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Ambika Soni condoles journalist”s death

May 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni on Thursday condoled the death of Ajay Tiwari, a field reporter with Hindi News channel Sahara Samay, who died while covering a major fire that broke out in a factory-cum-godown in Dabri in South-West Delhi.

“In Tiwari”s death, Indian journalism has lost promising talent. Tiwari died in the line of his duty maintaining the highest tradition of television journalism,” said Ambika Soni in her message.

Thirty-four year old Tiwari died on Wednesday after getting trapped inside the debris of a portion of the factory wall that collapsed after a cylinder blast in the factory.

Madan Mohan, a cameraman working with India News, who was standing close to Tiwari at the time of the incident reportedly, received minor injuries on his hands. (ANI)

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Suicide bomber kills four including TV journalist in Pak

April 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A suicide bomber on Friday blew himself up in a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least four persons, including a TV journalist, and injuring over 10 others.

The bomber struck when a large number of people gathered outside the Civil Hospital in Quetta to protest the killing of a member of the minority Shia community.

The Shia man was shot outside a bank and died after being brought to the hospital.

A large number of protesters, policemen, reporters and TV cameramen were outside the hospital when the suicide attacker detonated his explosives at around 10.15 am.

Malik Arif, a cameraman for Samaa news channel, was among the dead. A reporter for the channel said Arif’s body was blown to pieces and his head severed. The reporter said he had also seen another severed head.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

TV channels beamed dramatic footage of people running out of the hospital complex after the blast as a cloud of dust rose into the sky.

The explosion was followed by heavy firing though it could not immediately be ascertained who had opened fire.

The blast blackened the walls of the hospital and shattered windows. People carried the injured away from the site of the explosion.

Four policemen, two journalists and a TV cameraman were among the injured, witnesses said. Geo TV reported that its reporter Salaman Asharf was also injured in the attack.

Quetta and other parts of Balochistan province have witnessed several attacks on members of the Shia community and non-Baloch people over the past year.

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Army ordered to pull back after Bangkok clashes

April 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Thai government has ordered the army to retreat to its barracks in an effort to avoid further bloodshed on the streets of the capital Bangkok.

Opposition ‘Red Shirt’ protesters are vowing not to back down even though weekend clashes left at least 21 dead and more than 800 wounded.

One of those killed was Japanese cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto, who joined the ABC in Asia in 1993 before going to work at the Reuters news agency.

Reuters said Mr Muramoto was shot in the chest and had no pulse by the time he arrived at a nearby hospital.

Soldiers and protesters were also among the dead.

The clashes erupted at the weekend when security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas as they moved into the old quarter of Bangkok to disperse anti-government red shirt protesters.

The soldiers were met by a barrage of rocks, sticks and even petrol bombs.

Someone then started firing live rounds and bullets were fired into the crowd. Hundreds were injured.

The protesters accuse security forces of opening fire with live rounds, an allegation the government denies.

The show of force failed to budge the Red Shirts from their stronghold in the city’s old quarter, and the demonstrators are now vowing to stay on the streets of Bangkok.

“The army tried to disperse us,” says one protester.

“We had no weapons, so many Red Shirts were injured and killed. Because they have used force, the only option for us is to fight back.”

Having failed to push the protesters back or disperse them in any way, the army has now conceded its tactics are not going to work.

There are reports this morning the army has called for a truce with the protesters, in an effort to restart talks to find some sort of solution through compromise, not confrontation.

Government spokesman Panithan Wattananagorn says the government is now pulling back the troops.

“First we are asking the officers to return to their bases and to be ready for the next operations if it’s necessary,” he said.

Live round denial

The Red Shirts have accused the military of firing live rounds into the crowd, but is an allegation that the government denies.

“There were no live bullets shot at the protesters, as far as we have evidence,” said Mr Panithan.

One woman showed the ABC some bullet casings found on the ground. She alleges these were obviously fired into the Red Shirt crowd.

One of her friends sustained a bullet wound to his upper bicep.

The protest has now been dragging on for four weeks.

There have been calls for the king to intervene as he did in 1992 when the last great eruption of violence hit Bangkok.

But big questions remain over the health of the king and whether he can actually intervene and make any difference.

“It would be really good if the king could step in,” another protester said. “We really want to end this and go home.”

The shadow of the democracy monument in the old part of Bangkok is surrounded by seven armoured personnel carriers (APCs) that the Thai army has just abandoned.

There is tension in the crowd, with some people trying to smash army trucks and the APCs, as others try to calm them down.

The military has pulled right back from this Red Shirt stronghold, and for now it seems like neither compromise nor confrontation is working.

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Nawaz Sharif’s PRO resigns over salary controversy

April 5, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Lahore, Apr.4 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif’s public relations officer (PRO) has resigned from the post following media reports which said that the former Prime Minister’s personal staff were on the payroll of the Punjab government.

While the PML-N has claimed that Rai Riyaz was working as a consultant in the office of the Directorate General of Relations (Punjab), sources said that he has been serving as Sharif’s PRO and was responsible for issuing official statements of the PML-N chief to the media, The Dawn reports.

Earlier, a private television channel had claimed that Riaz, Sahrif’s secretary, and his cameraman and the photographer were being paid by the Punjab government.

While Riaz and Sharif’s personal secretary drew a hefty package of 75,000 rupees per month, the photographer and cameraman were being paid 35,000 rupees each, the report said.

However, PML-N Senator, Pervaiz Rasheed, has denied the report regarding Sharif’s personal staff being paid from the provincial exchequer.

“None of them are part of Nawaz Sharif’s personal team and they are employees of the DGPR. I am Nawaz Sharif’s PRO,” said Rasheed. (ANI)

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‘Osama’s handshake was limp, like shaking a wet fish’

September 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 12 (ANI): The handshake by world’s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has been described as limp, and like shaking a wet fish by a producer of CNN who met the terror mastermind.

CNN producer Peter Bergen, who wrote The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda’s Leader, met the most dreaded terrorist in March 1997 when he went to film his first television interview.

Bergen narrates about the extra security around bin Laden and how they were taken to his hideout at night changing vehicles blindfolded.

The interview took place near the Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan where Bergen and his crew were electronically swept for tracking devices, and had to pass through three groups of guards armed with sub-machineguns.

“Bin Laden made no effort at small talk, wanting to get the interview done as soon as possible. Peter Jouvenal, our British cameraman, remembers that bin Laden’s handshake was limp, like shaking a wet fish,” The Times quoted him, as saying.

“I don’t recall shaking his hand but I do remember that he took frequent sips from a cup of tea, giving him an air that was more feline than fierce, and his blistering diatribe against the US for its policies in the Middle East was delivered in a barely audible whisper. After an hour he was gone, as suddenly as he had arrived,” he adds.

He also narrates Abdel Bari Atwan, a London-based Palestinian journalist who interviewed him in Afghanistan in 1996, as saying that Bin Laden, it seems, had prepared for life as a fugitive for years, adopting a monk-like detachment from material comforts.

Zaynab Khadr, whose family lived with the al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan during the late 1990s, was quoted by the author as saying that he did not even allow his children to drink cold water because he wanted them to be prepared for the day when there’s no cold water.

He quotes Bin Laden as once instructing his followers: “You should learn to sacrifice everything from modern life like electricity, air-conditioning, refrigerators, gasoline. If you are living the luxury life, it’s very hard to go to the mountains to fight.”

In a tape posted to Islamist websites in February 2006, he says bin Laden confirmed his willingness to be martyred: “I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived.” (ANI)

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Bhajji uses blog to defend his jab at ANI cameraman

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Colombo, Sep.10 (ANI): Off spinner Harbhajan Singh used his blog on Thursday to defend his jabbing of an ANI cameraman at the Bangalore International Airport on Wednesday.

Bhajji said that he did not slap any cameraperson. He also said that he would never do that as he respects the media and always cooperates with them.

He also said he is focusing on taking the team in attaining the top spot by winning the tri series in Colombo.

Harbhajan jabbed at the photographer after his camera glanced his turban while he was unloading his luggage.

He gave an angry stare at the cameraman even as a security personnel tried to push back the lensmen who had virtually mobbed the cricketer. (ANI)

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World’s smallest parrot filmed in wild for first time

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 8 (ANI): The world’s smallest parrot, which is not much bigger than an adult person’s thumb, has been filmed in the wild for the first time.

According to a report by BBC News, an expedition team filming in Papua New Guinea for the BBC programme ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’ caught two of the buff-faced pygmy parrots on camera.

Another adult, which weighs less than half an ounce, was also trapped by the expedition team’s bird expert.

On average, buff-faced pygmy parrots (Micropsitta pusio) stand less than 9cm tall and weigh 11.5g (0.41oz).

They are found across the northern lowlands of the island of New Guinea from the west to the southeastern tip, up to an altitude of around 800m.

Males and females look similar, but females have less prominent markings on the head.

The birds have green feathers with yellowish plumage on their underparts; while their cheeks, face, and crown are more buff-coloured, hence their name.

BBC wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan first discovered a tiny nest belonging to two parrots deep within pristine rainforest.

The birds nest in termite mounds, using their beaks and claws to dig their way in before laying eggs in the hole created.

Buchanan staked out the nest from within a camouflaged hide, and was rewarded after a long wait when two birds returned.

He filmed the pair at their nest entrance, as the male and female reinforced their bond by rubbing against one another.

Later, another parrot was trapped unharmed by Dr Jack Dumbacher, an ornithologist from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, US, who had accompanied the BBC expedition team.

Buff-faced pygmy parrots do not eat fruit and nuts but lichen and fungi.

However, so little is still known about their dietary habits that it has proved difficult to rear the birds in captivity. (ANI)

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Rat as big as a cat found in extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 7 (ANI): An expedition team has found a new species of giant rat in an extinct volcano in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, which at 82cm length, is as big as a cat.

According to a report by BBC News, the creature, which has not yet been formally described, was discovered by an expedition team filming the BBC programme ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’.

The rat, which has no fear of humans, is among the largest species of rat known anywhere in the world.

Like the other exotic species, the rat is believed to live within the Mount Bosavi crater, and nowhere else.

“This is one of the world’s largest rats. It is a true rat, the same kind you find in the city sewers,” said Dr Kristofer Helgen, a mammalogist based at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History who accompanied the BBC expedition team.

Initially, the giant rat was first captured on film by an infrared camera trap, which BBC wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan set up in the forest on the slopes of the volcano.

The expedition team, from the BBC Natural History Unit, recorded the rat rummaging around on the forest floor, and was awed by its size.

Immediately, they suspected it could be a species never before recorded by science, but they needed to see a live animal to be sure.

Then trackers accompanying the team managed to trap a live specimen.

“I had a cat and it was about the same size as this rat,” said Buchanan.

The trapped rat measured 82cm in length from its nose to its tail, and weighed approximately 1.5kg.

It had a silver-brown coat of thick long fur, which the scientists who examined it believe may help it survive the wet and cold conditions that can occur within the high volcano crater.

The location where the rat was discovered lies at an elevation of over 1,000m.

Initial investigations suggest the rat belongs to the genus Mallomys, which contains a handful of other out-sized species.

It has provisionally been called the Bosavi woolly rat, while its scientific name has yet to be agreed.

Mount Bosavi, where the new rat was found, is an extinct volcano that lies deep in the remote Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

The expedition team entered the crater to explore pristine forest, where few humans have set foot.

The island which includes Papua New Guinea and New Guinea is famous for the number and diversity of the rats and mice that live there. (ANI)

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Jackson fans spot ‘his ghost at Neverland’

July 6, 2009 By admin 2 Comments

London, July 6 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s fans are flooding the Internet with messages after allegedly spotting the singer’s ghost at his Neverland Ranch in a live TV programme last week.

A shadow resembling the King of Pop’s figure was said to have been seen on a wall in the star’s former home during CNN’s ‘Inside Neverland’.

The figure was later alleged to have walked across the corridor, rushing quickly from left to right before vanishing, reports British tabloid The Sun.

The spectre, which went unnoticed by the presenter and the cameraman, was apparently observed after the programme was posted on the popular video sharing website YouTube.

It was there that the fans reportedly spotted the shadow, and insisted it to be Jackson’s ghost. (ANI)

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Ryan Seacrest ‘mentoring’ Lindsay Lohan

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 20 (ANI): Ryan Seacrest has given reports alleging his romantic involvement with Lindsay Lohan a spanking by insisting he is just trying to mentor the singer.

The American Idol host had raised eyebrows after he was previously spotted dining with the Mean Girls star.

The pair were later seen heading for a reported party at her home in the same vehicle.

But the popular radio presenter dismissed any romantic inclinations with the star, saying he was just offering advice about her music career.

“I’m trying to give her guidance. She wants to sing. She loves to sing… and she’s good,” Contactmusic quoted him as telling a TMZ.com cameraman. (ANI)

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Angry Lalu may opt to skip cabinet meet

May 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): An angry Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is expected to skip today’s cabinet meeting in the capital in the wake of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi suggesting a possible political arrangement with Lalu’s rival in Bihar — Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The otherwise media-friendly and gregarious Lalu shunned the media on Thursday even as polling was held for three Bihar Lok Sabha seats, including Pataliputra, which he is contesting.

A sombre-looking Lalu turned up alongside wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi, son Tej Pratap and a daughter at the polling station on the Veterinary College campus where scores from the media were waiting for him since early morning.

Lalu pushed aside some reporters and cameramen of tv news channels.

A cameraman, who had managed to sneak into the room where the electronic voting machine was placed, was given a dressing-down by an angry RJD supremo. The man rushed out sheepishly. (ANI)

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Eight injured in shootout between police, leftist group in Istanbul

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ankara – Seven police officers and a television cameraman were injured in Istanbul Monday in a shootout between police and three members of a left-wing group that began after police raided a number of houses in the Turkish city early Monday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said the raids started at 5:30 am (0230 GMT) and the shootout in the suburb of Bostanci on the Asian side of the city was continuing some five hours later.

Guler said the far-left group was planning a “sensational operation”.

In a raid on a house in the suburb of Bagcilar, police seized weapons, ammunition and bomb-making materials

Guler said there were also a total of 60 raids in six different provinces which also targeted radical Islamist groups such as al- Qaeda and Turkish Hezbollah. (dpa)

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Fiji’s military government expels three foreign journalists

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 14 (ANI): Fiji’s military government has expelled three foreign journalists and arrested a local reporter over their reporting of the deteriorating political situation in the island nation.
ABC correspondent Sean Dorney is expected to arrive in Sydney today after he was deported by FIJI Government officials unhappy with his coverage of recent political developments in the troubled nation.

Dorney spent the night under supervision by immigration officials in Nadi along with New Zealand journalist Sia Aston and cameraman Matt Smith, who are also understood to have been deported.

Fijian television reporter Edwin Nand was arrested overnight for giving footage to a New Zealand television network.

Dorney said officials initially told him that he was to be deported. “They called me to the Immigration Department … and informed me they were unhappy with my reporting, which was being broadcast on the local Fiji One network.”

He said he was allowed to return to his hotel to pack and was then asked if he would leave voluntarily.

“I said no. I’m here to report and my visa is still valid, and now I’m awaiting further information,” The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

The move comes after President Ratu Josefa Iloilo abolished the constitution, sacked the judiciary and reinstalled Bainimarama as Prime Minister despite a court ruling that his administration, put in place during a bloodless coup in 2006, was unlawful.
local Fiji One tv reporter, named by colleagues as Edwin Nand, was also taken into custody by security officials, reportedly for transmitting news material overseas, The Telegraph reported.

Regional powers Australia and New Zealand have labelled the Fiji regime a military dictatorship and warned the country would be expelled from the Commonwealth.

“We’ve got effectively a self-appointed dictator and a very unpredictable regime,” said Murray McCully, New Zealand Foreign Minister.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Bainimarama had turned Fiji into a military state by suspending freedom of speech and undermining the well being of its citizens. (ANI)

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Woman jumps from building to escape sting operation

April 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

HYDERABAD: In a bid to escape a sting operation, a 28-year-old TV artiste, Nikhitha, jumped from the second floor of an apartment complex at
Dwarakapuri colony in Punjagutta on Saturday afternoon. She suffered head injuries and a fracture in her ankle.

The TV artiste, a native of Tirupati, reportedly came to the city 15 days ago. She was staying at My Mansion apartment complex in Dwarakapuri colony along with two other girls. On Saturday, a cameraman of a TV channel tried to do a sting operation on her, Punjagutta inspector of police M Malla Reddy told STOI.

On discovering that a sting operation was on, she reportedly panicked and jumped from the second floor. The apartment watchman called 108 ambulance and she was rushed to Gandhi Hospital, the inspector said.

Gandhi Hospital resident medical officer A Venkata Ramana Reddy told STOI that she suffered injuries on her head and ankle. “She is out of danger,” he added. Doctors have asked her to get a CT scan.

Police have registered a case under section 309 (attempt to commit suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against her.

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Julia Roberts shocked by ‘Duplicity’ nude scene

March 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar 9 (ANI): Julia Roberts has admitted that she was shocked when she first went through the script of her new movie ‘Duplicity’ – because it asked for a nude scene.

The ‘Pretty Women’ star has a partial nude bedroom scene in the film – and had to tone down writer/director Tony Gilroy’s original vision.

“I thought, ‘Y’know, just remember you’ve hired me… I’m, like, the G-rated actress,’” the Daily Express quoted her, as saying.owever, the actress has revealed that the saucy scene wasn’t the only uncomfortable moment her – she had to kiss co-star Clive Owen in front of her cameraman husband Danny Moder.

“It’s awkward… When you’re not kissing your true love, it’s awkward,” Roberts said. (ANI)

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Grizzly bears’ ‘fancy underwater footwork’ captured first time on camera

February 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Feb 23 (ANI): For the first time, grizzly bears have been captured on underwater performing some fancy footwork when they hunt their potential preys.

A BBC team followed the bears as the annual salmon migration got underway, and filmed them while they used their big feet to deftly kick dead fish from deep pools into shallower water.uch behaviour indicated that the grizzlies could grab the fish without the risk of getting their ears wet.

“Most bears will do anything to avoid getting their ears wet – they hate it,” the BBC quoted wildlife cameraman Jeff Turner as saying.

Turner recorded the grizzlies’ clever footwork by standing just 2m (6ft) away from the bears.

Turner said: “The older, more experienced bears would look down and see where the fish was, and then they would kick it along the bottom with their feet until they got it into the shallows. And then they could just reach down and pick it up.

Turner added: “I’ve seen this before from above the water, and you have a sense of what they are doing, but it is the first time that anyone has really seen what they are doing underwater.”

The video will be shown in the new BBC Natural History Unit series Nature’s Great Events. (ANI)

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Is Julia Roberts planning to bid adieu to Hollywood?

February 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Feb 22 (ANI): Julia Roberts, who completely devoted the past year to her family life, has left Hollywood bigwigs wondering whether the actress is preparing to leave the big screen behind.

Recently, the actress admitted that she has become a stay-at-home mum and loves the experience.

“I am very fulfilled in my home life. I am a domestic artist, seriously.”

She has spent the past year with her family and seems in no hurry to return to Hollywood’s gruelling demands.

The actress loves playing with her trio: four-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and Henry, 20 months, by her husband of seven years, cameraman Danny Moder.

However, now it is being wondered if the domestic life of the actress is stealing her away from the big screen.

“It’s just a matter of time before Julia Roberts is dethroned as the most powerful actress in Hollywood, ” the Daily Express quoted a studio executive, as saying.

“It’s overdue. She has had a good run but her days are numbered. She’ll always be Julia Roberts but she can’t stay at the top for ever and frankly she seems happier with life as a wife and mother,” she added. (ANI)

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Julia Roberts’ male co-stars gave her early insight into male psyche

February 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Feb 21 (ANI): American actress Julia Roberts has revealed that she is grateful to have shared screen time with the male actors she worked with, as they gave her an early insight into the male psyche.

Roberts, 41, has acted with actors Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Denzel (Washington) and Dennis Quaid, and the friendship she formed with them let her have a peek at the world of men.

The actress, who is now married to cameraman Danny Moder, admits that developing a platonic bond with the leading men helped her gain confidence around the opposite sex.

“Early on, I worked with Richard Gere and Denzel (Washington) and Dennis Quaid and Mel Gibson, and all these profoundly smart, handsome guys,” the Daily Express quoted her as telling Allure magazine.

“I was lucky enough to be part of their lives and become friends with them, and it is interesting to understand a solid perspective of the male psyche as a person who’s non-threatening to that guy.

“Men are so revealing when they’re not trying to woo you, when you’re not intimidated or being flirty, when you’re just interested,” she added. (ANI)

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Kylie Minogue records song with Aussie kids’ music group ‘The Wiggles’

January 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Jan 28 (ANI): Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue has recorded a song with Aussie kids’ music group ‘The Wiggles’.

Minogue wanted to prove herself to her two-year-old nephew Charles, who is the son of her cameraman brother Brendan, and a huge fan of the boy group.

In the upcoming album ‘The Wiggles Go Bananas’, the singer stars on their new song ‘Monkey Man’.

“Now Charles really will think I’m cool. I hope he likes the song. It was fun to do. I might even grab a shirt and go on tour with the boys. I’m not sure what colour I will be,” the Sun quoted Minogue as saying.

The group was last year Australia’s top-earning entertainers for a fourth year running, after banking 21 million pounds in 2007-8 from TV, shows, videos and albums. (ANI)

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Olivia Newton-John’s former partner is alive, say US investigators

January 28, 2009 By admin 2 Comments

Melbourne, Jan 28 (ANI): Actress Olivia Newton-John’s former partner Patrick McDermott is still alive and on the run, say US investigators who have been trying to track him down.

McDermott had staged his own disappearance while on a fishing trip in June 2005, and a team of private investigators from Texas believe that he has been travelling along the Mexican and South American coastline since then.

The reason for the former cameraman’s disappearance, according to lead investigator Philip Klein, is aimed at avoiding debts’ repayment and enabling his teenage son Chance to receive a 100,000 dollars life insurance policy.

“He’s alive – there’s no doubt in my mind, this guy’s alive,” the Herald Sun quoted Klein as saying.

“Everything was bad in this guy’s life. There was nothing good.

“Maybe in his mind if he stages his death, the insurance policy will pay off all his debts and he can leave his child a gift by pretending he’s dead,” the investigator added.

In an episode devoted to the mystery this week, Klein revealed that his agency had set up a hi-tech trap to help locate McDermott by making a website called findpatrickmcdermott .com, which secretly showed investigators the locations of people accessing the site.

Klein said that he suspected McDermott has regularly been logging on to the “spider site”, with the team tracking hits from what he believed was a boat travelling along the Mexican coastline as far as South America.

“We put what we call a trap on the web site where we can tell each I-address that comes in to the web site,” Klein said.

“The rule of thumb is always this – when you’re running you always are looking over your shoulder and we’re going to catch him looking at us.

“The most interesting hits have come directly from Cabo San Lucas (in Mexico) last place anybody saw Patrick McDermott,” he added. (ANI)

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