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Travel postcard: 48 hours in Baghdad, Iraq

Home to what many call the Cradle of Civilization, and whose capital was later immortalized for its splendor and sensuality in tales of the Arabian Nights, Iraq has millennia of rich history to offer tourists.

Christian Slater's new TV series forgettable

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Every week, you can watch hot murder cases or cold ones. You can see murders solved by ghosts, extrasensory perception, forensics, advanced mathematics, undercover disguises or mental deduction. You can learn about real cases and fictional ones.
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Latest Hollywood script deals

Walden Media has rubbed the lamp and picked up Gene, a modern take on the classic genie story from writer Randi Mayem Singer.
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NCIS: Los Angeles like new version of A-Team

NCIS, which this week starts its seventh season on CBS, seems a little old to be bearing offspring. On the other hand, the show has shown surprising ratings resilience in the past couple of years.
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Killers, Yorke on New Moon soundtrack

The soundtrack for New Moon -- the second movie installment of the Twilight vampire series -- will feature songs by the likes of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and the Killers.
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Jackson movie to get mass worldwide premiere

The Michael Jackson movie This Is It -- based on footage from concert rehearsals before his death in June -- will have simultaneous premieres in more than 15 cities around the world next month, the studio behind the film said on Monday.
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Home is Where You Find It – Paris, France

Not far from the heart of Paris, Shakespeare and Company juts out of the cobblestones, offering a brief refuge from the crowded art museums. Gummy fingers pluck through stacks of literature in the
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Chanel advanced women's rights, says actress Tautou

Gabrielle Coco Chanel didn't just make beautiful clothes, she also advanced women's rights, says actress Audrey Tautou, who portrays the pioneering French fashion designer in a new film about her early life.
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7 Very Worthwhile Midwest Weekend Getaways

For residents in the Midwest states, it can seem like there aren't many places to go aside from the big cities. Outside of Chicago, skyscrapers give way to strip malls and then it's just cornfields and cow pastures, right? Wrong.
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Renoir exhibition in Paris highlights later works

A major exhibition on Renoir opening in Paris this week aims to bring a new perspective to the later works of the French master as his art evolved from the sun-dappled Impressionist style that made his name.
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10 Weird Food Delicacies From Around the World

Travelling is often about trying the unusual and attempting to experience the different culture of the country you are visiting. One of the best ways to do this is to try the foods the native people eat.
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Italian orchestra creates multicultural Mozart

An Italian orchestra mainly composed of migrants brings a multicultural version of Mozart's The Magic Flute to Rome on Wednesday to open the city's arts festival amid a debate over a crackdown on illegal migration.
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Natalie Portman shines in Impossible film

Natalie Portman impresses mightily in Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, playing a second wife and grieving first-time mother grappling with the thorny complexity of family dynamics.
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New Jenna Elfman sitcom vaguely amusing

To film critic Billie, there are three stages of womanhood: Meg Ryan in 'Sleepless in Seattle,' Meg Ryan in 'You've Got Mail' and Meg Ryan in the grocery store saying, 'No, really, I'm Meg Ryan.'
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Emmy Awards 2009 winners full list

30 Rock and Mad Men were awarded the best comedy and drama series respectively at the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Sunday night.
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Mad Men and 30 Rock win top Emmys, again

The low-rated shows 30 Rock and Mad Men shared the spotlight at the Emmy Awards for a second year on Sunday, but most of their stars were snubbed as the acting awards went to repeat winners or surprise choices.
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Managing People in Tough Times

While Australia may have avoided a technical recession of two successive quarters of negative real economic growth, business confidence still remains weak and many organisations and faced with some very tough decisions about the future.

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