite Nadal's grass court status as a two-time champion at Wimbledon, All ...

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The Wrestler [Blu-Ray]

The Wrestler [Blu-Ray]

The defining shot in Darren Aronofskys The Wrestler, a bittersweet story about a man struggling through lifes second act, is a tracking shot that follows right behind the titular character, a decaying former superstar named Randy The Ram Robinson, as he walks down various hallways a ... ...

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  • When Kunis spurned Brands advances

    British comedian Russel Brand says that actress Mila Kunis turned down his advances because she was in a relationship with Macaulay Culkin. Brand and Kunis worked together in a 2008 film "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and Kunis was then in a relationship with the "Home Alone" star. "I was chatting her up, and got the conversation around to, 'Have you got a boyfriend?' and she went, 'Yeah'. So you ...

  • Cook says England can win Champions Trophy without a doubt

    England captain Alastair Cook has said that he is confident that his team can win the ICC Champions Trophy 'without a doubt', after their seven-wicket victory against South Africa brought them into the finals of the eight-nation tournament. Ecstatic at leading England to their second ICC 50-over final in the past 20 years, Cook said that a successful climax on Sunday at Edgbaston would be a ...

  • De Villiers admits chokers Proteas felt the heat during CT loss to England

    South African captain AB de Villiers has admitted that his team had 'felt the heat' after which it floundered after the loss of quick wickets in the morning of the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final against England, who cruised into the final with a seven-wicket win at The Oval. Underlining South Africa's reputation as 'chokers, Alastair Cook's men outplayed the Proteas after electing to bowl on ...

  • Disappointed Kirsten says Proteas deserves choker tag after CT crash-out

    Outgoing South Africa cricket coach Gary Kirsten has admitted that his team deserved the tag of 'chokers' after South Africa crashed to a seven-wicket defeat by England in the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final on Wednesday. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, it is the first time that a South African coach had publicly accepted what is widely believed in the rest of the cricket world that the ...

  • UK politician claims fathering love-child with alien mistress in UFO

    A Labour politician has claimed that he meets his alien lover four times a year for sex sessions on a spaceship that's orbiting the Earth. Simon Parkes, who sits on Whitby Town Council, even alleged that he has fathered a child called Zarka with his extraterrestrial mistress, who he has named the Cat Queen, the Sun reported. The 53-year-old driving instructor from North Yorkshire described his ...

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