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High-density housing nabs Stirling Prize

A housing estate in Cambridge, England, has captured the 2008 Stirling Prize for architecture. Accordia - designed by the triumvirate of Feilden Clegg Bradley, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington - has been hailed as 'a a new model for outside-inside life.'

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Tin Pan Alley up for sale

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The New York block where Irving Berlin wrote God Bless America and George M. Cohan wrote Give My Regards to Broadway is up for sale.

Cronenberg eyes political thriller The Matarese Circle

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Canadian director David Cronenberg is in talks to make a big-budget political thriller for MGM studios.

Baader-Meinhof film draws criticism from victims' children

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A new film about militant German group Baader-Meinhof is opening old wounds in Germany.

Lil' Kim sued for $2.5M US over record deal

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Grammy-winning rapper Lil' Kim has been sued for $2.5 million US by her latest record label, which claims she failed to deliver all the songs required under her exclusive recording contract.

Journalists easily manipulated, says veteran U.S. newsman

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Groundbreaking U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh contends that journalists have allowed themselves to be manipulated in their coverage of U.S. politics in recent years.

Ban on movie ads lifted for 2009 Oscar broadcast

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Beginning in 2009, the Academy Awards broadcast will include commercials for movies, a departure from policy existing for more than 50 years.

Film critical of Alberta oilsands on Oscar short list

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A film about an Alberta doctor who sounded the alarm about a string of unusual cancers in a First Nations community downstream from the Alberta oil sands has been named to the short list for an Academy Award for best short documentary.

Kick by co-star on set of Bond film sent Craig to plastic surgeon

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James Bond star Daniel Craig has revealed he was injured on the set of Quantum of Solace in June and required plastic surgery.

Rufus Wainwright pens debut opera

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Montreal-bred Rufus Wainwright has been commissioned to compose his first opera, to be staged at the Manchester International Festival in 2009.

Rubens sketch saved in 11th-hour intervention

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A sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, conservatively valued at $22.4 million, will go on permanent display at Tate Britain in London after a last-minute intervention by a public campaign to save the work.

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