"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
—Erich Fromm (1900-80) German-born American psychoanalyst, emphasized role of social conditioning
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VIDEO: Will Smith surprise at City Hall
Fri, 24 May 2013 23:50:09 GMT
Hollywood star Will Smith and son Jaden surprised schoolchildren gathered for an event at London's City Hall.
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VIDEO: One-minute World News
Sun, 26 May 2013 04:40:26 GMT
Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.
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VIDEO: 70s Apple computer sells for $650,000
Sun, 26 May 2013 03:20:13 GMT
What's thought to be one of the last remaining original Apple computers, made in a family garage in California, has sold for a record price at auction in Germany.
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VIDEO: Inside Iraq's Imam Hussein mosque
Fri, 24 May 2013 18:50:12 GMT
Aleem Maqbool visits the Imam Hussein Mosque in the Iraqi city of Karbala, the site of a holy pilgrimage for Shia Muslims.
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VIDEO: Opera singer proposes on stage
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:46:31 GMT
An opera singer gets down on bended knee in front of 700 audience members to ask his girlfriend to marry him.
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VIDEO: Police 'clean up' Mafia stronghold
Sat, 25 May 2013 07:46:59 GMT
The area of Scampia outside Naples, has the infamous reputation of being one of the biggest drug-trafficking sites in Europe.
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VIDEO: Footage from on board stricken plane
Fri, 24 May 2013 11:03:24 GMT
Footage has emerged from on board a plane that had to return to Heathrow Airport to make an emergency landing after black smoke was seen coming from an engine.
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Germany reports sluggish growth
Fri, 24 May 2013 08:53:22 GMT
Germany's economy barely grew in the first quarter of the year, figures show, as private consumption helped offset shrinking exports and investment.
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News Corp to split in two on 28 June
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:21:38 GMT
News Corp announces it will officially split its publishing and entertainment businesses on 28 June, two years after the UK phone-hacking scandal involving the News of the World.
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Faltering Facebook phone is delayed
Fri, 24 May 2013 11:46:41 GMT
Social networking giant postpones the launch of its "Facebook phone" after negative feedback and disappointing sales.
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Amazon reveals fan fiction platform
Fri, 24 May 2013 11:41:33 GMT
Fan fiction authors will be able to publish and sell some titles in the US via new e-book platform Kindle Worlds.
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Lesbian drama is Cannes favourite
Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:30 GMT
An intimate love story between two young women receives rave reviews in Cannes days before the winner of the Palme d'Or is announced.
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British hopefuls up for US TV awards
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:34:02 GMT
Damian Lewis and Sienna Miller are among the British stars nominated for the annual US Critics' Choice Awards.
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Cockroaches evolving to evade traps
Fri, 24 May 2013 00:18:40 GMT
Cockroaches are outsmarting our efforts to kill them by evolving to avoid the taste of sugar traps, a study reveals.
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Genetics of white tigers pinpointed
Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:12 GMT
Chinese scientists trace the rare white colouration in Bengal tigers to a single change in a gene that affects a host of animals, including humans.
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