Tweet Islamabad : Pakistan has refused Afghanistan permission to import goods from India through Wagah border under the Pakistan-Afghan transit trade agreement. Pakistan refused the demand made by Afghan officials at a meeting in Kabul earlier this week on the ground that the trade agreement was between Pakistan and Afghanistan and India had no role [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : Hollywood actress Kate Hudson has revealed that she is a huge karaoke fan. The actress sings for her role as Stephanie Necrophuros in new musical film “Nine” and admits she was never worried about displaying her vocal talents on the big screen because she likes to sing for fun, reports contactmusic.com. “People [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : Halle Berry says she is more concerned about taking care of her skin rather than dabbing make-up for her public appearances. “I’m not one of those people who opts for plastic surgery, so my philosophy is to take care of what you have. I’m really serious about my skin-care regimen at night. [...]
Continue reading …Tweet New York : Model-singer Carla Bruni, wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has accepted Hollywood filmmaker Woody Allen’s offer to appear in his next film. France’s first lady, who appeared on Canal+ television Monday to perform a cover of the “Beatles’ And I Love Her” with the American entertainer Harry Connick Jnr, said Allen [...]
Continue reading …Tweet London : Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp will feature together in a steamy shower sex scene in their upcoming film “The Tourist”. A draft of the film’s screenplay reveals that there is one naked shower encounter between Jolie’s character Cara Mason and Frank Taylor, played by Depp, reports imdb.com. The script draft [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Washington : The United States will offer a mid-term target for cutting its climate-damaging emissions when world governments meet for the critical UN-backed Copenhagen summit next month, US media has reported, citing a senior administration official. To date, the United States has not offered a 2020 target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Calabasas :Just 10 months after initiating outreach to customers through its National Homeownership Retention Program (NHRP), Bank of America has provided mortgage relief to 100,000 eligible homeowners with certain Countrywide subprime and option-ARM mortgages. According to the bank’s most recent quarterly progress report, more than 31,000 eligible customers received assistance in the third quarter [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Tehran : Tehran has warned that if a uranium exchange deal proposed by the international community failed, Iran would enrich uranium by itself, the official news agency IRNA reported. “If the uranium for the Tehran reactor is not provided via the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), then we will perform the enrichment process at [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Sydney : Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could get his wish and have legislation for a national carbon-trading scheme through Parliament before he attends next month’s climate conference in Copenhagen. Rudd’s Labour government Tuesday sealed a deal with the conservative coalition it beat at the last election that should see rules for a European-style [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Tokyo : Stocks lost ground in Tuesday morning trading in Tokyo due to concerns about the state of government and private sector finances and the stronger yen. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost 50.32 points, or 0.53 percent, to stand at 9,447.36. The broader-based Topix index of all first-section issues was also down [...]
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