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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Britney Spears makes official Las Vegas entrance
Fire-breathers, contortionists, snake charmers and hunky dancers welcomed Britney Spears to the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Tuesday afternoon in a staged event kicking off the pop icon’s two-year Las Vegas residency. One block of the Strip was briefly shut down as the star pulled up to the casino in a convoy of black Cadillac Escalades. Spears’ show debuts Dec. 27, just in time for Sin City’s massive New Year’s crowds. She will perform 50 shows each in 2014 and 2015, in a relatively small theater with nightclub touches, including table and bottle service. Casino executives say the residency will feature her top hits and more recent material, and could be extended if it’s a success. Wearing a black cocktail dress with a rhinestone top, Spears, who turned 32 on Monday, signed autographs for a few of the more than 1,000 fans who came to see her arrival. She walked up a red-carpeted staircase to a soundtrack of her own music, passing a display of her name spelled out in pink, glittery 6-foot (1.8-meter) Styrofoam letters, and accepted a bouquet of roses. A troupe of sexy, stylized
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circus performers vamped behind her. She left after a few minutes to catch a plane to her home in Los Angeles. She is expected to start theater rehearsals next week. Spears has released seven platinum-plus albums since she debuted on the music scene in 1999. She has more than a dozen Top 10 hits, including “Toxic,” ‘’Gimme More” and “Oops! ... I Did It Again.” Her eighth album, “Britney Jean,” was released this week to tepid reviews.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
New World Cup ball ‘Brazuca’ unveiled
Biden in China as air zone tensions simmer
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India stands firm on food
Gloom at WTO
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NUSA DUA - India said Wednesday it could not accept a WTO proposal on food security, casting a gloom over a high-stakes conference tasked with salvaging the body’s faltering efforts to liberalise world trade. A proposal that New Delhi feels could endanger its efforts to subsidise food in the huge nation “cannot be accepted”, India’s commerce minister Anand Sharma told his counterparts on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. “Agriculture sustains millions of subsistence farmers. Their interests
must be secured. Food security is essential for four billion people of the world,” he said. “Yes, we have rejected it,” he later told reporters, calling it a “final decision”. His comments appeared to imperil WTO chief Roberto Azevedo’s hopes that delegates can agree on a
China demands Britain to return looted treasures
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modest package of measures to keep alive the multilateral organisation’s stumbling 12-year-old drive to slash trade barriers. One by one, delegates to the fourday conference warned that Bali could be the last chance to rescue the WTO’s vision of an open trading environment fair to both rich and poor countries. “Leaving Bali this week without an agreement would deal a debilitating blow to the WTO as a forum for multilateral negotiations,” US Trade Representative Michael Froman said. Continued on page 6
This photo provided by RCA Records shows the album cover for Britney Spears’, “Britney Jean,” from RCA Records.
Ben Stiller puts imprint on Hollywood landmark Hollywood actor Ben Stiller was joined by fellow A-lister Tom Cruise Tuesday as he sank his hand- and footprints into the courtyard of the famed TCL Chinese Theatre. The 48-year-old, who plays an infamous fantasist in his new movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” said he was making a wish come true by planting his prints into the courtyard at the former Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, a famous Hollywood landmark. “It’s very, very meaningful to me,” he said after a ceremony outside the theater. “To be in any way a small part of it is really a dream come true for me.” Stiller, the son of actors and star of films including “Meet The Fockers,” “Little Fockers” and two “Night at the Museum” movies, was introduced at the ceremony by Cruise, his co-star in 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder.” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a remake of the 1947 movie starring Danny Kaye, is released in the United States on Christmas Day, December 25.
Millions of tourists throng to the former Grauman’s Chinese Theatre -- before that it was called Mann’s Chinese Theatre -every year to see the hand- and footprints of generations of Hollywood stars.
The Tinseltown landmark changed its name to the TCL Chinese Theatre at the start of 2013 after the naming rights were bought by Chinese electronics giant TCL.
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Activists shout slogans against the World Trade Organization (WTO) during a protest in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Chances of a breakthrough in global trade negotiations dimmed Wednesday as India refused to budge on food subsidies that are an obstacle to an eleventh-hour agreement at a WTO summit.