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Mischa Barton to gain weight for new role

Mischa Barton to gain weight for new roleLondon, Mar 19 : Hollywood actress Mischa Barton will be gaining weight for the role of a supermodel in a forthcoming show.

According to reports, Barton was firmly told by the show bosses that she would get to play the role in the show only if she got rid of her skinny frame.

"The producers are very mindful that their target audience is teenage girls so it''s important to not send out the wrong message, " the Daily Express quoted a source as saying.

Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady plan a second wedding

Washington, Mar 19 : Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who recently walked down the aisle with husband Tom Brady, is allegedly planning a second wedding ceremony.

North Korea detains two American journalists

North Korea detains two American journalistsWashington, Mar. 19 : North Korean soldiers have detained two American journalists and their guide while they were on a reporting trip near the country''s border with China, according to the State Department and their employer, Current TV.

U. S. State Department spokesman Fred Lash confirmed to CBS News Thursday that two Americans had been detained near the China-North Korea border two days earlier.

Archaeologists find statue of ancient Yemeni queen

Archaeologists find statue of ancient Yemeni queenWashington, March 19 : A Yemeni archaeologist team has discovered a mosaic statue of an ancient queen sitting on a throne with her chest engraved with Musnad letters.

The archaeologists also found other relics including a stone board with faith signs engraved on it.

“Two pulls separated by a tree were carved on the stone board, a symbol that was known as “Life’s Tree” in ancient Yemeni civilization,” said Ali al-Sanabani, director of the authority.

Other symbols like crescent were imprinted on the disocvered relics.

Barack Obama tops Rolling Stone’s ‘100 Agents of Change’ list

 Barack Obama tops Rolling Stone’s ‘100 Agents of Change’ listNew York, March 19 : Barack Obama has topped Rolling Stone’s list of ‘100 Agents of Change’, featuring those who “have powerful ideas” rather than the conventional meaning of the word.

The U. S. President grabbed the top spot followed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were hailed as “Lewis and Clark of the Internet”.

Ponzi schemer Madoff being treated like a `lab rat’in prison

New York, Mar. 19 : Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is being treated like a `lab rat’ in the super-max wing of the Manhattan federal lockup.

The unit is said to be so tough that it drives hardened criminals mad, the New York Daily News reports.

The unit is known as 10 South as it is located on the 10th floor of the lockup and houses the city''s toughest mobsters and most bloodthirsty terrorists.

Madoff, 70, has had to forget that he was once a vaunted Wall Street financier entrusted with billions of investment dollars.

The lights in the block burn 24 hours a day, and an inmate''s every move is caught on video.

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