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The Smurfs 2011 – Review West Is West (2011) – Review Border Agent Put His Wife on Terrorist List Bus Passenger Loses Her Head… Almost Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – review
 
The Smurfs 2011 – Review

The Smurfs 2011 – Review

Bottom line: The Smurfs is a CG animated and live action feature movie about the nostalgic little blue cartoon characters. Young children will think this movie is super smurfy. Contains some rude humor, a few suggestive jokes and lots of smurf language. MPAA Rating: PG, for some mild rude humor and action Guide age recommendation: [...]

The Smurfs 2011 – Review
West Is West (2011) – Review

West Is West (2011) – Review

[#6: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] Movie Info Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from [...]

West Is West (2011) – Review
Border Agent Put His Wife on Terrorist List

Border Agent Put His Wife on Terrorist List

[#10: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] Immigration officer fired after putting wife on list of terrorists to stop her flying home An immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects. He used his access to security databases to include his wife on a watch list of [...]

Border Agent Put His Wife on Terrorist List
Bus Passenger Loses Her Head… Almost

Bus Passenger Loses Her Head… Almost

A unfortunate woman paid the price for a bus driver's lack of attention when she got her head stuck in the vehicle's closing doors in Maanshan, in eastern China's Anhui Province. The unassuming lady was attempting to make her exit from the No.137 bus at her stop in the early afternoon when the obviously impatient [...]

Bus Passenger Loses Her Head… Almost
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – review

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – review

New blood and a quest for the fountain of youth aren't quite enough to rejuvenate the timber-shivering franchise. Johnny Depp, Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz team up for the latest, and silliest yet, in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Photograph: Peter Mountain/Disney It's fitting that this fourth instalment of the mega booty-hauling franchise revolves [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – review

Bertrand has glorious Chelsea debut

20 May 2012

The 22-year-old appeared not to be nervous as he frustrated Bayern Munich on a night he will remember for a long time As he edged towards the dugout 17 minutes from time, the first player of the modern era to make his Champions League debut in the final itself offered a glance up at the [...]

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Rights Group Accuses Egyptian Military of Torture

20 May 2012

An international human rights group has accused Egypt's military of beating and torturing protesters arrested during a huge rally near the Defense Ministry in Cairo earlier this month. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Saturday soldiers fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of demonstrators demanding an immediate end to military rule and [...]

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Why women’s jokes fall flat in the boardroom

20 May 2012

Women often try to use self-deprecating humour to get their colleagues on-side but it raises few laughs Humour is a staple part of any boardroom discussion, as viewers of the BBC's The Apprentice will know. But research reveals that, while men benefit from the use of well-judged banter, the brand of humour used by leading [...]

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Computer game for stroke patients

20 May 2012

17 May 2012 Last updated at 09:10 ET Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a computer game designed to help stroke victims recuperate. The Circus Challenge game, created with a computer game studio, aims to help patients recover motor functions. Players use wireless controllers to perform virtual circus acts such as lion taming and plate [...]

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Anonymous attacks Indian websites

20 May 2012

18 May 2012 Last updated at 11:44 The hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against websites in India. Websites for government departments, India's Supreme Court and two political parties all came under attack. Anonymous said the attacks were carried out in retaliation against blocks imposed on well-known video and file-sharing sites. [...]

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Chelsea crowned champions of Europe after great escape

20 May 2012

Didier Drogba slots the winner in a dramatic shootout Game went to penalties after extra-time finished on 1-1 Tom Jenkins's pictures from the Champions League final These are the moments Chelsea will always cherish and never forget. They gave everything and finally, when it was all done, they had the European Cup in their possession [...]

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Twitter backs web privacy effort

19 May 2012

18 May 2012 Last updated at 13:20 Micro-blogging service Twitter has declared its support for an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored. The "Do Not Track" initiative stops firms tracking people as they visit several different websites. The monitoring is done to help advertisers craft ads to a user's preferences and [...]

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Ed Miliband set for decision on Europe referendum

19 May 2012

Shadow ministers urge leader to put pressure on Cameron by promising EU membership poll if Labour win general election Ed Miliband is being urged by a growing number of shadow cabinet members and senior allies to promise a dramatic in-out referendum on Britain's future membership of the European Union if Labour wins the next general [...]

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Blackpool 1-2 West Ham

19 May 2012

Ricardo Vaz T spent most of the afternoon infuriating the West Ham faithful with his indecisiveness in front of goal, before redeeming himself three minutes from time with the strike that sends Sam Allardyce and the Irons back into the Premier League after a year's absence. It was not quite as breathless a finish as [...]

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How to get into accountancy

19 May 2012

Despite the recession, accountancy remains a stable career choice and there is poetry in numbers, says one trainee Accountants provide professional services to clients to ensure they are financially sound and compliant with the relevant legislation, including assurance, auditing, tax, insolvency, business and financial advice. Financial managers oversee an organisation's accounts and provide information and [...]

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