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Chopard jewellery worth $1.4 million intended to adorn movie stars at the Cannes film festival has been stolen, a police source said today, but the company said the value had been exaggerated and the items were not for actresses to use. According to the source, who declined to be named because he was not authorised to discuss the case with the press, the jewels were in the safe of a room rented by an employee of the luxury jeweller, which is also a Cannes sponsor.
The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before – to see the new Star Trek film. The three astronauts were offered a sneak peak of Star Trek Into Darkness days before it opens in the US, seeing it not
Colonel Chris Hadfield has signed off after five months as commander of the International Space Station by performing David Bowie’s Space Oddity in zero gravity.
An internet Friend-zy (sorry) incurred as reports that beloved nineties sitcom, Friends, would revive Smelly Cat sonics and Monica’s OCD for an entire season, come November next year. Over the weekend a radio station in Oklahoma posted a picture of the show’s iconic orange couch on Facebook emblazoned with the words “Friends: The One With The Reunion.
Officers arrested a woman for stalking after she wielded an electric razor while approaching Australian actor Hugh Jackman at a New York City gym, police said. Katherine Thurston, 47, went into the gym where Jackman was working out early on Saturday morning (local time), and after a brief encounter with the 44-year-old actor, she fled and was arrested a few blocks away, a New York police spokeswoman said
Shark humor has its time and place, but not when I’m snorkeling somewhere called Shark Bay. At the Heron Island Research Station, a laboratory on the teardrop-shaped atoll 45 miles off Australia’s east coast, the suntanned, chirpy station manager gives a parting wave to the three students who are taking me out for my first look at the legendary corals of the Great Barrier Reef
For years, scientists have ridiculed NASA’s claim that the International Space Station is a grand platform for groundbreaking research — and plenty of the science done there has just reinforced that attitude. Who can forget, for example, this classic opening sentence from a landmark 2006 paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology: “During space flights, tadpoles of the clawed toad Xenopus laevis occasionally develop upward bended tails “?
As centuries go, this has been one of the most amazing: inspiring, at times horrifying, always fascinating.
First, Terry Bigley watched the tornado overtake his television screen as it ripped through eastern Kansas toward Joplin, Mo., where he lived on the east side in an apartment with his wife. “They had a big picture of it,” he says of the local news station
Zach Galifianakis walks up to the driver’s side of a FedEx truck and, pretending it’s his, pulls out a key. Then he leads me to a beat-up 1997 Subaru station wagon