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  • Vitamin D from sun may treat asthma says study

    Time spent by asthma patients soaking up the sun may help in the treatment of the illness, a research has said. A team of scientists at King's College London said vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, calms an "over-active" part of the immune system in asthma, BBC reported. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not yet been tested. People with asthma find it hard to ...

  • Need more freedom for filmmaking in India Anurag Kashyap

    India's rising star director Anurag Kashyap has complained that filmmakers in in the country still do not enjoy the kind of freedom of space and expression that would allow them to make meaningful films. "Today, we are forced to treat our audience as children of less than five years and hence we have to only make goody-goody films with a huge dose of escapism. I want to have the option making ...

  • Mice and lizard return after a month in space

    A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...

  • Hundreds pay respects as Elijah Harper laid to rest

    Former MLA, MP, and aboriginal leader Elijah Harper has died. Elijah Harper - The Man Who Said No, to many Canadians - was remembered as much more by friends and family at funeral events Monday. Harper, a former Manitoba MLA and MP who was a key figure in shutting down the failed Meech Lake Accord, died Friday as a result of heart failure stemming from diabetes ...

  • Sex-tape soldier hopes for closure

    Alexandra-Kim Martin-Roberge is seen in this QMI Agency file photo. MONTREAL - The Quebec soldier whose stolen sex tape ruined her military career said she hoped to reach an "accommodation" with army officials. Alexandra-Kim Martin-Roberge said the Canadian army will present her with an offer on Tuesday at CFB Valcartier, just north of Quebec City. In 2010, while on a 12-month ...


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The Taking of Pelham 123

The Taking of Pelham 123

In this third crack at John Godeys 1973 novel about the hijacking of a New York City subway, director Tony Scott imposes his signature stylistic grab bag of spastic random zooms, machine-gun editing, bleary slow motion, and other assorted forms of needless visual assa ... ...

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  • Flickr gets new look and a terabyte of free space in update

    Yahoo's purchase of blogging site Tumblr wasn't the only news from the company Monday: It also rolled out its redo of photo-sharing service Flickr, adding a new layout, a refreshed Android app, and perhaps most temptingly, a full terabyte of storage free to all users.The update couldn't be more welcome, although some may say it's too little, too late: Flickr was among the ...

  • Scans could spare parents the grief of infant autopsies

    The days of traditional post-mortem examinations for infants could be numbered. Bereaved parents agonising over whether to subject their dead child or stillborn baby to a full post-mortem now have an alternative that is potentially far less traumatic. For fetuses and infants under the age of one, MRI scans combined with minimally invasive procedures including blood tests are as effective as an ...

  • Analysis For Harpers Tories back to basics on ethics

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a business round table at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid OTTAWA - "People who work hard, pay their taxes, and play by the rules want accountability from their political leaders. We don't expect politicians to be perfect. But we do want to know that our tax dollars - money we've worked for - ...

  • NDP at a loss to explain Mulcairs contradictions silence about bribe attempt

    OTTAWA - New Democrats tried to deflect questions about leader Thomas Mulcair's ethics Monday amid apparent contradictory statements he made about an alleged attempt to bribe him in 1994. "What's really clear is that our leader had nothing to do with secret cash payments, whereas the prime minister hasn't explained his role in secret cash payments," NDP MP Charlie Angus ...

  • Jodi Arias denied mistrial in death penalty hearing

    Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ...

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