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GENEVA: The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organisers said on Tuesday.The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had begun recreating the website that launched that World Wide Web, as well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible.The world's first website was about the technology itself, according to CERN, allowing early browsers to learn about the new system and create their own web pages.The project will allow future generations to understand the origin and importance of the Web and its impact on modern life, CERN web manager Dan Noyes told AFP."We're going to put these things back in place, so that a web developer or someone who's interested 100 years from now can read the first documentation that came out from the World Wide ...
MUMBAI: As Indian cinema turns 100 years old, one powerful Bollywood dynasty can trace the roots of their stardom almost right back to the birth of the national film industry."We have been there throughout. All the milestones of cinema, there has been some Kapoor or the other," says 60-year-old Rishi Kapoor, who has notched up nearly 150 Hindi film credits over a four-decade acting career.It started with grandfather Prithviraj, a silver screen pioneer from the ...
LOS ANGELES: Action comedy "Pain & Gain," starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, grabbed the top spot at the US box office in its debut weekend, industry figures showed Monday.The Paramount Pictures production about bodybuilders caught up in a botched kidnapping scheme snagged $20.2 million, according to tracker Exhibitor Relations."Oblivion," the post-apocalyptic action flick starring Tom Cruise, came in second with $17.8 million in ticket sales, ahead of "42," a biopic about trailblazing ...
KOLKATA: A daredevil Indian who held the Guinness World Record for the distance travelled on a zip-line while hanging by his hair has died while performing a new stunt, officials said Monday.Sailendra Nath Roy, a 49-year-old police driver, was attempting to cross the turbulent River Teesta on Sunday in the state of West Bengal on a 180-metre (594-foot) wire above the water.After attaching his shoulder-length hair to a pulley on the zip-line, Roy had completed ...
KARACHI: Bollywood superstars Amitabh Bachan, Vidya Balan and Jackie Shroff have reportedly decided to do something worthwhile for Sanjay Dutt while he is going through this tough phase.The three stars will reportedly make cameo appearances in Dutt’s home production “Hasmukh Pighal Gaya” to be directed by Sejal Shah. The film also features Dutt’s niece Nazia Hussain as well as legendary filmmaker OP Ralhan’s grandson Arman.According to Indian media sources, the whole idea behind the film ...
LONDON: British fashion designer and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham said life as a working mother is a struggle but she relishes the challenge and plans to expand her empire with a retail store in London.As mother to three boys - Brooklyn, 14, Romeo, 10, and Cruz, 8 - and to 21-month-old daughter Harper, Beckham said balancing her family life and career was a constant juggle."The children are my priority and always have been and ...
LONDON: Actress Helen Mirren won the best actress award for her stage portrayal of the queen in "The Audience" at Britain's top theatre honours on Sunday that were handed out at London's Royal Opera House."The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", an adaption of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, was the evening's biggest winner taking home seven awards, equalling the record set by "Matilda the Musical" in 2012. Copyright Reuters, 2013 More Articles...
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