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Swedish Princess Madeleine marries US-British financier
The fourth in line to Sweden's throne, Princess Madeleine, has married US-British businessman Christopher O'Neill in a ceremony in Stockholm.
The 30-year-old returned to the Swedish capital from New York, where she met Mr O'Neill two years ago.
Some 500 guests were invited to the ceremony at the Royal Chapel in Stockholm.
Sweden's royal family enjoys wide public support and the ceremony was broadcast live on state TV.
Princess Madeleine's elder sister, Crown Princess Victoria, married her personal trainer Daniel Wesling in Stockholm three years ago. But Saturday's wedding was not considered as big an occasion.
In June 2010, the whole of the Swedish capital was transformed for the celebrations.
Along with representatives from many European royal families present for Princess Madeleine's wedding, John Taylor of UK pop group Duran Duran was among the guests.
The couple tied the knot in a ceremony that was part in Swedish and part in English. They were then due to take part in a horse and carriage procession through the medieval old town of Gamla Stan.
'Party princess'
Princess Madeleine, also known as the Duchess of Halsingland and Gastrikland, met Mr O'Neill in New York while she was working for a non-profit organisation, the World Childhood Foundation.
The youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia has been keeping a low profile since moving to the US in 2010 after her engagement to a Swedish lawyer came to an abrupt end.
She has also had a complicated relationship with the Swedish press, who dubbed her the "party princess" when she was spotted frequenting high-end Stockholm clubs in her early twenties.
Roger Lundgren, the editor of a Swedish magazine about royalty, told Associated Press news agency the occasion was not as big as Crown Princess Victoria's wedding "because Madeleine is not a successor to the throne".
"Secondly, this is a private wedding - the
king is paying for it himself," he added.
The royal guest list included the UK's Earl and Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward and Sophie; Princess Takamado of Japan; and princes and princesses from Norway, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg and Monaco.
The Royal Court said on Friday that Madeleine's wedding dress was made by Italian designer Valentino Garavani.
The couple are expected to return to the US and continue working after the wedding.
Philippines dog Kabang returns home after face surgery
A dog that lost half her face saving two girls from an oncoming motorcycle has returned to the Philippines after eight months of treatment in the US.
The mixed-breed dog, Kabang, lost her snout and upper jaw in the incident in December 2011.
Kabang attracted worldwide support because of her injuries, with donations from the Philippines and abroad covering her $27,000 treatment costs.
A parade is planned in Kabang's honour in Zamboanga City on Sunday.
The hero dog jumped into the path of a motorcycle, stopping it from hitting her owner's daughter and niece in the southern city two years ago.
The accident left a gaping hole in the two-year old dog's face.
Kabang's heroic tale prompted an outpouring of sympathy, with fundraising campaigns set up on Facebook and Twitter.
Veterinary surgeon Anton Lim, who accompanied the dog to the US, said they received donations from 45 countries, covering the full cost of treatment.
"This is the first time in the history of the Philippines that we've seen such support for a dog," said Ed Unson, another Filipino vet and one of Kabang's handlers.
Doctors at the University of California operated on Kabang's wounds, and treated her for a tumour and heartworm.
While they could not reconstruct the dog's jaw or snout, they took skin grafts from her cheeks, neck and forehead to cover up sensitive areas exposed on her face, University of California Professor Frank Verstraete explained.
Despite the disfigurement, Kabang can still chew her food using her two remaining molars, and smell well enough to recognise her owner and handlers, Mr Lim told reporters on Saturday.
The dog was greeted by a crowd of well-wishers at Manila airport and later reunited with her owner, Rudy Bunggal, in Zamboanga.
Jackie Chan replaces missing Hollywood hand prints
Jackie Chan has left imprints of his hands and feet in cement at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre for a second time - after his previous prints were lost.
Film star Chan, 59, whose career has spanned 40 years, first left imprints in the theatre forecourt in 1997.
But the cement slab featuring Chan's prints has since disappeared.
"Twelve years ago I did the handprint, but somebody stole it. That's the second time," said Chan, on Thursday. "I really want to thank you."
However, representatives at the newly named TCL Chinese Theatre, previously known as Grauman's Chinese Theatre, said they did not know when the prints vanished but were sure that the slab was not stolen.
Slabs are changed often to make room for new entries in the collection.
Chan told fans that he had first dreamed of having his prints in cement at the theatre when he was invited to a ceremony featuring Sylvester Stallone in 1993.
"My first time in the Chinese Theatre, I walked on the red carpet ... and I saw so many stars doing the interviews. And at that time I had nothing to do, standing there looking around."
Chan's imprints replace the originals which were lost when the theatre changed ownership
"During all those years I dreamed. Slowly, slowly, I got there," said the actor, who has starred in more than 100 films.
Stuntwork
Chan, who is the first star to have his prints done twice, was joined by Rush Hour co-star Chris Tucker and Karate Kid co-star Jaden Smith.
"It was just an honour to be in a movie with him," said Tucker. "He's been a mentor, a big brother. He's the best guy in the whole wide world," he added.
Chan has become one of China's biggest film stars, crossing into Hollywood movies with his Kung Fu fighting skills and unprecedented ability to do his own stunts. He previously worked as a stunt co-ordinator for martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Last month at the Cannes film festival, Chan told Reuters that after countless broken bones and smashed teeth, he was giving up doing his own stunts but hoped to continue acting.
His imprints join those of many screen legends including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.
Better sound: Music’s new big business
Poor-quality MP3s are now our default sound format – but there is a huge new market for technology that can improve our listening experience. Miranda Sawyer turns up
Eighteen months ago, I made a playlist for my son’s sixth birthday party. He cThe sound that emerged was OK. But it couldn’t really compete with the screeching of 20 children fuelled on sugar and additives, so I turned the volume up. The noise was horrible, like a badly tuned radio being put through a final rinse and spin. “Darn it,” I thought (or a stronger equivalent), “the speakers have blown.”hose the music: Dizzee Rascal’s Bonkers, Tinie Tempah’s Pass Out, some Jessie J and One Direction, and Michael Jackson’s Bad. I downloaded the tracks I didn’t have and at the party, after an hour’s football, followed by snacks and one of those mass pile-ons that small boys love (why?), I put my phone into the dock and pressed play.
Then the Michael Jackson track came on. It sounded fine. Great, even. I turned it up, and up. No distortion, no fuzz, no problem.
What was going on with my music? Well, if you’re at all interested in sound, you’ll already know the answer. The Jackson track had been uploaded from a CD; the rest, bought online, were in MP3 format, the ‘lossy’ version that doesn’t have the depth and scope of a full recording. MP3s sound acceptable at lower volumes, but cat-scaringly awful when you pump up the jam.
This is sad, because many of us listen to our music, consciously or unconsciously, in MP3 format. MP3s came about in the late 90s, when our internet speeds were so slow it could take an entire day to upload one CD. They were designed for convenience; they took only the ‘essential’ information from a recording and lost the rest (hence ‘lossy’), which meant that they were quicker to upload and use – perfect for an impatient world. Given that most people don’t have the highly-developed hearing of musicians and producers, not many noticed the difference in sound quality.
So, the less-than-perfect MP3s became our default format, often listened to via cheap, in-ear headphones: a truly dicey listening experience, though for years, no one really seemed to care. But over the past few months, more and more people have been searching for and downloading tracks in lossless formats, like FLAC. DJs have long demanded better sound from online music stores such as Bleep and Beatport which use this format. Orastream, a new digital service, is deliberately marketing itself as offering “HD streaming” in “studio master quality”; Apple’s iTunes has upgraded from MP3 to AAC (still a lossy format, though) and has recently started its ‘Mastered by iTunes’ series;Spotify and other streaming services use tracks converted from lossless formats.
There are other signs of change. Beats by Dr Dre have become theearphones to use, sold on the promise of high quality sound (and celebrity endorsement). In fact, the entire headphones market, fuelled by top-end audio brands, has expanded by billions of dollars. Now, the next big things in audio are wireless and Bluetooth speakers. Companies such as Philips, Pioneer and AQ Audio are offering the joy of top-quality sound without the tangle of wires. Such speakers were initially sold on convenience – ‘hear your music wherever you want in the house!’ – but now companies are emphasising their sound quality. And it is possible to get both: Bose and Sonos offer high-end audio at high-end prices, and upstarts such as Logitech and Pure are muscling in with their UE Boom box and Jingo S3 speakers aimed at middle-market buyers with discerning ears.
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