Idris Elba Addresses James Bond Rumors

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title: Idris Elba Talks James Bond Rumors

text: British actor Idris Elba addressed those pesky James Bond rumors with a tongue-in-cheek tweet.

Posting a selfie of himself with an unkempt beard, Elba wrote, "Isn't 007 supposed to handsome? Glad you think I've got a shot! Happy New year people."

Rumors that Elba could be the next Bond persisted after a leaked email written by Sony chairwoman Amy Pascal reportedly revealed she wanted him to take on the iconic role.

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title: Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton Split

text: Longtime couple Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have split after about 13 years together, ABC News has confirmed.

Carter's press representative confirmed that they "separated amicably earlier this year and have continued to be friends and co-parent their children."

The couple never married but first began dating in the early 2000s. They have an 11-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter together. media:27809860

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title: NASA's Kepler Finds New Planet

text: The Kepler space telescope has discovered a planet outside our solar system more than a year after its mission came to an end because of a technical failure. The new "exoplanet," which means it doesn't orbit Earth's sun, is 2.5 times the diameter of the Earth. The planet is named HIP 116454b, NASA said Thursday.

Kepler's mission came to an end in May 2013 with the failure of the second of four reaction wheels, which are used to stabilize the spacecraft. But a team of scientists and engineered crafted a solution by using pressure from sunlight as a "virtual reaction wheel" to help control the spacecraft, NASA said.

"Last summer, the possibility of a scientifically productive mission for Kepler after its reaction wheel failure in its extended mission was not part of the conversation," said Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics division director at the agency's headquarters in Washington, in a statement. "Thanks to an innovative idea and lots of hard work by the NASA and Ball Aerospace team, Kepler may well deliver the first candidates for follow-up study by the James Webb Space Telescope to characterize the atmospheres of distant worlds and search for signatures of life."

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