The 21-year-old star of the Pirates of the Caribbean films has spoken of her bemusement at being surgically enhanced by computer trickery in promotional material publicising her films in the US.

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It appears that a guy saved his screenplays to his desktop and didn't bother backing them up. When a technician came to his house to install the DSL, he tried to "help" by cleaning up the "unused" items on the guy's desktop -- which, of course, included the screenplays. While compensated, he wanted the millions he never got in a signed deal.

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China can control their weather. They are planning on doing this for the Olympics but they have been deciding what the weather will be for a couple of years now. Surely we have about 40,000 spare people (farmers and veterans), 30 aircraft, 4,000 rocket launchers, and more than 7,000 artillery pieces to do this laying around?

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Test and improve your visual awareness. The game presents two very similar photos and a time limit to spot the differences.

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Enter your date of birth (or any other date for that matter!) to discover what was at Number One at any week in the past 60 years!

You'll also see a list of eminent musicians who share your special day.

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The BBC wants to allow audiences to create personal radio stations from its content, its director general has said. The planned service, provisionally called MyBBCRadio, was revealed by Mark Thompson at the Radio Festival in Cambridge.

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Police arrest two pranksters who created realistic soccer balls made of cement and left them around the city.

HAHAHAHAHA

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