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Over the last four decades, American artist Bruce Nauman has been hugely influential on artists all around the world.
Now, Nauman is the subject of this year’s American pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Of the 33 Naumans on view at the Biennale, there’s only one that captures Nauman at his most disruptive. First shown in 1993, [...]

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The Korean Central News Agency said Monday that the court found the two women guilty of committing an unspecified “grave crime” and illegally crossing into North Korea.
Last Thursday, North Korean state media announced the start of the trial of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for the U.S. media company Current TV.

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As the early numbers pour in, the inauguration of President Barack Obama is shaping up to be a Web video event like no other.
On Jan. 20 CNN.com Live served more than 18.8 million live video streams globally from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, at which time Obama had been sworn in and had delivered [...]

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to secure a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, officials said Wednesday.
Brin’s seat will be on a future orbital space flight, Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures Ltd., said at a news conference.
In a statement, Brin credits Space Adventures with helping “open the space frontier to [...]

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Six years after orchestrating the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history, Osama bin Laden resurfaced yesterday in a videotape in which he brags about altering the course of U.S. history and warns that the only way to end the war in Iraq is for Americans to convert to Islam.The 25-minute message marked the first time [...]

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Antonopoulou, 76, cries as she leans on a wall in the gutted remains of her home in the village of Platanos, next to Ancient Olympia in southwestern Greece on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007. Antonopoulou lost 15 of her 20 goat and her house in a massive blaze that swept through the area, forcing the [...]

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Bo Diddley, 78, listens as he is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts at a ceremony on Feb. 16, 2007, in Jackson, Miss. The 78-year-old singer-guitarist was hospitalized in stable condition after suffering a heart attack, his publicist said Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.

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An explosion derailed a Russian train travelling between Moscow and St Petersburg on Monday, injuring dozens of passengers, officials said.
Russian Railways said in a statement the blast was caused by “outside action”, suggesting it may not have been a technical fault. No other details were given.
Interfax news agency quoted law enforcement sources as saying a [...]

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Health Secretary Alan Johnson hails England’s smoking ban as a major step forward for public health.
He said the ban on smoking in enclosed public places, which came into force on Sunday, would improve the health of hundreds of thousands of people.
But there have been isolated signs of opposition to the smoking clampdown.
The landlord [...]

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The African Union summit opens in Ghana, focusing this year on the idea of a pan-African government.
Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is championing the idea, but many African leaders do not support his initiative.
Some leaders fear the issue will push the crises in Zimbabwe, Somalia and Darfur off the agenda.
Ghana’s President John Kufuor [...]

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin died today in the Central Clinical Hospital as a result of a deteriorating cardio-vascular problem.
Boris Yeltsin, who clambered on to a tank to bury the Soviet Union, then led Russia falteringly through its first years of independence, died on Monday aged 76.
World leaders showered Yeltsin with tributes for bringing freedom and democracy [...]

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