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These are the last pictures of Michael Jackson on stage, taken just two days before he died.
The images of the singer hard at work rehearsing for upcoming tour This Is It give a glimpse of what was in store for fans at his planned gigs in London’s 02.
Jackson was due to begin the first of [...]

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Andhra Pradesh Teachers Recruitment DSC 2008/2009 Exam Results will be declared today, 30th June 2009, at [...]

London, May 27 (ANI): Over two-million football fans, who listen to live matches on the radio while driving, have had an accident or near-miss, warned a study.

Released to coincide with the Uefa Champions League final in Rome, the Football Focus report has been compiled by academics from the University of Leicester.

The researchers estimate that two [...]

Washington, May 5 (ANI): Kids who watch adult-rated content on TV are more likely to become sexually active at an early age, according to a longitudinal study.

Released by Children’s Hospital Boston, the study revealed that exposure towards adult content during childhood was linked to early onset of sexual activity among teens.

Tracking children from age six [...]

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – In a deal that seems as natural as biscuits and gravy, Dolly Parton and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have partnered to release “Backwoods Barbie: The Collector’s Edition.”
The project not only propelled the veteran entertainer back into the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart but also became the first Cracker [...]

Paramjit Kaur Gulshan is contesting the ensuing polls from Faridkot (reserved) Lok Sabha seat as Bathinda has been made a general constituency.
PROMISES GALORE: She promised to uplift the status of women in backward areas of Bathinda and Mansa districts through education. Her election agenda also included fight against female foeticide, setting up of an information [...]

London/Kabul, Mar.12 (ANI): A Taleban commander and a former detainee at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, who was released from prison in Kabul last year, has warned that he will target British troops deployed in Afghanistan.

According to The Times, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, who spent six years inside GITMO, has resurfaced as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, the [...]

Rags-to-riches romance “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the Oscars on Sunday, winning eight awards including the prize for best picture in a climactic triumph for a movie that almost failed to get released.
Among the “Slumdog” honors, Briton Danny Boyle was named best director for the often dark but ultimately hopeful tale about a poor Indian boy who [...]

Warsaw – The Polish Senate speaker on Tuesday called off a visit from the head of the Pakistani Senate amid the recent killing of a kidnapped Polish engineer by the Taliban in Pakistan.
Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz said the cancellation wasn’t a move directed “against Pakistan,” but that the talks would not be possible “in such [...]

Moscow/Tbilisi – Georgia’s interior ministry said Tuesday that two European ceasefire monitors had been detained by South Ossetia militia on the border of the separatist region and Georgia.
A spokesman for the ministry, Shota Utiashvili, told news agency Interfax that the two monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were detained near [...]

London- A German student who hurled a shoe at Chinese premier Wen Jiabao during his recent visit to Cambridge University in Britain pleaded not guilty to the charge of committing a public order offence Tuesday.
Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old graduate student at the university’s pathology department, appeared at Cambridge Magistrate’s Court Tuesday before being released on [...]

CHENNAI: Chennai is fast emerging as the transit hub for illegal immigrants, especially Sri Lankan Tamils from LTTE dominated areas, going to
Europe, posing a major security concern, a UN report claimed here.
A study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on ‘Smuggling of migrants from Tamil Nadu to Europe and in particular [...]

Nairobi – Libyan leader and new head of the African Union, Moammer Gaddafi, has defended the actions of Somalian pirates as an act of self-defence against “greedy” Western nations, the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reported Friday.
The paper, reporting on Gaddafi’s courtesy call on AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, quoted him as saying: “It is not [...]

Ankara – The Turkish navy is preparing a naval frigate to join an international force to help combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, a military spokesman said on Friday.
General Metin Durak told reporters that the vessel would be ready to embark within a month.
The Turkish government has presented parliament with a memorandum to allow [...]

Brussels – The European Union’s top justice official Wednesday welcomed US President Barack Obama’s decision to temporarily suspend prosecutions at the US’s controversial Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.
“I am extremely pleased that one of the first actions of President Obama has been to turn the page on this sad episode of the Guantanamo prison,” [...]

London – Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday sent messages of support to US president-elect Barack Obama as parties were held across Britain to mark the handover of power in the United States.
The queen, 82, who has during her reign since 1952 met all US presidents with the exception of Lyndon [...]

London – Amnesty International has condemned as a “despicable crime” the murder of campaigning Russian lawyer Stanislav Markelov and called on the authorities to make clear that such crimes will not be tolerated.
In a statement released in London late Monday, the human rights group said: “Stanislav Markelov is yet another victim – very possibly murdered [...]

Berlin – German investor confidence could edge up again this month, a key indicator to be released Tuesday is forecast to say, amid efforts from governments and central banks around the world to halt the downturn underway in the global economy.
Drawn up by the Mannheim-based Centre for European Economic Research, the ZEW index is forecast [...]

Now, Nokia has adopted another way to woo its users.
This time, the Finnish mobile phone giant has announced a scheme that first 100 people to buy its much-awaited Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone will get tickets to the Benicassim music festival in Spain.
Nokia 5800, otherwise known as the Tube, goes on sale this Friday at the [...]

Athens – Greek shipping magnate Pericles Panagopoulos was freed unharmed by his abductors after a weeklong kidnapping in which a ransom was apparently paid, according to media reports early Tuesday in Greece.
The amount of the ransom was not known.
Panagopoulos, 74, founder of Greek ferry operator Superfast Ferries, was abducted on January 12 by three [...]