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Slumdog star Rubina Ali''s dad puts her on sale for £200k

Slumdog star Rubina Ali''s dad puts her on sale for £200kLondon, Apr 19 : ''Slumdog Millionaire'' child actress Rubina Ali''s instant success has made her dad so greedy that he has decided to put her on sale.

In a bid to cash in on Rubina''s international stardom, father Rafiq Qureshi has put her up for adoption, demanding nearly 200,000 pounds.

He offered the deal to News of the World''s undercover fake sheik.

"Yes, we are considering Rubina''s future," Rafiq told the undercover.

German workers often baffled by office PC software

German workers often baffled by office PC softwareLondon/Cambridge  - Many office workers in Germany struggle to understand complicated PC software designed for office usage, according to a survey by Global Solutions in Cambridge.

The survey, carried out among 1,015 office workers this February, showed that four out of 10 found the software at their workplace difficult to use.

Many of those quizzed believe that such user-unfriendliness has a negative effect on work performance, with 22 per cent claiming to lose up to five hours of work time a week as a result.

Drogba puts Chelsea into FA Cup final with win over Arsenal

Didier DrogbaLondon  - Didier Drogba snatched the winner seven minutes from time as Chelsea edged out Arsenal 2-1 at Wembley to reach the FA Cup final.

The striker pounced after Florent Malouda had equalized Theo Walcott's deflected early strike to set up a final against either Manchester United or Everton, who meet on Sunday.

Arsenal left Andrei Arshavin and Samir Nasri on the bench at the start but it mattered little as Walcott put them ahead, with a strike that deflected off Ashley Cole's hand.

That came after 17 minutes and neither side was at their fluent best as chances came and went.

British police face yet another probe into G20 summit behaviour

London - British police confirmed Saturday they were probing yat another case of possible excessive use of force in crowd control during the recent G20 summit in London.

A Scotland Yard spokesman declined to give details, but local media reports said it appeared to involve claims by a man who had been hit on the head and thrown to the ground by police.

Confirmation of the latest probe followed a report Friday that a second postmortem had revealed that man a who died after being pushed to the ground by police at the London summit died of internal bleeding, not a heart attack as previously said by police.

Middlesbrough deep in the mire after draw with Fulham

Middlesbrough deep in the mire after draw with Fulham London - Middlesbrough's hopes of avoiding relegation from the English Premier League suffered another blow on Saturday as they were held to a goalless draw at home by Fulham.

Victory could have lifted them out of the bottom three, but with Sunderland beating Hull City 1-0, they are now still four points away from safety, although they did move above Newcastle United into 18th place.

Djibril Cisse's goal, just before half-time, gave Sunderland all three points against Hull, who are now just two places above the bottom three themselves.

Aamir Khan next on the list to be ‘waxed’ at Tussaud's

Aamir KhanAccording to information from a source close to Bobby Khan, who supervises the 'Bollywood' segment at Madame Tussaud's in London, the next Indian actor likely to be 'waxed' at the famous wax museum is Aamir Khan.

The source said: "Aamir is popular and a Bollywood A-lister. He is definitely next!"

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