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AP - They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He’s hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon’s tea.

Reuters - A giant inflatable pig that went missing from a Southern California music festival at the weekend has been found in tatters in a desert town.

Reuters - First it was Barack Obama. Now Hillary Clinton’s appearing on Fox News Channel.

Reuters - Viral marketing has gone positively bubonic. While this unconventional approach to building buzz online is nothing new, it has achieved full-blown plague status in the walk-up to the summer movie season.

AFP - Britain’s Prince William, second-in-line to the throne, visited troops in Afghanistan this weekend, less than a month after his younger brother finished a tour of duty there, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Reuters - DreamWorks Animation SKG Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg on Tuesday said he was disappointed with the pace at which movie theater chains were moving to deploy digital and 3-D technology.

AP - “Blindness,” a Fernando Meirelles movie starring Julianne Moore, will open this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.

AP - Wolfgang Wagner is stepping down after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival founded by his grandfather, the composer Richard Wagner, Bavaria’s culture minister said Tuesday.

Reuters - Models wearing crash helmets and pod-shaped skirts gave Australian Fashion Week a futuristic twist on Tuesday, contrasting with catwalks featuring teensy bikinis, short summer dresses and flowing evening wear.

Reuters - Mel Gibson, who has kept a low profile since his drunken anti-Semitic outburst in July 2006, is set to headline his first feature film since 2002, Daily Variety reported on Tuesday.