John Gardner, Who Continued the James Bond Series, Dies at 80
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John Gardner was a prolific British thriller writer who wrote more novels about Bond â James Bond â than Ian Fleming did.
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration, piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday.
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Author Sebastian Faulks writes the first new James Bond adventure for adults in 42 years, it is revealed.
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For Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," fatherhood is the greatest job in the world.
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British actor Michael Evans, who starred in soap The Young and the Restless, has died aged 87.
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The leader of the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, Simon Mann has spent all of his adult life in the murky worlds of special forces and mercenaries.
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Hugh Jackman may have long been touted as the one to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and if he is to be believed he would be more than happy to step into the shoes of the secret agent.
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An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a couple shot dead in their seaside bungalow. Joan and John Stirland were found dead in the village of Trusthorpe, Lincs, on 8 August.
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Arts & entertainment: Author John Harvey on his Diamond Dagger 'lifetime achievement' award and the return of Charlie Resnick
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John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died. He was 72.
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Richard Lehman, a CIA official who worked with every president from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush and was credited with creating the president's daily intelligence briefing, has died. He was 83
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'Welcome to Japan, Mr Bond' Actor Tetsuro Tamba, who played Japanese Secret Service supremo Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice, has died aged 84, the Hollywood Reporter reports.â¦
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LONDON - Hugh Grant says heâs lost interest in acting and is heading into retirement. Grant, who plays heartthrob Daniel Cleaver in âBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,â was quoted Thursday by the Evening
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury  Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration,  piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled  Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday. He was 77.
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said.
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Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals... As soon as 63-year old Russell Defreitas was arrested in early June for an alleged plot to destroy JFK through fuel explosions, terror beat journalists couldn't resist their favorite hobby: telling stories about how everything in the US is at risk. The description "elderly patsy" immediately came to mind when eyeballing Defreitas, but AP described him, with no apparent sense of humor, as an "accused mastermind." "Unthinkable devastation" would have resulted, had his plan not been nipped in the bud.â¦
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Gordon Cooper Jr., one of the original seven astronauts who became space pioneers and national celebrities, died Monday at his home in Ventura, Calif.