Montana pops to the top of film chart

Teenage popstar Miley Cyrus has achieved the top of the North American box office chart with Hannah Montana: The Movie.
The film took $34m over the weekend taking Fast&furious off the top. Miley had previoulsy sung her way to the top with a filmed concert, which took $31.1m on its first weekend.
Hannah Montana: The Movie is the latest show in the story of a girl who has an alter-ego as a singeing star.
"Her average opening weeken is around $30m" claimed the president of box office analysts Media By Numbers. While her opening weekend's rivals twice her age.

New vcabulary learnt:
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instalment-entrega
box office-taquilles

Brussels to probe seven airlines.

The European Comission has started anti-competition into seven transatlantic airlines. They has opened two different investigations. The first one into proposed additional cooperations between British Airlines, American Airlines and Iberia. The second one into existing and planned cooperation between Air Canada, Continental, Lufthansa and United.
BA complained saying the Comission didn't have any proof of any infringement. Nevertheless, the comission answered they wouldn't have started them unless they didin't have reasons to do it.
They investigate into transatlantic routes run by One World alliance with memebers of all those airlines excepting Continental one, however it is in talks to join the Star Alliance.

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Federer weds long-term girlfriend.

World number two Roger Fedrer (27) married his girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec in Basle. They met in 2000 at the Sydney's Olympic Games and they are expecting their first child.
He's going to take part of the Monte Carlo Masters next week after he was given a wildcard although he originally said he was not going to play. Federer has finished runner-up three times in Monte Carlo and he hasn't won a tournament since October.
The only member of the world's top 10 who won't be taking part of the championship is Andy Murray. Number one Rafael Nadal will try to win the tournament for the fifth time.

New vocabulary learnt:
'wildcard'-comodí
'runner-up'-subcampió

Winehouse to fan assault charge

Singer Amy Winehouse attended a police station on Thurday to be charged with assault after hit a fan at the End of Summer Ball in Berkeley Square (central London) last 26 September. She's going to attend City of Westsminster Magistrates' Court on next 17 March.
The singer's spokesman claimed that she attended voluntary to the police station and she was asked to testify in relation to the assault on last Berkeley ball. This event was celebrated in order to fundraise for the Prince's Trust charity.

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charge-acusació
spokesman-portaveu
fundraise-recolecta de fondos

Nadal attacks drug-testing rules

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Glastonbury tickets are sold out

With no headliners confirmed, almost five months ahead of time, this summer's Glastonbury festival, which runs 26-28 June, has sold out.

In October 2008 the organisers launched an early scheme, and most of the fans completed their payments by the 1st of February. Quite the opposite of last year, when 3000 tickets remained unsold just a day before the opening.
The cancelled or returned tickets will be re-sold on 5 April.
The rumoured healiners include Bruce Springsteen and Blur.

Craig lands role in Tintin movie

The British actor Daniel Craig, best known for playing James Bond, is going to play the villain (Red Rackman) in the next Tintin movie, Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg. Jamie Bell, who played Billy Elliot, is going to play Tintin.
Steven Moffat was woking on the movie script, but he had to leave it to replace Russell T Davies as producer and lead writer of Doctor Who. He blamed US' writers' strike for delaying his work.
Tintin was created in 1929 by Herge (Georges Remi). Over 200 million copies of his two dozen books have been sold out, and his series has been translated into 70 languages.
This movie, the first of two or three films, is planned to be released in 2011. Peter Jackson, the co-producer, is going to direct the sequel.

Chinese girl gets "kiss of deaf"

A young woman lost her left ear hearing because of excessive kissing and she won't regain her full hearing within about two months. The doctors claimed that kisses reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown of the ear. The incident prompted lots of warning articles in the Chinese press.

3rd news.

Cholera kills 300 in battered Zimbabwe
The Geneva-based organization have noted an increase over the last two weeks and said that 294 poeple died of the illnes and a total of 6072 between August and this Tuesday.
The statement said that the outbrake is going to contiue because the water (potable, sewage..) and sanition is worsering. The health officials says that the disease is spreading because of the poor contaminated water that they use for drinking or cooking, and the capital, Harare, ahs not imported supplies of chemists to treat the water.
What's more, the government hospital have cloused because doctors and nurses are not agree with their conditions.

2nd news.

Bon Jovi to headline Live Earth:

Bon Jovi and Pink Floyd's are among the starts fof the Live Earth concert in Mumbai (India) on 7 December . There'll also be Al Gore talking about environment, Black Eyed Peas or Will.I.Am.
Last year nine cities hosted the first Live Earth (London, Tokyo...) to highligh global warming.
This year, the money raised from the concert will be donated to Climate Project India and TERI's Light a Billion Lives.

First news.

Coldplay collaborate with Jay-Z

This news talks about the new EP of Coldplay which is going to be released on the 24 of November and will be entitled Prospekts March.

One of the songs is Lost, which features on their recent album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Souls, but now it’s been reworked with the collaboration from Jay-Z, which was laid down in New York. Apart of this song, there are six new tracks which were recorded during sessions for the band's recent album. The singer says that the songs are like unfinished homework that they’re handing in late.

The four-piece are really happy about Jay-Z’s collaboration, they’re proud of it, and they will hit the road for a UK tour later this year.