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Amazing film of a hug from a lion by Paul Eccleston
(from Telegraph.co.uk)
Continuing today's animal theme, this is a pretty incredibly story about a pet lion from the '60s and '70s, with amazing footage of a reunion with its former owners. "The incredible story of a lion cub bought over the counter at Harrods in London, reared as a pet in a furniture store by two young Australians, who was then freed into the wild in Kenya, has become an internet sensation."

Daniel Craig: interview by Dave Calhoun
(from Time Out London)
The incumbent Bond answers questions from a variety of Bond alumni (such as Richard Kiel, John Cleese and Sir Roger Moore) and people related to the world of Bond (such as Charlie Higson, Shirley Bassey and the owner of the Spymaster shop). Undoubtedly the most original interview you're likely to read at the minute -- funny, informative, and very good natured. It may not be as focussed as other QoS interviews, but that just means it's not repetitive of all the others in the slightest. Go on, read it. You won't regret it.

French accuse English of war crimes and exaggeration over Agincourt by Peter Allen & Nabila Ramdani
(from Telegraph.co.uk)
Bloody frogs. (It would seem they're probably right, but that's entirely besides the point -- most of Germany's over their defeat 63 years ago; the French are still whinging about one 593 years on.)

Harry Potter fails to cast spell over Professor Richard Dawkins by Martin Beckford & Urmee Khan
(from Telegraph.co.uk)
A misleading headline, as that's not really what Dawkins is on about, but the article itself has more interest. "Prof Dawkins is targeting children as the audience of his next project because he believes they are being "abused" by being taught about religion at school and labelled Christian, Jewish or Muslim from a young age. Speaking recently at a conference of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, a group of Britons who have renounced Islam, Prof Dawkins said: "Do not ever call a child a Muslim child or a Christian child – that is a form of child abuse because a young child is too young to know what its views are about the cosmos or morality... I think labelling children is child abuse and I think there is a very heavy issue, for example, about teaching about hell and torturing their minds with hell... I wouldn't want to teach a young child, a terrifyingly young child, about hell when he dies, as it's as bad as many forms of physical abuse.""

Snyder’s Watchmen Secrets
(from WatchmenComicMovie.com)
"early unofficial reports claim the ending has been drastically changed from its comic counterpart, some recent interviews with [director] Zack Snyder explain the director’s method of adapting the revered comic book to the screen."