50 lands loan shark role opposite Blethyn
Rapper 50 Cent has signed up to play a loan shark, opposite Brenda Blethyn, in a hard-hitting new British gangster movie.

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Miracle pregnancy for elephant
A Thai elephant has become pregnant after being injected with frozen sperm, boosting hopes in the species' fight against extinction.

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Ice Age Mammal May Walk Again
The woolly mammoth could be brought back to life eleven thousand years after becoming extinct, in a Jurassic Park like breakthrough.

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"Beast" sure to be a 3-D beauty for Disney in 2010
Belle, the Beast and all the dancing silverware in "Beauty and the Beast" are getting a 3-D makeover.

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Bird collects doctorate with Parky
Cricket umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird revealed he felt as nervous collecting an honorary doctorate in his home town as he did before he went out to umpi...
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