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Jamie Oliver's UK restaurant chain collapses into insolvency
LONDON - Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's British restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, partly due to increased competition and escalating rents in local commercial districts. The ...
May 23, 2019
Geoffrey Rush awarded $2 million in Sydney defamation case
SYDNEY, Australia - Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush was awarded an Australian record of 2.9 million Australian dollars ($2 million) damages by a Sydney judge on Thursday in defamation case against a...
May 23, 2019
Exhibits about Ali, nature, motorcycles opening at Graceland
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A massive new exhibition and entertainment hall is set to open at Elvis Presley's Graceland in Tennessee with three museum-style exhibits, including one focused on the life and career...
May 23, 2019
Desmond fatality inquiry begins in Nova Scotia two years after suicide, murders
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - More than two years after former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond killed his mother, wife and daughter before taking his own life, a provincial fatality inquiry ...
May 23, 2019
Pipeline protester chimes in on prime minister's fundraising speech
VANCOUVER - An Indigenous protester opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Liberal fundraiser on Wednesday. Will George of the Tsle...
May 23, 2019
Pipeline protester chimes in on prime minister's fundraising speech
VANCOUVER - An Indigenous protester opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Liberal fundraiser on Wednesday. Will George of the Tsle...
May 23, 2019
Nik Wallenda and sister plan highwire walk over Times Square
NEW YORK - For his next trick, daredevil Nik Wallenda plans to cross New York's Times Square - without his feet touching the ground. ABC announced Thursday that Wallenda and his sister Lijana will cro...
May 23, 2019
Elle Fanning OK after fainting at Cannes dinner
CANNES, France - Elle Fanning says she fainted at a Cannes Film Festival dinner because he dress was too tight. The 21-year-old actress collapsed at the Chopard Trophee dinner Monday evening at Cannes...
May 23, 2019
With Brad and Leo, Tarantino debuts a fairy tale in Cannes
CANNES, France - Twenty-five years after premiering "Pulp Fiction" in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with neither great vengeance nor furious anger but a gentler fairy ...
May 23, 2019
In the news today, May 23
Four stories in the news for Thursday, May 23 --- TRUDEAU TO EXONERATE CHIEF POUNDMAKER Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a Saskatchewan First Nation today to exonerate a chief ...
May 23, 2019
