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West End marks 350 years of theatre

Jersey Boys and Les Miserables have been declared as shows performing free songs to the public, to mark 350 years of West End theatre. West End Live, which is the annual festival of musical and theatre, is now in its ninth year at it will be staged in Trafalgar Square on 22 and 23 June, the BBC reported. Sir Tim Rice's new musical 'From Here to Eternity' will be previewed during the show. The ...
Tom Cruise to help David Beckham with acting career

Actor Tom Cruise has reportedly promised to help soccer ace David Beckham become an actor. "Beckham has always wanted to be an action film star, and Cruise promised him a long time ago he can make those dreams come true," a source told National Enquirer magazine. Beckham, 38, announced he was retiring from football this month after playing the game for more than 20 years, reports ...
Boxer Amir Khan to perform Bollywood dance gig at own wedding

Boxer Amir Khan has been focusing on his dancing skills ahead of his wedding to fiancee, Faryal Makhdoom, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The 26-year-old posted a picture of him and his friends, learning Bollywood dance steps to surprise his guests at next week's five-star wedding in New York City, the Sun reported. The Bolton-born ace tweeted: "I'm now on way to my gym. The boys are practicing ...
Mariah Carey bursts out of dress on GMA

Mariah Carey suffered a wardrobe malfunction when her dress popped open on stage during the 'Good Morning America's' Summer Concert Series in Central Park on Saturday morning. The back of the singer's skin tight pink dress popped open while she was being interviewed by the show's host, Lara Spencer, the New York Post reported. She blurted out "my dress just popped" and quickly placed her hands ...
Woman’s culinary arts degree was 39 years in the making

On Thursday, Hill walked across the stage during graduation ceremonies at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell after securing what in her view was 39 years in the making: an associate degree in culinary ...

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is premised on the not entirely incorrect notion that audiences will accept beautiful movie stars doing virtually anything as long as they look good doing it. The film gives us two prime specimens of movie star attractiveness in Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ... ...

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Rotating stage sends MSOE graduates out into world

Unlike most commencements, this one involved a seemingly complicated engineering problem: How do you get 427 graduates up six stairways and across a circular stage that does one full rotation every 20 minutes? "The reality is it works well," said Nick Seidler, after the Milwaukee School of Engineering class of 2013 had all received their diplomas. Most of the students traveled up ...
Sigi Schmid Its all about as a soccer player at this stage.

— Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said during a press conference Saturday that the team is hopeful of receiving Robbie Rogers’ international clearance in the next 24 hours. If they do, Arena said Rogers will likely be in the 18-man game-day lineup (most likely on the bench) for Sunday’s night game against the Sounders. * * ...
Constitution takes centre stage for Sorry Day

As Sorry Day events take place, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged to complete the journey for acknowledgement of indigenous Australians in the ...
Mixed martial arts-Alexander Emelianenko wins 1st fight after return

MOSCOW, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - Mixed martial arts fighter Alexander Emelianenko of Russia won his first fight after the return to the ring. He defeated American Bob Sapp by a technical knockout at the "Legend" tournament in Luzhniki, ...
NYPD investigating Amanda Bynes allegations of sexual assault

NEW YORK – Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. The 27-year-old former child star first alleged during her arraignment on Friday that police illegally entered her ...

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New urine test technique helps detect breast cancer

A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher has developed a new screening method that uses urinalysis to diagnose breast cancer - and determine its severity - before it could be detected with a mammogram.

A study to confirm this technique's effectiveness is under way at Mercy Breast Center in Springfield, Mo.

Dr. Yinfa Ma, Curators' Teaching Professor of chemistry at Missouri S and T, uses a device called a P-scan, to detect the concentration of certain metabolites called pteredines in urine samples.

These biomarkers are present in the urine of all human beings, but abnormally high concentrations can signal the presence of cancer.

Ma believes the levels continue to rise as the cancer advances.

Ma has had good results in limited testing and is now expanding testing in a larger study to prove that the technique works.

This blind study is part of the validation process required by the FDA to eventually make the P-Scan available in clinics across the country as an inexpensive, non-invasive test that could be used during routine physical examinations.

Once Ma and his fellow researcher prove the technology works for breast cancer, they can begin to determine if studying pteredine levels in urine samples is an accurate way to detect and diagnose other types of cancers as well. ...