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More arguments have sparked in the Big Brother 10 house over this week's nominations for eviction. Halfwit (Freddie Fisher) and Sree Dasari are both set to face the public vote, with the former up for eviction for the third time.

'The project to rebuild Belfast's Lyric Theatre has received a boost with the offer of a £500,000 grant from a US-based charitable foundation. The Kresge Foundation will hand over the money if the Lyric can raise £800,000 by June next year. … The new theatre will consist of a 394-seat main auditorium, a 150-seat studio theatre, a rehearsal room, extensive riverfront foyers and bar, backstage facilities and office accommodation.'...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' grossed a cool $13.8 million in North american theaters on Wednesday, marking Hollywood's biggest mid-week opening for an animated film.

Michael Jackson was busy putting on the final touches for his 50-date London concerts at the O2 Arena when he unexpectedly died. Now, ET's Thea Andrews is with the men behind the massive production to reveal what could have been Michael's most incredible concert tour yet! A show filled with music, dance, stunts and pyrotechnics, Michael's "This is It" concert was being directed by Kenny Ortega, the man who designed Michael's "Dangerous" tour, choreographed 'Dirty Dancing' and also brought "High School Musical" to the world. Kenny says that Michael promised "the concert of a lifetime" and was prepared to deliver. "We [had] some fun things planned," he says, referring to gigantic spiders, 20-foot puppets, a flaming bed, a pole dancing aerialist, a 3D movie and plenty more magic. "It's complex in scale and it's as big as anything I've ever done or attempted to do for an arena production."

The A-Team is being brought to the big screen in 2010. Fans are sure to agree that this is a long time coming.Source: Susan ElliottPublished: Jul 02, 2009

HER role in Australia has helped Nicole Kidman become one of Hollywood's biggest earners.

A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she 'almost hit Sasquatch,'...

GARMSIR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan river valley on Thursday, launching the biggest military offensive of Barack Obama's presidency.

NAWA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan river valley on Thursday, launching the biggest military offensive of Barack Obama's presidency.

Ridley Scott's 2001 dramatisation of the Battle of Mogadishu is too black v white, but warfare has never been so strikingly depictedDirector: Ridley ScottEntertainment grade: CHistory grade: CThe Battle of Mogadishu, fought in Somalia's capital during October 1993, was at the time the biggest US military firefight since the Vietnam war. An attempt by american special forces to kidnap two chief aides of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid went disastrously wrong, triggering an all-out battle. Under the UN banner, american, Pakistani and Malaysian forces fought Aidid's militia. Exposition'This isn't Iraq, you know,' says one officer. 'Much more complicated than that.' Maybe in 2001, when Black Hawk Down was released, you could just about get away with that line. In any case, the conflict in Somalia is indeed complicated. The film opens with a slew of explanatory title cards, revealing it expects its viewers to be a fairly dense bunch. One reads 'Somalia, East Africa.' As opposed to Somal