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Parents, care groups venture into children's digital limbo
GENEVA (AFP) - Twenty years after the international community expanded the frontiers of protection for children, child carers and officialdom are slowly venturing into uncharted territory: cyberspace.
October 20, 2009, 3:24 am -
Israel pulls textbook over reference to 'ethnic cleansing'
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's Education Ministry has recalled all copies of a history textbook because of a passage alleging "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians during the 1948 war, a newspaper reported on Monday.
October 20, 2009, 3:24 am -
Ageing French hunters target young blood
JOUY-SOUS-THELLE, France (AFP) - Thirty-year-old Simon Mueller stands with a shotgun slung over his shoulder and a brace of dead partridges at his feet. France desperately needs more youngsters like him to keep the multi-billion-euro hunting sector alive, say bloodsport authorities.
October 20, 2009, 3:24 am -
Gannett profit sinks but beats estimates
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, reported a lower quarterly profit and a 28 percent drop in publishing advertising revenue on Monday, but the results were better than expected and shares rose more than 8 percent.
October 20, 2009, 2:55 am -
Nobel winner slams Bible as 'handbook of bad morals'
LISBON (AFP) - A row broke out in Portugal on Monday after a Nobel Prize-winning author denounced the Bible as a "handbook of bad morals".
October 20, 2009, 2:14 am -
Beyonce postpones Malaysia gig amid Islamist ire
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Beyonce has postponed a planned concert in Malaysia after the nation's opposition Islamist party raised concerns about her performance, citing moral issues, concert organizers said.
October 20, 2009, 1:37 am -
Slight drop in attendance at Frankfurt Book Fair
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The Frankfurt Book Fair, at which China was guest of honour, suffered a "slight drop" in numbers this year but remained the world's leading trade show for publishers, agents and authors, an official told AFP on Monday.
October 20, 2009, 12:49 am -
Gannett quarterly profit and ad revenue sink
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, reported a lower quarterly profit that beat market forecasts on Monday because of cost cuts, while revenue fell because of a 28 percent drop in publishing advertising sales.
October 20, 2009, 12:16 am -
Carmen chooses singing over politics
Carmen Fraser, the granddaughter of former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, is forging her own career away from politics as a country music singer.
October 20, 2009, 12:07 am -
Kwanten takes on new role as superhero
Hot Aussie star Ryan Kwanten has taken a break from the vampires on True Blood to play a superhero in the new Aussie movie Griff The Invisible.
October 20, 2009, 12:06 am -
Polanski undergoing medical treatment - lawyer
GENEVA (Reuters) - Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland three weeks ago to face extradition in a U.S. sex case, has been moved from jail for medical treatment, his French lawyer said on Saturday.
October 19, 2009, 11:51 pm -
Gannett quarterly profit, ad revenue sink
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, reported a lower quarterly profit on Monday and revenue fell because of a 28 percent drop in publishing advertising sales.
October 19, 2009, 11:40 pm -
Overseas box office still looking "Up"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For the fourth time this year, the 3D animated feature "Up" claimed the No. 1 spot on the overseas circuit, bagging $27.9 million from 4,500 screens in 24 territories during the weekend.
October 19, 2009, 7:22 pm -
Overseas box office still looking "Up"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For the fourth time this year, the 3D animated feature "Up" claimed the No. 1 spot on the overseas circuit, bagging $27.9 million from 4,500 screens in 24 territories during the weekend.
October 19, 2009, 7:22 pm -
$A impacts plans to film Green Lantern
Superhero movie The Green Lantern will no longer be shot in Australia due to the strength of the Aussie dollar.
October 19, 2009, 7:20 pm -
Elvis' hair leaves the building
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A pile of hair believed snipped from Elvis Presley when he joined the U.S. Army in 1958 sold for $18,300 (11,200 pounds) on Sunday, according to a Chicago auction house.
October 19, 2009, 7:07 pm -
"Mississippi" tops Chicago Film Festival awards
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned" took home the top prize, the Gold Hugo for best film, at the 45th annual Chicago International Film Festival on Saturday.
October 19, 2009, 5:05 pm -
MPAA chief Glickman to step down in 2010: report
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, has made it official that he will leave his post with the lobbying organization for Hollywood studios when his contract expires in September.
October 19, 2009, 5:04 pm -
Talks ongoing to revive canceled "Southland"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Keep up the faith, "Southland" fans.
October 19, 2009, 3:55 pm -
Sky's the limit for ABC's "V" promotion
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC might not be able to simulate spaceships hovering above cities, as in the show's premiere episode, but the network came up with the next best thing to promote the launch of its alien-invasion drama "V."
October 19, 2009, 3:54 pm
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