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London, May 19 (ANI): After handing out a 2-o series defeat to the West Indies, England cricket captain Andrew Straus is ready to take on the Australians in this summer’s Ashes series.

“Each time I think about the Ashes, I remember what it was like in the past. It certainly gets the heart beating a little [...]

London, May 4 (ANI): Britain’s Got Talent star Jamie Pugh has in an interview revealed that just the thought of winning the TV contest leaves him quaking in his shoes.

Pugh, 38, who is a pizza deliveryman, panicked before his audition and wanted to walk out, but his loyal partner Donna Davies, 35, persuaded him to [...]

CHICAGO, April 16 /PRNewswire/ — The Food Channel(R) (foodchannel.com) has
released its Top Ten Dessert Trends for 2009. Yesterday’s dessert was molten
lava cake. Today it’s cupcakes and donuts. Tomorrow? Bring on the ice cream,
new star of the dessert menu and leading comfort food in the U.S. for 2009.
Ice cream is number one of ten dessert trends [...]

New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday promised a slew of measures for India’s economic growth in its election manifesto. Highlights of its ‘economy grows, India prospers’ policies:
1. Generate employment through massive public spending on infrastructure projects. Complete the implementation of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s dream projects: National Highway [...]

London, April 2 (IANS) As G20 leaders Thursday started a summit here on how to resolve the current global financial crisis, a draft joint statement called for a $500-billion extra funds for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
This was the precise demand made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a reception hosted by his British counterpart [...]

London, Apr 1 (ANI): Guitarist Benji Madden, rapper Will I. AM and DJ Samantha Ronson are doing their own bit for a fundraising charity, by compiling their own playlist to be auctioned.

The musicians have filled their own MP3 players with their own favorite songs, which will be auctioned to raise funds for [...]

It has come to light that Nvidia is working with Google on Android phones as it turns off its Windows-Mobile-only strategy.
An announcement was made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by Nvidia that with the aim to get its Tegra processor into Android phones, it has started working with Google and the Open Handset [...]

Geneva – The United Nations’ World Food Programme said Friday it had very limited access to the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka and had not been able to deliver aid for weeks.
A four-hour humanitarian “window” was supposed to be opened each Thursday, but the agency has not been able to send in food aid [...]

Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): Popstar Rihanna is desperate to follow in the footsteps of Beyonce Knowles and carve a niche for herself in Hollywood.
The ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker, who got her first taste of acting when she made a cameo appearance in 2006 film ‘Bring It On: All or Nothing’, is keen to make it big as [...]

Hamburg – The idea is as simple as it is ingenious – people from all over the world come together in an online network to offer accommodation on their sofas to others. In return, they can spend time abroad on a couch anywhere around the globe.
Online communities that bring so-called couch surfers together such [...]

Wellington – Falling petrol prices in the fourth quarter of 2008 helped bring down New Zealand’s inflation rate from an 18-year high of 5.1 per cent to an annual rate of
3.4 per cent last year, according to official figures released Tuesday.
The consumer price index (CPI) decreased 0.5 per cent in the October-December period, the [...]

Jammu, Jan.9 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir’s new chief minister Omar Abdullah, while taking charge of his office on Friday for the first time said that he wished India and Pakistan to have good relations between them.
Omar Abdullah sworn in as the youngest chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday (Jan.5).
Relations between India and Pakistan [...]

New Delhi, Jan.9 (ANI): The outgoing U.S Ambassador to India David C Mulford on Friday said that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks needed to be booked.
Speaking at his farewell ceremony here, Mulford said: “The US has been pressing as India has, for deeper understanding in Pakistan of the roots of this problem, learning [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): The safest way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is to “destroy the PC with a hammer”, a consumer magazine has said.
The computing magazine Which? recovered 22,000 “deleted” files from eight computers purchased on eBay.
They then used specialist software to recover files that the original owner had [...]

Washington, Jan 08 (ANI): Hollywood actress Sarah Jessica Parker is reportedly moving out of the home she shares with her husband Matthew Broderick.
Last year, Star magazine had claimed that Broderick, 46, had an affair with a younger woman.
However, the couple denied the reports, and put on a united front.
But five months after, the rumours are [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): England’s new cricket captain Andrew Strauss has tough tasks on hand of getting his teammates united in the present scenario and make the team perform as it has scored victories only against lower-ranked opponents in the last 18 months.
Strauss has two immediate tasks on the tour to the West Indies that [...]

By Prem Prakash
New Delhi, Jan 8 (ANI): The recent volcanic eruption of protests and voices against the political class of India has highlighted one aspect, if nothing else-this was the cry of the people of India looking for a leader? As Bombay, nay India got brutalised by a 60-hour commando terror attack, the people of [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): The myth that fish’’s memory span is only three seconds has been debunked by a new research, which shows that they can remember things for up to five months.
For the study, researchers at the Israeli Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa spent a month schooling young fish to associate a certain [...]

London, January 7 (ANI): The Metropolitan Police in the UK is being sued for one million pounds by two serving WPCs, alleging that they have been pestered by sex-obsessed cops.
While one of them claims that her groin was repeatedly groped when she was at a police station, the other says that a male officer pulled [...]

Washington – President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the Central Intelligence Agency, the New York Times reported online Monday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Panetta would take over an agency responsible for tracking down al-Qaeda leadership, and also one that has experienced turmoil during the [...]