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Facebook gets yet another new face
Facebook has started rolling out a new front page design which emphasises chat and applications, and includes display advertising.

Back to fight another day
Bauer's back for the eighth season of 24, this time in the Big Apple.

A quick word with: Gabourey Sidibe
Sidibe plays the title character in the movie, an obese, illiterate, teenage mother from a highly dysfunctional family in 1980s Harlem.

No charges against Madoff's UK operation
No one from the UK arm of Bernard Madoff's fraudulent investment business will face prosecution, the Serious Fraud Office has decided.

Corinne Bailey Rae heals with music
Soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae is making a comeback after husband's tragic death.

Clumsy art student falls, rips Picasso
An art student invited the to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ripped a Picasso masterpiece after losing her balance and falling into the work of art.

$5 billion Manhattan property deal collapses
It was the most expensive residential property deal ever. It was among the most controversial. And now it is the most disastrous.

Hope for Haiti telethon raises millions
George Clooney's Hope for Haiti Now telethon has raised US$57 million (NZ$79 million) so far.

Psychic sues over claims he betrayed Jackson
Uri Geller is to sue CNN after it broadcast an allegation he had betrayed his friend Michael Jackson for £100,000 ($216,000).

A devil of a time playing himself
Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti in his latest film, a role which required some real soul-searching.

KFC pulls controversial cricket ad
Kentucky Fried Chicken has apologised for a cricket-themed ad that many see as racist.

Smart moves
She's gone from Twilight teen to holding her own beside George Clooney in acclaimed new movie Up in the Air.

A show of enthusiasm
Crusty Larry David has found his movie niche as Woody Allen returns to his New York roots.