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(Reuters) – U.S. Navy special forces shot dead three Somali pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia and freed American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips on Sunday in a dramatic end to a five-day standoff, officials said.
Here are answers to some key questions about the incident, mainly from information provided to reporters by Vice Admiral Bill [...]

Sydney – Melbourne’s record-breaking heat wave has knocked out its brand-new 120-metre observation wheel.
“The excessive heat we’ve had in Melbourne caused one of the members to buckle, and that’s created some cracking in the bracing structure up towards the hub,” Southern Star Management Group spokesman Fred Maybury said Monday.
“There’s nothing in danger of falling [...]

Washington – Long before sunrise, with the crescent moon still high in the sky, inauguration revellers left warm homes to stand in long, cold lines and ride packed trains to the once-in-a- lifetime event unfolding Tuesday in the nation’s capital.
Unprecedented numbers – the final count could reach 2 million – gathered to celebrate the presidency [...]

Washington – Denzel Washington, the actor who helped shape the image of the modern African-American on the big screen, Tuesday said Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th US president was a tribute to the sacrifices of civil rights activists who went before him.
“We waited a long time to get here, but we have to be [...]

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 [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has come out in support of US President George Bush, insisting he doesn”t understand why so many people blame Bush for a string of world issues.
In an interview to GQ magazine, the 56-year-old star urges the public to consider the tremendous pressure Bush was under following the [...]

Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): Tom Cruise along with wife Katie Holmes is giving potty training to daughter Suri.
Talking in a wide-ranging interview in Weekend Australian Magazine, the actor revealed that he sure knows his stuff.
Cruise revealed that he and Katie don’t use star charts and other reward systems for their 2-year-old daughter and instead prefer [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Former Big Brother star Jade Goody is in a ‘real shock’ as she has lost all her hair after undergoing chemotherapy in her cancer battle, according to reports.
Most of Goody’s locks fell out over the weekend and she is now covering her head with a scarf.
“It’s a tough time. Jade knew [...]

Kochi, Jan 9 (ANI): CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has demanded the Government’’s intervention to protect the 53,000 employees of the Satyam Computers after the company’’s chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned admitting false profits shown over the years.
“We want the Government to take measures to ensure that the 53,000 odd people working in Satyam, that [...]

Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): An Indian woman charged with husband’’s murder after allegedly setting fire to his genitals has been granted strict home detention bail by Adelaide Magistrates Court.
Rajini Narayan, 44, was released on bail after an appearance in the court to face allegations she set her husband on fire while he slept after learning [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): New research has indicated that the ocean could rise a meter higher than the current sea level in the next 100 years, which is three times higher than predictions from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.
The groundbreaking new research was conducted by an international team of researchers from the [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Unlike many women, Jada Pinkett-Smith actually encouraged her actor husband Will to shed all fears and get as hot and heavy as possible in his love scene for film ‘Seven Pounds’.
She did so because she wanted to protect her own reputation.
The ‘I Am Legend’ actor could be seen doing a racy [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and her footballer beau Tom Brady are not engaged, it has emerged.
According to a source close to the couple, nothing has been made official.
And the supermodel might have to wait a little longer to receive her ring.
“But there is nothing stopping them from getting engaged. It could happen [...]

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): Sharing an experience with another person may change the perception we have of our own self, such as the recognition of our own face, according to a new study.
Published online in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, this study has for the first time shown that the image a person holds of [...]

London, January 8 (ANI): Anne Hathaway, who parted ways with former fiance Raffaello Follieri in June last year, has revealed that she likes to joke about her ruined relationship to hide the pain.
‘The Devil Wears Prada’ actress, who split with the Italian entrepreneur just weeks before he was arrested for fraud and money laundering, said [...]

London, Jan.7 (ANI): Manchester United are set to kick out Argentine football star Carlos Tevez after his admission that he would love to play for the Spanish football team Real Madrid.
According to The Sun, club boss Alex Ferguson is said to be running out of patience with the 24-year-old Argentinian striker after he made it [...]

London, Jan 6 (ANI): Scientists at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, US, are preparing to fire the most powerful laser in history at a tiny target on the ground, in order to understand what conditions are like at the centre of the Earth.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the laser, which is as [...]

The diseased cells have a Houdini-like “escape tactic” which can outwit even potent drugs, researchers found.
The study could explain why some cancers recur after treatment.
Scientists had previously believed that no cells could live after the therapy triggered a process called apoptosis, or cell suicide.
However, laboratory tests have shown that some breast, skin, liver and cervical [...]

Ankara – Turkey on Monday repeated its call for Israel to halt ground operations immediately in Gaza, with Foreign Minister Ali Babacan once again condemning what he described as a humanitarian tragedy.
“Many civilians, many women, many children have been killed. We condemn the ground operations … We cannot stand by and watch,” Babacan said after [...]

Adelaide, Jan 5 (ANI): The wife of late Indian Satish Narayan, 47, whose genitals were set on fire, had confessed before her neighbours that she torched him due to jealousy, saying that “his penis should belong to me”, a South Australia court heard.

Rajini Narayan, 44, is said to have told her neighbours that the [...]