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Prince William and Kate Middleton have been pronounced man and wife at Westminster Abbey. Some 1,900 guests watched the couple exchange their vows, with many millions watching at home. They have left the Abbey, with Kate Middleton now the Duchess of Cambridge, amid cheers from thousands of well-wishers lining the procession route. They are making their way to Buckingham Palace where there will be a buffet reception for 650 guests. Despite the risk of showers, the pair are travelling in an open-topped 1902 State Landau carriage for the procession, which was used by Prince William's parents for their wedding in 1981. Prince William has been given the title of the Duke of Cambridge by the Queen, and Miss Middleton has become Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. The church service ran smoothly but the prince did struggle to place the wedding ring on the duchess's finger. Following a long tradition, the ring has been fashioned from Welsh gold given to Prince William by the Queen. After the couple said their vows, in which she did not promise to obey William, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Rowan Williams, declared: "I pronounce that they be man and wife together, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."

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Best-selling author Zhang Yiyi is to have plastic surgery in order to look like William Shakespeare.It will take 10 facelifts and $153,000 to undergo the transformation. "Life is a process of striving to become a better person. I think the surgeries are worth the money,"he says.

Zhang Yiyi will go undergo 10 face-lifts in 10 months to look like the playwright. He has to receive checkups every month after the surgery, China National Radio reported yesterday.  

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A monumental feat is being celebrated across the globe. Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin blasted off, orbited Earth and made history, becoming the first man in space. Before that day mankind could hardly imagine we would one day be able to stare down at our planet from above. Baikonur cosmodrome witnessed the first-ever successful manned space flight. It was there that 50 years ago cosmonaut Yury Gagarin boarded his Vostok-1 capsule and was launched into space. “I had the honor of taking the Vostok, a great spacecraft, to space first. I was very happy to have that honor. It was only the beginning”, said Gagarin a short while after the memorable flight. But there was another man for whom April 12th was also the day his name shot to fame – another Yury Gagarin. “My parents didn't know where I was serving. They only knew I had graduated from a pilots' academy and that the facility I was working at was top secret. When they heard that Yury Gagarin had been sent into space, they assumed it was me! Journalists came to our house to interview my parents but they knew nothing. I think they could have had a heart attack”, recollects Yury.

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What started out as an innocent yawn turned in to a painful ordeal and a trip to the emergancy room.17-year-old Holly Thompson was in class when she let out a yawn and found she was unable to close her mouth again because her jaw had dislocated and was locked open. "All my classmates and teachers thought it was reallyfunny, everyone burst out laughing.

It was awful," she said. Politics does not have a reputation for being the most fascinating of subjects. But one teenager yawned so deeply during a class on the topic that her mouth got stuck wide open and she had to be taken to hospital.  

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