Malaysian man threatens to kill wife for being slow in cooking noodles

May 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, May 10 (ANI): A Malaysian man became so furious, when her wife was slow in preparing a bowl of instant noodles for him, that he cut her dress into pieces with an axe and also threatened to kill her.

The 33-year-old housewife reported to the police that her husband allegedly splashed hot water on her and then beat her up until she was unconscious.

Also, the man allegedly cut off the woman’s clothes with an axe until she was naked.

However, she managed to flee their Kampung Kota Ayangan home in interior Keningau, once her husband fell asleep.

Keningau OCPD Deputy Supt Zahari Mohamed said the woman claimed that her husband asked her to prepare instant noodles after he returned home drunk.

“But he became furious when it took her some time to prepare it. The husband rushed into the kitchen and splashed the hot water from the pan on her,” the Star Online quoted Mohamed, as saying.

He added: “The woman then ran out of the house and hid in some bushes. However, her husband soon found her and dragged her by her hair before he punched and stomped on her.”

The 38-year-old man has been arrested. (ANI)

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Chavan asked to explain Bachchan”s presence at Mumbai Sea Link function

March 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Mumbai, Mar 25 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan is in hot water over being seen with Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan at the inaugural function of the second phase of Worli-Bandra sealink.

Party sources said that the Congress high command has taken note of Bachchan”s presence and asked for an explanation from Chavan.

Chavan, however, has clarified his stand saying he would have not attended the function, had he known about Bachchan”s presence.

“Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of another state. We would like to promote our own state. Perhaps, I would not have attended the function had I known he would be present,” said Chavan, adding that there are reports that some people in the Congress are unhappy about his presence.

Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh said, “I want to clarify that neither the Mumbai Congress nor I was consulted before inviting Amitabh Bachchan.”

Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador for Narendra Modi”s Gujarat – and Modi is a political pariah for the party.

Meanwhile, Bachchan on Thursday said the controversy over his presence at the function had been ”manufactured” by the media.

The superstar in his blog wrote: “A fresh controversy has been rapidly manufactured on my involvement. The media has been hounding me since the event at the sea link has got over, through incessant SMSes.”

The function was organised on Wednesday by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), which falls under the PWD Ministry. (ANI)

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Ke$ha apologizes after insulting Britney Spears, Justin Bieber

March 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

New York, March 24 (ANI): Ke$ha has apologized after landing herself in hot water for insulting Britney Spears and Justin Bieber.

The controversy started when Ke$ha blasted Britney’s lip-synching, telling the Scottish Daily Record, “I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. No offense to her specifically, but people have asked me before to mime. I have been up at 3 o”clock in the morning for a television show with jet lag, but I refuse to mime.”

To add further insult, a recent leaked song called “Styrofoam” features Ke$ha singing the lyric, “In ten years, Britney Spears . . . Britney who?”

However, the ‘Tik Tok’ singer clarified the situation during her appearance on “So You Think You Can Dance Australia”.

“I didn”t write that bit. That was from when I was 15 – and there is a reason that song”s not on my record. I have to admit now I do regret ever singing that, because I have mad respect for her,” the New York Daily News quoted her as saying.

Ke$ha also took to Twitter to apologize to tween sensation Justin Bieber after she gave an interview to Maxim in which she called him a “little baby” and said she would love to “push him around on stage in a carriage.” (ANI)

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Woman arrested after breaching noisy sex Asbo

March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, Mar 22 (ANI): A woman, who had been given a sex Asbo to prevent noisy sessions, has been arrested after she failed to abide by the order.

Caroline Cartwright, 49, avoided jail in January when a judge at Newcastle Crown Court handed her a suspended prison sentence after she was caught breaching a four-year Asbo.

But just two months after her court case Cartwright, of Hall Road, Washington, was at it again and she has now been arrested by police and hauled before magistrates.

She has been thrown back into a bail hostel to keep her and husband Steve apart while the courts decide what to do next.

She has already spent eight months in the hostel in Sunderland and was allowed back home after her Crown Court appearance at the beginning of the year.

When she got back home she moved her bed into the dining room downstairs so the pair could continue their romps in an attempt not to disturb the neighbours.

But their lovemaking has got them into hot water again and police received a complaint that her morning wails and whines could be heard at 10.15am

“This is just ridiculous. It was just for 10 minutes at around 10.15am on a Sunday morning,” the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

“You couldn’t hear that much because the bed is downstairs in the dining room and not in the bedroom.

“The police came on Monday night to arrest me and lock me up. I spent the night in the cells and appeared at Houghton-le Spring Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

“They said they believed I had breached the Asbo again because two neighbours said they heard us. It was only 10 minutes, not like the two-hour sessions we used to have.

“I’m now back in the hostel where I was before. I call it my holiday home. I’m not allowed back at my house until this is sorted out,” she revealed. (ANI)

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Woman arrested after breaching noisy sex Asbo

March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, Mar 22 (ANI): A woman, who had been given a sex Asbo to prevent noisy sessions, has been arrested after she failed to abide by the order.

Caroline Cartwright, 49, avoided jail in January when a judge at Newcastle Crown Court handed her a suspended prison sentence after she was caught breaching a four-year Asbo.

But just two months after her court case Cartwright, of Hall Road, Washington, was at it again and she has now been arrested by police and hauled before magistrates.

She has been thrown back into a bail hostel to keep her and husband Steve apart while the courts decide what to do next.

She has already spent eight months in the hostel in Sunderland and was allowed back home after her Crown Court appearance at the beginning of the year.

When she got back home she moved her bed into the dining room downstairs so the pair could continue their romps in an attempt not to disturb the neighbours.

But their lovemaking has got them into hot water again and police received a complaint that her morning wails and whines could be heard at 10.15am

“This is just ridiculous. It was just for 10 minutes at around 10.15am on a Sunday morning,” the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

“You couldn’t hear that much because the bed is downstairs in the dining room and not in the bedroom.

“The police came on Monday night to arrest me and lock me up. I spent the night in the cells and appeared at Houghton-le Spring Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

“They said they believed I had breached the Asbo again because two neighbours said they heard us. It was only 10 minutes, not like the two-hour sessions we used to have.

“I’m now back in the hostel where I was before. I call it my holiday home. I’m not allowed back at my house until this is sorted out,” she revealed. (ANI)

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Sea Eagles chased down by Hayne train

March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Manly has surrendered a 20-point lead to be run down 24-20 by a Jarryd Hayne-inspired Eels side in a thrilling Sunday afternoon contest at Parramatta Stadium.

After leading the Tigers 20-4 last week and losing, the Sea Eagles were handed yet another gutting defeat as Hayne ran riot to have a hand in all but one of the Eels’ four tries in the second half.

It was a complete turnaround by the hosts after they leaked four straight tries of their own on the back of woeful handling and poor discipline in the first 40 minutes.

Manly looked well on the way to its first competition points of the season when prop Matthew Cross was on the spot to take the score to 20-0 just two minutes after the break.

But Parramatta suddenly clicked into gear when Fuifui Moimoi barrelled his way over some soft goal-line defence from a penalty tap 10 minutes later.

Hayne gave the comeback even more impetus on the hour mark when he received a pass from Luke Burt in his own in-goal and beat five players in a scintillating 70 metre dash which ended with an off-load to Timana Tahu to sprint the rest of the way.

Tahu’s first try since his return to the NRL was backed up by another 12 minutes later on the back of a Hayne chip and chase, with Kris Keating’s blatantly forward pass putting Joel Reddy under the posts to make it 20-18.

Hayne popped up again to win the game for the Eels with three minutes left, his pinpoint cut-out pass finding Eric Grothe on the right wing to give Parra a remarkable come-from-behind victory.

Manly coach Des Hasler was clearly fuming at the decision to let play continue for Parra’s third try and could land himself in hot water.

“I’ll personally pay for those two touchies to visit OPSM and get a check up,” he said post match.

“Because I don’t know if we reverted to gridiron, not once, but twice at a critical part of the game, ” he added referring to both Hayne’s pop pass to Keating and the final ball to Reddy.

Any chance of an Eels win looked unlikely after they produced a terrible first half littered with 10 knock-ons and five penalties, many of which were in their own half, as well as two kicks out on the full.

Manly took full advantage, completing all of its first 13 sets to open up an intimidating 14-0 lead thanks to tries from debutant Trent Hodkinson, former Eel Tony Williams and pivot Jamie Lyon.

Tahu was in particular found out in defence, falling for a second man decoy for Williams’s try from a scrum base move before a poor read let Lyon dart through from close range.

When Cross scooped up a loose grubber to touch down next to the posts at the start of the second half, the lead seamed insurmountable for the Eels.

But the hosts proved true the old saying of a tale of two halves, making only three mistakes as they improved their completion rate to 87 per cent to throw the shell-shocked Sea Eagles on the back foot.

Hayne then single-handedly took the contest by the scruff of the neck with his hard running and ball play as he mirrored his heroics from late last season.

It was the third match of the weekend where a side has given away a substantial lead to lose after the Panthers led the Cowboys 20-8 and the Knights had a 14-0 advantage over Melbourne.

Eels: 24 (F Moimoi, T Tahu, J Reddy, E Grothe tries; L Burt 4/4 conversions)

Sea Eagles: 20 (T Hodkinson, T Williams, J Lyon, M Cross tries; J Lyon 2/4 conversions)

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Six arrested in Kolkata for misbehaving with air hostess

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Kolkata, Mar 16 (ANI): The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) took into its custody six youths after being offloaded from a Patna-Kolkata-Bangalore Indigo flight on accusations of misbehaving with an air hostess.

Sources said the six unruly youths began to misbehave with the air hostess soon after the flight took off from Kolkata and did not stop their act despite objections by her and the other crew-members.

After landing at Kolkata, they were offloaded by the Indigo officials and handed over to the CISF.

One of the accused, however, defended himself in front of TIMES NOW news channel saying that he was simply annoyed with the service as the crew refused to provide him with hot water. (ANI)

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Urvashi Dhanorkar Arrested For Child Abuse | Urvashi Dhanorkar | Urvashi Dhanorkar Pics | Urvashi Dhanorkar Photo | Urvashi Tv Actress | Urvashi Dhanorkar Actress

August 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Urvashi Dhanorkar Arrested For Child Abuse | Urvashi Dhanorkar | Urvashi Dhanorkar Pics | Urvashi Dhanorkar Photo | Urvashi Tv Actress | Urvashi Dhanorkar Actress

Urvashi Dhanorkar Mumbai TV actress, who was arrested on the charges for throwing hot water on her 10 years old maid , under the Child Abusing Act.

This incedent has made state government awake and should enforce stringent child abuse law to tackle such incident of child abuse in the state.

Though, Nawab Malik Mahararashtra Labour Minister has said that strict action would be taken against her and will be punished as per the law and maid will get the justice.

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US airline under fire over sexy uniform ban for fat flight attendants

July 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne, July 16 (ANI): A U.S. airline has landed in hot water over its policy of refusing to let overweight female flight attendants wear its eye-catching red uniforms.

The union that represents flight attendants, who worked for Northwest Airlines before Delta Air Lines bought it, is protesting over Delta’s uniform policy of not providing its signature red dresses to women over a size 18.

The Association of Flight Attendants at Northwest (NWA AFA) is fuming and says that Delta clearly doesn’t want to draw attention to its larger employees.

“Red is a colour that attracts attention and someone, somewhere has made a decision that they don’t want to attract attention to someone in a dress that’s larger than a size 18. I’m very offended by it,” News.com.au quoted Patricia Reller, Vice Chairwoman of the NWA AFA grievance committee, as telling the Atlanta Metro News.

“There are fuller-figured women who would like to wear the red dress,” Reller added.

Delta spokeswoman Gina Laughlin defended the policy and the dispute is headed for mediation.

“It’s a variety to fit a very diverse group of preferences and sizes, and to continue presenting a uniform collection that is both stylish and very functional,” Laughlin said.

Delta acquired Northwest last year and flight attendants and other staff started wearing Delta’s uniforms around three months ago.

The red dresses are not the only uniform options for Delta’s flight attendants, there are blue pantsuits available in larger sizes. (ANI)

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After Shilpa, another Indian contestant racially bullied in Big Brother

July 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Jul 10 (ANI): Reality television show ‘Big Brother’ is in hot water once again, as watchdog Ofcom has received almost 300 complaints that Marcus Akin racially bullied Indian contender Sree Dasari.

Ofcom has said that it would be looking into viewers’ concerns about the 35-year-old window fitter imitating former housemate Sree’s Indian accent.

The complaints were mostly about a row between Marcus and Sree, in which Akin, who threatened 25-year-old Sree, received a telling off from Big Brother and a formal warning.

Viewers also complained about a separate incident earlier in the day, when Marcus mimicked Sree’s accent while completing the shopping list.

“Big Brother intervened and took immediate and appropriate action relating to the argument between Sree and Marcus,” the Sun quoted a spokesman for the show as saying.

“Marcus received a formal warning following his use of threatening language during his argument with Sree.

“Threatening language and behaviour is not acceptable in the Big Brother house.

“Big Brother monitors the welfare, language and behaviour of housemates at all times and will continue to monitor this situation,” he added. (ANI)

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Hilarious campaign makes ‘world’s worst hotel’ a hit with travellers!

June 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne, June 25 (ANI): Owing to a rather ‘ironical’ ad campaign, an Amsterdam hotel, which claimed to be ‘the worst hotel in the world’, has become a huge hit with travellers in the city.

The campaign, by advertising agency KesselsKramer, paints the Hans Brinker budget hotel in Amsterdam as dirty, uncomfortable and lacking basic necessities such as beds.

Although the advertisers promoted the hotel in dog poo, the 650-bed hotel is attracting customers in large numbers and runs at around 80 per cent occupancy even in the low season.

The hotel’s success is fully attributed the advertising campaign, which “takes honesty to the extreme” and are “revered and reviled in equal measure”, said the company’s website.

The ads promote the hotel as “similar to hell, but without proper heating”.

Dave Bell, Creative Director and Partner at KesselsKramer, said that the hotel has found a unique selling-point.

“Everybody is always trying to be the best, but there are merits in being the worst. May be more people should strive to be the worst at something, when you’re the worst you have a lot more room to be creative and do your own thing,” News.com.au quoted Bell as saying.

In a YouTube video, the hotel promotes itself as “accidentally eco-friendly”- having a lack of services such as cleaning and elevators that are out of order means it uses less energy.

“The Hans Brinker budget hotel has been helping the planet, unintentionally, since 1970,” said one advertisement.

“Here is a hotel where the light bulbs don’t work. A hotel whose showers have less hot water than is standard. Where elevators stay out of order for days. And whose vacuum cleaners’ buttons are rarely switched on,” the hotel said in the YouTube video.

“To lessen our impact on the environment staff do as little as possible for guests. An eco-elevator ensures that the only energy spent going to the room is your own,” said a poster.

“Leave the towel on the rack. We won’t wash it. Leave the towel on the floor. We still won’t wash it,” said another poster. (ANI)

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Austrian rightist in hot water for verbal attack on Jewish leader

May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Vienna – Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann on Wednesday called on far-right legislator Martin Graf to step down as deputy president of parliament after his verbal attack on the leader of Vienna’s Jewish community.

Graf had blasted Jewish leader Ariel Muzicant for his critical stance towards his party.

In a commentary published in the newletter of his Freedom Party (FPOe), Graf said many Austrian were asking themselves whether Muzicant was “fostering antifascist leftist terrorism” and “a climate of political brutality.”

The dispute surrounding the contentious rightist politician marked a new low point in Austria’s election race for the European Union parliament that has been dominated by the FPOe’s anti-foreigner campaign targeting non-Christians, rather than by European issues.

“I expect someone who commits such a lapse to take the necessary steps and resign,” Austrian press agency APA reported the social democratic chancellor as saying in Brussels.

His call was echoed by Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, whose mainstream conservative People’s Party forms a coalition with the Social Democratic Party.

Graf’s comments likely referred to leftist activists who staged a partially violent counter-demonstration when the Freedom Party protested a new Islamic cultural centre in Vienna in mid-May.

Muzicant had said shortly afterwards that the Freedom Party’s tone reminded him of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister.

Campaigning against Turkey’s joining the EU in the runup to the union-wide polls, the Freedom Party chose a slogan that calls for keeping the “occident in Christian hands.”

Martin Graf is a member of a right-wing student union that has contacts with neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. The Freedom Party, led by Heinz-Christian Strache, won 17.5 per cent in the parliamentary election last autumn. (dpa)

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Thoughts of cash soothe sting of social rejection, physical pain

May 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, May 15 (ANI): The mere thought of having money makes people feel physically stronger and relieves the distress of social rejection, says a new study.

According to research by Xinyue Zhou from Sun Yat-Sen University, handling money can soothe the sting of social rejection and appease the physical pain of hot water. However, remembering cash one has spent intensifies both types of hurt.

“Money activates a general sense of confidence, strength, and efficacy,” the researchers propose.

To test how subconscious thoughts of gaining or losing money affected their resistance to both the pain of social rejection and the pain of immersing their fingers in hot water, psychologist Zhou ran half a dozen experiments with groups of between 72 and 108 students, reports Nature.

In the study, students played a computer game called Cyberball, in which players think they are playing catch with three other individuals. These are actually being controlled by the computer, which eventually refuses to throw the ball to the human player.

The volunteers who had physically handled money before playing, thinking they were completing a finger-dexterity task, reported feeling less distress on a standard social self-esteem scale than those who had handled blank pieces of paper.

In another experiment, students who counted money before plunging their fingers into hot water reported lower pain levels than those who had counted paper. The money-handling students also reported feeling stronger than the paper shufflers did.

The researchers asked some students to write down their recent expenses before playing Cyberball, while others simply wrote about the weather. Those who had written about their expenses reported feeling greater distress when they were excluded from the virtual game. (ANI)

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Kiwi batsman Ryder in hot water again

May 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Cape Town (South Africa), May 11 (ANI): New Zealand cricket star Jesse Ryder is reportedly in hot water again, this time for an alleged off-field incident in South Africa where he is playing in the rich IPL.

According to Stuff.co.nz, Radio Sport and NewstalkZB reported that Ryder had to be restrained by security guards.

Ryder is playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team on a deal worth 160, 000 dollars.

His latest alleged indiscretion led his mentor and Newstalk ZB host Murray Deaker to issue the following statement: “Jesse’s had over a hundred days of sobriety and has made enormous progress during that time, on and off the field. Now for that to continue he needs support and moves have already been made to assist him to get back on top.”

Ryder has had a difficult time in the IPL which has been switched to South Africa because of security fears in India. He has scored just 34 runs and had two ducks with a top score of 32, averaging 8.50 with a strike rate of 117.24.

A useful bowler he has picked up three wickets. (ANI)

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Miss USA runner-up calls topless photo leak a bid to disgrace her

May 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, May 6 (ANI): Miss USA runner up Carrie Prejean has said that her leaked topless picture is an attempt to disgrace her for her anti-gay marriage views.

The reigning Miss California was speculated to have lost the Miss USA crown after she spoke against same sex marriages, while responding to a question during the competition.

The 21-year-old recently landed in hot water again after her nude photo emerged on the Internet, leaving her to face the threat of being stripped of her Miss California title.

Prejean said that she was convinced the move was a deliberate attempt to humiliate her.

“My comments defending traditional marriage have led to intimidation tactics that seek to undermine my reputation and somehow silence me and my beliefs, as if opinion is only a one-way street,” Us magazine quoted her as saying in a statement.

The beauty queen further claimed that she was a teenager when the photograph was taken, and that the shot was meant to be used in a portfolio.

She added: “I am a Christian, and I am a model. Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos.”

Prejean said that the snaps, taken of her as at 17, were “released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith.”

She insisted: “I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be But these attacks on me and others who speak in defense of traditional marriage are intolerant and offensive. While we may not agree on every issue, we should show respect for others’ opinions and not try to silence them through vicious and mean-spirited attacks.” (ANI)

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Hugh Jackman took ice-cold shower to prepare for ‘Wolverine’ character!

May 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 28 (ANI): Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman took a cold shower every morning to prepare for his character Wolverine.

The actor made sure that he was psyched for the filming by taking an ice-cold shower everyday.

“It’s surprisingly easy to find that inner rage. I do a little trick every morning. I stumbled upon this on X-Men 1. I had to get rid of my hairspray first thing in the morning but my wife was asleep and there was no hot water, it was the middle of Toronto winter,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

“I turned the water on and was waiting and I got in and I couldn’t make a noise. I don’t know how it was running; it was that cold. After 20 to 30 seconds I thought, ‘This is exactly how Wolverine feels all the time.’ It’s that inner rage but you can’t yell or do anything,” he added.

Jackman added that the excruciating cold shower has become a ‘superstition’ for him. (ANI)

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Russell Brand’s concert tickets being sold for £2.50

April 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, April 8 (ANI): Tickets for controversial comic Russell Brand’s stand-up gig are being sold for as low as 2.50 pounds.

Seatwave, an online fan-to-fan ticket exchange operating in the European market, was still left with over 140 tickets for the upcoming show at London’s 14,500 seat O2 Arena.

According to Joe Cohen, CEO of Seatwave, even prime seats were having a face value of 26.50 pounds.We’ve seen tickets being sold for as low as 2.50 pounds and many are selling below face value,” the Daily Star quoted him as saying.

However, promoters Phil McIntyre Entertainment insisted that the concert, which will be filmed for a DVD, was “technically a sell-out”.

A staff member said: “We’re very pleased with the way things are going.

“There’s always a bit of confusion when a gig is being filmed – you’re never sure what seats can be released until everything is sorted.”

Brand has made the headlines with a series of controversial comments including his recent taunt at Justice Secretary Jack Straw on his Twitter page saying, “No wonder your son took drugs.”

The 33-year-old had also landed in hot water with fellow prankster Jonathan Ross over the Andrew Sachs row, which led to his resignation from the BBC after he boasted about sleeping with the 78-year-old’s granddaughter. (ANI)

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First-ever ‘green’ chewing gum goes on sale in UK

March 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Mar 30 (ANI): The first ever eco-friendly chewing gum that doesn’t stick to pavements after being discarded has hit British markets.

According to the Guardian, Chicza Rainforest Gum, manufactured by Consorcio Chiclero, a consortium of 56 co-operatives employing 2,000 farmers, is the world’s first biodegradable gum that turns to dust within six weeks of being discarded.

It is made from the sap of the chicle tree grown in Mexico.

The new chewing gum also doesn’t stick to clothes.

The non-sticky gum is believed to end the costly task of removing used gum from streets and other public surfaces in Britain, reports the Telegraph.

Clearing away discarded gum cost councils nearly 150 million pounds a year, which involves use of chemical sprays, long-handed scrapers, freezing treatments and high-pressure hot water machines. (ANI)

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Former Philippine leader in hot water for toting toy machine gun

March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Manila – Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada is facing an investigation for allegedly displaying in public a toy machine gun, police said Wednesday.

Police Director General Jesus Versoza said Estrada might be charged for violation of a 1982 edict of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, which prohibits civilians from displaying real or fake high-powered firearms.

“I think there are some executive orders that are prohibiting the use of toy guns and displaying them in public,” Versoza said.

Police investigators said the incident occurred two weeks ago in Carmen town in Cebu province, 585 kilometres south of Manila, during a motorcade in which the former leader was riding a military jeep with a replica of a 50-calibre machine gun.

Opposition leader Jejomar Binay, the mayor of Makati City, was riding in the same military jeep with Estrada and could also face the same charge, Versoza said.

Estrada was convicted of plunder and sentenced to life imprisonment by an anti-graft court in 2007 but was pardoned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo a few months later in an apparent bid to woo the supporters of the charismatic former leader.

Estrada, however, ignored the reconciliation call of scandal-tainted Arroyo and has continued to lead the opposition against her administration.

“This looks very much like another case of harassment by the administration,” Estrada spokeswoman Margaux Salcedo said.

The Marcos edict, issued in July 1982, which remains in force until today, penalizes the sale, use and display of gun replicas. (dpa)

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Prince Harry to be ‘reunited’ with ‘Paki’ jibe pal

March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, March 23 (ANI): Prince Harry will reportedly be reunited with the Asian officer whom he infamously called his “little Paki friend”.

The royal has already apologised to Captain Ahmed Raza Khan for his remark in a three-year-old home video that had landed him in hot water and left him facing accusations of racism.

The 24-year-old is now said to have sent an invitation to the hero soldier, requesting him to have lunch with him at St James’s Palace in April.

Sources have revealed that the two, who had undergone training at the same time at Sandhurst military academy, have been in contact since the Prince’s apology.

“Harry jumped at the chance of meeting his friend again. Bizarrely, they have struck up a close relationship since the race row broke,” the Sun quoted a pal as saying.

“Harry still feels embarrassed by what he said and wants to see Ahmed to say sorry to him personally.

“He appreciated how well Ahmed handled the situation and helped defuse the controversy,” the pal added.

Ahmed, through a friend, further confirmed: “I’ll meet up with Prince Harry. I have told him many times he is my friend.” (ANI)

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