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Oscar's Live-Action Shorts: The Europeans Are Coming
As usual, this year's lineup of Oscar-nominated live-action shorts is a foreign affair.
Just as it is most years, the slate is dominated by European films – in this case, one from Norway, one from Germany, one from Ireland and one from...
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on Wed Feb 8 12:29 PM
Statoil Profit Rises as Reserves Replaced for First Year in Six
Statoil ASA, Norway’s largest oil producer, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as the explorer found more oil and gas then it produced for the first time since 2005.
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on Wed Feb 8 9:27 AM
NATO extends air policing operation over Baltic nations until 2018
BRUSSELS — NATO has decided to extend until 2018 an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday.
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on Wed Feb 8 3:18 AM
Statoil Profit More Than Doubles on Asset Sales, Oil Prices
Statoil ASA, Norway’s largest oil and natural gas company, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled on rising oil prices and asset sales.
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UK trails Poland and Bulgaria on adults educated to A-level standard | Politics
| on Wed, Feb 8, 2:00 AM
Lecturers' union says European data shows Britain risks languishing in 'mid-table obscurity' due to rising cost of learningThe UK has a smaller proportion of adults with A-levels or their equivalent than Poland or Bulgaria, an analysis by the...
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on Wed Feb 8 1:52 AM
Alpine Skiing Sochi Olympics downhill course gets high marks
Didier Cuche called it "magnificent." Bode Miller was highly critical.
Aksel Lund Svindal said upon first glance that the course for the 2014
Sochi Olympics was "what downhill is all about."
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on Wed Feb 8 12:44 AM
Pettersen chases Tseng in Australia - Golf, PGA Tour
Suzann Pettersen of Norway opens the LPGA season Thursday with her sights set on the formidable task of overtaking top-ranked Yani Tseng.
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on Tue Feb 7 2:57 PM
Netflix Won't Release Ratings on 'Lilyhammer,' Ted Sarandos Explains
Netflix has decided not to release ratings for its first original streaming series, "Lilyhammer," which debuted on Monday, the company said.
In a statement, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos explained why, claiming:...
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on Tue Feb 7 1:59 PM
Global activists visit Bihar, pitch for child marriage eradication
First regional meet of ‘Girls Not Brides' to be held in Delhi
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on Tue Feb 7 10:38 AM
Here are the 32 hockey teams asking to be a part of 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics | Puck Daddy
Let's begin by stating the obvious: The Israeli national team hockey jersey makes us so excited we could plotz, bubbala.
Israel is one of 32 teams that have formally applied for the 2014 Winter Olympic men's hockey tournament in Sochi, along with...
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