guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Levy on City trading aimed at restoring trust in banks• Survey shows more than 50% of voters back planGordon Brown will take his radical proposal to tax City trading to Britain's business leaders today, as a survey shows that more than half of voters would back the plan, if the proceeds went to help the poorest in society (Read More)
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Rihanna plugged her upcoming "Rated R" album with a (fake) tattoo of the album title down her throat at the American Music Awards Sunday night. She came out a gurney and performed a combo of "Wait Your Turn" and "Hard," both from the new album wearing a white bondage jumpsuit made of strips, skin, and a collar of bullets.P (Read More)
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50 Cent brought an unexpected date to the American Music Awards Sunday night -- Val Kilmer. It isn't as strange as it may first appear. 50 Cent, nee Curtis Jackson, has written a screenplay and has reportedly gotten Kilmer to star alongside him.The movie is called "The Gun" and is supposed to start production in December. (Read More)
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He's not on "Idol" anymore!Adam Lambert, last season's runner up, performed a raunchy performance at the American Music Awards Sunday night, interrupted by a quick tumble on stage.Lambert alternately had a dancer on a leash, had a dancer's head grinding against his crotch simulating oral sex, and had a hand on his own crotc (Read More)
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On the red carpet for Sunday's American Music Awards, some stars dazzled, and some (quite literally) fell flat. (See J. Lo FALL and Adam Lambert FALL.)Check out our best-dressed picks below. Who aced it and who should have been left off the list? And who did we miss? Weigh in below.Get HuffPost Style on Twitter and Faceboo (Read More)
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Sunday night's American Music Awards proves that a star can have all the talent in the world, but their stylists fall flat. While some celebrities stole the show (see our AMAs Best-Dressed List), some of the normally fashion-forward folks (ahem, Nicole Kidman, Rihanna, and Kate Hudson) surprised us with major fashion flops. (Read More)
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(AP Article, Scroll down to hear his current hit "One World")GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- New York police shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber (BEE'-ber) after thousands of young girls showed up and got a little too wild.Nassau County police say girls and adults in the crowd of nearly 3,000 started pushing a (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald National Headlines:
The ABC's managing director, Mark Scott, has become an avid and well-followed Twitterer. But a recent post of Scott's directing followers to a ''startling'' YouTube video titled ''Social Media Revolution'' could have the ABC boss rethinking the merits of promoting material he hasn't thoroughly checked out. The video, to a b (Read More)
The Guardian:
Social networks that want to dominate a corner of cyberspace should remember AOLLIKE MANY people in his business, the technology publisher Tim O'Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service. He also has a Facebook account. To save effort, he has arranged things so that his Twitter posts are automatically forw (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thierry Henry has pushed football's boundaries of propriety too far – the Irish have no choice but to declare warWe have heard from Ireland's justice minister, Dermot Ahern: "We should put the powers that be in the cosy world of Fifa on the spot and demand a replay." Brian Cowan, the Taoiseach, promised to raise the matter (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thierry Henry's handball against Ireland capped a miserable sporting year of shameless cheatingIt was another Frenchman, Jean‑Paul Sartre, who cooked up the phrase "by any means necessary" as a war cry to eradicate class in Gallic society. Then along came Thierry Henry to invert its purpose as the strong stamped on the weak (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Two court cases last week sparked debate about the growth of violence among young women. Here, teenagers talk about the aggression and bullying that is part of their livesSitting on a cold concrete step by a north London canal, dressed in pink and black with swinging plastic earrings, thick eyeliner and hair intensively str (Read More)
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With half a second left on the clock in the first quarter of today's Knicks-Nets game in New Jersey, the Knicks had to get a shot off quickly. But guard Nate Robinson decided to wait until the buzzer sounded and then shot at his team's own basket. The ball sunk through the net for a meaningless basket, but it infuriated Kni (Read More)
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Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition and an author equal to the task. Travelling from Nagasaki to Guantánamo, this very beautiful novel se (Read More)