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Here come the Brides of Destruction (Town Online) - Tracii Guns will never be confused with Jennifer Wilbanks, although both have earned reputations as runaway brides. Born in Hollywood in 1966, Guns has been one of the more unheralded musicians ever to walk the Sunset Strip.

Huge increase in petrol bombings (Sunday Life) - WIDOWS, pensioners, toddlers, immigrant workers and brides-to-be - these are the innocent 'targets' of the horrifying rise in petrol-bomb attacks. Sunday Life can reveal a worrying escalation in the number of these potentially fatal attacks, across Northern Ireland.

Martha and KitchenAid Shower Brides With a Gift That Gives Twice (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - A studio audience of nearly 200 brides-to-be appearing on today's "Martha" reacted with dropped jaws, followed by cheers and applause when host Martha Stewart presented each with a special gift that supports the fight against breast cancer.

Exorbitant costs forcing Qatari men to marry foreigners (The Peninsula) - Doha: Exorbitant costs of marriage are forcing Qatari men to seek brides from abroad. Although on paper the meher amount (cash dowry offered to a Qatari bride by a groom) is normally shown as QR10,000, the actual sum that changes hands is between QR200,000 and QR300,000.

For generation 'ex,' a self-help magazine (International Herald Tribune) - In a country where one out of three marriages is doomed to failure, former spouses can now seek solace in their own magazine, Rosenkrieg, German for War of the Roses.

Keeping up with the changes (Connecticut Post) - DERBY — For six decades, Marie Antoinette Bridal Salon in Derby has been a tradition for Valley brides. - Marie Antoinette D'Ambruoso was definitely one of a kind, a woman well ahead of her time.

Dazzling revival of Broadway hit (Express and Star) - A colourful revival of the smash hit Broadway and West End musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers takes to the stage at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre as part of the venue's current glowing autumn season.

www.theage.com.au (The Age) - The write stuff: Nushu teacher Zhou Huijan demonstrates the script. Nushu, the world's only language to be created and used solely by women, was declared extinct last year. But try telling that to the women still using it, writes Jon Watts.

CURTAIN UP (Miami Herald) - A look at some of what's onstage this week. Madagascar (New Theatre; 305-443-5909 or www.new-theatre.org) -- J.T. Rogers' mysterious, delicately woven play about the wounded people left behind when a man disappears is a gorgeously acted, irresistible drama.

New Orleans comes off travel itinerary (Tacoma News Tribune) - Karen Wall had planned to celebrate her birthday in New Orleans later this month. Instead, she and her husband are heading to Orlando, Fla. There they'll dine at Emeril's Orlando - owned by celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, who has three restaurants in New Orleans - "as a small concession to having to miss all of the wonderful dining in New Orleans."