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Ahmed Fishawi and Ahmed Mekky will play conjoined twins seeking a film career. Stuck on You, anyone? Malaket Gamal El-Koun (Miss Universe) is the comeback project of Sherine Seif El-Nasr, who will play a karate champion going undercover at a beauty pageant to infiltrate a group of criminals among the contestants. You guessed right again: it's Miss Congeniality (2000) which starred Sandra Bullock. .
Transfer deadline day: 9am-1.30pm
1.30pm: Algerian international defender, Abderaouf Zarabi has just signed for Hibs from French side Gueugnon, according to Euan Barker and top sources Mr SSN Ticker. Benjani has just yelped in fear after Daruis Vassell offered to help him with his finishing. 1.27pm: Newcastle are on the verge of meltdo... signing Atalanta's teenage striker Fabio Zamblera. "Scarlett Johansson has been seen discussing terms with Ronnie Moore about a possible move to Prenton Park," drools Robert Brown. "Personally, I can't see it happening now that they've got Jennison Myrie-Williams until the end of the season, but you can't afford to take that risk, so best get the picture up now, eh?" Nope, Johansson is a Rochdale fan, it's the only club up that way she'd sign for. .
Advance Auto's ads aim at super audience
Roanoke's Fox affiliate station, Fox 21/27, which will air the Super Bowl on Sunday night, would not reveal how much it charges advertisers for the game's commercials. But WDBJ-7 in Roanoke, a CBS affiliate that aired the Super Bowl last year, provided a general figure. Typically, the charge for 30 seconds of Super Bowl advertising time is $24 to $32 per 1,000 households, said Ray Sullivan, general sales manager for WDBJ-7. For example, it would cost $240 to $320 for a 30-second commercial spot reaching 10,000 households, he said. That's significantly higher than the cost of a typical prime time slot locally, he said. Those spots are $18 to $24 per 1,000 households, Sullivan said. Last year 246,000 households throughout the Roanoke Valley and Lynchburg markets watched the Super Bowl, Sullivan said, quoting figures from Nielsen Media Research, a market research company.
Digger used to ram home of 'drugs baron'
Police have used a digger to ram the home of a suspected millionaire drug trafficker as raids were carried out across the South East. More than 500 officers were involved in the dawn operation, codenamed Eaglewood, targeting a £100 million cocaine trafficking and money laundering empire. .
Report: GM takes three honors in annual auto ownership cost survey
General Motors Corp. gained ground on Toyota Motor Corp. in an annual survey of ownership costs including measures such as sticker price and resale value, Bloomberg News reported today. GM led in three vehicle categories, up from one last year, while Toyota again won four of the total of eight awards, research firm IntelliChoice.com said at the Chicago auto show today. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC were shut out. The results lend credence to GM's goal of improving quality and boosting resale values by curbing incentive spending and sales to rental-car companies. Such so-called fleet customers typically resell vehicles quickly, depressing prices. .
HIH prison release imminent
HE has spent the past two-and-half years scrubbing toilets, but tomorrow HIH Insurance founder Ray Williams will wave goodbye to prison life. The corporate crook, jailed with partner-in-crime Rodney Adler in 2005, will be released from Silverwater Jail at 9am. By 10.30am, the 71-year-old will be holed up in his wife's $4 million harbourfront mansion, while many of the two million victims of Australia's biggest corporate collapse remain in financial strife. Williams - who said he was "the most hated man in Australia" after the $5 billion HIH collapse - had hoped to slip quietly into retirement, but he will face a large media contingent outside jail. His wife Rita had wanted to collect him from Silverwater jail in her Mercedes Benz but, like Lyndi Adler, has been warned of intense media interest.
Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail
He gets criticized for kidding around, Huckabee acknowledged, but he takes the presidency seriously. "I think this is a serious job. Being president is a serious job. Running this country is serious business. The issues we face are serious," he told about 175 people in a college gymnasium here. "The reason I have fun is because I love America." Without naming rival Mitt Romney, he referred to attack ads Romney is running against fellow Republican John McCain in New Hampshire and aired against Huckabee in Iowa. Huckabee said he is running for something, not against his rivals. "There are some things we could do better," Huckabee said. "I'm a person who loves his country, because I understand how good it is. But I'm running for office because I know it could do better." ___ McCain touts Iraq vision HOLLIS, N.H.
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