DREAM NIGHT: The week started well for Jennifer Hudson - she picked up an Oscar for her breakthrough performance in Dreamgirls. (Mark J Terrill, AP)
From Idol zero to Oscars hero
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OVERDUE: Director Martin Scorsese accepts the Oscar for best director for his work on The Departed at the 79th Academy Awards. (Mark J Terrill, AP)
Scorsese: So moved
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SORE LOSER: Eddie Murphey didn't accept defeat gracefully. Reports surfaced he stormed out of the Oscars after he lost the race for Best Supporting Actor. (Reed Saxon, AP)
Eddie Murphy bad Oscar loser
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OOPS...! Britney checked herself into a luxury rehab centre, but wrecked havoc along the way. (Courtesy of KABC Television, AFP)
Britney rehabs in style
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CONTROVERSIAL: Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici is seen at the entrance to a cave in Jerusalem which he believes is the burial tomb of Jesus. (Associated Producers LTD, AP)
Christians divided over film
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READY TO GO: Graeme Smith crosses the Ts and dots the Is as the team leaves for the Cricket World Cup on Thursday. (Shirley Bahadur, AP)
Smith dampens CWC expectations
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HUGE DEBATE: Connor McCreaddie, an eight-year-old British boy who weighs 90kgs, and his mother Nicola McKeown pose in front of their house in north-east England. The UK government had threatened to take him out of his mother's care due to his obesity. (AFP)
Obese boy stays with mom
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TARGET: Vice-president Dick Cheney speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference dinner in Washington. Dick Cheney was visiting a US base in Afghanistan when an explosion occured. (Gerald Herbert, AP)
Loud boom from blast - Cheney
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