Berlin festival to open with French Revolution film (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? The 2012 Berlin film festival will open next month with the world premiere of French period drama "Les Adieux a la reine" (Farewell My Queen).

Directed by Benoit Jacquot, the drama is an adaptation of Chantal Thomas's novel of the same name portraying the first days of the French Revolution from the point of view of servants working at Versailles.

Diane Kruger plays the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette and Lea Seydoux one of her ladies-in-waiting as unrest in the court of King Louis XVI grows.

Although the February 9-19 cinema showcase opens this year with a world premiere, an absence of major Hollywood names on the red carpet could dampen media interest.

Last year the festival, now in its 62nd year, kicked off with the acclaimed Coen brothers Western "True Grit," although it had already opened in U.S. theatres by that time.

On February 14 this year, Meryl Streep, firm favorite for a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," will be in Berlin to receive a lifetime achievement award.

The festival will screen some of her best-known movies, including "Kramer vs. Kramer," "Sophie's Choice" and "Out of Africa."

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Report: Is Halle Berry Engaged to Olivier Martinez?

Halle Berry is sporting something shiny on her finger. Could it be an engagement ring? The Oscar winning beauty, 45, was photographed wearing some serious bling on her left hand's ring finger earlier this week, causing widespread speculation that her French beau Olivier Martinez, 45, might have proposed.

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Kimberly Peirce in Talks for Carrie Remake

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While it?s been a while since we?ve heard anything about the planned remake of Carrie, the project seems to be moving forward as MGM and Screen Gems have settled on a director. Deadline reports that Boys Don?t Cry helmer Kimberly Peirce is in talks to get behind the camera on the Stephen King adaptation. Brian De Palma famously adapted the material in 1976 with Sissy Spacek in the career-defining lead role. This new version is said to be more faithful to King?s source material, though I?m assuming a fair amount of telekinetic carnage will still ensue.

Playwright/screenwriter/comic-book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Big Love, Glee, The Stand comic) penned the screenplay, and with Peirce now onboard the project seems to be moving toward casting. The critically acclaimed Boys Don?t Cry marked Peirce?s directorial debut in 1999, and the 2008 Iraq War drama Stop-Loss acted as her follow-up feature. The director?s experience with off-kilter coming-of-age stories should bode well for her work on Carrie, and I?m intrigued to see what her take entails. Hit the jump to read a synopsis of the novel.

Here?s the synopsis for Carrie:

Stephen King?s legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.

Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to her senior prom. But another act?of ferocious cruelty?turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget. [Amazon]

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iBasso intros audiophile-grade Android MP3 player

Player features 32-bit reference DAC for playback

Portable headphone amp maker iBasso has announced a self-proclaimed reference quality MP3 player. In a rather unique move, iBasso has embedded Android in the device to run Rockbox, Poweramp, or any other choice of jukebox app. The DX100 centers on the 32-bit ESS SABRE ES9018 eight-channel DAC, letting listeners hear 24-bit, 192kHz encoded lossless music without, in theory, hearing any degradation in the output.

The DX100 also carries a larger than usual 64GB of internal flash storage as well as a microSD slot. The inbuilt headphone amp handles an 8.5-volt range. Music volume is digitally controlled in 256-step increments.

iBasso has not released pricing, but indicated that the DX100 should be available in late January or early February. [via Anything But iPod]

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Global data, Fed give stocks a big boost

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Peter Tuchman, a trader with Quattro M Securities, works from a handheld computer on the first day of trading for 2012 on the New York Stock Exchange.

By msnbc.com news services

Better-than-expected U.S. and European data, as well as hopes the U.S. Federal Reserve could ease monetary policy further, boosted stock prices?Tuesday, even as tensions between Iran and the United States lifted oil prices.

Minutes from the Fed noted that several officials believed economic conditions could "well" warrant a further easing of monetary policy.

Later this month the Fed will begin issuing policymaker forecasts for its benchmark interest rate and when officials expect the first rate rise to occur.

The Fed minutes came after earlier data showed the pace of growth in U.S. manufacturing accelerated in December to its fastest since June, while a sharp drop in German joblessness to the lowest in two decades helped the euro and fueled stock market gains on both sides of the Atlantic.

"The euro's gains are a combination of both earlier momentum stemming from economic data and the headlines from the FOMC minutes," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.

"The dollar was already on the defensive today, but the minutes in my opinion do suggest that the Fed is still open to easing monetary policy, which is negative for the dollar."

Asian markets rose after data showed that China's big manufacturers narrowly avoided a contraction in December, though downward risks persist. European stocks closed at their highest in five months on Tuesday.

Data showed German unemployment fell more than expected in December, with the jobless rate falling to the lowest since the unification of Germany.

U.S. stock indexes rallied sharply, hitting multi-month highs. The Dow Jones industrial average closed the day up?180 points, having added as much as 262 points earlier in the session.

Another report showed U.S. construction spending surged to a near 1-1/2-year high in November. The data added to growing hopes that a recovery in the U.S. economy, the world's largest, could be gaining steam.

U.S. Treasuries prices fell in thin trading as investors cashed in year-end gains. The safe-haven appeal of U.S. government debt diminished after the December factory report.

"The beginning of the year tends to start out positive as people want to put money to work, but the overseas data can't be overstated in its importance, especially since the U.S. data has been so strong as well," said Sal Catrini, a managing director for equities at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co in New York.

Oil prices jumped. U.S. commercial crude oil stockpiles were expected to have fallen last week as refiners drew down inventories and limited imports to lower their year-end tax requirements, according to a Reuters poll ahead of weekly supply data.

In addition, military exercises in the Gulf by Iran and the movement of U.S. naval vessels in the area have raised fears of a confrontation between Tehran and Washington that could cut off oil exports from the region.

Iran has said it could shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of world oil is shipped, if sanctions were to be imposed on its crude exports.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Democratic chair tweaks Romney over narrow win (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The chairwoman of the Democratic party describes Mitt Romney's narrow victory over Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses as "a bad night" for the Republican front-runner.

Appearing Wednesday on Fox News Channel, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Romney "spent the most and only beat the person who spent the least by eight votes."

She said Romney is "limping into New Hampshire," where he is heavily favored to win next week's first-in-the-nation primary.

Asked why her party had campaigned so aggressively against Romney, Wasserman Schultz said he "earned scrutiny because he's relentlessly attacked the president."

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, also appearing on Fox, rejected Wasserman Schultz's assessment. He called Tuesday "a great night," because "the whole country is talking about who the Republican nominee will be."

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How Cosmic Rays Can Image the Throat of an Active Volcano [Video]

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Cosmic-ray muons that pass through Mount Vesuvius could reveal the interior structure, potentially indicating when the deadly volcano will next erupt. A video from NOVA


Mount Vesuvius from the air, 2007MOUNT VESUVIUS, the volcano that buried Pompeii, threatens Naples. Image: Courtesy of Pastorius/Wikimedia Commons

The volcano that buried Pompeii in A.D. 79 still rumbles deep down. Last erupting in 1944, Mount Vesuvius poses an ever-present threat to the Italian populations around Naples. Whether the volcano will erupt in Pompeiian proportions again is a question that preoccupies scientists monitoring it, as they hope to predict when Vesuvius will blow and provide adequate warning time.

One way to gauge the magnitude of an impending volcanic eruption is to determine the size of its "throat"?the internal tube through which magma travels upward to the surface. The larger the tube, the bigger the eruption is likely to be.

Hiroyuki Tanaka of the University of Tokyo reasoned that the throat could be "x-rayed" with energetic muons produced in cosmic-ray showers. The number of muons passing through the volcano would depend on the density of intervening rock, so measuring the number of muons passing through various parts of the volcano could yield a crude, 3-D view of the interior.

This clip from "Deadliest Volcanoes," by PBS's NOVA, provides a look at muon imaging. The entire NOVA program explores the threats from volcanoes around the world, including the supervolcano below Yellowstone National Park and the eruption threat in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. It airs on Wednesday, January 4, at 9 P.M. on PBS.

Watch Sneak Peak: Deadliest Volcanoes on PBS. See more from NOVA.

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