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Melbourne, Jan 14 : Fruit smoothies and frappes can contain more kilojoules than a full meal, a study has revealed.

Consumer group Choice analysed 95 drinks sold at a variety of popular chains including Boost Juice, Donut King, Wendys and Gloria Jean’s, finding 81 were high in sugar - at least 7.5g per 100ml, News. com. au reported.

Thirteen of the drinks were more than 1900 kilojoules, or 454 calories - about three times the amount dieticians recommend for a snack.

New York, Jan 14 : Numerous UFOs have been spotted in space near the International Space Station (ISS), a couple of hundred miles above Earth.

Videos have cropped up on YouTube showing images taken by NASA cameras of objects of different shapes, some moving very slowly, others rapidly hurtling through space.

On Christmas Day, YouTube poster Streetcap1 recorded video of a silvery object, moving slowly near the curvature of Earth. At :46 into the following video, the object can be seen in faraway perspective.

New Delhi, Jan 14 : Manohar Lal Sharma, the lawyer of one of the accused charged with the Delhi gang rape case, on Monday alleged that his client was being tortured in police custody.

The six suspects held in connection with the gang rape of the 23-year-old student on a moving bus, were charged with murder following her death.

Manohar Lal Sharma, who is defending Mukesh, brother of the main accused Ram Singh, said that he would base his case on police brutality meted out to his client.

New York, Jan 14 : Jodi Foster, who has long kept her private life as guarded as anyone in Hollywood, came as close as she ever has to outing herself publicly as a lesbian, while accepting the Cecille B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at Sunday night’s Golden Globes.

Foster said that she had a sudden urge to say something that she had never been able to air in public that she is a little nervous about, the New York Daily News reported.

“So I’m just going to put it out there, loud and proud. I’m going to need your support on this. I am… single,” she said, eliciting much laughter and applause.

New York, Jan 14 : Transition to married life is filled with many milestone “firsts,” which strengthen the relationship with a spouse.

The Huffington Post has compiled a list of things that happen for the first time after a marriage:

The first ever fight between a couple is a lot more different and is a lot more charged, the Huffington Post reported.

Secondly, getting together with friends after the wedding is a little strange as some of them may feel that their married-by-30-clock is ticking, or become bitter that the newlyweds have “the perfect life.”

Melbourne, Jan 14 : Kylie Minogue has refuted claims that she is quitting her singing career to focus on acting.

Britain’s Sunday Mirror had earlier reported that the 44-year-old singer had “called a halt to her music career” and would devote herself to acting, under the bombshell headline “Kylie Minogue quits singing.”

The paper also claimed that she had split from her long-time manager Terry Blamey.

The news of Minogue’s retirement from music sent shockwaves across Twitter, with some people questioning the wisdom of such a decision, the Age reported.