Event:"Laid To Rest" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals
Venue & Location:Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex / Elle Travis
Event Date:4/18/2009
Exclusive / Restrictions:Non-Exclusive Rights Managed Image
Photographer:Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

Sydney - Women's seeds stormed through into the quarter-finals as Lleyton Hewitt made a typical fighting debut on Tuesday at the Medibank International.

The four-time champion, who is playing only his second event since hip surgery in August, had to spend two hours in baking summer heat to overcome Julien Benneteau 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.

The unseeded Australian, trying to lift a ranking which has fallen to 71st, fell behind 1-4 in the first set, which Benneteau won. But Hewitt scrambled back into contention to earn the hard-fought win, through 13 winners and seven aces.

Kiev  - World Trade Organization regulations on reduced tariffs and increased competition went into effect in Ukraine on Friday, extending a ray of hope to hapless Ukrainian consumers up against rocketing inflation, and their leaders facing retribution at the polls.

President Viktor Yushchenko was unequivocal shortly before flying to Geneva in February to sign the final agreement on Ukraine entrance into the WTO, predicting as a
1.7 per cent bump to GDP, and a dramatic downturn in consumer prices, from Kiev's accession to the WTO.

"These are (economic) results that no one can oppose," Yushchenko said.

London, Nov.24 : Illegal immigrants wrongly cleared to be security guards are still in their jobs.

According to The Sun, they were found working with the Metropolitan Police or guarding landmark Whitehall buildings because no proper checks were made on their background.

An Algerian, using a fake French passport, was hired to look after PM Gordon Brown's limo.

But ministers have admitted hardly any of the 5,000 so far identified have been struck off the security industry's register.

Figures yesterday show only 700 licenses have been withdrawn in the past three years.

It raises fears that many are still in sensitive posts - ten days after the Government vowed to close the loophole.

Washington, Dec 16 : "Hell!" is what you say when you don't get the discounted leather jacket you were dying for - just because the sale has ended. Now, a new study has devised a strategy for releasing consumers from "regret lock," which results in not making any purchase because the item they want is no longer deeply discounted.

According to study author Michael Tsiros (University of Miami), retailers have to think about the composition of a second sale, if they want customers who missed the first one to make a purchase.

Panaji, Jan 6 - The Churchill Brothers football team, offloaded from a Kolkata-bound flight in Mumbai after three of its players allegedly molested an airhostess, is sponsored by a sex aphrodisiac manufacturer.

One of the top football clubs in the country, Churchill Brothers had signed a

With the intention to boost its populist schemes, the BJP Government in Chhattisgarh has now decided to offer up health insurance coverage free of cost and cashless treatment facility to 36 lakh families.

Under the proposed scheme, the government will provide annual health insurance coverage of Rs 30,000 to 3.5 million poverty hit families in the state.

Islamabad, May 24: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that he was an elected constitutional President and that he would continue to play his role in this constitutional position.

He also said that he didn’t believe in politics of confrontation and wanted the PPP-led government to focus on improving the deteriorating economic and law and order situation in the country.

New Delhi - At least four suspected separatist militants were killed in two separate gunbattles with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Thursday, news reports said.

Three militants were killed in a clash that took place in the mountainous border district of Poonch, 200 kilometres north-west of the state's winter capital Jammu, in the early hours of Thursday, the IANS news agency reported.

New York - New York City authorities considered Monday to close schools to prevent the swine flu from striking children after eight students at a Queens high school were confirmed sick of disease, reports said. The US government has declared a national public health emergency after tests confirmed 40 people in the United States, including the eight students in New York, have mild cases of the flu.

The Saint Francis high school in Fresh Meadows, Queens, where the eight students were found sick, was closed Monday and Tuesday to allow cleaning crews to sanitize the school.

Lahore, Aug 8: Like the ten Indian parliamentarians who cross-voted during the July 22 Trust Motion moved by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, ahead of Monday’s Impeachment Motion against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, it is expected that a large number of Pakistan lawmakers may too cross the floor.

Cross-voting is expected because the numerical margin in the Pakistan Parliament is very close, said an editorial in the Daily Times.

London, June 27 : In an astonishing revelation found in the memoirs of Christa Schroeder, German dictator Adolf Hitler’s secretary, Hitler often hallucinated about happier romantic times because his doctor often injected him with hormones procured from the testicles of bulls.

According to Schroeder’s book, the Führer’s mood was known to change in the blink of an eye, and his periodic bursts of bonhomie perplexed and overwhelmed most in his inner circle.

Schroeder worked for the Führer from 1933 until the end in May 1945.

Event: "Cloverfield" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals
Venue & Location: Paramount Pictures Lot / Hollywood, CA, USA
Event Date: 1/16/2008
Photographer: © David Gabber / PR Photos

London, April 20 : Bruce Lee''s kung fu master's biopic, `Ip Man', has bagged the Best Picture trophy at the annual Hong Kong film awards.

But other top accolades such as Best Director and Best Actress went to `The Way We Are', based on with the working class neighbourhood.

John Woo''s war epic Red Cliff won several technical awards including the Best Visual Effects category, reports the BBC.

New York, May 10: Veteran Democratic Party Senator Ted Kennedy has already lost favour with Hillary Clinton after he decided not to back her for this year’s bid for the White House.

Now, he has gone one step forward, and said that she wouldn't make a good vice-president because the job requires "real leadership."

"I don't think it's possible. And I think if we had real leadership - as we do with Barack Obama - in the number-two spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful," The New York Daily News quoted him, as saying.

A Kennedy spokesman later clarified that Kennedy thinks Clinton is "more than qualified" to be Vice President.

Event: "A Raisin In the Sun" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals
Venue & Location: AMC Magic Johnson Theater / Los Angeles, CA USA
Event Date: 02/11/2008
Photographer: © Chris Hatcher / PR Photos