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Pictures in the News | December 14, 2012
FrameworkFriday's Pictures in the News starts with the holiday spirit with a home, known as the "Christmas House." The home is decorated with approximately 65,000 lights using about four miles of wiring, in Richmond, Virginia. On the other side of the planet, a... -
'Amour,' 'Intouchables' make academy's foreign language film shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday moved forward with nine potential nominated movies for the next round of voting in the foreign language film category for the 85th Academy Awards, narrowing the field from 71 qualifying films....
Tags: War Witch (movie), Film Festivals, Entertainment Events, The Deep (movie), Kon-Tiki (movie)
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Watch Lindsey Vonn crash hard at World Cup skiing event Friday [Video]
Lindsey Vonn's attempt for a fifth straight victory in a World Cup Alpine Skiing speed event came to a crashing halt when she slid off course and went into three nets during a women's downhill event at Val D'Isere, France, on Friday. Vonn did not...
Tags: Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Stacey Cook, Lindsey Vonn, Auction Service
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Soprano Lisa della Casa, an opera beauty, dies at 93
Lisa della Casa, a Swiss-born soprano known for her sweet voice and exquisite elegance, has died at 93, the Vienna Opera announced Tuesday. The late English music critic Sir Neville Cardus reportedly once said of Della Casa that one should go to her...
Tags: Music, Opera (genre), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Obituaries, Zurich (Swiss Confederation)
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PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch
Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Music, Opera (genre), Obituaries
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Three women killed in Swiss village shooting
Three women were shot and killed and two men were wounded before police in southern Switzerland disabled the gunman by shooting him in the chest, officials said Thursday. Police said the alleged assailant, an unemployed 33-year-old who had been...
Tags: Politics, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Pakistan, Interior Policy
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London Olympics: Switzerland a sartorial standout at opening ceremony
All The RageTeam Switzerland's opening ceremony uniforms at the 2012 London Olympics earned positive comments from All the Rage readers.... -
Pakistan PM agrees to allow Swiss to revive Zardari graft case
World NowPakistan’s prime minister told a Supreme Court panel Tuesday that his government would no longer stand in the way of a revival of a longstanding graft case in Switzerland against President Asif Ali Zardari, a decision that could help tamp down... -
Sweden tops, Yemen last in getting most out of Internet, study says
World NowWorldwide, Sweden gets the most out of using the Internet, according to a new study from a foundation that seeks to expand access to the Web.... -
Some EU nations rejecting Syrians seeking asylum
World NowWhile the European Union denounces the escalating violence in Syria, not all of its countries have welcomed fleeing Syrians with open arms, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday. Some countries on the eastern edges of the European Union are... -
Swiss freeze $1 billion tied to leaders targeted in Arab Spring
World NowSwitzerland has frozen more than $1 billion connected to leaders who were toppled or are still being battled in Arab Spring uprisings, Swiss official Valentin Zellweger told reporters.... -
Roman Polanski sex assault victim writing memoir
L.A. NOWThe woman who Roman Polanski was convicted of sexually assaulting in L.A. when she was a teenager will pen a memoir she says promises new insight into the scandal....
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