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Spielberg teams up with 'Jurassic Park' kid

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

London: American director Steven Spielberg has cast "Jurassic Park" child star Joe Mazzello in his new World War II mini-series "The Pacific".Mazzello was just nine wh....

Aniston denies fake romance with Butler

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

London: Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston has slammed rumours that she is pretending to date co-star Gerard Butler to promote their movie "The Bounty Hunter"."They think t....

Peter Andre's vocal woes

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

London: Singer Peter Andre, who is currently on "The Revelation Tour", is curing his throat problem by eating Japanese honey."My tour is still going really well but I had a....

Early Iraq poll results show tight race

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

Baghdad: As early results from Iraq's parliamentary elections trickled in, leading politicians Saturday began what promised to be complicated negotiations on forming a government.Ir....

Swat, Lahore blasts claim 71 lives (Third Lead)

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

Islamabad: A suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in a crowded area in Pakistan's Mingora town in the restive Swat Valley Saturday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 52, a day after twi....

Roadside bomb kills six civilians in Afghanistan

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

Kabul: Six civilians were killed and one injured as a roadside bomb went off in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province Saturday, a statement from the interior ministry said."The tra....

New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) It's raining awards for Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan this year. The veteran is set to add another feather to his cap with the lifetime achievement award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. "The Hong Kong's Asian Film Festival now wishes to honour me before the end of the month. And so soon after I leave the picturesque shores of Oman, I should be heading further east to receive what I believe, not so much a personal recognition, but one that comes to me as a member of the film industry of India and indeed India itself," the 67-year-old posted on his blog bigb.bigadda.com. "Yet another moment when the Indian tricolor shall earn recognition on foreign soil. A moment of pride for me, a fraternity of which I am part and a country whose citizenship I cherish," he added. Amitabh was honoured with the lifetime achievement award at this year's Apsara Awards and Muscat Film Festival as well, besides winning several awards for best actor.

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

Bareilly: Tension continued in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, parts of which have been under curfew for 12 days, following the fresh outbreak of trouble in which 15 people were injured the day be....

Chile will take years to recover from quake impact: president

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

Santiago: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has said the Feb 27 earthquake and the following tsunami had cost the nation tens of billions of dollars and left an impact that would be felt for years.<....

Best treatment for childhood epilepsy suggested

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

London: One of the oldest available anti-seizure medications, ethosuximide, is the most effective treatment for childhood absence epilepsy, a new study says.The study group compared three....

Pakistan Air Force to conduct massive exercise

13-Mar-2010 | RSS

Islamabad: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) will conduct its biggest exercise in the third week of this month. It will cover the entire country from Skardu in the north to Arabian Sea in the south and will l....