Washington, Nov 17 : Daniel Craig has revealed that British royal Prince Harry would be his ideal man to play movie spy James Bond.
The 007 actor insists the prince would be the perfect replacement as the womanising secret agent because he mixes his dashing looks with a hint of naughtiness.
"I think Prince Harry would make a fantastic James Bond. He''s suave, and just a little bit dangerous,” Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.
London, Nov. 17 : A school in South Wales has been asked by a court to pay 76,000 pounds as legal costs to a Sikh girl who was banned from wearing a religious bracelet.
According to The Sun, fifteen-year-old Sarika Watkins-Singh won a High Court case after being suspended over the silver Kara bangle, which the school said broke its jewellery rules.
The Aberdare Girls School in South Wales may now have to pay her costs too.
Yesterday local Labour MP Ann Clwyd blasted governors for “wasting taxpayers’ money”. She said: “I told them they’d lose.”
In the wake of this verdict, schools in Britain will struggle to enforce rules about uniform, a teachers’ union has warned.
Melbourne, Nov. 17: Controversial Australian cricket all-rounder Andrew Symonds has revealed that his excessive drinking was one of the reasons behind his dramatic fall from grace in Australian cricket.
Symonds, now set to be included in Australia''s starting XI for Thursday''s first Test against New Zealand, was quoted by Fox Sports as saying how he had "turned bad" and started drinking too much following last summer''s controversial Monkeygate affair where he felt he had not been supported by Cricket Australia.
London, Nov 17 : A new study has revealed that a hidden network of glacial lakes far below the Antarctic surface regulates the motion of the continent’s ice rivers.
The study was undertaken by Leigh Stearns of the University of Maine and her colleagues.
According to a report in New Scientist, when the subglacial lakes overflow, the ice above accelerates towards the ocean.
“It’s like putting in a squirt of oil,” said Andy Smith of the British Antarctic Survey. “The water lubricates the base of the glacier,” he added.
Washington, Nov 17 : Aussie actress Nicole Kidman has revealed that she is determined to make her marriage to country music singer Keith Urban last and work out beautifully.
Kidman, 41, who divorced her first husband Tom Cruise in 2001, is very determined and “touches wood” every day for good luck.
The Moulin Rouge star, who married Urban in June 2006, and had their first child daughter Sunday Rose in July this year, insists that she and her husband have to work hard at their marriage if it is going to last the distance.
“We’re both willing to move mountains to make it work and, with that, you still touch wood,” Contactmusic quoted her as telling USA Today newspaper
The 39th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will start from November 22 in Goa. During the film festival, 200 films in various sections from dozen countries will be screened.
The "competition" section will include two Indian entries - S. Priyadarshan's Tamil film "Kanchivaram" and Ramesh Laxman More's acclaimed Marathi film "Mahasatta" along with 13 other films chosen from Bangladesh, Russia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Iran, the Philippines, Argentina, China and Japan.