Everyone’s favourite literary singleton will return in a new novel entitled Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Publishers have disclosed the title of Helen Fielding’s forthcoming book on.
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Star Trek sorry for ‘gratuitous’ bra scene
A lot of people were disappointed with Star Trek: Into Darkness. The bosses at Paramount Pictures, which bankrolled the movie, were disappointed the movie didn’t score $US100 million in its opening weekend in the US (they had to settle for a meagre $US83 million).
History never repeats
Simon Grigg
Scientists Discover Mother Monkeys Who Kill Their Babies
For any species hoping to survive in the wild, the lifetime to-do list is agreeably brief: eat, mate, defend your turf and above all, protect your young.
10 Questions for Gene Hackman
In the first chapter of your new western novel Payback at Morning Peak, your 17-year-old protagonist, Jubal, finds his mother dead, shoots his dad in the head as he burns alive and tries in vain to save the life of his 14-year-old sister, who has just been raped. You wanted it to start slow, huh?Yeah, I wanted to dig myself into a hole so that I would have 300 pages to get myself out.
Insane on All Counts
After torturous deliberations, a jury acquits John Hinckley “As to the first count, not guilty, by reason of insanity.” There was a gasp in the courtroom.
Syria’s Assad: Making an Example of Dara’a
If human rights workers and journalists are ever allowed into the besieged southern Syrian city of Dara’a near the Jordanian border, what horrors will they find? Syrians always had good reason to avoid rebelling against their authoritarian regime, ignoring early calls to join the Arab Spring.
The Congo: The U.N. Drives Implacably Ahead
Belgian Cement Worker Albert Verbrugghe was driving his wife and another woman down a quiet street in the copper town of Jadotville one day last week, when he suddenly heard the clatter of gunfire.
10 Questions for Yuko Yamaguchi
Did you ever imagine that Hello Kitty would be big worldwide? Maya Castro, Miami No, not at all
Report: U.S. general calls for more troops in Afghanistan
America’s top commander in Afghanistan warns that more troops are needed there within the next year or the nearly 8-year-old war “will likely result in failure,” according to a copy of a 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.