Topic: S T A R S - on July 26, 2004 at 4:00:00 PM CEST
Britney Spears warned to take Aids test
Britney has been warned to take an Aids test. She was told by the partners ex-girlfriend who claims he had a string of other women.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 26, 2004 at 1:51:00 PM CEST
Kind von Rehbock angefallen
Von einem aggressiven Rehbock ist am Sonntag im Tiroler Zillertal ein sechsjähriges Kind verletzt worden. Das Tier hatte den Buben beim Sand spielen überrascht und attackiert.
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Topic: LONGEST - on July 26, 2004 at 1:32:00 PM CEST
Singaporeans Claim Movie Watching Record
Three Singaporeans have thrown down the gauntlet to Hollywood fans worldwide, watching more than 36 flicks over 72 hours and claiming a new world record, reports said Monday.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 26, 2004 at 1:27:00 PM CEST
Moore film tops $100m mark in US
Michael Moore's controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 has become the first documentary to make $100m (£54.5m) at the North American box office.
The film, which criticises President Bush's policy on Iraq, has made $103m (£56m) since opening a month ago.
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Topic: SPY - on July 26, 2004 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Soviet Spy Who Outwitted Einstein
Albert Einstein may have been a genius, but he was not clever enough to avoid the classic honey pot, in his case a glamorous Soviet secret agent named Maria Konnenkova.
Konnenkova dated Einstein in the 1940s in order to gain information on the top-secret Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort to develop the first nuclear bomb.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 26, 2004 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
15 hurt as mobile triggers lightning
FIFTEEN tourists were injured by mobile-phone-induced lightning on a section of China's Great Wall, state media and officials said today.
The accident happened at the Juyongguan part of the Wall, 50km from Beijing when an elderly visitor's mobile phone acted as a lightning rod as he made a call, the China Daily reported.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 26, 2004 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
Slow and Low
coolest lowrider
The best thing about Logan Ao's bicycle is that it is really, really loud. It has 10 stereo speakers and two car batteries inside a wooden box. The box is covered in plushy red satin, mirrors, and red neon lights, and bolted beneath the bike's red satin banana seat. For extra oomph, Ao added a Sony Xplode subwoofer. Cops regularly pull him over and threaten to write him $120 tickets for disturbing the peace.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 26, 2004 at 1:13:00 PM CEST
MP3 creator returns with 3D sound
One of the inventors of the MP3 format is back with a new technology that he hopes will revolutionize audio, creating superrealistic sound for theaters, theme parks and eventually even living rooms.
Karlheinz Brandenburg, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Technology, along with a team of co-developers, is in Los Angeles this week showing off his new "Iosono" technology to representatives of Hollywood studios and giants including Disney. Brandenburg is credited with much of the work leading to the MP3 format, also developed at Fraunhofer.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 26, 2004 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
RealNetworks knackt Online-Musikformate
RealNetworks will ab dieser Woche eine Software anbieten, die der Inkompabilität zwischen den Musik-Playern und den Download-Services verschiedener Anbieter ein Ende setzen soll.
Somit wird der Betreiber des Online-Musikservices Rhapsody auch der erste sein, der Musik anbietet, die auch auf Apples iPod abspielbar ist. Real betritt hier allerdings eine rechtliche Grauzone, die noch nicht zur Gänze ausjudiziert ist.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 26, 2004 at 1:11:00 PM CEST
RealNetworks Says Files Can Play on iPod
RealNetworks Inc. says it has created technology that allows songs purchased through its online music services to be played on Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod player, just a few months after complaining that Apple was rebuffing attempts to form an alliance.
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