Imraan Khan and Sonam Kapoor Mumbai: Bollywood actors Imraan Khan and Sonam Kapoor pose for a picture during the launch ceremony of the latest Filmfare magazine. reuters

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Paris Hilton’s TV hunt for pal to hit Dubai
American party girl Paris Hilton is taking her TV reality show and a hunt for a new best friend to the distant shores of Dubai, and will have to tone down some of the progamme’s racier aspects. ‘Paris Hilton My New BFF’ will be modelled on her raunchy MTV series in which Hilton tests women to see if...

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Disney signs up for more ‘Hannah Montana’
Entertainment giant Walt Disney has signed up for a fourth season of hit teen TV series ‘Hannah Montana’ which turned its young star Miley Cyrus into an overnight sensation, reports said. Filming on the new season of the adventures of the schoolgirl, who secretly is a pop star by night, will begin in...

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The city where The Beatles ‘grew up’
There were five of them - not four - and they weren’t yet fab when in 1960 an obscure English band called The Beatles arrived in Hamburg.
Now, 49 years after their fateful arrival that August, this German port city is claiming its place in the history of what became the world’s most successful...

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‘Winnie The Pooh’ back on screens in 2011
‘Winnie The Pooh’, the honey-loving, cuddly bear beloved by generations of children, is to hit the big screen again in 2011 with another animated version of his adventures, US media said. Disney is hoping the new film chronicling the tales of Pooh and his friends, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore,...

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Danny Boyle to produce ‘Paani’
Shekhar Kapur’s long pending project ‘Paani’ is all set to roll. Shekhar’s friend, Danny Boyle - director of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ - will be producing the film. A source said, “Shekhar’s desire to make ‘Paani’ will finally be fulfilled. The film was stuck due to financial problems. When Danny was in...

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Nancy Reagan can ‘see Ronnie’ at night
Nancy Reagan still sees her deceased husband, president Ronald Reagan, when she is alone at night, she said in a newly published magazine interview. “It sounds strange, but I see Ronnie,” Reagan, who turns 88 next month, told Vanity Fair in a rare interview. “At nighttime, if I wake up, I think Ronnie’s...

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63th anniversary of Italy’s birth as a republic
Rome: An Italian special acrobatic airforce unit, ‘Frecce Tricolori’ (Tri-colour Arrows), emits smoke in the colours of the Italian flag over Rome during celebrations marking the country’s Republic Day as the Italian armed forces celebrate the 63th anniversary of Italy’s birth as a republic. afp

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Beatlemania Hamburg: Figures of the English music band The Beatles are on display during a press preview of the ‘Beatlemania’ exhibition. afp

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Twitter treasure hunt for engagement ring
A New Zealand man is staging a treasure hunt on Twitter to get rid of an engagement ring after his proposal was turned down. Anyone keen to pick up the £2,000 diamond ring has to be in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reports. Anthony...

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Russian burglars use Google to raid posh mansions
Russian police have arrested two men who staged audacious robberies in a chic Moscow suburb near the presidential palace after studying satellite images of the area on Google, a newspaper said Tuesday. The men had minutely pored over street pictures hosted on Google Maps and on May 21 raided several...

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Now, a software to change sex!
It’s virtually a face off! Scientists have developed a software which they claim can change the sex of a person on a computer by taking a live video feed of a person talking. The software has been developed by computer scientist Barry-John Theobald at the University of East Anglia in the UK and Iain...

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