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(Nov. 9) -- Many stars have had to fight persistent rumors about their sexuality. And in that way, Ernie and Bert are no different than John Travolta and Tom Cruise.

I've recounted the stories about the infamous "Ernie and Bert are gay" rumor probably more times than Count Von Count can count. But with "Sesame Street" celebrating its 40th anniversary on Tuesday, I'm going to take it as an opportunity to rehash that same silly rumor one more time.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- How much is a kiss with big screen beauty Charlize Theron worth? Apparently, about $140,000 to one lucky woman.

The Oscar-winning actress took part in the OneXOne charity event on Thursday night in San Francisco, where she took the stage to auction off a two-week trip to her native South Africa to watch soccer’s World Cup in summer 2010.

While the trip itself was a nice prize, the winning bidder also received other extra item for her $140,000 donation – a liplock with the Oscar winner.

And the woman certainly got her money’s worth — the two embraced and kissed onstage for nearly 25 seconds.

Hear their cry, Facebook. A slight to India in FarmVille, a game in which users play farmer and mark their territory with national flags,
has stirred a patriotic crusade on the networking portal, with Indians from Bathinda to Barcelona and Kolkata to California, asking the developers one angry question - Why is the Indian tricolour missing?

Facebook owes a huge share of its popularity to the Indian GenNet. With the number of protesters touching 10,000 by Thursday evening - increasing by around 1,000 every day - it's a movement that cannot be ignored, even if the platform is virtual.

Three British Muslims have been sentenced to life in jail for plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs in Al Qaeda-inspired suicide attacks on the scale of September 11. Judge Richard Henriques said the plot was “the most grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within this jurisdiction”, as he passed sentence at the Crown Court in London.

“The intention was to perpetrate a terrorist outrage that would stand alongside the events of September 11, 2001, in history,” he said. The plot, foiled in August 2006, triggered the wide-ranging rules now in place on carrying liquids aboard commercial aircraft.

After Tiesto in Doha, Beachfest with Judge Jules & Yves Larock, David Vendetta, Marco V, Hed Kandi, the launch of Ultra Chic and a countless amount of high octane nights in 2009...

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Qatar has some dizzying multi-billion dollar projects that are ongoing at the moment. Construction Week picks out the ones that will surely give you a bout of vertigo.

1- New Doha International Airport
Value: US $11 billion
Client: Civil Aviation Authority
Schedule: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Company is the design consultant for airfield work, while San Francisco's HOK is providing design, MEP engineering and other services for the passenger terminal complex, and associated sites. Bechtel is the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor. The airport is expected to be completed in 2015.

DIFFERENT WAYS OF LOOKING AT THINGS

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A little boy went up to his father and asked: 'Dad, where did my intelligence come from?'
The father replied. 'Well, son, you must have got it from your mother, cause I still have mine..'

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'Mr. Clark, I have reviewed this case very carefully,' the divorce court Judge said, 'And I've decided to give your wife $775 a week,'
'That's very fair, your honor,' the husband said. 'And every now and then I'll try to send her a few bucks myself.'

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Top 50 cities: Quality of living
Base City: New York, US (=100)

Rank 2009 Rank 2008 City Country Index 2009 Index 2008
1 2 VIENNA AUSTRIA 108.6 107.9
2 1 ZURICH SWITZERLAND 108 108
3 2 GENEVA SWITZERLAND 107.9 107.9
4 4 VANCOUVER CANADA 107.4 107.6
4 5 AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND 107.4 107.3
6 6 DUSSELDORF GERMANY 107.2 107.2
7 7 MUNICH GERMANY 107 107
8 7 FRANKFURT GERMANY 106.8 107
9 9 BERN SWITZERLAND 106.5 106.5
10 10 SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 106.3 106.3
11 11 COPENHAGEN DENMARK 106.2 106.2
12 12 WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND 105.9 105.8
13 13 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS 105.7 105.7
14 14 BRUSSELS BELGIUM 105.4 105.4
15 15 TORONTO CANADA 105.3 105.3
16 19 OTTAWA CANADA 105 104.7

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Claude the albino alligator relaxes in a swamp complete with a heated rock while all around him workmen battle against the clock to put the finishing touches to the largest public green building in the world.

The California Academy of Sciences, based in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, opens its doors to the public this weekend following three years of construction and 10 years of planning.

The 410,000 square foot (38,000 square metre) structure is just as big a draw as the exhibits it houses.