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Sandra Bullock can save marriage: Experts

New York, March 20 (ANI): Sandra Bullock can save her marriage with love rat husband Jesse James, according to marriage experts.
Dr. Flo Rosoff columnist of ‘Can This Marriage Be Saved?’ in the Ladies Home Journal insists it is still not too late for ‘The Blind Side’ actress.
“Sandra would have to get to a place where [...]

Pak cricket needs players who serve nation like India: Roebuck

Sydney, Mar.13 (ANI): Describing ‘turmoil’ as the main feature of sport, particularly in cricket in Pakistan, noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has said Pakistan needs players who play for the country much like India.
“Pakistan desperately need to find a bunch of senior players prepared to serve and not seek. In that regard India have been [...]

US should conduct ‘offshore’ strikes on Afghanistan

Washington, Sep.2 (ANI): A leading conservative columnist, George Will, has called on the Obama administration to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, and instead focus on fighting from “offshore” by means of “intelligence, drones, cruise [...]

Official suspended for writing blood stained love letter to female Pak minister

Lahore, Sep 1 (ANI): The provincial government has suspended a Horticulture Department official for harassing Sindh Minister for Culture and Tourism Sassui Palijo by writing her love letters.

According to a channel, Iliyas Hulio, a superintendent in the Horticulture Department in Karachi, wrote a love letter in his blood and sent around 100 emails to [...]

Holidaying Obama sets himself grueling reading schedule of 2,300 pages

Martha’s Vineyard (Virginia, US), Aug. 26 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has kicked off his vacation by revealing that, in addition to endless games of tennis and golf, he plans to read five books or an astonishing 2,300 pages.

His summer reading list, unveiled [...]

Despite Ashes loss, Ponting unlikely to be removed as skipper, says Roebuck

Sydney, Aug.24 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is unlikely to be evicted, nor is he likely to step aside after becoming only the second skipper from Down Under to lose back-to-back Ashes series in England, feels cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

“This is not the end of Ponting’s captaincy. In another dispensation, his sacking would be [...]

Australia faces a long, dusty fight for survival at The Oval: Roebuck

Sydney, Aug. 22 (ANI): Australia faces a long struggle to survive at The Oval, believes noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

According to Roebuck, an interesting few days awaits as skilful batsmen contend with fast bowlers bent [...]

Musharraf should face the music in Pakistan like a man

Islamabad, Aug.19 (ANI): A columnist with Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper has said that former president general Pervez Musharraf should be man enough to come back to Pakistan and face the music for his alleged misdemeanours while in power.

According to Kamran Shafi, it is extremely critical that a general of an army whose brass hats consider Pakistan [...]

Ponting overplayed his mild cards in Cardiff: Roebuck

Sydney, July 14 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck feels that Australia played exceptionally well in Cardiff and were denied victory only by “a soporific surface and resistance from sturdy opponents with a short backlift and a stubborn [...]

Kate Winslet to sue UK tabloid over ‘nasty’ fitness regime article

London, May 9 (ANI): Kate Winslet is to sue a leading UK tabloid newspaper over an article claiming that she had lied about her diet.

The 33-year-old actress has filed papers at London’s High Court and is suing the Daily Mail newspaper for 150,000 pounds.

Talking about the write-up, Winslet said that she was “distressed and [...]

Jordanian journalist acquitted of slandering parliament

Amman – A Jordanian court on Monday acquitted columnist Khalid Mahadin of a slander charge filed against him by the lower house of parliament, judicial sources said.
The chamber’s Permanent Bureau accused Mahadin of defaming the House of Representatives in an article he published online in mid- March urging King Abdullah II to intervene to stop [...]

Easter tourism a barometer for Croatian economy, government

Zagreb – In the midsts of the global economic meltdown, tourism-dependent Croatia is anxiously awaiting the first results of the Easter holiday break. With holiday-makers to the former Yugoslav republic providing nearly a quarter of the country’s GDP, tourism figures aren’t just of interest to the hotel and catering trade – they could well affect [...]

Juan Williams, Speaker at Chancellor University Commencement

CLEVELAND, April 12 /PRNewswire/ — National political correspondent and
author, Juan Williams, is the keynote speaker at Chancellor University’s 160th
graduation taking place Saturday, May 2, 2009. As senior correspondent for
NPR’s Morning Edition, host of America’s Black Forum, a nationally syndicated
weekly news program, and regular panelist on FoxNews Sunday, Williams is at
the cutting edge of America’s culture [...]

Change Capital losses no surprise: Margaret Doyle

— Margaret Doyle is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are her own –
By Margaret Doyle
Roger Holmes and Luc Vandevelde were the pair who almost drove Marks and Spencer into Philip Green’s embrace. Employees at Robert Dyas should be grateful that they have avoided the same fate.
Holmes was Vandevelde’s choice as chief [...]

End terror, Guwahati’s voters urge politicians

Guwahati, April 8 (IANS) They have lived under the shadow of bomb blasts for a long time. Voters in Assam’s principal city of Guwahati, also known as the ‘gateway to northeast India’, are crying for an end to the terror trail as elections approach.
Blasts have almost become a way of life for Guwahatians, with the [...]

‘Heartbroken’ Jackman promises Wolverine leak-thief will be nabbed

Melbourne, April 8 (ANI): Hugh Jackman said he was heartbroken after an incomplete copy of his new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine had leaked online, and promised that the FBI would not spare the thief.

The 40-year-old revealed he was disappointed that print of the new action film had been illegally posted on the Internet a month [...]

Patna-born Indian lawyer stripped of Order of Canada

Toronto, April 7 (IANS) The Canadian government has stripped Patna-born Indo-Canadian lawyer T. Sher Singh of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian award.
The Order of Canada was given to Singh in 2001 for his work as an advocate for ‘the importance of positive race relations and interactive dialogue among members of different religions.”
But [...]

Football star Owen told to choose between playing for England or racing

London, Mar.31 (ANI): Football star Michael Owen has been told that he must decide between playing for England or pursuing his other passion of horse racing.

Owen has his own stables but his international career looks over after Fabio Capello snubbed him for tomorrow’s Ukraine clash.ormer England striker Ian Wright [...]

Jordanian columnist on trial for “slandering” Parliament

Amman – The trial of prominent Jordanian columnist Khaled Mahadin who has been charged with “slandering” the lower house of Parliament got under way on Thursday, according to judicial sources.
The chamber’s Permanent Bureau last week filed a lawsuit against Mahadin, accusing him of defaming the House of Representatives in a recent online newspaper article.
Mahadin, [...]

Now, Proteas have the look of the hounded: Roebuck

Sydney, Mar.19 (ANI): The Australian cricket team has not resolved all of their difficulties and nor is the side settled, but it is hungry for success, not to speak of it being fearless and hard to subdue, claims cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

In an article for the Sydney Morning Herald, Roebuck says that while at present, [...]