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Director Baz Luhrmann says he has yet to finish his $130m (£84.2m) film Australia, which gets its world premiere next week.

The first Commons debate on women in parliament took place in 1867. 112 years later the first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was elected.

A Speaker's conference is a rarely-used type of formal inquiry into the arrangements governing elections.

RealNetworks is being pursued by six movie studios over software that makes copies of DVD films so they can be played on a PC.

The full text of David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox is attempting to block the release of comic book adaptation Watchmen.

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox is attempting to block the release of comic book adaptation Watchmen.

A combination of two inexpensive existing drugs may offer a new way to treat breast cancer, a study suggests.

The Budget is the responsibility of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and is the annual financial statement to Parliament which includes a review of taxation levels and publication of spending plans.

The US first lady calls for Burma's military junta to hold dialogue with the opposition, as she visits a border refugee camp.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp plans to invest $100m to develop six TV channels in India and add staff to its news operations.

One of the biggest community festivals in Europe is set to get underway with a carnival parade in west Belfast.

The troubled history of America's relations with Iran.

A daily round-up of the top BBC Scotland news website stories you have been reading.

20 years on, the giant fire remains the world's worst offshore oil disaster.

A new documentary marks 40 years since the Olympic protest

A film about a stuntman who walked a highwire between New York's Twin Towers premiers in Edinburgh.

The director of the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea gives his view of The Edge of Love.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sees profits triple, driven by ad revenues from the firm's TV channels.

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