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When Glaswegian rockers Texas took a breather after their seventh album in 2005, singer Sharleen Spiteri thought they might be out of action for a couple of years before resuming a career that had seen them sell more than 30million albums.

The offices of The Conversation look like many hot internet start-ups, with a dozen staff toiling at computers in cramped premises on the top floor of a concrete office block near Old Street.

Arrow Films has acquired all UK rights on Norwegian thriller Pioneer . It's also sold to Benelux, Japan and Korea.

Voters will be asked by Julia Gillard to vote ''yes'' in a referendum to include local governments in the constitution at the polls on September 14.

The Age today reports that a Federal Court judge has ruled that RMIT done wrogn when it fired a professor, Judith Bessant, breaking workplace laws intended to prevent employers from silencing critics .

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This is the first fortnightly column I'll be writing for The Conversation , a creative commons news and opinion website that launched today.

I am in Glasgow, in my mum and dad's house. I'm upstairs in my old bedroom and they're under strict orders: do not shout at me.

Crikey examines how media and culture organisations fared in this year's budget.

Berberian Sound Studio started doing the festival rounds last year, but IFC is going to release it in the US this summer.

Sharleen Spiteri and her cohorts wear their influences on their sleeves, so a tie-up with Richard Hawley, with whom they worked with on much of this album, makes a lot of sense.

Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri always downloads full albums in favour of singles, insisting real music fans refuse to fast-forward through records.

Tea Party event in July 2012 in front of the S.D. County Administration building.

IN THEIR 25th anniversary year Texas release their new studio album The Conversation on May 20.

The Cuban-born singer will appear Monday at Miami Dade College. In collaboration with the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, she will be joined by the leader of the dissident group Ladies in White, Berta Soler.

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David Brooks : On Tuesday I was on a panel with Representative Xavier Becerra, the chairman of the House Democratic caucus, and Janet MurguA a, who is the head of the National Council of La Raza.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office has produced a new video for the annual New Jersey Legislative Correspondents' dinner.

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Gail Collins : David, I just got back from a vacation in Botswana. We were cut off from the outside world for quite a while, just looking at nature.