AP NewsBreak: Elmore Leonard archive in SC

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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2012 file photo, author Elmore Leonard, 86, stands in his Bloomfield Township, Mich., home. Choice samples from a vast collection of handwritten notebooks, typed manuscripts and screenplays by the late best-selling crime novelist Elmore Leonard are going on display at the University of South Carolina. Leonard, a former adman who later in life became one of America's foremost crime writers, has died on Aug. 20, 2013 from complications from a stroke. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lovers of stripped-down prose and oddball characters can now view some of the late, best-selling crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s vast collection of handwritten notebooks, typed manuscripts and screenplays.

Amal Clooney weighs in on Greek battle for Parthenon Marbles

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Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney observes a Kore statue during a visit at the Acropolis museum in Athens

By Deepa Babington ATHENS (Reuters) – Hollywood actor George Clooney’s new wife, human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens, in what Greeks hope may inject new energy into their national campaign. The Lebanese-born Briton, part of a legal team advising the Greek government on its bid to secure the return of the sculptures from Britain, has sparked a media frenzy during her three-day visit to the Greek capital that included meetings with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. …

Greece pins Marbles hopes on UN and Clooney factor

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Lawyer Amal Clooney, center, is guided by the Director of the Acropolis museum Dimitris Pantermalis, left, during a visit at the Parthenon hall inside the Acropolis museum in Athens Wednesday Oct. 15, 2014. Lawyers Geoffrey Robertson, Norman Palmer and Amal Clooney arrived Monday to Greece on a four-day visit to meet government officials, including Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, and advise on Greece's quest to have the Parthenon Marbles returned to Athens. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, Pool)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — After more than a century of fruitless lobbying, Greece is pinning its hopes of reclaiming the 5th-Century B.C. Parthenon Sculptures from Britain on mediation by the United Nations’ cultural agency — and a touch of Hollywood glamor.

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Holocaust Museum shows images of Syrian killings

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Images of emaciated and mangled bodies from recent history in Syria were publicly displayed for the first time Wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, documenting the work of a former Syrian military photographer who defected and has testified in Congress about witnessing mass killings.

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Sony TV's Humsafars and Hum Hain Na halt shoot for elections

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The Maharashtra state election today (15 October) is surely a day when every citizen of the place needs to cast his/her vote in order to choose their leader-to-be. And going by this mantra, two of the popular shows on Sony Entertainment Television, decided to break away from the shoot schedule, thus declaring a holiday.

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Kabir to confess his love to Piya in Sony PAL's Piya Basanti Re

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The love story of Kabir (Alan Kapoor) and Piya (Adaa Khan) in Rashmi Sharma’s Sony PAL show, Piya Basanti Re will take to a new high with the lovers going through varied emotions owing to circumstances.

With Kabir getting to know of Piya’s engagement to childhood friend Himesh, he has started to realize that he has indeed been in love with Piya. In order to get his love, the man will decide to do whatever it takes to get her in his life in the coming episodes.

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I am most comfortable in western clothes: Nia Sharma

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The very hot and sizzling actress Nia Sharma, who gained popularity form Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai and currently is seen in Zee TV’s Jamai Raja, shared her fashion mantras with Tellychakkar.com in our Lifestyle segment. Read on…

Fashion is…

Fashion is anything in which a person feels comfortable.

Who chooses your clothes?

I choose my clothes.

Do you wear accessories?

Yes. I do wear a long chain and a watch.

Do you follow any brands?

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Aamir Khan to take 'Mumkin Hai' to Delhi

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After travelling to Chandigarh and Jaipur, “Mumkin Hai”, a special segment of the third season of superstar Aamir Khan’s show “Satyamev Jayate”, is coming to the capital.

Mumkin Hai“, an hour-long segment, has a live audience chat after each episode of the social issue-based “Satyamev Jayate“.

Through “Mumkin Hai”, viewers can connect to Aamir on a number and talk to him for an hour from anywhere in India.