Lakme Fashion Week
Mumbai: (L to R) Gauri Khan, Preity Zinta and Suzanne Roshan pose after watching Manish Malhotra’s show on the fourth day of Lakme Fashion Week. reuters
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Sanjay Dutt banned from elections
India’s supreme court refused to suspend the conviction of Bollywood film star Sanjay Dutt, ending his attempt to win a seat in upcoming general elections. Dutt, who is on bail over a weapons conviction, had been campaigning to represent the city of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh state on behalf of the socialist... 
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Hollywood music composer Maurice Jarre passes away
Tributes poured in for Maurice Jarre, the Oscar-winning French composer of music scores for such timeless
films as Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, who died at age 84. Jarre died in Los Angeles early Sunday after suffering from cancer, a spokesman for his son Jean-Michel Jarre said.
One...
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Indonesia’s singing serial killer eyes ‘pop stardom’
For a man facing the death penalty, alleged serial killer Verry Idham Henyansyah reveals more than a little gallows humour in the title of his upcoming album, My Last Performance.
The smooth-faced 31-year-old has already achieved national infamy with his confessions to a series of grisly murders...
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A commemorative golden medal picturing US President Barack Obama
Czech Republic: A commemorative golden medal picturing US President Barack Obama is displayed at a mint factory in Jablonec. A total of 500 golden medals are being issued to commemorate President Obama's visit to the Czech Republic from April 4 to 5, 2009 during which he will attend the EU-USA Summit....
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Churchill’s whisky and cigar breakfast
Winston Churchill wrote his own breakfast menu - including whisky and a cigar - on his last official flight to the US.The breakfast menu on the 1954 BOAC flight was not to the Prime Minister’s liking so he wrote one out himself.He requested a two-course meal to be brought on two trays, reports the Daily...
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Aqua coach launches
The world’s first amphibious coach has been launched, allowing bus passengers to take to the waves. The Amphicoach, which carries up to 50 passengers, is the brainchild of Scotsman George Smith.
The vehicle drives like a traditional coach until it reaches water, where its makers say it exhibits...
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New robot ‘steered by human thought’
Japan’s Honda said Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person’s brain activity and sends signals to the machine.
The latest version of ASIMO — the celebrity robot of Honda Motor Co. that can already dance, run and guide guests...
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Sniffer rat
A Cornish animal expert is training a rat to detect landmines in Mozambique. Rats have a highly acute sense of smell - and are small enough not to detonate mines when they find them. Kofi, a Gambian pouched rat, will alert his handlers to any device by sitting on it until it is defused, reports The...
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Gucci Spring/Summer 2009 collection
Singapore: A model walks the runway during a presentation of the Gucci Spring/Summer 2009 collection at the Capella Hotel. reuters
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Lemon cola becomes holy water
Priest Paal Dale from the town of Stord, about 150 miles west of the capital Oslo, improvised during a recent cold-spell by dabbing the lemon fizzy water on a baby during a baptism ceremony, it said. “It had gone flat,” Dale was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “Only the lemon smell made this unusual.”...
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