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Jim Borowski  |  by www.upi.com. All rights reserved. 6.03 | 23:25

Henri Troyat, who fled the Russian revolution as a child and became one of France's great modern writers, died in Paris at the age of 95. A Bahamian court considered a request to exhume the body of Daniel Smith, son of the late Anna Nicole Smith, for reburial in Texas, where Smith was born. A piece of jewelry, a flower and a historian may finally solve the mystery of the looks of Lady Jane Grey, the shortest reigning British monarch.

A British court will consider whether royal family members should be included as witnesses for the inquest into Princess Diana's and Dodi Al Fayed's deaths. ..

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is "recovering well" at a London hospital following a hysterectomy, a spokesperson for the royal family said. Actor Jared Leto caught the wrong kind of break recently when he broke his nose during a concert in El Paso, Texas, with his band, 30 Seconds to Mars.

Rapper Kanye West, apparently not liking curry cuisine this side of the pond, ordered Indian dishes to go from a Welsh restaurant for a party in New York. Canada needs to get tough on illegal videotaping of movies, two U.S.

senators told the Canada's prime minister.

Benefits, a celebrity golf tournament and auctions are planned fundraisers to erect a statute of the late British comedian Les Dawson in Lytham St Annes. Fabian, who gained fame as a pop idol in the 1950s, escaped serious injury in a car crash near Palm Desert, Calif.

, his publicist said.

"Ira and Abby" was named Best Feature Film and Kirk Fox and Shane Mauss shared the prize for Best Stand-up at the U.S.

Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo.

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa., is seeking to sell a collection of minerals despite the late collector's request that they not be sold .

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The after-party for Jamie Foxx's concert at Plan B in Detroit had dozens of Metro Detroiters and out-of-towners waiting in the cold to get in the club.

Foreign entertainment channels have been pulled from the air in Jammu and Kashmir, India, following threats from militant groups. The top prize at the biennial African film festival, Fespaco, in Burkina Faso went to the Nigerian film "Ezra." Rapper Foxy Brown has once again brushed shoulders with New York's men in blue, but this time she was not taken away in the back of a patrol car.

'Wild Hogs' takes No. 1 spot with $38M..

. Prince Harry to return for tribute concert..

. Prince Charles under attack in documentary..

. Queen Latifah shows he ..

. "Wild Hogs" roared its way to No. 1 this weekend with $38 million in U.

S. box office receipts. U.

S. rocker Iggy Pop may be turning 60 next month, but it seems like he wouldn't have it any other way, a report says. Queen Latifah is known for playing comedic roles in Hollywood films, but the HBO film "Life Support" opens up a whole new world for the U.

S. actress. Actress Tori Spelling and actor Dean McDermott's new bed and breakfast for the upcoming Oxygen series "Tori Dean: Inn Love" is named "Chateau La Rue.

" The newest Hollywood film studio mogul, Harry E. Sloan, reveals he is relying partly on the luck that comes from feng shui to reinvigorate MGM. "Charles: The Meddling Prince," a program set to air in one week on Channel 4 in Britain, questions the prince's ability to be king.

An Austin, Texas, disc jockey was suspended and the local NAACP plans to file a complaint over a racist remark on the air about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. Famed French pop singer Michel Polnareff made his highly publicized return to his native land this week, playing in front of a sold-out crowd in Paris.

An Indonesian official says that "Republik Mimpi" or "Republic of Dreams," a satirical political TV show, is a nightmare. Actress Elizabeth Hurley and her fiance Arun Nayar were married Friday in a secret ceremony at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England, a report says. California's job safety agency has decided to withdraw a report that predicted a killer whale eventually would kill a trainer at SeaWorld.

The Scottish rock band The View may have to cancel its three week tour of the United States after its lead singer was caught with cocaine. A British court has granted an injunction blocking the BBC from broadcasting a story on money allegedly paid to politicians in exchange for noble titles. China Film Group will take over three multiplexes owned by Warner Brothers International Cinemas and SZITIC Commercial Property, the film group announced.

Miami police arrested singer Kelis, accusing her of disrupting an undercover police operation. The long-suffering cavemen in the Geico insurance commercials will become stars of their own prime-time sitcom, ABC TV Studio in Los Angeles said. Jim Aiken, one of Ireland's top concert promoters known for bringing marquee stars to the Emerald Isle, has died of cancer at the age of 74.

The FBI in Los Angeles recovered a Norman Rockwell painting -- stolen more than 30 years ago -- from the collection of movie director Stephen Spielberg. About 500,000 people jammed the streets of Sydney for the Australian city's 29th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade Saturday. Organizers say 8,000 p .

.. A rustic oil on canvas by Welsh artist Kyffin Williams sold for $79,200 during a London auction of 20th century British and Irish art.

British travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor revealed that only now -- at age 92 -- is he learning to type. Israelis chose a song ridiculing Islamic terrorists as their entry for the Eurovision song contest, but Eurovision organizers say they may ban the tune. "Pu .

.. A statue of the Greek goddess Hera, unearthed at the ancient city of Dion near Mount Olympus in Greece, may be the missing half of a double statue.

Family, friends bury Anna Nicole Smith ...

Warner Bros. developing Valerie Plame film ..

. So, you got those dancin' shoes, Cliffy? .

.. Radio station foots B .

.. A pink shroud of feathers, ribbons and rhinestones draped the casket of Anna Nicole Smith in the Bahamas church where friends and family said goodbye Friday .

.. You just might be a fifth grader if you thought Fox's game show "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

" would strike a cord with U.S. television viewers.

The q ...

The real Kazakhstan and the country portrayed in Sacha Baron Cohen's send-up "Borat" are nothing alike, the country's citizens told a British reporter. The ..

. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may be expanding their New Orleans household by adopting a child from Vietnam, it was reported Friday. A Vietnamese official sa .

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