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Washington, Aug 28 (ANI): Hollywood actor Robin Williams has been roped in to star in Disney flick ‘Wedding Banned’, it has emerged.

In the film, Williams will play one-half of a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter on her wedding day [...]

Putrajaya (Malaysia), May 8 (ANI): Banned Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leaders, P.Uthayakumar, M.Manoharan and K.Vasantha will be among 13 ISA detainees to be released soon, Malaysia’s Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein announced in Putrajaya today.

According to the New Strait Times and The Star, the three remaining leaders are being detained under the [...]

Auckland, Mar.29 (ANI): Former Kiwi cricketers, including Shane Bond and Daryl Tuffey, have been told they will be released from their ICL contracts if they request a release next week, a move which will allow them to play for the Black Caps again.

Players contracted to the financially strapped, unsanctioned Indian Cricket League recently received [...]

Zurich – Shares in the Swiss bank UBS continued their fall on Monday, dropping 9.09 per cent to 10 francs (8.59 dollars), setting a new low for the stock on the Zurich exchange.
On Friday, the stock lost 14 per cent, closing at 11 francs.
The decline in value was seen as a reaction to the [...]

Cairo – Police have detained a third pro-Palestinian blogger in Egypt, a source close to Egypt’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
The security source, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, on Tuesday told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that police took Dia al-Din Gad from his home in [...]

Lahore, Feb 6 (ANI): Thousands of supporters of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity arm of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, held a ‘Kashmir Solidarity Conference’ on The Mall, despite a UN ban on the organisation.

Participants arriving from various districts held black and white JuD flags and shouted their usual slogans. They had gathered under a ‘temporary’ new [...]

Melbourne – Jelena Dokic is using the appearance at only her second Australian Open in the past seven years as emotional body armour against a personal life which at one time was off the rails.
The 25-year-old Belgrade-born Australian who has brought her ranking back to 187, won a match at the venue for the [...]

Lahore, Jan.15 (ANI): Banned Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif will be in New Delhi today to resolve some ‘financial issues’ with the Delhi Daredevils, the team he represents in the Indian Premiere League (IPL).
“I am going to Delhi to try and sort out some financial issues with the Daredevils,” The Daily Times [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): The atheist adverts on 800 Brit buses, declaring the probability of the none-existence of God, have received 48 complaints, and the advertising watchdog has been called in to decide on the matter.
The Advertising Standards Authority was brought in after the complaints started coming in on January 6 regarding the message, “There’’s [...]

New York, January 9 (ANI): American military and law enforcement officials have decided to add more soldiers and cops than previously planned to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama’’s Inauguration Day.
Sources have revealed that an additional 3,000 troops and 2,000 cops will be deployed to safeguard Obama’s swearing-in on January 20.
The addition of extra force will [...]

Lahore, Jan.8 (ANI): Controversy doesn’t seems to leave Shoaib Akhtar; just when it seemed that he was on his way back to the playing arena, another one is in the making after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) gave him a central contract despite a court case against him being still pending, and his long standing [...]

Washington, Jan 07 (ANI): Supermodel Cindy Crawford has banned her 7-year-old daughter from watching ‘Hannah Montana’ featuring Miley Cyrus – because it teaches her to be impolite.
Crawford revealed that Kaya turned into a loutish kid after watching the hit program about a schoolgirl with a secret life as a pop star.
“I love Hannah Montana, but [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): A skin cream from the cosmetics company Estee Lauder, which claimed to make wrinkles disappear instantly, will no longer be advertised after watchdog ruled that the commercial were misleading.
According to Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the research that the US-based company conducted on the product was seriously flawed, reports the Independent.
They said [...]

London, Jan.5 (ANI): Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been banned from watching tonight’s TV documentary about him – in case it drives him to drink.
The show features his son Regan, 12, disowning him, as ex-wife Sheryl, 43, tells of her torment while living with the deluded soccer legend.
In the end Sheryl and their son [...]

Lahore, Jan 5 (ANI): Pakistani pace bowler Mohammad Asif wants a quick resolution to his playing status, which is effectively in limbo after he tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone during the Indian Premier League (IPL) last year.

Asif has appealed against the result, but was suspended by the previous Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) administration [...]

London, January 4 (ANI): Brit police have drawn plans to find a way to deal with law-abiding retailers who showcase drug-related products such as hookahs, after suspecting them of glamorising the banned substances.

According to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the businesses, while following the law, tend to advertise “legal alternatives” to cannabis [...]

London, Jan 4 (ANI): The French film industry has been branded ‘racist’ after it banned black actors from dubbing white stars in Gallic versions of English-language movies.
An investigation revealed that casting directors regularly expelled black applicants in the belief that they had a distinctive tone of voice unsuitable for dubbing white parts.
The findings come amid [...]

Peshawar: The banned terrorist outfit, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) has launched its website to highlight the activities of the organization. (LeI) is led by Mangal Bagh in Khyber Agency, which was declared illegal in June 2007.
The website shows a black flag inscribed with ‘Tehrik Lashkar-e-Islam’ on the top right corner and outfit’s logo on the top left. [...]

London, Jan 3 (ANI): The head teacher of a new school in Sheffield, South Yorks, has banned the usage of the word “school”, as it could have a negative impact on the pupils’ parents.
Watercliffe Meadow, known as a “Place for Learning”, has 481 pupils and the kids from nursery to Year 6, are allowed to [...]

London, Jan 3 (ANI): Radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri, who has been banned from Britain, is on the run after Lebanese authorities issued an arrest warrant against him for giving weapons training to an extremist group called al-Qaeda Lebanon.
Lebanese security forces have issued an arrest warrant over allegations the preacher gave weapons training to an [...]