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Beyond "Munich": The Ten Movies Steven Spielberg H

Beyond "Munich": The Ten Movies Steven Spielberg Has Yet To Make

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Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg's latest film "Munich" focuses on Israel's efforts to avenge the tragic killings of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ripe with great ideas for potential blockbuster films, Hollywood flicks about the conflict have tended to remain formulaic and dehumanizing.

Spielberg hopes "Munich" will be different, and claims he didn't want to make "a Charles Bronson movie — good guys vs.

Child attack dog 'pit bull breed'

Tests have confirmed that the dog which killed a five-year-old girl on Merseyside was a prohibited pit bull terrier type.
Ellie Lawrenson died of severe head and neck injuries after being mauled at her grandmother's house in St Helens.

Ellie's family, who described her as "little angel", laid flowers outside the house on Tuesday night.

Merseyside Police said they were aware of two previous complaints about the dog.

They said a letter was sent to the owner when the dog bit another dog and a second when a complaint was made about noise.

Moaners

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Apparently the British Society is always moaning.

I remember a while ago…I came home moaning about some traffic diversion cos of some religious festival…and a one hour car journey took me over three hours. My granddad who was there at the time, pointed out that the British do nothing but moan…if it isn’t about the traffic, we’re moaning about the weather and if its not the weather its about inflation…or being “busy” or “stressed with a lot on”…

He was like…we get stuck on buses back home for a whole day at a time and don’t come home moaning about it.

Koran becomes hit Christmas present

Koran becomes hit Christmas present
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Believers and non-believers alike are looking to a new Koran translation to give them insight into Islam

A new Danish translation of the Koran has been snapped up from bookstores' shelves, joining the ties, toasters and toys wrapped and waiting to be opened Christmas Eve.

In the first month since its release, nearly half of the 10,000 copies available have been sold, sending philologist Ellen Wulff's translation to number two on the non-fiction list.

Bookstore managers have reported that this translation

Nurse tells of 'gardener' Saddam - a side that is hidden

Nurse tells of 'gardener' Saddam
Saddam Hussein watered weeds in a jail garden and drank coffee while smoking cigars to keep his blood pressure down, a US army nurse who cared for him says.
In an interview with a US newspaper, Master Sgt Robert Ellis provided a rare glimpse into the last years of Saddam Hussein, who was executed on Saturday.

Sgt Ellis looked after the former Iraqi leader - whom they called 'Victor' - in 2004 and 2005 at a camp near Baghdad.

The prisoner rarely complained during his time in captivity, he said.

2007: Moving On

[size=18][b]2007: Moving on after the veil row[/b][/size]
[i]By Dominic Casciani
BBC News community affairs[/i]

If headlines and comment in the British media are anything to go by, then 2006 was a bad year to be a Muslim in the UK.

A raging debate over multiculturalism spread nationwide as Britain tried to make sense of the threat from terrorism - and found that those anxieties opened up a pandora's box of other questions.

Those at the sharp end of this angst were Britain's Muslims. So a year that started badly with the global row over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper, ended on an equally downbeat public note with a British row over the Islamic veil.

As the New Year dawns, the question is where are we now heading?

3000th US soldier dies before new year

More bad news for troops Grim Milestone For Troops
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The number of US troops killed in Iraq has reached 3,000 since the war began in 2003 following the death of a soldier.

Special Dustin R Donica, 22, from Spring in Texas, was killed by small arms fire, the Pentagon has confirmed.

The grim milestone was crossed on the final day of 2006 and at the end of the deadliest month for the American military in Iraq in the past 12 months.

At least 111 US service members are reported to have died throughout December.

Spc Donica was assig

Saddam Hanged!!!

Saddam Hussein will be executed today or tomorrow, an Iraqi judge has said.

There were reports that the US had handed the former dictator had been handed over to Iraqi authorities - but State Department sources denied this.

Iraqi government sources said Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki had signed Saddam's death sentence.

American troops in Iraq are on "high alert" to deal with any outbreak of violence following an announcement of his death.

The former dictator's lawyer said he believed Saddam would be executed tomorrow.

"The Americans called the defence team to pick up his persona

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