Washington, Apr 10 : Pop queen Madonna’s adoption bid got a boost after Malawi’s Human Rights Commission decided to investigate the well being of the child at the orphanage.
A judge had turned down the Material Girl’s request of adopting four year old Mercy James because she hadn’t lived in the country for 18 months.
Madonna has launched an appeal against the court''s ruling, and now the Malawi Human Rights Commission has stepped into the debate.
Washington, April 10 : High School Musical star Zac Efron has revealed that he wants to play Luke Skywalker in George Lucas'' new Star Wars TV series.
The actor loved the chance to play with props from the original ''Star Wars'' franchise in his current movie ''17 Again'' and says he would jump at the chance to play one of the sci-fi programme''s most famous characters.
Washington, Apr. 10 : With the Pakistan Government giving its nod to the Taliban demand for Sharia courts in the Malakand region of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), various religious parties are demanding the imposition of Islamic laws across the province.
Leader of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami, Hamidul Haq Haqqani told a US daily that the implementation of sharia would allow the government to establish peace in the region.
Haqqani asserted that Islamic law should be implemented despite the opposite from the US.
Washington, Apr 10 : The Central Intelligence Agency has said that it would decommission the secret overseas prisons where it subjected al Qaeda prisoners to brutal interrogation methods, bringing to a symbolic close the most controversial counter-terrorism program of the Bush Administration.
CIA Director Leon E. Panetta however said agency officers who worked in the program "should not be investigated, let alone punished" because the Justice Department under then President George W. Bush had declared their actions legal.