Event : Hilary Duff signs copies of her "Elixir" at Anderson's Bookshop
Venue & Location : Chicago, USA
Event Date : 16.10.10
Credit: IANS-WENN

London, Mar 11 : Madonna was seen sporting a sexy schoolgirl outfit at a fancy dress party.

The ‘4 Minute’ hitmaker wore a dark wig, Converse baseball boots and fishnets for the bash to mark the Jewish celebration of Purim at the Kabbalah centre in New York, reports The Mirror.

The eighties-style outfit, finished off with stripey arm warmers and a smiley face signet ring.

New York, Apr 13 : An ex-follower of Sri Chinmoy has revealed in a new book that the Queens guru was actually a Svengali-like control freak who told his disciples sex was bad, forbade them to have friendships, and kept a zoo of exotic animals in his basement.

In the book titled `Cartwheels in a Sari', out from Harmony, Jayanti Tamm has called his following a "cult".

Chinmoy lived with his disciples in an ashram in Jamaica. He declared himself a living god, had thousands of followers, and hobnobbed with countless celebrities.

Chandigarh/Amritsar, June 23: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has convened a meeting of the core committee of the party here today to discuss the situation arising out of Saturday’s firing incident that took place in Mumbai.

Party President Sukhbir Singh will preside over the meeting. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is expected to attend the meeting.

On Sunday, Sikhs spearheading protests against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, chief of Dera Sacha Sauda sect, decided to intensify their protests if the government failed to meet their demand.

Lucknow, July 18 : A Moradabad district court on Saturday granted interim bail to Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi till July 29.

Joshi was granted bail on a surety of Rs 30,000.

Joshi, 60, had approached the court yesterday after Chief Judicial Magistrate K K Shrivastava had turned down her bail plea and remanded her to judicial custody for 14 days in Moradabad.

Event : Ed Westwick To mark the launch of the new Nokia N8 handset, the mobile phone brand is inviting members of the public to enter a competition to star in a short film alongside Ed Westwick and Pamela Anderson. The clip, directed by the McHenry Brothers (Jack Boots on Whitehall), is split into two steamy scenes: in the bedroom with Pamela and a lift with Ed. The two cameo roles are up for grabs via the competition sites www.starwithpam.com and www.starwithed.com, and the end result is premiered at a star-studded
Venue & Location : London
Event Date : 11.09.10
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Event:Hollywood Life's 11th Annual Young Hollywood Awards - Arrivals
Venue & Location:The Eli and Edyth Broad Stage/Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center / Santa Monica, CA. USA
Event Date:6/7/2009
Photographer:Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

Buenos Aires  - There is probably no such thing as a good year for a person who is being held hostage in the jungle, sick, in chains or barefooted among other terrible conditions.

And yet 2008 has seen great developments in the Colombian conflict, even as some 700 hostages remain held by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The current year featured unilateral releases by the rebels and crucial rescues, including that of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, the most high-profile hostage held by FARC.

It also saw key developments and changes within FARC as an armed organization, including the death of its founder and second-in- command, that may yet bear fruit in the years to come.

Hong Kong  - A Hong Kong teenager has filed for bankruptcy after running up loans amounting to 14,000 US dollars in a suspected pyramid scheme scam, a news report said Saturday.

The 19-year-old borrowed the money from three credit companies in November after signing a contract with a company to distribute red wine, perfume and cosmetics.

Chief executive officers who appear competent, who look the part, earn more money than less competent-looking CEOs, U. S. researchers have found.

London, Mar 16 : Hollywood actor Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter stunt double David Holmes ended up getting paralysed while performing a stunt for the forthcoming flick `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'.

David Holmes fell from a harness at Leavesden Studios while practicing a stunt, which involved flying.

His family were confident that he would recover soon and get back to work.

New York  - The United Nations on Monday appealed to the Israeli government to institute longer lulls in the fighting so more humanitarian assistance can be provided to the population in Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Defense Forces repeated a three-hour lull on Monday to allow dozens of trucks carrying relief supplies to enter Gaza. But John Holmes, the coordinator for UN humanitarian operations, said the lull should last 24 hours and be renewed.

"The three-hour lulls have continued but they are far from satisfactory," Holmes said at UN headquarters in New York. "The time has changed and in some occasions have caused confusion for aid agencies and the population, of course."

Oranjemund, Namibia - The archeologists are into raptures about the close to 500-year-old shipwreck currently being removed from the seabed off Namibia's southern coast.

"This is a world heritage that needs to be carefully preserved," says Bruno Werz, the archeologist leading the excavation. His colleague, Francisco Alves agrees, saying the find provides a window into bygone times of seafarers and discoverers.

Their work is concentrated around the wreck of a Portuguese merchant ship discovered along a restricted area seven metres below sea level on the treacherous Atlantic coast about 160 kilometres south of Luederitz.

London, Mar. 10: Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has rejected Hillary Clinton's suggestion that he stand as her vice-president on a Democratic "dream ticket".

After bouncing back from defeats last week to claim an easy victory in Wyoming at the weekend, Obama said: "You won't see me as a vice presidential candidate. I'm running for president. We have won twice as many states as Senator Clinton, and have a higher popular vote, and I think we can maintain our delegate count."

Raipur, Nov 7 - Three people, including the Chhattisgarh health services director, have been arrested on charges of fraud in the purchase of costly medical equipment, police said Saturday.

Director B. S. Sarwa and former health services director D. K. Sen and a storekeeper of the health department were taken into custody Friday from different locations for their alleged role in the purchase of medical equipment such as colour doppler machine in violation of tender rules.

Event:   Saddle Up LA 2011 AIDS Fundraiser and "Mr. and Mrs. Perfect Creature" Final Casting Call - Arrivals
Venue & Location:   Ingrid's Cafe / Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Event Date:   07/02/2011
Photographer:   Daniela Hubbard / PR Photos

Washington, Aug 11 : American TV mogul Oprah Winfrey has rubbished accusations of plagiarism and insists that she only came to know of the lawsuit filed against her when the 1-trillion-dollar lawsuit was dismissed by the court.

A U. S. tabloid had alleged last week that author Damon Lloyd Goffe had filed a case against Winfrey for plagiarising his book A Tome of Poetry in her internet-published Pieces of My Soul.

The National Enquirer claimed to have access to the lawsuit filed by Goffe at the District of Columbia Court on July 31 wherein he had alleged of a confession of plagiarism by Winfrey.