UK’s Dedicated Centre for Tackling the Sexual Abuse of Children Launches New Online Safety Program for 5-7 Year Olds
May 8, 2008
Children as young as five years old are the focus of a new online safety program being launched today, Thursday 8th May 2008, by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre. Read more
It’s Official: Wedding Crashers to be Remade in Bollywood!
May 8, 2008
This could be a first for Bollywood, where filmmakers are known for lifting movies from Hollywood! In an industry where plagiarism is rife, this piece of news comes as a surprise. Read more
UNICEF Estimates Children Account for One-Third of All Deaths From Cyclone Nargis
May 8, 2008
The U.N. Children’s Fund estimates one-third of all those killed by Cyclone Nargis in Burma are children. Burmese authorities report more than 22,000 people lost their lives and more than 40,000 are still missing. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. Read more
Tina Turner Live 2008 North American Tour
May 8, 2008
Eight-time Grammy Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Tina Turner announced plans today to make her long-awaited return to arenas throughout North America beginning October 1st at Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO. Turner’s tour, promoted by AEG Live, will delight fans in 17 cities across the U.S. and Canada before concluding on December 8th at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The brand new stage show will feature hit after hit spanning Turner’s entire career, with a spectacular production including the singer’s top-notch band, innovative choreography, hi-tech lighting and much more. Read more
Real Review - Flight of the Red Balloon
May 8, 2008
Flight of the Red Balloon is one of those movies where nothing much happens. It’s a simple, relatively peaceful film, notable in part because director Hou Hsao-Hsien is shooting outside Asia for the first time. Hou’s starting point–dictated by Paris’s Musee d’Orsay, which commissioned the film–is La Ballon Rouge, the 1956 Albert Lamorisse film about a little boy and his companion in the streets of Paris, a floating red balloon. Read more
“We’re Not Having It”: U.K. Home Secretary Announces New Measures to Tackle Anti-Social Behavior
May 8, 2008
A new Action Squad to help police and local agencies make full use of all the tools and powers available to tackle anti-social behavior in every community, backed by £255,000 of new funding, was announced today in a major speech by U.K. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Read more
