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Washington, Sept 4 (ANI): Columbian pop star Shakira has surprised her fans by dressing up in high end designer labels – a departure from her usual leather outfits, miniskirts and belly shirts – in the latest edition of Vanity Fair magazine.

The “She Wolf” [...]

Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): Australia needs a street fighter like Simon Katich to trigger a revival, after calls for sacking of Ricky Ponting in the wake of the Ashes loss under the Tasmanian’s captaincy for the second time in four years

Australian cricket has lost the ruthless cutting edge cultivated by Steve Waugh that made them [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Brooke Shields has finally managed to grab a major role in a film after nearly ten years, according to reports.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the beauty will star as Brendan Fraser’s wife in comedy ‘Furry Vengeance’, which follows a real estate [...]

Tehran, July 5 (ANI): Iran is set to use a travel advisory posted on the British Foreign Office’s website as evidence against a British Embassy employee in the political plot trial.

British embassy’s chief political analyst Hossein Rassam, 44, was accused of being a British agent provocateur behind last month’s post-election street protests, the Telegraph [...]

Washington, July 5 (ANI): A military historian has denied that Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division was the first to enter Adolf Hitler’s Berchtesgaden mountain retreat near the end of World War II.

Dr. John C. McManus insists that in 1992 book “Band of Brothers”, Stephen E. Ambrose incorrectly attributed Berchtesgaden’s capture to another Army [...]

Melbourne, July 1 (ANI): Attempted murder charges have been laid against a man accused of an acid attack on two Sri Lankan students during a home invasion in Western Sydney.

Detectives arrested Amalathepan Srikantharajah, 25, of Girraween, about 10am (AEST) on Wednesday and charged him with attempted murder over the May 17 attack in western Sydney’s [...]

Washington, June 30 (ANI): A longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain, the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, has described his vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin as Alaska’s lipstick-wearing pit-bull and as a “Little Shop of Horrors.”

This comment appears in the August edition of Vanity Fair, reports the New York Daily News.

Several senior members [...]

Washington June 28 (ANI): Can music really make us close-minded and prejudiced? Yes, at least that’s what Kansas State researchers claim.

A study of the behaviours elicited from the musical lyrics of common songs has revealed that listening to patriotic songs may make us close-minded and prejudiced while children’s songs like “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Row, [...]

New York, Jun 25 (ANI): Reality TV star Danielle Staub of ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ has been exposed to have a real criminal past.

The court documents posted on TheSmokingGun.com reveals that Staub was involved in a kidnapping and extortion case, which also [...]

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate Timothy J. Roemer as the new U.S. Ambassador to India.

Announcing nominations to several key administration posts on May 27, the President said “I am grateful that [...]

Washington, May 26 (ANI): US President Barack Obama’s goal of eliminating nuclear weapons has received a setback of sorts with North Korea’s second nuclear test on Monday, and experts feel that he would now have to come up with a fresh approach to deal with the security threat posed by the isolated Pyongyang regime.

“The United [...]

Washington, May 18 (ANI): Amid political turbulence in Pakistan, and heightened fears about the Taliban and other extremist groups seizing the country’s nuclear assets, there has been a rapid expansion of Islamabad’s nuclear armaments.

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, in a confidential briefing, told members of Congress that there are certain reports [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): The US administration is using another medium to hit back at the Taliban – public relations.

According to a Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report, more than a week has passed since a United States bombardment killed civilians in western Afghanistan, but the battle between coalition forces and the Taliban has only intensified [...]

London, May 1 (ANI): US Central Command chief General David Petraeus has said that the next two weeks would be decisive to ascertain the stability of the Pakistan Government.

According to Fox News, General Petraeus told US officials that Pakistan has run out of excuses, and are “finally getting serious” about the countering the existential threat [...]

London, April 28 (ANI): In a head to head challenge of man versus machine, IBM is all set to pit a supercomputer code-named ‘Watson’ against human contestants in the famed trivia quiz show Jeopardy.

According to a report by BBC News, ‘Watson’ is a new question-answering system based on natural language.

“The aim is to [...]

London, Apr 25 (ANI): Manchester United will offer ace striker Wayne Rooney a mega six-year contract this summer.

The England star, 23, has two full seasons left on his current deal with Manchester United after signing a 100,000 pound-a-week package three years ago.

United plan to begin discussions [...]

VANCOUVER, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Luna Gold Corp. (TSXV-LGC)
(“Luna” or the “Company”) announces that it has entered into an amended and
restated letter of intent with Sandstorm Resources Ltd. (“Sandstorm”)
concerning the proposed gold stream transaction relating to the Company’s
Aurizona Project, as announced on March 12, 2009.
The material terms of the original letter of intent have been [...]

The United States will give Pakistan USD one billion in aid over two years, the US envoy Richard Holbrooke announced on Friday as an international donors’ conference opened in Tokyo.
Holbrooke “announced the United States’ intent to provide support to the government of Pakistan totaling USD one billion over a two-year period (2009-2010),” according to a [...]

Muzaffarpur (Bihar), Apr 16 (ANI): A criminal case was slapped against Indian Cricket Team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh in a court here on Thursday for disrespecting the prestigious Padma Awards.

Senior advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed the [...]

Company Anticipates Last Day of Trading on NASDAQ on or about May 4, 2009; Plans
to Seek Listing on OTC Bulletin Board
NEW YORK–(Business Wire)–
FX Real Estate and Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: FXRE) announced that on April 8,
2009 it received notice from The NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) indicating that,
as of December 31, 2008, FXRE is no longer in [...]