Halle-Berry Halle Berry’s model ex-boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, is allegedly in possesion of a handful of voicemails, e-mails and text messages displaying fits of rage and name-calling by the actress. According to RadarOnline.com, Aubry is opting not to leak the messages to the media but save them... [Read More]

al-jazeera AJE’s reporting on the unrest in Egypt was the envy of broadcasters the world over, which relied heavily on video feeds from the Doha-based channel. And, needless to say, it was a thorn in the side of the henchmen who run Egypt and who couldn’t yank Al-Jazeera Arabic off Egyptian... [Read More]

Australia Cyclone image Australia yasi cyclone A tropical cyclone that slammed into Australia’s northeast coast overnight caused less damage than first feared, narrowly missing the major city of Cairns after thousands of residents fled amid warnings of monstrous waves and wild winds. Cyclone Yasi,... [Read More]

Australia Cyclone Yasi is a 500km-wide, category 5 tropical cyclone moving in a west-southwesterly direction off the north-east coast of Australia. Meteorologists expect it will make landfall near Innisfail in North Queensland at close to midnight local time. Tropical cyclones (also known as hurricanes... [Read More]

lindsay-lohan LOS ANGELES,Police want to search the California home of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan after naming her Tuesday as a suspect in the theft of “high-end jewelry.” A search warrant for Lohan’s Venice Beach, Calif., home was requested at Los Angeles’ Airport Court Tuesday,... [Read More]

world trade centre A classified US document obtained by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks shows three previously undisclosed participants in the Sept. 11, 2001 plot, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The three Qatari men arrived in the United States on Aug. 15, 2001, conducted surveillance of targets... [Read More]

Supreme Court The Supreme Court once again confronted the government today over the poverty of information about black money sent abroad by Indians. “Is it from arms dealing… drug peddling? These are very serious issues,” the court observed while reprimanding the government for focusing... [Read More]

nuclear-energy ISTANBUL — The United States and other world powers went into another round of talks with Iran here on Friday with low expectations, but with Iran indicating that it would like to make progress on a fuel-swap arrangement originally designed by Washington as a confidence-building measure. The... [Read More]

yeates Miss Yeates, 25, was found dead on Christmas Day, eight days after going missing from her home in Canynge Road in the Clifton area of Bristol. Police have been searching a flat next to Miss Yeates’s, which BBC News understands is home to Dutch national Vincent Tabak. Avon and Somerset Police... [Read More]

abductedchild One of the more remarkable stories of the morning is the news that a woman who was apparently stolen from a New York City hospital as a baby in 1987 has been reunited with her birth mother. Carlina White, now 23 and living in Atlanta after growing up in Bridgeport, Conn., as “Nejdra... [Read More]

ISABELLE-CARO-DEAD Marie Caro, mother of anorexic model Isabelle Caro who passed away last year, has committed suicide, the Daily Mail writes. Isabelle was best-known for her image used in a shock Italian ad campaign (which you can see here) conceived by photographer Olivier Toscani in 2007 under the... [Read More]

For all the progress made by Major League Soccer since it began in 1996, there is not one team in the league that can match the old New York Cosmos for name recognition – not globally and not in the United States. But when the new owners of the Cosmos name announced in August that they planned to bring... [Read More]

cabinet NEW DELHI — Indan Premier Manmohan Singh reshuffled his cabinet Wednesday, switching up some key portfolios including petroleum, civil supplies, consumer affairs, steel and civil aviation. Sharad Pawar, who has been heavily criticized for failing to bring down food prices, keeps his position... [Read More]

earthquake delhi it was in the wee hours of Wednesday morning around 2 am when most of the Delhiites were asleep that a tremor was felt in Delhi which was as a result of 7.4 Richter scale earthquakes in Baluchistan district of Pakistan. As per report of the sources, tremors were felt in other parts of... [Read More]

final-fantasy-xiii-lightning-render2 Square Enix’s splurge of secretive registrations has led to some unexpected fruit. After quietly picking up the trademark for a Final Fantasy Type-0 title and registering a bunch of domains with similar names –– including finalfantasy13-2Game.com ––... [Read More]

steve-jobs-3g-iphone Steve Jobs is the man. As the public face of Apple, the revered visionary and sometimes enfant terrible has shown an ability to dream up, fine-tune, orchestrate and then unleash game-changing technology on the world. The announcement that he’s taken a third medical leave of... [Read More]

maria-s Maria Shriver’s father Sargent Shriver died today, marking the end of his long struggle with Alzheimer’s. He’d been battling the disease since 2003, and passed away at the age of 95. I’ve been reading today about how involved Maria Shriver has been in advocating for Alzheimer’s... [Read More]

al-davis The Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday hired former Raiders head coach Tom Cable to be their offensive line coach/assistant head coach just about the time that Raiders managing general partner Al Davis ripped Cable for his on- and off-field actions the past two years. Cable joined the Raiders in 2007... [Read More]

pakistan Islamabad, Jan 19: Near the borders of Iran and Afghanistan, an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude rocked Pakistan on late Tuesday, Jan 18. The heavy intensity of the quake shuddered India’s capital Delhi, Jaipur and Dehradun. The trembling felt in Dubai also. Earthquake in Pakistan shudders... [Read More]

rudolf-elmer The names of 2,000 secret account holders in Swiss banks, including individuals and corporates from the UK, Asia and the US, were on Monday handed over by a former banker to WikiLeaks. Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Switzerland-based Bank Julius Baer, said these rich account holders... [Read More]

owen-wilson Owen Wilson has become a father. The Little Fockers star’s girlfriend Jade Duell gave birth to a healthy baby boy who they have named Ford Linton Wilson on Friday in Hawaii. The baby, who weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces, was reportedly born naturally via a water birth at their oceanfront home... [Read More]

Martin Luther Dances, drums and dishes of ethnic food were a few of the highlights of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Laconia Middle School on Sunday. This year marks the sixth year of the celebration which has evolved into an annual tradition in the community. It was presented... [Read More]

Uruguay Lightning First it was birds in Arkansas. Then it was fish in Maryland. And now authorities are trying to figure out what killed 200 cows in a pasture in Stockton, Wisc. The owner of the cattle told sheriff’s deputies he suspects the cows died from a virus – most likely IBR (infectious... [Read More]

Tinnitus_normal Scientists have found a way to ease chronic ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus, by stimulating a neck nerve and playing sounds to reboot the brain, according to research published Wednesday. There is currently no cure for tinnitus, which can range from annoying to debilitating and... [Read More]