London: It might have been a decade since they split but actor Hugh Grant and actress Elizabeth Hurley are still very good friends. The pair, who dated for more than 13 years before splitting in 2000, proved that their friendship is still strong as they were seen enjoying at a party organised by Hurley in [...]
Los Angeles: Actress Demi Moore couldn’t care less if husband Ashton Kutcher was looking – she went ahead and had great fun dirty dancing with rapper Snoop Dogg in Las Vegas. The actress displayed her dance moves during Snoop Dogg’s performance this weekend, reports aceshowbiz.com. Moore, who wore a black mini dress with a revealing [...]
Washington : Women who don’t breastfeed their babies are more at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, later in life than mothers who did. “We have seen dramatic increases in the prevalence of type-2 diabetes over the last century,” said Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology, and [...]
Washington : The US said Monday it has imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities connected to North Korea. The Treasury Department said the four individuals and eight entities being designated will face travel ban and assets freeze for providing support to the country’s nuclear programme, Xinhua reported. The new sanctions are seen as a [...]
Washington : US President Barack Obama was to mark the formal end of the US combat role in Iraq with a visit Tuesday to a Texas military base and a major evening televised address. Obama is expected to hail the transition to an Iraqi-led, civilian-led effort as a major milestone in the seven-year US war [...]
Buenos Aires :Iconic Argentine football player Francisco Varallo, the last surviving participant of the first World Cup, died Monday at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 100. Varallo was the youngest player in the Argentine national squad that lost to Uruguay by a score of 4-2 in the final of the first World Cup, [...]
Washington : Former US Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, is returning to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading US think tank to focus on American foreign policy toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Naming Blackwill, a deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, as Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow [...]
Washington : There was no change in the US’ plans to extradite Russian businessman Viktor Bout, suspected of illegal arms trade from Thailand, the US Department of State said. “As far as I know, he remains in Thailand, and we look forward to having him in a courtroom here in the US,” Philip Crowley, the [...]
London : The match fixing scandal could hit aid for victims of floods that have ravaged Pakistan, feared a British MP who added that it was “absolutely the worst thing that could have happened now”. Khalid Mahmood, a Labour MP from Perry Barr in Birmingham, said: “It’s very damaging to Pakistan, especially to the [...]
Toronto : Microsoft, which lost its patent battle over Word processing software to a tiny Toronto firm i4i Inc. and was ordered to pay $290 million in damages last year, has taken the matter to the US Supreme Court. The Canadian company had taken the software giant to court in 2007 over violations of its [...]