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  • $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival

    CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...

  • African Leaders Condemn Ongoing Use of Cluster Bombs

    Thirty-six African countries have formally condemned the use of cluster bombs and urged all of Africa to join a global ban on the deadly weapons. Delegates at a conference in Lome, Togo say they are gravely concerned about the ongoing use of cluster munitions and the mounting number of victims, including women and children. They say 14 African countries have a cluster bomb problem, ...

  • UAE minister ranked 67th among worlds 100 powerful women

    Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the UAE's minister of development and international cooperation, has been ranked 67th among the world's powerful women in 2013 in an annual report by Forbes. Forbes is a US business magazine owned by Forbes Inc. Published biweekly, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, ...

  • Women should look real raw Gisele Bundchen

    Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen believes "imperfections make us unique and beautiful", and so women must look real and raw in their photographs instead of being caked with make-up. She came to realise this after working with US-based apparel brand BLK DNM's creative director Johan Lindeberg, who persuaded her to go make-up free. "I loved his approach because I feel like women should be real ...

  • US mom gave birth to child after her heart stopped and then came back to life

    A women from Texas, who died technically when her heart stopped beating, gave birth to her daughter then came back to life again on her own. It all happened, when 32-year-old teacher Erica Nigrelli collapsed in her Missouri City classroom last February. Her husband, Nathan, a teacher at the same school, found that his wife was having a seizure. After call to the 911, paramedics reached the ...


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Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud) [DVD]

Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud) [DVD]

The title of Louis Malles feature debut, Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour lchafaud), is something of a sick joke and a perfect summation of both the film itself and the film noir genre from which it derives its raison dtre. On the literal ... ...

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  • 100-year-old X-rays reveal how corset-clad Victorian women endured pain

    X-rays published in 1908 demonstrate how corsets of the era narrowed the lower rib cage. X-ray images from the early 20th century illustrate what women were willing to endure in the name of fashion: namely, squashed rib cages and displaced organs, thanks to their tightly-laced metal-enforced corsetry. The images are included in a medical paper written in 1908 by Dr. Ludovic O'Followell of ...

  • Inked women more approachable but have looser morals

    Men believe that women who have gotten inked - and particularly 'tramp stamps' - are more likely to have sex with them on their first date, according to a study. The study conducted by France's Universite de Bretagne-Sud, found that men surveyed were likelier to ask a women out if they had a tattoo, but they also believed them to be of a "loose" character, the New York Daily News reported. In ...

  • Women gymgoers filthier than men

    The funky smell at your gym could be because most people tend to wear their workout gear a few times before washing, according to a new poll. The new survey finds that most people wash their clothes only after every third workout. Women are the worst offenders, the survey said, with just 21 percent washing their gym clothes after each and every workout, the New York Daily News reported. A ...

  • Menopause can affect memory

    New research suggests women who have hot flushes during menopause, could also suffer memory issues. The study, published in the journal Menopause, indicates a direct link between the menopause and memory, reports dailymail.co.uk. Researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University conducted the study, for which participants aged between 44 and 62 were sampled. Each ...

  • Law to protect Afghan women faces backlash

    An Afghan woman, in a burqa, walks through a clothing bazaar Kabul In September 2012. The Taliban forced women to cloak themselves to the eyes in public, but the practice continues even though the Taliban were forced from power a decade ago, and domestic violence against women is growing. (Washington Post/Pamela Constable) KABUL - A proposed law to protect Afghan women and girls from abuses such ...

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