James Hossack
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/ 6 June 2007

Bowie, Beastie Boys headline at Webby Awards

David Bowie spent less than a minute on stage, the Beastie Boys asked if anyone could fix one of their computers and Manchester United boasted they had given the world David Beckham. The somewhat surreal occasion was a gala ceremony in New York on Tuesday for the 11th annual Webby Awards, the ”Oscars of the internet”.

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/ 7 April 2007

Millions to watch Sopranos swan song

Hit American Mob drama The Sopranos begins its final run of episodes this Sunday with millions expected to tune in for the climax of one of most successful series in United States television history. Speculation is rife about who will get ”whacked,” who will be ”made” and who will become a ”guest of the government”.

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/ 20 March 2007

Naomi Campbell: More à la mop than à la mode

Supermodel Naomi Campbell began a week of cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors at the New York City Sanitation Department on Monday as part of a community service order for throwing a cellphone at her maid last year. "She will be sweeping, cleaning, mopping. We have windows that need to be cleaned," said Sanitation Department deputy chief Albert Durrell.

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/ 20 March 2007

Naomi Campbell: More à la mop than à la mode

Supermodel Naomi Campbell began a week of cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors at the New York City Sanitation Department on Monday as part of a community service order for throwing a cellphone at her maid last year. "She will be sweeping, cleaning, mopping. We have windows that need to be cleaned," said Sanitation Department deputy chief Albert Durrell.

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/ 21 September 2005

Hurricane Rita grows stronger

Storm-weary residents prepared to flee devastated New Orleans on Wednesday as powerful Hurricane Rita threatened the United States Gulf Coast three weeks after Katrina’s deadly passage. US meteorologists upgraded Rita early on Wednesday to a powerful category-three category on the five-level hurricane-intensity scale.