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The bag, hauled out of the sea off the coast of Ofunato city, was raised by a trawler on October 8.
According to local officials, it may have been swept out to sea by the March 11 tsunami, the Japan Times reports.
The bag contained nothing that
would help to identify the owner, the officials said.
The cash will go to the person who found it if the owner doesn”t come forward, the officials added. (ANI)
London, Sep 16 (ANI): It seems that Robbie Williams is shifting bag and baggage to Australia, all thanks to his ladylove Ayda Field.
The singer has revealed that he is searching for a farm or beachfront retreat Down Under because of his girlfriend.
Robbie divulged the details in an interview on Australia’s biggest breakfast radio show on station 2DayFM, which is being guest-hosted by Dannii Minogue.
The ‘Feel’ singer-who is making a storming comeback with new single ‘Bodies’, out on October 12-even quizzed the Aussie beauty about dealing with jetlag.
“Ayda told me she had kind of a psychic feeling she’d end up in Australia,” The Sun quoted Rob as saying.
“I’m thinking of coming down there. I have been looking for places out in the outback, maybe a farm,” he added.
Robbie has recently moved back to Blighty, and the dodgy climate is already forcing him into Aussie estate agencies. (ANI)
London, September 15 (ANI): Here’s good news for those planning ‘good news’. A luxury resort on a Dutch Caribbean island has come up with an unusual scheme-a discount of 300 dollars for couples if they conceive a child during their stay.
The Westin Resort in Aruba introduced the offer, open to guests staying at the hotel before December 18 of this year, in a bid to lure future mothers and fathers.
Couples can bag a 300-dollar ‘Conception Credit’ if they are able to prove the baby was conceived on the resort’s premises during the time of their stay, reports the Telegraph.
A spokesperson for Westin said that a doctor’s note confirming that the probable conception date coincided with the lovers’ stay would be received as evidence.
And if successful, couples can also enjoy at least one nights’ complimentary accommodation at the 200-dollar a night resort. (ANI)
London, Sep.15 (ANI): Off-spinner Graeme Swann is hoping to give a wake up call to his England team-mates when they take on Australia in the fifth of the seven match NatWest series.
The day-night clash is to be played at Trent Bridge tonight.
The spin ace told SunSport: “I’m going to try to lift the camp. I find it easy to have a laugh while playing cricket – and it’s probably more important to do that when you are losing. I don’t target anyone in particular with the piss-taking. It is whoever walks in the dressing room at the wrong time. But you can’t kid anyone, we’ve played terrible cricket in the one-day series so far.”
England’s one-day form needs a sharp hand-brake turn if they are to stand any chance in the upcoming Champions Trophy in South Africa. Their mini-World Cup campaign starts on September 25 and once again you wouldn’t back them to bag the silverware.
Swann was meeting fans on the Ashes Urn Tour. (ANI)
London, September 13 (ANI): Debt-ridden Duchess of York Sarah, 49, may soon bag a presenter’s job on the hit lunchtime chat show ‘Loose Women’.
After her guest appearance on the programme earlier this month, Sarah is now desperate to have a permanent seat at the table anongside motormouths like Carol McGiffin and Denise Welch.
Fergie, as she is popularly known, is even said to have begged ITV1 bosses for the job.
“Sarah loved it so much that afterwards she asked to be a panellist,” the News of the World quoted part-time anchor Andrea McLean, 39, as saying.
“We would all jump at the chance. She would be absolutely ideal. We’d love to have her,” McLean added.
Sued by three firms over nearly 25,000 pounds in unpaid bills, Sarah can make up to 50,000 pounds a year if she gets a regular spot on the show.
An ITV1 insider said: “Fergie has a lot of interesting things to say and would be great for Loose Women.” (ANI)
Kuala Lumpur, Sep 10 (ANI): An Indian woman, who is suspected of murdering her husband in Malaysia, was chased back into the arms of Malaysian law by relatives of the victim.
The suspect, a 30-year-old woman, had fled with her 8-year-old daughter late last month after the brutal murder of her husband, Khalid Abdullah, a restaurant owner and moneychanger.
The woman, an Indian national, stayed with relatives in Chennai but unknown to her, her husband’s relatives also lived in the same neighbourhood, The NST Online reports.
The husband’s relatives had been following the murder case closely through online news portals and when reports that the wife might have fled to India appeared, they tracked her down to the house in Chennai.
They contacted their kin here who advised them not to harm the woman but to harass her into leaving India.
The woman is the victim’s second wife. Khalid’s first wife and children are also in India.
Unable to take the constant abuse, the woman gave herself up to the Indian authorities. The woman and her daughter arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 7 a.m. on Wednesday and were immediately arrested by the police.
Ampang district police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Jalil Hassan said their Indian counterparts notified about woman’s return to Malaysia.
Jalil said the woman was being held for questioning. They would apply for a remand order at the Ampang magistrate’s court today.
The woman had sought a friend’s help on August 22 to dispose of a suitcase, which she claimed contained a stolen golden statue.
The friend and the woman drove the victim’s Nissan Grand Livina towards Bentong and threw the bag into a secluded spot off the Karak Highway. (ANI)
London, September 10 (ANI): A gorilla-like creature that resembles the mythical creature ‘Bigfoot’ is causing excitement on the web after being photographed in the back garden of a home in Kentucky in the US.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the large, hairy beast can be seen in a blurry picture taken on an automatic camera set up by an amateur hunter.
While flicking through images of rabbits and deer, Kenny Mahoney noticed a dark, humanoid creature that does not look like any of the southern US state’s known native species.
The mystery animal’s head appears too small for it to be a bear, leaving Mahoney wondering whether he had accidentally captured one of the clearest ever photos of Bigfoot.
“It looked like it had the outline of a head, and like gorilla type shoulders, and then the arms crossed is what it looks like to me,” said Mahoney.
“One of the explanations my brother-in-law said it may be a garbage bag blowed up in there, but all the smashed over vegetation in there – I really don’t know. I have no idea what it is,” he added.
Mahoney said he is very doubtful that the creature in the photo is Bigfoot.
His wife Margaret has sent the image to a wildlife expert in the hope of getting it identified.
The mythical ape-like creature Bigfoot is most regularly sighted in the forests in the northwestern states and provinces of North America, although last month a teenage girl in Poland reported seeing a similar beast.
Last year, two men in the US state of Georgia claimed to have discovered a body of Bigfoot, but subsequently confessed that photos they produced as “proof” of their find actually showed a rubber ape costume. (ANI)
London, Sep. 9 (ANI): A white supremacist was given an indefinite jail term by a British court after being found guilty of planning a bomb attack on Asians and blacks.
Pro-Nazi Neil Lewington, 43, was branded as “a dangerous man who exhibits emotional coldness and detachment”, The Sun reports.
Racist fanatic Lewington will have to serve a minimum of six years before even being considered for release.
Judge Peter Thornton said: “I accept that in ordinary language, you are an oddball – eccentric, dysfunctional and sometimes immature. But I do not accept you are no more than a pest. My assessment is that you are a dangerous man.”
Lewington was on the verge of launching a bomb blitz on those he considered “non-Britons” when he was arrested by chance for being drunk on a railway station.
Cops found two homemade firebombs in the jobless electrician’s bag.
And when they searched the home he shared with his parents in Reading, Berks, they discovered a bomb factory in his bedroom and plans to make shrapnel grenades from tennis balls and nuts.
They also found a notebook entitled “Waffen SS UK members’ handbook”.
Lewington wrote a chapter in it headed “Targeting or attacking Pakis.”
Lewington’s bedroom contained fascist propaganda including videos of Right-wing terrorists such as London nail bomber David Copeland and Oklahoma fiend Timothy McVeigh.
He was found guilty of five terrorism and two explosives charges at an earlier Old Bailey trial.
His parents, who were present in court, revealed that he had not spoken to his father for a decade. (ANI)
London, Aug 26 (ANI):Arsene Wenger has called Arsenal’s upcoming European battle against Celtic a bigger game than the upcoming match with Manchester United.
Although, Arsenal hold a 2-0 aggregate lead in their Champions League play-off, the Frenchman has no plans to take it easy.
The Sun quoted Wenger as saying: “This game is a more important one than Saturday for the club, by far. We have to give absolutely everything be- cause tomorrow you cannot come back.
“Saturday, even if we drop points against Manchester United, we can always catch them up – you have 35 games still to go.
“If we lose the game against Celtic, we have zero. It is a massive game.”
Arsenal could bag around 25- million pounds even they only play the Champions League group stages.
But Boss said it was not just about money.
Wenger said: “It’s not the huge amount money that makes it such a huge fixture for us.
“It’s not the financial blow that matters, it’s that we want to be in the Champions League and this is a much bigger game for us than Saturday.”
After romping home in their first-leg victory in Glasgow, Arsenal are huge favourites to make it through.
However, Wenger believes there is not time to rest.
He insisted: “It is not job done, it is job to do. That is how I approach it.
“Celtic have no choice, they have to come out and have a go at us. We will be faithful to our tactical approach.” (ANI)
Mumbai, Aug 21 (ANI): The International Cricket Council Champions Trophy 2009 was unveiled at a function here on Thursday.
The ICC Champions Trophy will be held in South Africa from September 22 to October 5. All the matches will be held in two venues, – Wanderers in Johannesburg and Centurion in Pretoria.
“Well the great thing about hosting this event this year in South Africa is that South Africa is trying to improve as a host of many international cricket events, hosting very successfully 2003 cricket World Cup, the 2007 Twenty20 (T-20 World Cup) and last is Indian Premier League which was well and successfully staged,” said Campbell Jamieson, ICC General Manager (Commercial).
A total of eight teams will take part in this year’s Champions Trophy. The teams are divided into two groups. Defending champions Australia, Pakistan and India are placed in the same group.
The winner will bag a total prize money of four million dollars. (ANI)
Washington, Aug 20 (ANI): Jailed music magnate Phil Spector fears other inmates so much that he has asked his lawyers to get him shifted to a “better prison.”
The record producer was sentenced to life imprisonment in May this year, for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. He is currently lodged at Corcoran Prison in Los Angeles.
Spector, 69, shares the jail with murderer Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, who shot U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy.
Spector is so terrified by others around him that he doesn’t step outside his cell, reports Contactmusic.
The music mogul described the jail as a “snake pit” in letters to his friend, musician/journalist Steve Escobar.
He wrote: “Imagine sending me to the same prison – shows how low they can go.
They’d kill you in here for a 39-cent bag of soup! I know it is a chance to get out of my cell going to the dining room but the less I see of the inmates, the better and safer I feel. Even though 24/7 lockdown in a 3′ by 7′ cell is very tough.”
Spector also mentioned that he had instructed his lawyers to “get a better prison with people more like myself in it during the appeal process instead of all these lowlife scumbags, gangsters and Manson types…” (ANI)
Melbourne, July 16(ANI): Call it “materialism” or simple liking, but most people prefer to sacrifice breakfast than live without their mobile phones or favourite bag, a new Australian study has found.
The research conducted by arnold and bolingbroke on the bequest of American Express focussed on the attachment Aussies have to the personal possessions they carry every day.
It came out with results that 61 per cent of the 1001 citizens polled can’t live without their plastic credit and debit cards, while 60 per cent must have mobile phones, News.Com.Au reports.
Also 32 per cent said they couldn’t sustain without their favourite bag and 24 per cent said their laptop was their most treasured possession.
The analysis divulged to examine who would be willing to live without watching their favourite television show for a fortnight for the sake of their personal possessions, to which 52 per cent said ‘yes’.
Making the scan even broader 48 per cent said they would give up exercising, 34 per cent would give up eating breakfast for a fortnight, 11 per cent would sacrifice quality time with their partner and six percent would cease showering.
American Express head of insurance Fady Taouk said the survey suggested items such as plastic credit and debit cards, mobile phones and gadgets were no longer considered luxuries.
He said: “They are modern day essentials that provide convenience, peace of mind and security.” (ANI)
London, July 14 (ANI): Queen Elizabeth II is famous for her devotion towards her horses, and a new documentary is set to feature her hands-on approach to the animals.
Trainer Katie Jerram speaks of the Royal’s dedication towards her beloved equine charges in All The Queen’s Horses, to be soon screened on ITV1.
“When I go down to Windsor Castle the Queen is always there at the riding school with a little brown paper bag of freshly cut carrots, which she feeds each horse,” the Daily Express quoted Katie as saying.
Stud groom Terry Pendry, a close friend of Her Majesty, alleges that she would “ride every day if she could”.
He added: “She even rode on her 83rd birthday in the rain.” (ANI)
Melbourne, July 8 (ANI): Hollywood actress Sharon Stone was reportedly caught in a heated argument with an airhostess while boarding a Delta flight.
According PerezHilton.com, the actress had refused to comply with flight restrictions, and had to have a bag checked against her will, forcing Stone to make a scene at the Delta flight from Kalispell, MT to Salt Lake City.
“The flight attendant in Kalispell asked her to gate check her bag and Sharon refused and got into a huge fight with her. They eventually took the bag from her and she screamed at her assistant with her and made a scene during the entire flight,” News.com.au quoted the website as saying.
The online report also said that she was detained by the cops.
However, Stone’s representative Paul Bloch revealed that the person who met her at the airport was “private security hired by Sharon. She was not detained by police.”
He also said Stone was travelling alone, without an assistant.
Bloch said that the airhostess screamed at Stone not once, but twice, over the luggage, before the actress eventually surrendered a bag.
“Sharon had been visiting her father in Montana, and was approved to take both bags on the plane. When she got to the plane, she told me the stewardess screamed at her that she couldn’t take both bags on board,” he said. (ANI)
London, July 06 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s close friend and film-maker Bryan Michael Stoller has said that the singer had lost his love for music and wanted to quit in the months leading up to his death.
“It was almost as if he’d lost his love for music,” the Mirror quoted him as saying.
He also insisted that the iconic singer wished to make films instead of music.
He said: “He was so frail and exhausted. He wanted to move into film-making and told me it was much more important to him than his music.”
In fact, the helmer was teaching Michael the nuances of directing a film.
He mentioned that the ‘Thriller’ singer was in poor health when he met him for the last time at his Holmby Hills home.
He added: “It was like hugging a bag of bones. He looked like he wasn’t taking very good care of himself at all.
“He tried to be upbeat about the tour but you could see that he was down and depressed. I have never seen him so bad.”
According to Stoller, the legend loved his children and was fascinated with cartoon shows and movies like a kid.
He said: “He was a great father. The kids were always being schooled in a classroom upstairs.
“He was obsessed with helicopter rides and squealed like a big kid. He loved orange soda and had a bit of soup, but that’s all.”
However, he agreed: ” He was very sad and lonely.” (ANI)
Dehradun (Uttaranchal), July 4 (ANI): Parents of an MBA student who was allegedly shot dead by police in an encounter, are crying foul.
Twenty-two year-old Ranbir Singh’s parents said on Saturday that there son had no criminal background and his killing was a clear case of mistaken identity.
Singh was shot dead on Friday in the Ladpur jungles.
The state’s Principal Secretary (Home), Subhash Kumar, said that a magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Dehradun) said Singh was riding a motor cycle along with two others and snatched the revolver of a constable when their two-wheeler was stopped during a checking of vehicles in view of president Pratibha Patil’s visit.
His inconsolable parents maintained his innocence and demanded that his criminal record be shown to them.
The police just killed him to get (gallantry) medals. And the police are threatening me now,” his father said.
Uttarakhand Inspector General of Police N A Ganapati said the three boys were asked to stop by G D Bhatt, a sub-inspector at Dalanwala area. When the police searched their bag, a weapon was found in it, he said, adding that the boys overpowered Bhatt, snatched his revolver and fled.
When the SI flashed a message over the wireless, the boys were intercepted at another place and there was an encounter in which Ranbir was killed, Ganapati said.(ANI)
London, June 30 (ANI): A white supremacist, who allegedly planned to attack ‘non-British’ people with tennis ball bombs, was on the verge launching a campaign of terror, a British court has been told.
According to Sky News, Neil Lewington had allegedly developed a bomb production line in his bedroom and had a notebook entitled “Waffen SS UK members’ handbook” with drawings of electronics and chemical mixtures.
The 43-year-old was arrested by chance at Suffolk’s Lowestoft station last year after drinking and smoking on the train and urinating in public.
His hold all bag was searched and was found to contain the “component parts of two viable improvised incendiary devices”, prosecutor Brian Altman told the Old Bailey.
“He had the parts which, if assembled together, would have created devices which if ignited would have caught alight and caused flames and fire.
“Later searches of the house where the defendant lived with his parents in Reading, in particular his own bedroom, revealed nothing short of a factory for the production of many such similar devices.
Lewington was a loner who had met girlfriends using the Internet and mobile phone chat lines, going by the names of Aristocrat or Amadeus, the court heard.
Altman said he had made racist remarks and spoke to one woman of attacking an Asian family living on her street with homemade bombs inside tennis balls.
“Lewington was found in possession of three tennis balls and a diagram showing how to convert them into shrapnel bombs,” said the counsel.
Lewington, who lived with his parents in Tilehurst, Reading, Berks, is accused of preparing for terrorism by having the bomb parts in a public place.
He also faces two charges of having articles for terrorism – including a weed killer, firelighters and three tennis balls – two of having documents for terrorism and another of collecting information for terrorism.
Lewington denies all eight charges. The trial continues. (ANI)
New York, June 29 (ANI): Teen actress Dakota Fanning reportedly turned down a part in the film My Sister’s Keeper because she “didn’t want to shave her head for the role.”
The role of the leukaemia-stricken teen was later played by Sofia Vassilieva in the 2004 film.
The 15-year-old was also suggested to have had issues with Vassilieva’s co- star, Abigail Breslin, reports the New York Post.
Fanning’s breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001.
She has won numerous awards and is currently the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. (ANI)
London, June 28 (ANI): Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson has resorted to a radical diet for a TV show after she pledged to be “footballer fit” in time for her 50th birthday.
The former Royal, who vowed to drop pounds so that she could get into a racy black bikini by October, will also bag 50,000 pounds for the hour-long special entitled Fit At 50.
“I am going to run along the beach at 50 and be footballer fit, not just fit fit,” News of the World quoted her as saying.
She added: “I’ll be running down that beach in my small black bikini.”
The mum-of-two, who was left with food addiction after her marriage split with Prince Andrew, was also said to have roped in David Beckham’s personal trainer Neil Lewis to get back in shape for the occasion.
An ITV1 insider said: “There’s enormous excitement that Sarah’s agreed to get involved. Make no mistake, she’s facing a hard slog in the gym.
“There will be no where to hide on the beach. Viewers will see her looking like she has never done before.” (ANI)
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Paris Hilton’s beau ‘desperate for MTV contract’
New York, August 25 (ANI): Paris Hilton’s on-off boyfriend Doug Reinhardt is reportedly desperate to land a contract with MTV’s ‘The Hills’.
The baseball player, who makes cameo appearances for free, was said to have made frantic pleas to the producers to cast him.
But the 23-year-old has been turned down, with cast members overheard “laughing about how Doug can’t get a part on the show.”
“He’s been begging MTV producers for a contract,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.
The source added: “Doug keeps calling MTV, but they don’t want him.”
Reinhardt’s reps have denied the star’s attempts to bag a contract.
A show rep was unavailable for comment. (ANI)