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• Angry French fan throws TV out of the window

  - 2007-10-15

  ANNECY, France AFP — A French rugby fan was so distraught at his team's World Cup semi-final exit that he threw his television out of the window of his flat onto a car parked two floors below. Police here said the man, who had been drinking as he watched...

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• Flat screen TVs lead rise in French consumer purchases

  - 2007-07-02

  PARIS AFP — Flat-screen televisions sold like hot cakes in France last year but shoppers shunned new cars as overall household consumption grew by 2.1 percent, the national statistics institute INSEE said Tuesday. The increase, slightly less than the 2005 figure of 2.2 percent, was helped by a gain...

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• Romanian police find 60 kg of heroin in car, five years later

  - 2007-05-03

  BUCHAREST AFP — Romanian police have found over 60 kilogrammes of heroin in a car that was impounded in 2002 and had been in government hands for five years, local media reported Thursday. Officers from the organised crime unit discovered the drugs under the backseat of the Porsche, which...

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• Sarandon to star in 'Speed Racer' movie

  - 2007-05-01

  BERLIN AFP — Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon will begin this summer filming "Speed Racer," based on the popular 1960s US animated television series, Germany's Babelsberg Studios said Tuesday. Sarandon, 60, will appear as the mother of the title character, a young racing car driver played by Emile Hirsch, in...

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• Freight train explosion in New York state

  - 2007-03-12

  NEW YORK AFP — Firefighters in New York state were battling a raging freight train fire early Monday, after a tanker carrying liquid gas reportedly exploded. "We're still in the process of evacuating and we're trying to get to the area," local fire department spokesman lieutenant Kevin Salerno told...

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• Schumacher regrets controversial Villeneuve manoeuvre

  - 2006-12-07

  BERLIN AFP — Michael Schumacher, Germany's retired seven-time Formula One champion, admits he regrets the controversial manoeuvre he used on Canadian Jacques Villeneuve to try and win the 1997 world championship. "That was something I would do different today," Schumacher told television broadcaster RTL. "I am not someone who can...

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• George Michael: cannabis keeps me sane

  - 2006-10-20

  LONDON AFP — Pop star George Michael openly smoked cannabis and said the drug kept him "sane and happy" in a British television interview, a newspaper has reported. The Daily Mirror said Friday that the singer, 43, puffed on a joint during the interview for ITV's flagship arts programme The...

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• Mel Gibson bares his soul in US network interview

  - 2006-10-12

  NEW YORK AFP — A contrite Mel Gibson went on US network television to talk candidly about his battle with alcoholism and his shame over a drunken anti-Semitic tirade when arrested earlier this year. The Oscar-winning director showed remorse at the comments he made to a Jewish police officer when...

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• Television's 'Knight Rider' to roar onto the big screen

  - 2006-05-09

  LOS ANGELES AFP — KITT the talking car from the 1980s television show "Knight Rider" is set to roar onto the big screen in a feature film version of the hit series, the industry press said. Hollywood independent producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein are steering the project through their...

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• Bombs kill 4, wound 90 in Arab province of Iran

  - 2005-10-15

  TEHRAN AFP — Two bombs blamed on "terrorists" killed four people and wounded 90 in a market in Ahvaz, a town populated mainly by Arabs in southwest Iran, an official told state television. "Two homemade bombs exploded in rubbish bins in a very busy street and killed four and...

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