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Tony Curtis: Great moments on screen

What better way to remember Tony Curtis (who died last night at the age of 85) than by looking back on some of his best moments on screen? His career spanned six decades and yielded some classic American films — none the least of which is the great Billy Wilder comedy Some Like It Hot. Curtis played a musician who runs from the mob by disguising himself as woman in a traveling all-female band. In the clip below, Curtis and costar Jack Lemmon wobble on high heels and drool over Marilyn Monroe.

Irish bank bailout cost may top 50 billion euros | Reuters

By Padraic Halpin and Andras Gergely
DUBLIN | Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:52pm BST
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland, warning its recession-weary people to prepare for more austerity, revealed on Thursday a mammoth worst-case price tag of over 50 billion euros (43 billion pounds) to clean up its banks.

Contador suspended as doping charges rock cycling | Reuters

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador speaks during a press conference at his hometown of Pinto, near Madrid September 30, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Sergio Perez
By Ian Ransom
GEELONG, Australia | Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:07pm BST
GEELONG, Australia (Reuters) - Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and the Tour of Spain runner-up were suspended for suspected doping on Thursday in a devastating new double blow to cycling's battered image.

India court splits mosque site between religions | Reuters

A Hindu priest shouts slogans as he celebrates after hearing the first reports of a court ruling in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya September 30, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Mukesh Gupta
By Alka Pande
LUCKNOW, India | Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:47pm BST
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - An Indian court ruled on Thursday that the site of a demolished mosque would be split between Hindus and Muslims, dousing ...

NY TIMES - Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85 - Obituary (Obit), Sep 30, 2010

 

Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer’s 1958 movie “The Defiant Ones,” but whose public preferred him in comic roles in films like “Some Like It Hot” (1959) and “The Great Race” (1965), died Wednesday of a cardiac arrest in his Las Vegas area home. He was 85.

Tony Curtis dies aged 85 - Telegraph

The actor, who died following a heart attack at his Nevada home on Wednesday, had made more than 140 films over 60 years.

However, he was almost as well known for his colourful private life - during which he married six times and battled an addiction to cocaine and alcohol. 

BBC News - Film star Tony Curtis dies at 85

Key moments from Tony Curtis' film career

Hollywood star Tony Curtis has died of a cardiac arrest at his US home in Nevada aged 85.

Mosque verdict keeps India on security tenterhooks | Reuters

By Bappa Majumdar
AYODHYA, India | Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:00am BST
AYODHYA, India (Reuters) - More than 200,000 police fanned out across India and temporary jails were set up as the government prepared for possible Hindu-Muslim riots over one of the most divisive court cases in the nation's history.

Cook Islands beat Tahiti at OFC Women’s Nations Cup

The Cook Islands beat Tahiti 1-0 at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand.
Young striker Regina Mustonen was the hero for the Cook Islands in the game against Tahiti, an OFC (Oceania football confederation) press release states.
Her spectacular 15th free kick helped coach Jimmy Katoa’s side to win the game.
For the Cook Islands, it was also their first ever win over Tahiti at a senior OFC women’s tournament.