Tweet London : Colombian pop star Shakira has revealed she was overweight as a teenager but was too focused on becoming a successful singer to care about her looks. “As a teenager I was plump but my appearance wasn’t so important at that time. I focused much more on my music and song writing… I [...]
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Tweet Islamabad : Pakistan’s army Wednesday expressed “serious concern” over a US financial aid package that critics say has conditions that compromise the sovereignty of the Muslim country. The US Congress last week approved a bill to provide Pakistan $1.5 billion annually for the next five years for social and economic assistance. The army described [...]
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Tweet Beirut: Clashes erupted Wednesday evening in the northern port city of Tripoli between followers of Lebanon’s parliamentary majority and others loyal to the Hezbollah-led opposition, leaving eight people wounded, Lebanese police said. The violence started when a rocket-propelled grenade hit Al Ashkar cafe in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, followed by a hand grenade that [...]
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Tweet New York :US stocks posted mixed results Wednesday as Wall Street braced for the start of the third-quarter earnings season in the US. Financial firms posted gains, but telecommunications companies were down on a light trading day in New York. The release of third-quarter earnings began after markets closed, with aluminium giant Alcoa Inc [...]
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Tweet Los Angeles : Authorities in the US and Egypt have arrested about 100 individuals in an international phishing scheme, the FBI said Wednesday. The suspects were indicted by a grand jury in California following a two-year investigation code-named Phish Phry that was thought to be the largest cybercrime investigation in the US. According to [...]
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Tweet Washington : The US federal budget deficit tripled to about $1.4 trillion for fiscal year 2009 in the midst of the worst economic decline since the Great Depression, the office that keeps track of spending for Congress said Wednesday. The figure represented about 9.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the highest percentage since [...]
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Tweet New York : The massive food scarcity in India due to floods and drought is impacting hundreds of millions, derailing ongoing humanitarian work by years and adding to other serious socio-economic woes, warns the US-based non-profit World Vision. The failure of the monsoon in north, northeast and some parts of western India, has led [...]
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Tweet MIPCOM, Cannes : Southern Star Singapore, Southern Star Entertainment (Australia) and Nord Deutscher Rundfunk (Germany) today launched their US$9million international co-production of A gURLs wURLd, a children’s live-action series supported by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) and Screen Australia, Australia’s film and television agency. A gURL’s wURLd, distributed by Endemol Worldwide Distribution, [...]
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Tweet Washington : India’s dramatic rise on the global stage has made a leading American university to launch the Year of India, an initiative to better understand the country and its growing impact around the world. The lineup of events during the 2009-2010 academic year at Providence, Rhode Island, based Brown University includes major public [...]
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Tweet Istanbul: Climate change could depress the economic output of Africa and South Asia by as much as five percent per year, the World Bank warned Sunday. The effects of a warming of the Earth’s temperature by even two degrees Celsius could put up to 400 million people at risk of hunger and leave up [...]
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