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London, Sep 19 (ANI): Locals of a North Carolina community, where Patrick Swayze’s film ‘Dirty Dancing’ was shot, are planning a memorial service for the late star.

The ‘Ghost’ star died on Monday evening after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The town of Lake Lure will pay homage to the 57-year-old during a memorial service on [...]

Sydney, Sept 16 (ANI): Hackers are using Patrick Swayze’s death to push off spurious anti-virus software to Internet users and infect their computers with viruses.

The 57-year-old Swayze died of pancreatic cancer on Monday.

Many bogus websites claiming to provide information on the death of the Dirty Dancing star have mushroomed up.

Computer [...]

Washington, Sept 15 (ANI): Veteran actor Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer on Monday, aged 57.

The ‘Dirty Dancing’ star lost his battle to cancer after struggling for at least 20 months.

“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” People magazine [...]

Melbourne, June 26 (ANI): A survey of Australian travellers has revealed that dirty toilets, overweight passengers and rude flight attendants are among what the passengers hate the most while flying.

The Travel.com.au survey, which involved over 1700 Australian travellers, [...]

Washington, June 25 (ANI): Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Bridget Marquardt has revealed the raunchy sex game details of Kendra Wilkinson’s bachelorette party, reportedly held last week in Hollywood.

“There are two games that are kind of raunchy,” Fox News quoted Marquardt as saying.

The TV host revealed that a certain sex toy is passed between the legs and [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Dirty Dancing is Britons’ favourite film, according to a new online poll.

The 1987 movie, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, pipped The Shawshank Redemption and Star Wars to top the poll to find Britain’s favourite film.

The survey was carried out by the Cinema Advertising Association, reports Contactmusic.

High School Musical, Lord Of [...]

Washington, May 12 (ANI): Cancer-stricken Patrick Swayze has reportedly refused to undergo life-saving lung surgery, thus prompting fears that he is close to the end of his cancer battle.

According to the National Enquirer, the doctors of ‘Dirty Dancing’ star, who is suffering from pancreatic cancer, have been forced to halt his chemotherapy treatment because he’s [...]

Melbourne, May 9 (ANI): Nearly half of all Australians have admitted that, because of alcohol, they had sex with someone they wish they hadn’t, research shows.

In a sex survey conducted by The Daily Telegraph, it was found that 47 per cent of women and nearly 44 per cent of men have had a drunken sexual [...]

Mumbai, May 7 (ANI): Mumbai encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma was reinstated in service on Thursday nearly eight months after being dismissed for his alleged links with the underworld.

The Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal asked the State Government to reinstate him with immediate effect with back wages.

The court also said Sharma’s dismissal should not be included [...]

Washington, May 7 (ANI): Cancer-stricken Patrick Swayze is to be honoured with a dance award.

The star, who has been battling the deadly disease since the beginning of 2008, will receive the Rolex Dance Award at a gala in New York, reports Contactmusic.

Rolex Watch USA president Allen Brill says, “It is an honour to present the [...]

London, Mar 21 (ANI): Rod Stewart’s wife Penny Lancaster yesterday gave shutterbugs an eyeful when she “accidentally” flashed her boobs.

The beauty was wearing a hanging shawl-type knitted dress, which did no justice to her fab figure.

What’s more, under [...]

London, Feb 27 (ANI): Pete Doherty has confirmed plans to reform The Libertines after patching up with ex-bandmate Carl Barat.

The band split acrimoniously in 2004 due to Doherty’s drug addictions, he went on to form Babyshambles while Barat fronted the Dirty Pretty Things.

Doherty, who [...]

Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to Britain on Monday and accused the U.S. government of orchestrating his torture.
Mohamed, 30, was due to arrive back in Britain shortly following his release from the U.S. prison camp on Cuba. His statement [...]

Wellington – A German woman who flew to New Zealand to meet a man who wooed her on the internet with eloquent emails and poetry told a newspaper Tuesday of her time in a “horror house” with a stranger who was nothing like her online friend.
“He was quite intellectual and he knew the way [...]

Washington, Feb 14 (ANI): Cancer-stricken Patrick Swayze’s hit film Ghost has been named as the best love film ever.

The film came in first in a survey, carried out by retail giant HMV on Valentine’s Day, followed by Dirty Dancing on the second spot.

The 1990 blockbuster starred Swayze as a spirit who communicates with his sweetheart, [...]

Washington, Feb 13 (ANI): Hugh Grant movies ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ have topped a new poll of ‘Romantic Films That Men Secretly Love To Watch’.

The two hit films, which were released in 2003 and 1994 respectively, turned out to popular in the survey, conducted by Lovefilm.com.

‘Titanic’, which catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio [...]

London, Jan 10 (ANI): Patrick Swayze has checked himself into a hospital days after making a TV show on his fight with deadly pancreatic cancer, it has been revealed.
The ‘Dirty Dancing’ star reportedly has pneumonia — a result of chemotherapy attacking his immune system.
He had been due to promote his new TV series The Beast [...]

Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): The mayor of Bluff is upset with the claims that almost all the people in the central Queensland town have contracted diarrhoea by drinking contaminated water.
Central Highlands mayor Peter Maguire hit out at the claims of resident Tim Cummings that “the water is so crook, just about everyone gets gastric sooner [...]

London, Jan.7 (ANI): England’s cricket establishment was in complete disarray on Wednesday after both captain Kevin Pietersen and team coach Peter Moores declared that they were quitting their respective posts as the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has failed to resolve their differences.
Sky News quoted Pietersen as saying that: “I am not in a [...]

London, Jan.7 (ANI): England cricket captain Kevin Pietersen is reported to have quit claiming that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has not acted quickly enough on his differences with coach Peter Moores.
Former England bowler Alex Tudor told Sky News: “This is a real shock. I know a lot pundits and professionals and ex [...]