Winehouse visits clinic after video expos� & other

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Jimmy Page joins local stars in Beijing

Performers close up Olympics on Sunday night

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BEIJING -- Jimmy Page, Leona Lewis and Placido Domingo joined Chinese performers including Wei Wei, Andy Lau and Karen Mok at the 2008 Beijing Olympics' closing ceremony Sunday night.

Held at the National Stadium, as well known as the Bird's Nest, the ceremony was held before a capacity crowd of 91,000 and hundreds of Olympic athletes.

After the handover of the Olympic flag to Boris Johnson, mayor of 2012 Summer Olympics host city London, a red double-decker London bus entered the sports stadium. From the bus emerged singer Lewis and Led Zeppelin guitarist Page, wHO performed Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." The performance culminated with an appearance by international association football star David Beckham.

The ceremony continued with South Korean male vocaliser Rain, Hong Kong distaff vocalist Kelly Chen and Chinese-American vocaliser Wang Lee-Hom who jointly performed "Beijing, Beijing, Wo Ai Beijing (Beijing, Beijing, I Love Beijing)." Domingo then performed "Ai de Huoyan (The Flame of Love)," in Chinese and English, with Chinese soprano Song Zuying.

Saturday, 23 August 2008

The Genius Club

A motion-picture show about the world's superlative minds should include -- at the very least -- a modicum of intellectual discourse. What a disappointment then to have a bunch of dopes spitting out earnest soap opera dialogue. That's The Genius Club, a low-budget hopeful thriller that's anything merely smart.

In fact, writer-director Timothy Chey's failed feature sets up one implausible scenario after some other, on top side of uniformly unremarkable performing. What's leftfield to the story then? An ambitious concept that's flat from the first clich�d crease of narration.

It seems a madman (Tom Sizemore, playing to type) is holding Washington, D.C. hostage with a nuclear weapon he's ready to detonate. But if a small mathematical group of the country's highest IQs lav correctly answer high-minded questions posed by Crazy Guy, he'll call it off and spare half a million lives. So Homeland Security -- which appears to be three serious-looking college guys -- rounds up the smarties and hustles them to an empty storage warehouse in D.C. to play the game.

We've been duped. Instead of actually

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

New Girls Aloud album expected in November

Girls Aloud will exit their fifth studio album in November, according to a report today.

As well as organism busy on their stream tour of the UK, the girls have been in the studio working on the follow-up to Tangled Up, which was released at the end of last year.

According to The Sun, the group will freeing the album's first individual in October, before the LP itself is released the following month.

A origin told the newspaper: "The girls are really worked up about this one. They think it's their best album even. The lowest was their most successful so far and that has minded them the drive to keep going.

"They have got spent more time recording this unmatched than they have in the past because they want to get it right."

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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Karo Bio Announces Successful Phase II Study With Eprotirome In Combination With Statin

�Karo Bio has successfully completed a 12 calendar week phase IIb study of eprotirome (KB2115) given to patients with dyslipidemia (elevated blood lipids). These patients were already on lipid-lowering medication treatment. Data show that eprotirome induced a statistically significant and clinically relevant lowering of serum LDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and lipoprotein (a) and was safe and well tolerated. The data indicate that eprotirome has the