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[Scheherazade]

Twilight triumphs with five prizes at MTV Movie Awards

Twilight has scooped the best movie gong at the MTV Movie Awards for the third year running.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse took home five awards, including best male and female performance for stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

The pair previewed the first footage of latest Twilight movie Breaking Dawn - Part 1 at the LA ceremony, alongside co-star Taylor Lautner.

The awards are decided by viewers in an online vote.

Other winners on the night included Justin Bieber's 3D concert movie Never Say Never, which won best jaw dropping moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13664279

[Emil Miller]

Twilight triumphs with five prizes at MTV Movie Awards

Twilight has scooped the best movie gong at the MTV Movie Awards for the third year running.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse took home five awards, including best male and female performance for stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

The pair previewed the first footage of latest Twilight movie Breaking Dawn - Part 1 at the LA ceremony, alongside co-star Taylor Lautner.

The awards are decided by viewers in an online vote.

Other winners on the night included Justin Bieber's 3D concert movie Never Say Never, which won best jaw dropping moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13664279

Enjoy the trash while you can, it ain't going to last. Thank God.

Some observers believe that the American era is coming to an end, as the Western-oriented world order is replaced by one increasingly dominated by the East. The historian Niall Ferguson has written that the bloody twentieth century witnessed "the descent of the West" and "a reorientation of the world" toward the East. Realists go on to note that as China gets more powerful and the United States' position erodes, two things are likely to happen: China will try to use its growing influence to reshape the rules and institutions of the international system to better serve its interests, and other states in the system -- especially the declining hegemon -- will start to see China as a growing security threat. The result of these developments, they predict, will be tension, distrust, and conflict, the typical features of a power transition. In this view, the drama of China's rise will feature an increasingly powerful China and a declining United States locked in an epic battle over the rules and leadership of the international system. And as the world's largest country emerges not from within but outside the established post-World War II international order, it is a drama that will end with the grand ascendance of China and the onset of an Asian-centered world order.

[papayahed]

Enjoy the trash while you can, it ain't going to last. Thank God.

Some observers believe that the American era is coming to an end, as the Western-oriented world order is replaced by one increasingly dominated by the East. The historian Niall Ferguson has written that the bloody twentieth century witnessed "the descent of the West" and "a reorientation of the world" toward the East. Realists go on to note that as China gets more powerful and the United States' position erodes, two things are likely to happen: China will try to use its growing influence to reshape the rules and institutions of the international system to better serve its interests, and other states in the system -- especially the declining hegemon -- will start to see China as a growing security threat. The result of these developments, they predict, will be tension, distrust, and conflict, the typical features of a power transition. In this view, the drama of China's rise will feature an increasingly powerful China and a declining United States locked in an epic battle over the rules and leadership of the international system. And as the world's largest country emerges not from within but outside the established post-World War II international order, it is a drama that will end with the grand ascendance of China and the onset of an Asian-centered world order.


Yeah, but isn't that Rob Pattinson dreamy??

[OrphanPip]

Yeah, but isn't that Rob Pattinson dreamy??

You can have R-Pats if I can have Taylor Lautner.

[papayahed]

You can have R-Pats if I can have Taylor Lautner.

Deal!

[Emil Miller]

Yeah, but isn't that Rob Pattinson dreamy??

I'll take your word for it.

[Scheherazade]

Could tighter rules on sexually explicit music videos protect our children from growing up too fast?

A report into the sexualisation of children is proposing a new cinema style system which would prevent young children having access to the most explicit music videos.

The report's author Reg Bailey from the Mothers' Union told the BBC that music videos are currently exempt from age rating certificates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13664591

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Which is good thing but one wonder how long its going take before it to play.

[Scheherazade]

Serbian-American author Tea Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife.

The 25-year-old, who is the youngest author to scoop the honour, was praised by the judges as a "truly exciting new talent" for her "exceptional book".

Set in the Balkans, The Tiger's Wife tells the story of a young doctor who traces the life of her grandfather.

The £30,000 annual prize recognises the work of fiction written in the English language by women.

Born in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and raised in Belgrade, Obreht emigrated to the United States in 1997.

She was featured in The New Yorker's Top 20 Writers under 40 Fiction Issue and her debut novel was published in March this year.

"Obreht's powers of observation and her understanding of the world are remarkable," said broadcaster Bettany Hughes, chair of the judges.

"By skilfully spinning a series of magical tales, she has managed to bring the tragedy of chronic Balkan conflict thumping into our front rooms with a bittersweet vivacity.

"Obreht celebrates storytelling and she helps us to remember that it is the stories that we tell about ourselves, and about others, that can make us who we are and the world what it is," she added.

The other nominees were Kathleen Winter for Annabel, Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson, Emma Donoghue's Room, Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love and Great House by Nicole Krauss.

US author Barbara Kingsolver won the prize last year for her sixth novel, The Lacuna.

Previous winners of the prize, which has been running since 1996, include Helen Dunmore, Zadie Smith and Rose Tremain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13702281