Silver Scorpio – International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News

London, Aug 19 (ANI): Rock band Queen’s lead singer Freddie Mercury has walked away with the title of ‘Britain’s Greatest Ever Moustache’ in a new poll.

Mercury has topped the celebrity moustache poll with John Cleese’s moustache in Fawlty Towers occupying the second spot.

The third place went to former Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener [...]

Punjabi University ~ Punjabi University 2009 Education Result ~ Punjabi University 2009 Results ~ Punjabi University BPharm & BPT Entrance Results and Marks of 2009 ~ www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in
Punjabi University, Patiala has declared Results of B.Pharm and BPT Entrance Exam 2009.
These Results are available on Punjabi University Website – http://www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in/
Direct Link to Results – http://www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in/pages/bpharmbpt09.htm
All candidates who [...]

GreenBiz Staff
The Book Industry Environmental Council said today that it has set goals of cutting the U.S. book industry’s greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020 — and slashing them 80 percent by 2050.
In announcing the ambitious targets, the council pointed to a research report last year that found the industry in the U.S. has [...]

Melbourne, Mar 20 (ANI): Australian TV bosses are hoping to cash in on the success of the Oscar-winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ with a revamped version of the quiz show ‘Who wants to be a Millioniare’.

The rags-to-riches tale of a Mumbai slum boy, who [...]

Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): Slumdog Millionaire star Anil Kapoor has asked the parents of his young co-stars to focus on their kids’ education rather than acting careers.

The 52-year-old actor, who played Who Wants To Be A Millionaire TV host in the Oscar winning film revealed that he has already spoken to the children’s parents – [...]

Mumbai, Feb 27 (ANI): A special screening was held for slum kids who were part of cast in the Oscar winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.

Fifteen to twenty of these kids from Dharavi, were treated to a special screening of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ here last evening. An initiative by a local radio station, the experience left the kids [...]

Chennai, Feb 26 (ANI): A. R. Rahman who won Oscars for best original score and best original song in the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has said that the Slumdog kids sharing the platform with Hollywood actors like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is a bigger statement than him winning two Oscars.

Rahman returned to his home [...]

In probably the last pre-poll bonanza, the government may cut diesel price by Rs 2 a litre in a “day-or-two” but there would be no reduction in petrol prices.
Government wants to announce the price reduction, on top of the Rs 4 a litre cut in two installments since December, before General Elections are announced, an [...]

Damascus – Presidents, important US senators, senior officials from the Arab League – lately it seems everyone is courting Syria.
In recent months Damascus has been the centre of a flurry of international diplomatic activity.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited. So did a delegation of European Union officials and foreign ministers. Arab League chief Amr Mussa, [...]

Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday, the second assault on the 3,500-strong force from Burundi and Uganda in three days.
A loud explosion shook a compound housing troops from Burundi and dark smoke was seen rising into the air. The African Union said its site was hit by mortar bombs, [...]

Islamist insurgents killed 11 African Union peacekeepers, all from Burundi, in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday in the deadliest attack on the 3,500-strong force.
The African Union said a compound housing troops from Burundi had been targeted by mortar bombs. Islamist insurgents said two suicide bombers, one in a car packed with explosives, had carried out [...]

Mumbai/New Delhi, Feb 23 (ANI): Krishna Shah, a jury member of Oscar committee today praised ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ which created a sensation by winning eight Oscars.

Talking to mediapersons here, Shah said that the movie has a universal appeal.

“‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a story that any one in the world can identify with. It is a rocking [...]

Mumbai, Feb 23 (ANI): Oscar winning lyricist Gulzar, who shares the ‘Original Song’ award with Bollywood composer, AR Rehman on Monday, said he would love to work with the maestro again.

“It was good to work with him. He is a great composer and I would love to work with him again,” Gulzar said.

Bollywood’s A.R. Rehman [...]

New York/Mumbai, Feb.23 (ANI): Danny Boyle’s movie “Slumdog Millionaire” is a hit across the world, but in India, protesters have taken to the streets to attack the film.
According to the New York Times, several Indians find the word “Slumdog” insulting to slum-dwellers. More generally, the rags-to-riches romance has been called “poverty porn” for the way [...]

Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Music composer A.R. Rahman has said that he identifies himself with Slumdog Millionaire’s hero – the 18-year-old slum boy who overcomes hardships by winning a fortune on Indian version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’

Rahman, who has been nominated in the Oscars for the songs, “O … Saya” and [...]

Tel Aviv – The Israel Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party is the surprise package of Tuesday’s election, a development due mainly to its leader Avigdor Lieberman.
The belligerent hawk has been riding a wave of rising support since a six-month truce in Gaza collapsed in early November, rocket attacks from the strip at southern Israeli [...]

London, Feb 9 (IANS) British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, a rags-to-riches tale of an improbable winner of game show ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, has picked up seven honours at the British Film Academy Awards (Bafta) 2009.
Boyle’s film won seven trophies, including those for best film, best director and best original music score, [...]

London, February 7 (ANI): Punters are upbeat that Danny Boyle’s film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ will clinch the award for Best Film at the Bafta ceremony on Sunday night.

The film’s odds have been slashed to a derisory 1-6, reports Times Online.

The British drama film is an adaptation of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize nominated novel Q and [...]

Cairo – Chief Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad is expected in Cairo for high-level talks with Egyptian authorities Thursday, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
His visit comes after talks between Hamas and Egypt ended on Wednesday without a final agreement on a truce.
Egypt had originally set Thursday as the deadline for Hamas to agree to a [...]

Sana’a, Yemen  – Somalia’s former Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who resigned last month amid an internal power struggle, arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana’a Tuesday seeking political asylum, Yemeni officials and a Somali diplomat said.
Yemeni officials said Yusuf had expressed his wish to receive political asylum in Yemen until he decides a permanent residence.
A [...]