By PETER ALLEN - Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website. "I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends. Referring to the two...
Review: The Orderly at Herald Theatre
NZ Herald
NZ Herald
Michael Downey handles the character changes well. Photo / Carolyn Robertson Michael Downey's one-man play is an illuminating study in contrast, in which the prosaic reality of a modern hospital is juxtaposed with the...
Giant horse could be new 'Angel of the South'
The Times
The Times
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } The North-South divide widened a little today as designs for a sculpture twice as high as the Angel of the North were unveiled in Kent....
Editorial: Immigration and assimilation
The Roanoke Times
The Roanoke Times
A new report on immigrant assimilation offers some reassurance to Americans who are as worried about the cultural impact of immigrants, legal and illegal, as about the number who have come to the United States illegally...
A 164ft horse - that's nothing!
The Times
The Times
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } In the competition to design an iconic Angel of the South, Mark Wallinger's 164ft white horse of Kent has caught the popular...
Fear of number 13 develops triskaidekaphobia and ridiculous sarcasm
Pravda RU
Pravda RU
Europeans, especially Anglo-Saxons, are highly superstitious when it comes to the number 13. They say that if 13 people sit down at one table, one of them will die within a year. Friday the 13th is considered to be an...



