File photo of Brazilian renown architect and urbanist 101-year-old Oscar Niemeyer, who underwent colon surgery in the second operation in a week, a hospital official said.(AFP/File/Evaristo Sa)AFP – Brazil’s most celebrated architect Oscar Niemeyer underwent colon surgery in the second operation for the 101-year-old in a week, a hospital official said.

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AP – The number of gay and bisexual characters on prime-time network TV is up slightly this season to 18 out of a total of 600 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
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AP – The following excerpts are from a transcript of the March 1977 grand jury proceedings that led to Roman Polanski’s indictment on charges of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14, unlawful sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 18, rape by use of drugs, perversion (now called oral copulation) and sodomy.
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A retired prosecutor whose revelations in a recent documentary on Roman Polanski (seen in 2008) highlighted serious irregularities in the filmmaker's 1977 child sex trial now says he lied about the case, the Los Angeles Times reported.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)AFP – A retired prosecutor whose revelations in a recent documentary on Roman Polanski highlighted serious irregularities in the filmmaker’s 1977 child sex trial now says he lied about the case, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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FILE - In this May 19, 2007 file photo, French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film 'No Country For Old Men,' at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Polanski was taken into custody, Swiss police confirmed Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)AP – A former prosecutor said Wednesday he lied when he told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski’s sex case that he should send the director to prison.

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