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  • Community radio reporters acting as climate change communication agents in Central India

    Climate change is real. For an emerging economy like India with a large population directly dependent on natural resources for their sustenance, the changing climate is causing severe economic, environmental and social challenges. Bundelkhand, a semi - arid region comprising of 13 districts in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh is one of the most climate sensitive areas in ...

  • Jackie Chan admires Bollywood welcomes Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration

    Hollywood's action film star Jackie Chan has expressed his love for Bollywood music and dance sequences, and added that he is waiting for the right script and film director before venturing into an Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration. Chan, who is of Chinese descent, is leading a delegation at a six-day Chinese film festival in New Delhi. Welcomed by a thundering applause, the multi-faceted action ...

  • The belle of Broadway

    Crowe and Sydney singer Michael Falzon are guest soloists for the latest Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra show, which will feature much-loved hits from popular Broadway musicals including The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Miss Saigon and more. Crowe has performed around the world, including shows in London, Beijing and Shanghai. She first appeared with the TSO in 2006 ...

  • Yodelling country singer Slim Whitman dies at 90

    Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film ...

  • National Theatre Lives audience with the Queen breaks box office records

    Helen Mirren as the Queen in The Audience, a National Theatre Live production at the Gielgud Theatre, London. Photograph: AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Johan ...

Movie Review

Schizopolis [DVD]

Schizopolis [DVD]

Steven Soderberghs Schizopolis is as fragmented and confounding as its title implies. It was made as a low-budget personal bomb lobbed simultaneously into the worlds of independent art film (where Soderbergh started) and mainstream commercial filmmaking (where he was headed). Unlike his other experimental film, the tiresome Full Frontal (2002), Schizopolis works best when not ... ...

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  • Nasa to take everyones picture from space

    in charge of the robot craft's cameras .Porco wants everyone to wave for this cosmic portrait. We have been told in advance the date and time it will be taken (between 21.27 and 21.42 GMT), so, as she says, "people can celebrate and join in".Why not make this the ultimate global celebration? After all, it's not every day you have your picture taken from ...

  • Biggest Viking exhibition in 20 years opens – and this time theyre angry

    All around the hull of the longest Viking warship ever found there are swords and battle axes, many bearing the scars of long and bloody use, in an exhibition opening in Copenhagen that will smash decades of good public relations for the Vikings as mild-mannered traders and farmers."Some of my colleagues thought surely one sword is enough," archaeologist and co-curator Anne Pedersen ...

  • Portraits of women by the men who loved them

    'Edith, Chincoteague Island (Virginia), 1967' by Emmet Gowin, Photograph: Pace/MacGill, New York He was enthralled by Edith from their first meeting. He once described his portraits of her as "agreements" they made with each other - and the whole first part of the show can be read as an extended expression of his love for her. "My attention," he said of the ...

  • Ed Harris to Star Off Broadway in The Jacksonian

    stars Harris as a dentist exiled by his estranged wife (Madigan) to a seedy motel, where he encounters a gold-digging staffer and an untrustworthy bartender, played by Headly and Pullman, respectively. All four lead actors reprise their role from the well-received West Coast premiere, with additional cast to be announced. Also on tap for the New Group in winter is the world premiere ...

  • Someone had taken out my insides and stabbed them Alleged victim of 2009 homecoming dance gang-rape takes the stand

    My son Maddox gets shot in head during 'World War Z,' says Brad Pitt Adults were left terrified at the end of Brad Pitt’s zombie thriller ...

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