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  • Guptas misused diplomatic contacts to land illegally at S.Africa military base

    South Africa's Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has claimed that the well-connected and wealthy Gupta family misused their diplomatic contacts to land their plane illegally at the country's strategic and sensitive Waterkloof Air Force Base last month. They secured landing rights from ministers and an airports company in South Africa ahead of an elaborate reception for Vega Gupta and Aakash ...

  • Decision to prosecute Guptas lies with NPA S.African Police Justice Minister

    South Africa's Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and police in South Africa will be the deciding authority on whether to prosecute or not to prosecute the well-connected Gupta family for allowing their plane to land at the strategic and sensitive Waterkloof Air Force base for the wedding of Vega Gupta and Indian-born Aakash Jahajgarhia at Sun ...

  • Radical Islamist Killed in Tunisia Street Protests

    Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis. Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual ...

  • Australian scientist plans to reveal rewrite history behind ancient coins discovery

    An Australian scientist is planning an expedition to the Wessel islands in July and will revisit the location where five coins and an old map might reveal findings recreating Australia's history. Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in US Ian McIntosh plans to open up possibilities that the 1000-year-old coins may prove that explorers from distant countries might have landed in ...

  • Brisbane cyclists loud sex talks led to renaming of route

    The popular cycling map app Strava has had one of its most popular Brisbane segments renamed 'Bedroom antics - shhhh' after complaints from homeowners along that route that riders were talking loudly about their sex lives. According to News.com.au, complaints from Yeronga residents sparked a petition last month to crack down on riders talking too loudly along a stretch of the popular River ...

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Shadow of the Vampire [DVD]

Shadow of the Vampire [DVD]

Shadow of the Vampire is a darkly humorous reimagination of what went on behind the lights and cameras during the filming of F.W. Murnau's legendary silent horror film, Nosferatu, which was made in 1922 during the height of German expressionism. Murnau's film was almost lost because it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Stoker's widow at one poin ... ...

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  • Chinese Premier Visits India to Discuss Borders Trade

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart are discussing trade, regional stability, and a longstanding border dispute as Premier Li Keqiang wraps up his first foreign trip since taking ...

  • Kuwaits Kharafi group wins $930 million from Libya - media

    KUWAIT (Reuters) - Libya will have to pay Kuwait's Kharafi group $930 million (611 million pounds) in damages for former leader Muammar Gaddafi's cancelling of the construction of a vacation resort, Kuwaiti newspapers reported on Monday.M. A. Kharafi and Sons, a company owned by one of Gulf state's biggest merchant families, won the award in arbitration proceedings via the Arab ...

  • HM the King congratulates President of Cameroon

    Manama, May 20 (BNA) - His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa sent a cable of congratulations to President Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, marking the Cameroon's National Day, wishing him abundant health and happiness. MJ m.a BNA 0722 GMT ...

  • One protestor dead 11 police wounded in Tunisia after Ansar Al Sharia clashes

    The violence broke out after the government banned the Salafist group's annual rally . This move caused mass indignation and the group urged all of its supporters to defy the ban and rally anyways. The protest has left one 27 year old Tunisian man dead, and three protestors and 11 officers wounded, according to media reports. Some 11,000 police officers, according to Reuters, blocked the ...

  • Nigeria steps up blitz on Boko Haram

    Maiduguri - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the ...

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