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Rome (Italy), Nov.8 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of planning more than a dozen foreign trips in an attempt to ensure that two trials, in which he is to be accused of bribery and fraud, move so slowly that the judges will have to abandon them.
Two cases against him will be [...]
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Nov 7 (IANS) With new players like India and Brazil taking a seat at the table of global influence, the international system that emerged at the end of World War-II is being transformed, according to the top US intelligence official.
“We have some new players - Brazil and India - that now [...]
London, Nov 7 (ANI): Many people describe sex as a mind-blowing experience, but for one woman it turned to be mind-erasing.
An American woman, 59, known only as Alice, suffered a sudden attack of amnesia after enjoying a steamy romp with her husband.
Called “transient global amnesia” or TGA, the sudden loss of memory is caused [...]
London, November 7 (ANI): Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge has been crowned the new Miss England after former winner Rachel Christie withdrew from the title.
Christie, who was the first black woman to be crowned Miss England, stepped down following her arrest over an alleged fight with Miss Manchester Sara Beverley Jones in a nightclub.
Contest organisers announced [...]
London, Nov 6 (THAINDIAN NEWS) According to the BBC news, 21 year old Miss England Rachel Christie, the first Black lady to be crowned Miss England, gave up her title after being arrested on suspicion of committing assault at a nightclub.
They say she gave up her crown so she could concentrate on clearing her name [...]
Vilnius (Lithuania), Nov 6 (DPA) US ice dancing star Katherine Leigh Copely has lost her bid to gain Lithuanian citizenship and thus her ability to represent Lithuania in next year’s Olympics.
Copley’s application for Lithuanian citizenship was rejected by the Baltic state’s President Dalia Grybauskaite, the president’s press office confirmed Friday.
“President Dalia Grybauskaite has decided to [...]
Munich, Nov 6 (DPA) Fashion designer and filmmaker Willy Bogner will head Munich’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, the committee said Friday.
Bogner, 67, will be CEO of the bid committee from November 15 onwards as Munich tries to land the Games in the International Olympic Committee election in 2011. The other bidders [...]
Basle (Switzerland), Nov 6 (DPA) Roger Federer looks to be ready to fulfill his pledge to play in the 2012 London Olympic event at Wimbledon after hiring a full-time physio from the ranks of the ATP.
The 28-year-old world number one has taken on Stephane Vivier, one of seven ATP physios, to travel with him [...]
Washington, Nov.5 (ANI): The Politico web site has spoken to a dozen political insiders and pulled together a list of President Barack Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year.
Ten Worst:
1. Obama saying the Cambridge cops acted “stupidly” in arresting Henry Louis Gates.
As Obama took the side of an old [...]
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Cricket and tennis thought to be the sports where performance-enhancing drugs would not work. The myth has been broken in tennis and cricket, too, has had its share of doping cases leading to the International Cricket Council (ICC) signing the re-drafted World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code in January.
There was a [...]