Director James Cameron takes audiences to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.

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That, plus the open row between Silvio Berlusconi and Giulio Tremonti, his finance minister - oh, and big demonstrations against austerity - have opened up Italy as a new front in the battle to save the Euro.

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