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This week’s releases include new high-def editions of classic sci-fi series; a well-lived comedy featuring a talented cast; a few library titles from some familiar actors’ early careers; and a thriller with an otherworldly twist.
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London -
Apart from blockbuster movies, cinema is struggling as an art form, facing competition from home cinema and games. To find new ways to keep interest in film alive, pop-up cinemas are appearing. Digital Journal visited one deep underground in London.
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London -
London Underground's network of tube trains is in danger of becoming too fast and efficient. A report urges the network to follow the example of the New York subway.
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NASA scientists have come up with a pretty cool piece of machinery to fish around for alien life that may exist in subterranean seas found on many nearby moons.
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Moscow -
Over 200 undocumented foreigners were living and working in an underground city in Moscow, which included a café, casino, movie theater and even a chicken coop, along with a huge garment factory complex.
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New York -
The answer is nothing too bad. Scientists have found that the microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is close to the air on the city streets.
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London -
The famous 'Mind The Gap' announcement, heard by millions of users of the London Underground railway system is to be brought back at the request of the announcers' widow.
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Cologne -
Earlier this week, a new underground train line became operational in Cologne, Germany. Since then, Germany's most famous landmark, Cologne Cathedral, is "under stress" in what can only be called "bad vibrations."
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Kazan -
Seventy members of an Islamist sect have been discovered living in an eight-level underground bunker without heat for more than a decade, just outside the city of Kazan, Russia
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With controversy raging over North Korea's plans to launch a rocket, now an underground nuclear test is allegedly being planned, according to reports leaked by South Korea.
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San Diego -
U.S. law enforcement agents, working with their Mexican counterparts, say they have discovered a cross-border drug smuggling tunnel on the US-Mexico border. The tunnel links warehouses in Tijuana, Mexico, with warehouses in Otay Mesa, California.
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Undeniably, Lady Gaga is talented. But each of her hits and her producer called Red One, became FAMOUS (title of a previous album) also through plagiarism controversies. Are they paying tribute to her icons or playing all of them at once?
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Welwyn Garden City -
There may not be any strikes interrupting the running of John Polley’s trains but an insect on the track could cause a derailment.
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An underground explosion occurred about 12:06 p.m. on Friday in San Bernardino, California. According to the Dailybulletin.com, two pedestrians suffered minor injuries.
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An underground explosion in Savannah, Georgia has rocked the downtown. Underground electrical cables blew off manhole covers. Several fires are reported in the area.
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Emma Clarke, an announcer on the London Underground, had been working for eight years for the London Underground, and then got the sack for publicly criticising the company. Her revenge has been highly entertaining.
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Emma Clarke is one of those people who you would instantly recognise but never know their face; she is a ‘voice of the Underground’, if somebody tells you to ‘mind the gap’ on London’s subway then it is probably her. Now she is facing dismissal
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Art lovers will be thrilled to learn that archaeologist have recently unearthed an ancient painting which closely resembles modern day art. If you zoom in at the picture you will notice just how spectacular it is.
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Wind Power stored underground in aquifers or pipeline and released when electricity demand rises.
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Thousands of Tube workers have voted to go on strike in a row over pay.
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No way I'd even pay this much for an Album I recorded let alone anyone else's... It still amazes me what people with money will purchase and then sit around and just look at...
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A foreign news crew secretly taped one of the most downtrodden areas in metropolitan Beijing.
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CTV has this link for free satellite TV for your PC
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VIENNA (dpa) - As fans of Orson Welles' classic "The Third Man" will know, the way into the Viennese underworld leads through a door in a street advertising column.
Visitors can follow in Welles' footsteps into the sewers of the Austrian capital, gu...
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Chicago - The Chicago Underground Film Festival will unspool 18 features, 12 documentaries and more than 150 shorts over seven days at the historic Fine Arts Theatre (418 S. Michigan Ave.) at its seventh annual event. In addition to its celluloid slate...
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Police raided an underground complex with a huge clothing factory and entertainment facilities for illegal migrants. Video screen capture
A father shows his son an underground train from the 1950s, at the London Transport Museum Depot.
Mounting the steps of the former Aldwych underground station.
The image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera shows that a thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as the surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that there are glaciers composed of frozen water underneath the dust ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
The entrance of the abandoned Strand Underground Station, located along The Strand in London.
A London Underground sign
One of the two platforms at Aldwych station, last used in 1994. Nowadays it is a location for movies.
The Metropolitan Railway opened in 1863 with gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. Lighting was provided by gas — two jets in first class compartments and one in second and third class compartments.
People relaxing in The Vaults, deep underneath London's Waterloo station.
NASA concept of robotic squid to search for life in Europa's underground seas NASA
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A live performance of jazz music by the Tristan Honsinger quartet at Miss Hecke club, Berlin, Germany
The Victoria line is a deep-level London Underground route running from Brixton in the south in Zone 2 to Walthamstow Central in the north-east in Zone 3 of London. It is colored light blue on the Tube map.
Police raided an underground complex with a huge clothing factory and entertainment facilities for illegal migrants. Video screen capture
People at the museum looking at old underground maps. The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.
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