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By RYAN NAKASHIMAAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ticket sales for movies shown around the globe rose 3 percent in 2011 to $32.6 billion, largely because of growth in booming markets like China. U.S. and Canadian sales fell. That’s according to the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the six largest Hollywood studios. [...]

LOS ANGELES, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – After an incredibly successful webcast together last year, legendary composer and performer Yanni will be sitting down again with Emmy award-winning journalist and TV personality Lauren Sanchez for a LIVE webcast from Yanni’s studio in South Florida. Join them on April 11th at 1pm EDT as [...]

The Coldplay frontman larked about in his Star Wars-style costume on the set of his and Rihanna’s video for new single Princess Of China. Rihanna, dressed as a geisha, looked a bit like Princess Leia. She should keep the outfit for Kablah-blah lessons with her new bloke Ashton Kutcher. Rihanna and Chris who have become [...]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said the government’s power is the trust of the people and the PPP will remain in power as long as the people support it.   The prime minister was speaking at the Pakistan Zindabad Show, organised at the Pakistan China Friendship Centre, here by the state-run TV [...]

<!–enpproperty 2012-03-22 09:44:10.0Chen NanOn the road to inner peacehao lei buddha pilgrimage nepal indiaInner peace11046887Travel2@webnews/enpproperty–>   The pictures feature Hao Lei during her trip with photographer Wei Bing to Nepal and India. Provided to China Daily An actress and a photographer made a pilgrimage to Nepal and India to produce pictures that they say were [...]

By MARK KENNEDYAP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Mike Daisey, the performer forced to admit that he made up parts of his one-man show that purported to expose horrific working conditions in Chinese factories where iPads and iPhones are assembled, isn’t exactly slinking away. “I want you all to know that I will not [...]

By REMA RAHMANAssociated Press DENVER (AP) – Paris. New York. Denver? The Mile High City is not what most people think about when it comes to high fashion. But come Sunday, the Denver Art Museum hosts the only U.S. showing of “Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective,” a sweeping look at 40 years of design from [...]

By RYAN NAKASHIMAAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ticket sales for movies shown around the globe rose 3 percent in 2011 to $32.6 billion, largely because of growth in booming markets like China. U.S. and Canadian sales fell. That’s according to the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the six largest Hollywood studios. [...]