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LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is practising its right of freedom of speech on the Supreme Court's (SC) judgement against the appointment of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, People's Lawyers Forum (PLF) Punjab office-bearers said on Saturday. They said that Sindhis have reservations about being judicially targeted. PLF Senior Vice President Malik Nasir Awan and Additional Secretary General Rana Sufyan Arshad said that positive criticism of a decision should

LOS ANGELES - "The King's Speech" was crowned the big winner with four Oscars, including best film and best actor for its star Colin Firth on a night with few surprises among winners at the top movie awards. Joining British actor Firth on Oscar's stage was the film's director Tom Hooper and its screenwriter, David Seidler.
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LONDON - It's said that what swayed so many of the Academy's 6,000 members in the direction of The King's Speech came down to the question of heart. It was billed as the battle between The Social Network and The King's Speech. In the end, the night of the 83rd Academy Awards belonged not to the ultra-modern story of a nerdy billionaire with 500 million friends but to a period piece about a British monarch struggling to overcome his stammer.
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LOS ANGELES - When the final envelope is opened at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, will 'The King's Speech's' coronation be inevitable? It's looking that way. In the wake of two winning weekends in which the Weinstein Co. release took top honors from the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America and then topped it with the Screen Actors Guild Award for best film ensemble, 'The King's Speech' could say it has history on its side - in more ways than one.
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LONDON - Based on a treasure trove of royal letters, appointment cards and photographs, a new book on the remarkable life of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue fills many of the gaps left by the hit film "The King's Speech." Lionel's grandson Mark Logue was consulted for the script of the movie, starring Colin Firth as the stammering King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as his elocution coach, widely tipped for Oscar glory at the Academy Awards next month.
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LONDON - "The King's Speech" -- already widely tipped as an Oscar contender -- topped the box office over the weekend, but the take failed to match the hype, according to figures from Screen International on Tuesday. The story of how the present queen's father George VI fought to overcome a lifelong speech impediment, starring Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter, took a less-than-stellar 3.53 million pounds on its debut.
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Hollywood actor Colin Firth has revealed playing stammering monarch King George VI in "The King`s Speech" made him so tense he suffered headaches and trapped nerves. The 50-year-old actor stars in the new movie as the royal and found enacting his part so tense he felt as if he was in a "semi-paralysis". "Some part of you goes there. I try to play it as the character would be experiencing it, which is to try not to do it. The sheer physical effort that requires had an effect on my

YANGON: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for freedom of speech in army-ruled Myanmar on Sunday and urged thousands of supporters to stand up for their rights and not lose heart, indicating she might pursue a political role.
"Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. I will accept the people keeping me in check," she said in her first major address since being freed from seven years of house arrest a day earlier.
Suu Kyi could give Myanmar a strong