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Tasmania’s majority Labor Government is likely to be replaced by minority Liberal rule, but the final election result may not be known for weeks.
More than 80 per cent of votes have been counted and an end to 12 years of majority Labor Government is inevitable.
Two key seats will not be confirmed for at least a [...]

London, Mar.20 (ANI): Alastair Cook’’s success as stand-in England captain has paved the way for more players to be pulled out of tours.
If Cook delivers a clean sweep of one-day and Test victories over Bangladesh, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) could give serious thought to squad rotation and resting key men, The Mirror [...]

A sumo wrestler ripped a cash machine out of a Moscow store on Friday, walking off with the bulky 200-pound machine on his shoulders, police said.
The man and an accomplice walked into a Moscow shopping mall and detached the cash machine containing $838, according to police.
A shop assistant who witnessed the crime called police and [...]

Washington, Sept 16 (ANI): Charlize Theron has admitted that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has turned her into a clean-freak.

“I have a serious problem, it’s a real disease and millions of people actually suffer from this, it’s an obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have a bit of it,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

She added: “I don’t do counting or [...]

Washington, Sep 4 (ANI): American actress Mila Kunis has revealed that she is going through a rigorous training regime to prepare herself for a role in the upcoming thriller ‘Black Swan’.

Kunis, 26, who reportedly engages in a racy girl-on-girl love scene with [...]

London, Aug 23 (ANI): Monday was always assumed to be the day we are most miserable, but as it turns out, Wednesday is the worst day of the week.

That’s the claim of two American applied mathematicians, who analysed words used in 2.4 million [...]

London, Aug 20 (ANI): American actress Renee Zellweger was spotted looking super-skinny at the premiere of her new movie, though she may later have to put on the pounds for her role as Bridget Jones.

Zellweger, 40, who was at the premiere of [...]

Peshawar, Aug.20 (ANI): Security officials have recovered the body of a suspected Al- Qaeda leader from a house here.

The body is said to be that of Abdullah Noori, an Algerian who was considered to be Osama bin Laden’s close associate.

The body bore deep cuts, needle pricks on shoulders and marks of wounds in fingers and [...]

London, Aug.15 (ANI): Troubled former British soccer star Paul Gascoigne paid a heartfelt tribute to Sir Bobby Robson on Friday, saying that the latter had saved his life.

Re-emphasising the fact that he always saw Robson as his second father, Gazza said the former England [...]

London, July 5 (ANI): Britain’s No.1 tennis player Andy Murray has admitted that, even at the age of 22, his Grand Slam failures are becoming a major burden on his career.

The world No.3 was at first adamant that he was pleased with his Wimbledon showing after going down narrowly to Andy Roddick in Friday’s [...]

London, Jul 2 (ANI): ‘Big Brother’ contender Sree has laid the blame for his eviction nomination on the shoulders of Irish beauty Noirin.

In his talks with Big Brother, after he was told that he must fight an eviction battle, he revealed that [...]

London, July 1 (ANI): The Jackson family were left reeling after a private second autopsy on the singer’s body confirmed the appalling findings of the first one.

The family had demanded their own private autopsy after LA coroners ruled out foul play in the first one.

Leaked autopsy details from the first report suggested that the late [...]

Washington, June 30 (ANI): The coroner who examined Michael Jackson’s body has rubbished a leaked autopsy report, claiming it is “false”.

British tabloids had revealed details allegedly taken from an autopsy report conducted after the King of Pop’s tragic death.

One report indicates four puncture sites were found on the Thriller hitmaker’s chest, believed to be [...]

London, June 27 (ANI): Johnny Depp has laid the blame of turning into a recluse on his fans’ shoulders, saying he cannot bear being gawked.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star said he would much rather stay home in a “dark room” than be mobbed by fans at red carpet [...]

London, June 27 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s former wife and Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie has revealed that the legend feared dying like her iconic father.

She had been married to the legend for less than a couple of years before parting ways in 1996.

She wrote on her MySpace [...]

Brisbane, June 24(ANI): Three weeks after being sent home from the Twenty20 World Cup following indiscipline charges, Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds successfully held on to a self-imposed booze ban before playing for Wynnum-Manly in an All-Stars rugby match in Brisbane.

Symonds showed more discipline preparing for his league [...]

Washington, June 22 (ANI): Katy Perry has revealed that she hits on beautiful and attractive women but insists she’s not lesbian.

The ‘I Kissed a Girl’ singer expressed a desire to flirt with British supermodel Agyness Deyn but says would never go “all the way”.

“I have talked a lot about wanting to kiss girls, but am [...]

Coimbatore, May 5 (ANI): An independent candidate in Coimbatore asked the electorates for votes, carrying his symbol ‘basket’.

The independent candidate Noor Mohammed is contesting elections from two parliamentary seats consisting Coimbatore and Pollachi.

Mohammed and his supporters campaigned on the roads hanging baskets on their necks and shoulders.

While campaigning he was dressed like a tribesman. [...]

London, May 1 (ANI): The ‘world’s tallest man’ has yet to decide if he would like the Guinness Book of Records to officially enter his name in their records.

Zhao Liang, 27, who is from China, is four inches taller than the current holder of the title, 2.36-metre herdsman Bao Xishun, and he needs [...]

London, Apr.28 (ANI): A woman has described how an Indian-origin doctor stroked her hair and massaged her breasts during a visit to his surgery with her young child.
According to The Telegraph, the woman told the General Medical Council (GMC) hearing that she had visited Dr Krishnan Prasad at the Springwell Medical Group surgery in Sunderland [...]