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Washington – President Barack Obama’s economic team sought to ease fears that US banks are on the verge of either collapse or nationalization amid reports Monday that the government is considering a large ownership stake in Citigroup Inc.
The Treasury, Federal Reserve and other government finance agencies issued a rare joint statement assuring investors that the [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): An Austrian jeweller has given ‘bling bling’ a new definition by designing the world’’s most expensive phone. The new Apple iPhone 3G ”Kings Button” is made of solid 18-carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold!
Designed by Peter Aloisson the stunning diamond-encrusted iPhone comes for a whopping 1.8million pounds.
The one-of-a-kind phone [...]

London, January 8 (ANI): John Travolta will bid his late son, Jett, a final goodbye in a private Scientology memorial service.
The actor’s 16-year-old son, who had Kawasaki Syndrome, a rare condition that can lead to heart disease, died from a seizure on January 2 during a family holiday in the Bahamas.
He was cremated on January [...]

London, January 7 (ANI): Enraged Lisa Marie Presley has expressed her fury at those trying to claim that her devastated pals John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston suspended their son’s medication following their religion’s anti-medicine theories.
The couple’s 16-year-old son, Jeff, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two, was found unconscious in [...]

London, January 7 (ANI): John Travolta’s son Jett, who died following a seizure, was ‘not a victim of cult’, scientologists have claimed.
Jett, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two, was found unconscious in a bathroom in the family’s holiday home in the Bahamas.
The 16-year-old had later been taken to Rand Memorial Hospital, [...]

London, Jan 6 (ANI): A 300-year-old journal of a British explorer who defeated pirates of the Caribbean and rescued real-life Robinson Crusoe has been unearthed and is expected to fetch 3,000 pounds at an auction.
It will go under the hammer on January 21.
The swashbuckling privateer Capt Woodes Rogers, who left the English shore in 1708, [...]

San Francisco – Apple’s iconic CEO Steve Jobs on Monday issued a rare clarification about his state of health after prolonged concern about his unexplained weight loss caused a dive in Apple’s shares.
In his statement, Jobs, who survived pancreatic cancer four years ago, explained that his gaunt look of late was due to a [...]

London, Jan 5 (ANI): In a new research, it has been observed that “mountain waves” in the atmosphere above Antarctica create rare clouds that are helping destroy the ozone layer.
Over the last two decades, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) released by human activity have opened a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
Key chemical reactions that lead to [...]

Mumbai, Jan.4 (ANI):”Bachchanalia”, a book dedicated to the films and memorabilia of Bollywood’’s superstar Amitabh Bachchan, was released in Mumbai on Saturday.
Bachchanalia: The Films and Memorabilia of Amitabh Bachchan is co-authored by noted film writer Bhawana Somaaya.
“I am grateful and very humbled by this release and I don”t deserve it
but I am thankful to the [...]

Washington: Two pathologists would perform autopsy on John Travolta’’s son to determine the cause of his death, Bahamas’ health minister said.
Jett, 16, who had a history of seizures arising from the rare condition Kawasaki Disease, had been found dead at the actor’’s vacation home in Grand Bahama.
Caretaker Jeff Katharain had discovered the collapsed boy in [...]

New Delhi, Jan. 2 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony today released a coffee table book “Soldiering On” to commemorate the centenary of the Sainik Samachar, the fortnightly journal of India’s Armed Forces, here today.

The journal had started its journey, rather tentatively, as a sixteen page Urdu Weekly on January 2, 1909, to provide to Army [...]

Tokyo  – Emperor Akihito on Friday voiced his concern Japan’s slide into recession as thousands of his subjects gathered for one of the rare occasions of seeing their monarch in public.
“I am concerned that many people face serious problems because of the grave economic situation,” Akihito told the flag-waving crowd which had gathered in front [...]

Melbourne, Aussie football players indulge in the riskiest drinking outside the football season, reveals a study on drinking patterns of AFL (Australian Football League) players.
The study underlined the fact that the drinking habits of AFL players differ significantly from those of the general population.
This is the first study to put an entire sporting clan [...]

London, A rare blue-grey diamond, which traces its history to India, and had been given to the girl in one of the most famous paintings in Western art, will soon go under the hammer at Christie’s, London.
The Wittelsbach diamond, which apparently originated from the Indian diamond mines, is almost once inch in width.
A Christie’s spokesperson [...]

ash Raj Films released song promo of “Rab Ne Bana De Jodi” on SRK’s birthday on November 2. For the first time, YRF has unveiled a song promo before the music release – of the banner’s forthcoming film, ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ – to coincide it with the special occasion of Shahrukh Khan’s birthday.
The [...]