Melbourne, Nov. 18: A cocktail party on Monday helped heal Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds strained friendship with teammate and vice-captain Michael Clarke.
A leadership group featuring Clarke sensationally sent Symonds home from a one-day series against Bangladesh in Darwin in September after he skipped a team meeting to go fishing. Symonds later admitted that he had gone on a drinking binge after last year’s hostile series against India and was prone to aggravated behavior.
London, Nov 18: Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has expressed shock and confusion over Lindsay Lohan’s alleged vulgar remark about her, insisting that she barely knows her.
Apparently, the ‘Mean Girls’ actress scribbled "Scarlett is a bloody c**t" with a permanent marker on a New York City bathroom hall before exiting the place in 2006.
The ‘Manny & Lo’ actress is still baffled by the lewd remark, as Lohan has met her only thrice.
Melbourne, Nov. 18: New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori has described his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting, all-rounder Andrew Symonds and opener Matthew Hayden as world cricket''s most aggressive nigglers.
Vettori also ruffled more feathers when he claimed Ponting was often "spoiling for a fight".
He also insisted that he was not surprised that last summer''s volatile battle between Australia and India had descended into a bitter slanging match.
The Maharashtra state’s ban on the screening of Kamaal Khan’s ‘Deshdrohi’, under Section 6 of the Bombay Cinema Regulation Act, will continue for the present, as the Bombay High Court on Monday refused to interfere with the state’s order. Nevertheless, a division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Sharad Bobde asked the government to give a hearing to the film’s producer and pass a fresh order by November 20.
New York, November 18: Actress Heather Locklear has been charged with a misdemeanour driving under the influence of prescribed drugs following her arrest in September.
The ‘Firestarter’ star was arrested, and later released, in Santa Barbara County, after a paparazzo reported her ‘erratic’ driving to the cops on September 27.
Locklear was handcuffed by a California Highway Patrol officer who saw her parked car blocking a freeway traffic lane in Montecito and determined her ‘obvious impairment’.
Taipei - Taiwan stocks finished 3 per cent lower Tuesday as uncertainties over the island's and the global economy dampened investor sentiment, dealers said.
The benchmark Taiex index dropped 134.62 points, or 3.03 per cent, to close at 4,305.18.
Taiex opened sharply lower in reaction to Wall Street's overnight fall, caused by US banking giant Citigroup's announcement of massive lay-offs.