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Oxford club under fire for featuring naked wrestling, fetish snake show

London, Nov 11 : A student nightclub in Oxford is under fire for featuring ‘naked wrestling’ and topless women in a ‘fetish snake show’.

The incident has sparked a police probe, with licensing officials checking whether Kukui nightclub breached its operating rules.

The show upset students from Oxford University after being staged just days before the start of its Students Union’s gender equality week.

Rachel Cummings, the OUSU Vice President for Women condemned the evening as “hugely inappropriate.”

“It is unacceptable for club organisers to use women in this way,” The Sun quoted her, as saying.

Angelina Jolie confesses censoring intimate photoshoot with Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt and Angelina JolieLondon, Nov 11 : American actress Angelina Jolie has confessed that she had to censor an intimate photo shoot with actor Brad Pitt.

Pitt, 44, had taken pictures of Jolie, 33, after she gave birth to their twins, for a US magazine, and the snaps had included a picture of his wife breastfeeding.

“We’d look at the pictures as art and say: ‘This is a really interesting photograph’, but then we’d know better and think about how it was going to be received,” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.

Thinking that others would not perceive the pictures as art, the couple decided to tone them down.

Akon wants to play Bond with Lewis Hamilton’s gal as his Bond babe!

Lewis Hamilton, Nicole ScherzingerLondon, Nov 11  Hip hop and R&B singer Akon has revealed that he would borrow F1 champ Lewis Hamilton’s girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger if he ever gets a chance to play James Bond.

Akon is determined to play the secret agent even if he is never offered the role, and he also knows that he would not hesitate to pick ‘Pussycat Dolls’ stunner Scherzinger as his love interest.

“My ideal Bond girl would be Nicole. I think she’d be perfect,” the Sun quoted him a saying.

Robin Williams’s surprise comedy comeback

Robin WilliamsLondon, November 11 : Robin Williams tickled the funny bone of fans in London by returning to the stage with a stand-up performance – three days before his announced comeback.

The actor-comedian was expected to revisit the British stage for the first time in 25 years in London theatre production ‘We Are Most Amused’ on November 12, as partial festivities on the royal occasion of Prince Charles'' 60th birthday.

New therapy to help new mums beat the blues developed

London, Nov 11 : University of Liverpool scientists have devised a new therapy programme that will help depressed new mums in developing countries beat the blues.

Professor Atif Rahman from the School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences was the one who developed the therapy programme while working as a Wellcome Trust Career Fellow in Tropical Medicine in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

"Depression is one of the leading causes of mental illness in the world and when the condition affects mothers with newborn babies, it can lead to serious consequences" Lancet quoted him as saying.

Now, an ''antisocial'' material that can repel both water and oil

London, Nov 11 : It won''t be long when one could have easy-to-clean surfaces that can repel almost all liquids, even oily fluids long noted for their ability to foul water-repellent surfaces - thanks to US chemists who have developed "omniphobic" material that repels both water and oil.

And scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, even coined a new word to describe their creation - "omniphobic" - meaning it hates everything.

The material has a surface texture that can force away watery and oily liquids into tight droplets.

The material''s surface consists of 300-nanometer-tall "toadstools" with broad silicon dioxide caps and narrow silicon stems.

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