Media absorbed in made-for-TV mystery

The missing Malaysian plane is a made-for-TV mystery where the public’s hunger for the story seems inversely proportional to the amount of solid leads for solving the case. The story led ABC’s Good Morning America again on Tuesday (local time), when Bob Woodruff reported from a Malaysian fishing village, interviewing a man who said he saw a jet flying low over the water around the time Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing March 8 with 239 people aboard.

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Matt Damon IS Edward Snowden

After fleeing the US and then Hong Kong, Edward Snowden remains (as far as we know) holed up somewhere in Moscow’s airport beyond the reach of American authorities. The story of the hunt for the NSA whistleblower and attempts to stop him before he leaks again seems inevitably headed for Hollywood, just like the story of WikiLeaks before it

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Bieber abandons monkey friend

While Justin Bieber has apparently rekindled his romance with Selena Gomez, he has abandoned his pet monkey Mally in Germany. Mally, a 17-week-old capuchin monkey, was seized by customs authorities on March 28 when Bieber failed to produce the required papers after landing in Munich while on tour.

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Breaking Bad script stolen from car

Authorities in the US have arrested a man who allegedly broke into Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston’s car late last year and stole a script for the popular television show. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s officials announced Monday that 29-year-old Xavier Macafee is being held on suspicion of burglary.

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Iran mulls suing Hollywood

Iranian media say authorities are planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning “Argo” because of the movie’s allegedly “unrealistic portrayal” of the country. Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit

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Man Finds Car 2 Years After Losing It During Night Of Drinking In Germany

  Have You Ever Went Out Drinking And Couldn’t Remember Where You Parked Your Car? For Two Years? One German man did just that!    Found It, After Two Years! A man in southern Germany has been reunited with his car two years after forgetting where he parked, Bavarian police said on Thursday. After a […]

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Campus officer kills naked freshman at University of South Alabama

  Authorities are investigating why a University of South Alabama officer fatally shot an 18-year-old freshman who they say was naked and acting erratically outside the campus police station early Saturday.   With few details of the shooting in the Gulf Coast city of Mobile, the student’s mother and one of his friends said they […]

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