June 20, 2009 Saturday
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AMSTERDAM - British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his latest incarnation as a gay Austrian fashion reporter, jet skied through a canal into Amsterdam's red light district on Friday to open a brothel full of men in thongs ahead of the Dutch premiere of 'Bruno'.

"For too long, guys coming here from around the world have been forced to have sex with women," Cohen said, standing in front of a pink-lit brothel building in the Dutch capital as surprised tourists and stag party goers looked on.

 
AGT looking for its own Boyle

LOS ANGELES - 'America's Got Talent' has got a problem: Susan Boyle. Will the NBC talent show, which begins its fourth season on Tuesday, be able to find its own version of the 48-year-old Scottish singing sensation?

What's on: Saturday's top picks

Events and listings on Saturday.

War veteran is oldest man

LONDON - BRITISH World War I veteran Henry Allingham was named on Friday as the world's oldest man after the death of the Japanese record holder - and his spokesman said he would 'take it in his stride.'

Guinness World Records said 113-year-old Mr Allingham, who was born in Clapham, south London, on June 6 1896, took over the mantle after Mr Tomoji Tanabe died at his home in southern Japan earlier in the day.

   
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