Washington, April 10 : ‘Babyshambles’ frontman Pete Doherty nearly lost his arm after contracting an infection in the limb last year.

He has revealed that he had to cancel a number of concerts last December, after being hospitalised with an arm injury.

While not much was divulged about his condition at the time, Doherty has now spoken out about the drastic surgery he had to undergo.

Washington, Apr 10 : Hollywood actor Clive Owen was shocked to learn that his

Washington, Apr 10 : Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock has apparently designed special seat belts for her pet dogs so that they don’t get hurt while riding in the car.

According to her friends, the ‘Speed’ star fears that her pooches, Ruby and Poppy, will be hurt in a collision, after her car was struck by a drunk driver recently.

And that incident, coupled with a plane disaster, which cost her pets a decade ago, has made her strap her dogs up.

"More than 10 years ago, all her dogs died when they rode cargo on an airplane. She was devastated and vowed never to let anything bad happen to her pets again,” Contactmusic quoted a source as telling Star magazine.

Washington, April 10 : Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that more and more women, diagnosed with the earliest stage of breast cancer, are choosing to have both breasts surgically removed.

Dr. Todd Tuttle, an associate professor of Oncologic Surgery, has observed that the rate of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) surgery among U. S. women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) increased by 188 percent between 1998 and 2005.

Washington, April 10 : Experiments on mice conducted by American scientists have shown that transplanted pancreatic precursor cells are protected from the immune system when encapsulated in polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE).

The finding, made by researchers from Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine, suggests a new approach to treating Type 1 diabetes.

New York, Apr 10 : Men at a bar in Big Apple were shocked when they saw French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy cat-walking on TV screens wearing skimpy lingerie.

The regulars at Telephone Bar on Second Avenue saw the former model-turned President's wife strutting down a runway in skimpy lingerie.

"I doubt [French President] Nicolas Sarkozy would like it if he knew that men in bars around town were ogling his wife wearing a G-string and garter belt," the New York Post quoted one beer drinker as saying jokingly.