Tweet New York : Most US stocks fell Tuesday as consumer confidence dropped for the second straight month. The private Conference Board’s index stood at 47.7 in October, down 5.7 points from the previous month. Rising unemployment played “a major role in this grimmer assessment”, said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board’s research centre. [...]
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Tweet London :Former “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston has revealed she is scared of botox because it makes people “look harder” and incapable of expressing emotion. The Hollywood star who has previously confessed to having the skin-smoothing injections once before, but didn’t like the results, hates how it takes the character from people’s faces and leaves [...]
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Tweet London : Socialite Paris Hilton fled from boyfriend Doug Reinhardt’s birthday party after seeing her ex-boyfriend Benji Madden was booked to perform there. Hilton whisked Doug to Las Vegas for the weekend to celebrate his 24th birthday and watch his friends Taintsticks in action at the Hard Rock Hotel. However, her joy turned to [...]
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Tweet London : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie slept with her mother’s boyfriend when she was 16 years old, claims a biography. According to the book being written by Andrew Morton, the star had intimate relations with her mother Marcheline’s live-in lover. “Marcheline had a live-in boyfriend whom she was very much in love with, but [...]
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Tweet London :After complaining about the music industry, British singer Lily Allen is setting up her own record label. Despite two hit albums and several singles that topped UK top 10, Allen has been hinting at her dissatisfaction with the industry, reported mirror.co.uk. “I’m setting up a record label at the moment, getting involved in [...]
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Tweet New Delhi : India and US have made progress towards finalising a framework agreement on trade and investment, which will be signed soon, said visiting US Trade Representative Ron Kirk here Monday. “We have made great progress towards a formal framework towards cooperation on trade and investment which we hope to sign in the [...]
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Tweet New York : US stocks began the week with a selloff, fuelled by drop Monday in energy companies, home builders and financial shares. Crude-oil prices plunged more than two percent in New York trading, pushing down oil firms. Other commodities producers lost ground amid drops in copper and gold prices. Housing-related shares declined as [...]
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Tweet Manila : Visiting US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has said his government is seeking partnership with the Philippines in biofuel research. Speaking at a press conference Monday, Vilsack said both countries recognise the need to cooperate more intensively in energy security, especially in the development of renewable energy resources and alternative fuels, Xinhua reported [...]
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Tweet Minsk : Belarus’ government is hoping for quick profits, and a boost to rural incomes, from massive colonies of snails crawling around free in the wild, officials said. “They (snails) are here, in our forests, just waiting to be picked up,” said Natalia Minchanka, a government field and stream inspector, in an interview with [...]
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Tweet Lima : Peruvian President Alan Garcia has announced the construction of 100 dams and 30 reservoirs, projects that the government forecasts will be concluded by the end of 2010. “We have to scatter the water all across Peru because that’s going to protect our children from the warming of the earth,” said Garcia Monday [...]
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