Deepika had a freak accident while shooting for the song ‘Chor Bazaari’ on the sets of Love Aaj Kal.

In the song Deepika is drunk and dancing wildly in a dhabha on the highway. She climbs on to the table and while dancing falls recklessly into Saif’s arms.

In one particular take, Deepika leaned back to fall into Saif’s arms but instead fell off the table which was on a raised platform 6-7 feet off the ground.

New York - US automotive giant General Motors said Wednesday its sales in 2008 fell 11 per cent, with fourth-quarter sales plunging 26 per cent as the company lost its world top ranking to Japanese competitor Toyota.

Detroit, Michigan-based GM said it sold 8.35 million vehicles last year, of which fourth-quarter sales were 1.7 million.

The 2008 total was some 620,000 lower than Toyota, so that GM for the first time in 77 years ceded its position as the world's largest car manufacturer.

Toyota had previously reported sales of 8.972 million vehicles last year, down 4 per cent from 2007. (dpa)

Washington/Brussels  - Governments around the world have committed at least 4 trillion dollars in the scramble to save banks and other pillars of the world finance industry and free up credit, in the hope of easing a looming global slowdown.

The financial sector has already written down more than 500 billion dollars since late 2006, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected total losses of 1.4 trillion dollars by the time the crisis ends.

Overview of rescue moves by major governments:

On Monday, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic will face justice for war crimes, including genocide, at the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

The trial promises to be the key to understanding the violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia up to 1995, and the brutalities which happened in Bosnia, including the slaughter of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at the hands of Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica in July
1995.

Event:18th Annual MTV Movie Awards - Press Room
Venue & Location:Gibson Amphitheatre / Universal City, CA, USA
Event Date:05/31/2009
Photographer:Bob Charlotte / PR Photos

The S&P futures are giving way to their downtrend lines at a critical juncture after today's data confirmed that America's employment market isn't improving with manufacturing and production.

The futures are playing with fire again, retesting the psychological 875-900 zone as the downside takes a step up in the debate between trends. Our 1st tier uptrend line and June/mid-May lows serve as what may be the last lines of defense between a minor setback and a more protracted sell-off.

London, July 28 : French actress Eva Green has revealed that she can never watch her own sex scenes in the movies, even though she knows they can help her improve her performances.

Green, 29, has filmed intimate moments with her Bond co-star Daniel Craig and Orlando Bloom in 2005's Kingdom of Heaven, but she finds watching herself being intimate with her co-stars a little difficult to handle.

New Delhi, Sep 18 : The Indian Air Force in a significant move today activated its Nyoma Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) to support the Army in carrying out operations in the inhospitable terrain.

An IAF AN-32 aircraft landed at Nyoma ALG, which is located at an altitude of 13,300 feet in Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir, at 6:25 a. m. today. It is located 23 kms from the Line of Actual Control. (LAC).

Melbourne, Oct 31 : A Melbourne woman who spent 60 years of her life in an iron lung has died. She was 83.

June Middleton, who contracted polio at the age of 22, lost her battle at Thornbury nursing home on Friday morning.

Middleton celebrated 60 years with friends and her dog, Angel, by her side at her home at Yooralla''s Ventilator Accommodation Support Service (VASS), reports News. com. au

She also made it to the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 for spending the longest time in an iron lung.

Within a year, the important railway stations in and around the Capital will boast of security similar to the snazzy airports.

Works for a massive upgrade of the security arrangement at the 10 most important stations in Delhi and neighbourhood have started with a sanctioned budget of more than Rs 23 crore.

Apart from the mega-terminal stations like New Delhi, Old Delhi and Nizamuddin, satellite stations such as Ghaziabad and Anand Vihar too will come under the comprehensive security net.

New York, Nov 6: As Barack Obama embarks on his own presidency, he faces the challenge of building a administration that does not look like a third term for former President Bill Clinton as his advisers are divided to have more experienced people or have a fresh team.

During the campaign trail, Obama had argued for months that victory for his opponent John McCain would be akin to a third term for President George W Bush, the New York Times reported.

Jakarta- An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed a man who falsely claimed to have invented a technology to turn water into fuel in a scandal that embarrassed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Judges in Bantul district in Yogyakarta province found Djoko Suprapto guilty of defrauding a university of 1.3 billion rupiah (115,700 dollars) in research funds and sentenced him to three-and-a half years, said Joko Sutrisno, the court's administrative chief.

The court official said the defendant would appeal the verdict.

The Mumbai police on Saturday arrested a Mumbai-based TV actress named Urvashi Dhanorkar for torturing a 10-year-old girl who was employed as a maid at her residence at suburban Versova.

It is learnt that the girl had been beaten up by Dhanorkar about a week ago after she was caught eating some food from the refrigerator. Moreover, the actress did not even allowed the injured girl to go out of the house for several days.

Hong Kong  - A humpback whale separated from a migrating group of the marine mammals was trying to find its way out of busy shipping lanes around Hong Kong, enthralling the former British colony.

The plight of the 10-metre adult whale made television and newspaper headlines in the normally money-obsessed city, providing a welcome distraction from a tide of bleak economic news.

Kampala - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday dismissed threats by Somali insurgents to attack his country, which provides troops to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.

"We know how to attack those who attack us," he told reporters at the end of an AU summit in Kampala. "They should concentrate on solving their problems instead of thinking of attacking Uganda."

Manila  - Libya will beef up its peacekeeping force in the southern Philippines amid fears that hostilities between the military and Muslim separatist rebels would escalate following the pull-out of Malaysian troops, an official said Monday.

Jesus Dureza, presidential adviser on the peace process, said Libya has agreed to send 25 additional peacekeepers to the southern region of Mindanao to help monitor a 2001 ceasefire agreement between Manila and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

The offer came after Malaysia began to withdraw its troops from Mindanao, where they had led an International Monitoring Team (IMT) since 2004. There are six Libyans in the team, while other members are from Brunei, Canada and Japan.

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Venue & Location: Grand Ballroom Renaissance Hotel / Hollywood, CA. USA
Event Date: 1/19/2008
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Washington, Aug 19 : Scientists in the U. S. have discovered that a specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the brain, initiating the deadly infection known as meningitis.

The new finding may lead to the development of improved vaccines to protect those most vulnerable, including young infants and the elderly.

Paris - French shares shrugged off Wall Street's indecisiveness on Friday to end a volatile week on a positive note.

The Paris Bourse's CAC 40 blue-chip index finished Friday's session up 4.68 per cent, at 3,329.92, with advancing issues besting losers by 3 to 1.

Steel giant ArcelorMittal led the advance, gaining 10.57 per cent, to end the week at 22.22 euros. Energy supplier GDF Suez was also sought by investors, climbing by 
10.51 per cent, to 29.39 euros.

New Delhi, Feb 17 : With Pakistan reportedly slating that the Samjhauta Express blast and 26/11 Mumbai attacks were interlinked, India said Pakistan was trying to raise "old" issues.

Pakistani newspaper Dawn, on February 16, quoted Qureshi as saying, "If India wanted to punish the culprits of the Mumbai attacks, it should reply to the 30 questions raised by Pakistan because answers to these questions were necessary for completion of investigation."