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London, September 12 (ANI): He was born blind and has never seen a single match in his life, but has proved that all one requires to become a great cricket commentator is a mix of erudite descriptions of action, comprehensive knowledge of great players, faultless recall of statistics, and needle-sharp sense of timing and judgment.

Needless [...]

Melbourne, Sep 10 (ANI): While meeting Hollywood’s hottest hunk remains a dream for some, a passenger on a United Airlines flight was able to not only meet actor Brad Pitt but also film him.

Justin Ross Lee was fortunate enough to be seated alongside Pitt on a recent flight from Los Angeles [...]

London, Aug 9 (ANI): ‘Smile’ singer Lily Allen’s alleged new partner Wade Oates is married, it has emerged.

Oates, who is singer with popular New York band The Virgins, made the shocking revelation on his Facebook page.

On the site, thirty two-year-old Wade has admitted to being in a relationship with a fellow New Yorker, Audrey Gelman.

Lily, [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): Alec Baldwin is considering swapping his acting career with a political one in the US, saying he is giving “a lot of serious thought” to the bid.

The 30 Rock star, in an article on his blog, said that serving voters was “a sacred trust” and that he had the “desire” to [...]

London, May 29 (ANI): Former Australian batsman Stuart Law has become the first player to use the new Mongoose blade in a cricket competition.

This latest evolution in cricket bat design has sparked fears that younger players will be turned off bowling.

The Mongoose [...]

London, May 27 (ANI): Renowned short story writer Alice Munro has won the third Man Booker International Prize, beating the likes of Mahasweta Devi and VS Naipaul.

The award, worth 60,000 pounds, is given every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the [...]

Lahore, May 19 (ANI): US journalist Seymour Hersh has contradicted news reports being published in South Asia that quote him as saying a “special death squad” created by former US vice president Dick Cheney had killed Benazir Bhutto.

The award-winning journalist described as “complete madness” the reports that the squad headed by General Stanley McChrystal, [...]

Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf were close to signing an accord to end the decades-old conflict over Kashmir after three years of secret talks but failed to achieve the vital breakthrough, media reports here said.
The peace initiative is described in an article by investigative journalist [...]

New York, Feb 18 (ANI): Sylvester Stallone narrowly avoided hitting a man crossing a street in Beverly Hills while he was driving a ‘totally pimped, all-black VW Phaeton.’

The 62-year-old actor was driving when a man ‘listening to his iPod started crossing Bedford Street with the light in his favour,’ a witness said.

“The car skidded into [...]

New York, Feb.16 (ANI): British novelist Ian McEwan has revealed that he gave Indian-born Salman Rushdie shelter in his Cotswold cottage after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against the latter twenty years ago.

McEwan reveals that Rushdie and he hid away shortly after the fatwa was issued on February 16, 2009 14, [...]

New York, Jan 17 (ANI): American commercial airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger III, who safely crash landed his jet into the Hudson River and saved the lives of 150 passengers and four crew, has become a hero on the internet also.
Sullenberger’s feat received worldwide attention, and he was hailed as a hero in many circles, including [...]