The Russian Orthodox Church has apologised for showing a photo of its leader Patriarch Kirill that was doctored to airbrush out a luxury watch he was wearing.

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On Christmas Day, you will be able to down as much pudding as you like, safe in the knowledge that you are wearing fashion's equivalent of an airbrush.

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Governor Romney, you keep trying to airbrush history here.

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This is the kind of reality that gets ignored in the noisy build-up to a prize fight, and what makes "On Freddie Roach" so absorbing is its subject's refusal to airbrush any blunt truths.

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In rejecting the one approach, Sir Ernst was almost bound to abandon the other, for both virtually airbrush away the one paramount thing that makes painting distinctive from the other arts: that it is a visual medium.

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The DUP's Mervyn Storey said many people wanted to "airbrush the gallant history" of men and women who served in the B-Specials and UDR, but said that would not happen as long as members of his party were in the assembly.

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