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London Film Festival names Russian Arctic drama best movie (AFP)

October 27th, 2010

Dawn breaks over Houses of Parliament in central London. Russian director Alexei Popogrebsky's icy Arctic drama AFP - Russian director Alexei Popogrebsky’s icy Arctic drama “How I Ended This Summer” won the best film award at this year’s London Film Festival.


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Film festival shows contrasts of Mexico’s drug war (AP)

October 17th, 2010

British director Terry Gilliam speaks during a press conference at the Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - From afar it seems like Baghdad: car bombs, beheadings and corrupt politicians.


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Festival stampede at north Indian temple kills 10 (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - A stampede in a packed temple during a Hindu festival in northern Indian killed 10 people and injured 11 on Sunday, police said.

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Festival stampede at Indian temple kills 10 (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Police say a stampede in a packed temple in northern Indian has killed at least 10 people.

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Beheadings, hangings plague Tijuana amid festival (AP)

October 14th, 2010

A forensic expert looks at a bag containing a human head with a written message on it outside the newspaper Frontera in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday Oct. 12 2010.  (AP Photo/Alejandro Cossio)AP - A rash of decapitations and other gruesome killings have hit Tijuana since Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited the border city last week and called it a success in…

The Axis of Awesome 4 Chords Melbourne Comedy Festival

August 30th, 2010

The Axis fo Awesome perform 4 chords live at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival (AP)

July 25th, 2010

Flowers and candles are placed in a street near the accident site in Duisburg, Germany Sunday July 25, 2010. More than a dozen visitors died after a stampede at the entrance of the Love Parade music festival Saturday. Poster reads: Why? (AP Photo/ddp/Clemens Bilan)AP - Throngs of techno fans followed the floats, the dancers and the throbbing music to the festival venue: an old freight railway station that local media estimated could handle…

Death toll from German music festival rises to 19 (AP)

July 25th, 2010

Rescue workers comfort injured an visitor during the Love Parade in Duisburg, western Germany, Saturday July 24, 2010.  A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans killed more than a dozen  at Germany's famed Love Parade festival on Saturday.  Thousands of other revelers keep partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly stampede that started when police tried to block thousands of people from entering the already-jammed parade grounds. (AP Photo/ddp/Clemens Bilan)AP - Police say the death toll has risen to 19 from the stampede that occurred at a German music festival and that 342 were injured.


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18 killed in mass panic at German music festival (AP)

July 24th, 2010

** CORRECTION TO REMOVE SPECIFIC NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED ** Collapsed people get first aid after a panic on this year's techno-music festival 'Loveparade 2010' in Duisburg, Germany, on Saturday, July 24, 2010. More than a dozen people were killed and others injured when mass panic broke out in a tunnel at the Love Parade. (AP Photo/dapd/Hermann J. Knippertz)AP - Crowds of people streaming into a techno music festival surged through an already jammed entry tunnel, setting off a panic that killed 18 people and injured 80 at…

Storm hits sports festival stadium, injures 5 (AP)

July 17th, 2010

A car is seen damaged after a scaffolding collapsed due to strong wind gusts in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Saturday,  July 17, 2010. The scaffolding with lights collapsed at the stadium just hours before the opening ceremony for the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games, injuring at least five people, according to Felipe Perez, president of the organizing committee. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - A waterspout slammed into the stadium where thousands of people were expected to gather for the inauguration of the Central American and Caribbean Games on Saturday, injuring at…