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  • Adults can learn just like kids

    The old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks may not hold true for everyone. As more and more research has suggested, we never lose the ability to learn like a child. A new study suggests that as adults, we actually lose confidence in our ability to learn as we age and lack of time and self-esteem stand in the way of adults picking up new skills, Daily Mail reported. Children are ...

  • Whose cat is beautiful Chechen leader vs TV celebrity

    Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov entered into a bizarre public row with a Russian socialite over whose cat was the "most beautiful". "Dear friends! Me and Tina Kandelaki are having an argument over whose cat is more beautiful. I think it's mine. What do you think?" Kadyrov tweeted. Kadyrov also posted a photo of his white cat, Zazulya, on Instagram. "Tina Kandelaki is a friend, but the truth is ...

  • Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record

    FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...

  • Cruel twist opens a new journey

    They were married on February 12, 2005, sealing a romance that began when they were teenagers. A little over a year later, their marriage was put to the ultimate test when Jackie was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.Jackie's first symptoms were subtle. Fumbling the ball during touch footy, arm soreness, occasional loss of balance. Then one day active, happy 25-year-old Jackie ...

  • Hany Abu Assads Omar entertainment with a twist at Cannes

    The action starts with the young baker Omar (the newcomer Adam Bakri) climbing over the separation wall - dodging surveillance cameras and bullets in the process -- so that he can see his secret love Nadja (Leem Lubany). Fed up with being constantly harassed, Omar and his joke-spewing friends Amjad (Samer Bisharat) and Nadja's brother Tarek (Eyad Hourani) decide to exact some revenge and ...

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Little Miss Sunshine [DVD]

Little Miss Sunshine [DVD]

For every good moment in Little Miss Sunshine, which made good on all its festival-induced pre-release hype by becoming last summer's breakout indie hit and scoring crucial Oscar nods, there are two that are forced, contrived, or overly cute. First-time directors J ... ...

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  • FBI Agents Die Under Strange Circumstances

    May 25, 2013 Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a ...

  • Japan government says unaware of ghosts at PM residence paper

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of ...

  • Bizarre twist links October murder November suicide

    A woman’s body found in a wooded area in Anderson County in October and a man’s death in Flint a month later would seem to be unrelated, but authorities say the two are connected.Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said Friday morning that the homicide of 35-year-old Tylerite Deborah Leann Diaz had been solved.';We feel quite confident that the case is solved, and a grand jury ...

  • Irish gran locks three suspected thieves in farmyard

    A 64-year-old Irish grandmother locked three suspected thieves into a yard, promised to come back with the key and then called police. Her daughter says Ann Curtis also got some help from her neighbors in Clegg, County Meath, who gathered in front of the gate before police officers arrived to make sure the men did not escape, the Irish Independent reported. The incident occurred Tuesday ...

  • Openly gay Robbie Rogers returning to professional soccer

    Robbie Rogers , who came out as homosexual when he announced his retirement from soccer, tells USA Today he has decided to return to the field. Rogers said he made the decision last month while he was speaking at the Nike Be True LGBT Youth Forum in Portland, Ore. "I seriously felt like a coward," he said. "These kids are standing up for themselves and changing the world, and ...

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