'Kung Fu Panda 2' to Open Taormina Film Festival

The Italian premiere of the film, featuring a voice cast led by Jack Black and Angelina Jolie, continues the festival's trend of launching high-profile projects.ROME – The Taormina Film Festival announced Friday that the animated film Kung Fu Panda 2 in 3D will be the opening film at this year’s edition of the 57-year-old event.The Italian premiere of the film -- directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and including the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan and Seth Rogen -- continues Taormina’s trend of serving as a launching pad for high-profile films. In 2010, the Sicily festival premiered with Toy Story 3 in 3D, and previous editions have hosted Transformers and Mission Impossible II.As with the other blockbusters...

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 SWOT analysis of Team India and Australia

With Sachin Tendulkar planning to quit after this World Cup, the bar is set much higher for the Indian players. Team India stands as one of the favorites alongside a formidable Sri Lanka, a strong South Africa, T20 Champions England and the reigning ODI champions Australia. So here at Cric City we have done a SWOT analysis on the selection of Indian squad for the upcoming cricket fiesta.The players selected by BCCI are: MS Dhoni (Captain), V Sehwag (Vice-captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, R Ashwin, Piyush Chawla. Cricket experts say that bowlers win you test matches while batsmen win you ODI?s. If this is...

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Weird Saturn Radio Signals Puzzle Astronomers

Weird Saturn Radio Signals Puzzle Astronomers Saturn is sending astronomers mixed signals — radio signals, that is. NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently found that the natural radio wave signals coming from the giant planet differ in the northern and southern hemispheres, a split that can affect how scientists measure the length of a Saturn day. But the weirdness doesn't stop there, researchers say. The signal variations — which are controlled by the planet's rotation — also change dramatically over time, apparently in sync with the Saturnian seaso...

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