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19/12/2015

Miss World 2015: Spain wins and England doesn't make the Top 20 The winner of the 65th pageant was Mireia Lalaguna Royo, 23, a professional model from Barcelona. From over 110 contestants, Miss Russia came in second place and Miss Indonesia in third. Mireia Lalaguna Royo, a 23-year-old professional model from Barcelona, wins the beauty pageant in Sanya, China. Miss England failed to make the top 20… [ 165 more words. ]

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Miss World: Miss Spain Wins International Beauty Pageant Held in Sanya, China

18/12/2015

Oklahoma City (17-8) has been on a tear of late with six straight wins and victories in 10 of their past 12 games Both superstars are off to hot starts. Like James, Dellavedova and Thompson each finished off double-doubles, as Dellavedova handed out 10 assists to go along with his 11 points, and Thompson corralled 15 rebounds. Still, OKC had a 47-46 lead at the end of the first half. [ 105 more words. ]

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Wife of golfer Day hurt in courtside collision with LeBron

18/12/2015

Blindsides, unprecedented votes, a strong cast and a deserving winner made this season stand out. In the aftermath of the Survivor: Cambodia — Second Chance finale, it's tempting to write a story about how Survivor is back, but that makes the assumption that it was ever truly gone. Long-running reality shows tend to have a familiar curve: Success, phenomenon, dwindling success, cancellation. [ 1459 more words. ]

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Critic's Notebook: 'Survivor: Cambodia' Finale Closes a Revitalized Season

18/12/2015

NEW ORLEANS — The United States women’s national soccer team has gone through roughly the same drill before almost every game it has played over the last several years. The players would huddle shoulder to shoulder, reaching their hands into the middle of the scrum, waiting for Abby Wambach to speak. Wambach routinely drenched her hair with water before games, so it would spray onto the others as she worked herself into an oratorical lather. [ 771 more words. ]

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Abby Wambach Plays Final Game and Prepares for Future of Women’s Soccer

17/12/2015

The partially convertible rupee opens at 66.62 per dollar compared with its previous close of 66.73 Mumbai: The Indian rupee on Thursday strengthened against the US dollar after the US Federal Reserve hiked rates by 25 basis points (bps) at its rate setting meeting overnight. This is the third consecutive session that the rupee is trading higher. A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point. [ 467 more words. ]

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Rupee rises for third day to 66.62 per US dollar on Fed move

12/12/2015

Angelina Jolie has gifted a citrine necklace to the Smithsonian Institution ’s National Gem Collection. The piece is from the Style of Jolie jewelry collection, a collaboration between the actress and humanitarian, and American high jewelry designer, Robert Procop. The 18k yellow gold necklace features 64 graduated bezel-set cushion-shaped citrine gems centered by a 177.11-carat pear-shaped citrine drop. The new piece, named the “Jolie Citrine Necklace,” is being displayed in the Janet Annenberg Ho**er Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals starting today and will remain on view indefinitely. [ 169 more words. ]

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Angelina Jolie Donates Yellow Citrine Necklace To Smithsonian

12/12/2015

KATY Perry has been named as music’s biggest earner in 2015, thanks to her sold-out Prismatic world tour and a series of lucrative endorsements. The I Kissed a Girl singer earned $US135 million ($A187.32 million) in 2015, according to Forbes magazine. This places Perry at number one on the mag’s annual rich list — up 22 places from last year. [ 65 more words. ]

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Katy Perry is 2015’s top earning music star

10/12/2015

The first images from 2016 blockbuster The Legend of Tarzan have been released, showing Alexander Skarsgard and Australian Margot Robbie as the iconic jungle couple. Harry Potter director David Yates will helm the film, due out in July, which is set to show a different side of the famous fictional story from Edgar Rice Burroughs The modern-day adaption sees Tarzan living a comfortable life in 1800s London as Lord Greystoke, years after leaving behind his Congo home with wife Jane Porter, played by Robbie. [ 251 more words. ]

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10/12/2015

Australia's first remote controlled fire-fighting robot that can sweep away obstacles and clear smoke from burning buildings has been unveiled. The Turbine Aided Firefighting machine (TAF 20) is seen as the latest weapon to fight fires in New South Wales (NSW). The TAF 20 has bulldozer blades capable of moving cars out of the way and a high-powered fan to blow away smoke. [ 157 more words. ]

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First fire-fighting robot unveiled in Australia

09/12/2015

Roger Federer has rejigged his coaching team for next year by parting company with Stefan Edberg and bringing Ivan Ljubicic on board, the 17-times grand slam champion said on Wednesday. Former world number one Edberg had worked as part of a team led by Federer's long-term coach Severin Luthi since January 2014, a period in which the 34-year-old revived his career without adding to his tally of grand slam titles. [ 279 more words. ]

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Roger Federer parts ways with Stefan Edberg, brings Ivan Ljubicic on board

09/12/2015

Cindy Crawford, turns 50, says she is happy to age gracefully. (Source: Reuters) Cindy Crawford will celebrate her 50th birthday next February and the supermodel says she is happy to age gracefully. Crawford said she admires celebrities like Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, who look amazing at their age and do not “try to look” young, reported People magazine. “Women like Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, they look amazing and they look appropriate. [ 75 more words. ]

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I have embraced turning 50: Cindy Crawford

08/12/2015

TEMPO.CO, Islamabad-Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia on Tuesday denounced Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, dismissing the U.S. Republican presidential front-runner as a bigot who promoted violence. Trump's statement on "preventing Muslim immigration" drew swift and fierce criticism from many directions at home, including from the White House and rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. [ 397 more words. ]

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Muslims in Asia Denounce Trump's Call For 'U.S. Ban'