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JUAREZ: Cecilia Juarez, 22, incarcerated for drug trafficking, was crowned Miss Captive Beauty 2010 during a pageant for the women inmates at the Cereso prison in Juarez. Municipal authorities organized the pageant, dubbed “Belleza Cautiva,” or captive beauty, as part of the International Day of the Woman. The jury chose the most beautiful inmate among [...]
LOS ANGELES: Kathryn Bigelow battled her way into Oscar history books on Sunday, topping her movie’s best film honor with her own Academy Award for directing to become the first woman ever to earn that distinction, reports Reuters. The low-budget film, which has earned $20 million at box offices, picked up six awards in all [...]
LOS ANGELES: Sandra Bullock has earned a few honors in Hollywood, “America’s Sweetheart” among them, and on Saturday she was crowned with the dubious title of worst actress of 2009, one day before she’s favored to win an Oscar. Bullock, whose drama “The Blind Side” has made her the odds-on favorite to claim the best [...]
NEW YORK: Writer Daniyal Mueenuddin won the Story Prize for short fiction on Wednesday for “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” a compendium of eight interconnected short stories set in the 1980s amid feudal lands in southern Pakistan. Mueenuddin, a former lawyer who lives in London and Punjab, thanked his agent and his recently deceased mother [...]
MUMBAI: Sir Ben Kingsley will complete a unique cinematic round-trip today, becoming the first Oscar-winner to appear in a Bollywood film nearly three decades after playing Gandhi propelled him to global fame. The British actor, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the father of Indian Independence in 1982, appears as Perci Trachtenberg [...]
LAHORE: Security for Lahore Fashion Week was, inevitably, tight. The show was organized by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council and it saw the glitterati of Lahore applauding 32 designers from around the country who gathered to celebrate a glamorous event that organizers showcased as being representative of Pakistan’s rich culture, and burgeoning fashion industry. Seats [...]
LONDON: Plus-size models took to the London catwalk on Saturday in the latest collection by British knitwear designer Mark Fast, just days after a fresh row erupted in New York over the weight of fashion models. Fast was at the centre of a dispute during London Fashion Week last September, when a stylist was forced [...]
MUMBAI: Aamir Khan has decided to rejoin the Copyright Act panel after his fellow panelists submitted a signed and written letter to the Minister of Human Resources Kapil Sibal, which stated that if Aamir would join back, then they would be happy as his integrity was not at all in question. The letter is said [...]
NEW YORK: Tiger Woods is telling his family, friends and fans he is “deeply sorry” for his selfish and irresponsible behaviour. Woods is speaking from the clubhouse at the TPC Sawgrass, home of the US PGA Tour. About 40 people are in the room, including his mother. His wife is not obviously present. The world’s [...]
LONDON: Colombian singer Shakira is said to have made the hottest music video ever of her career with Spanish tennis star Rafa Nadal. Shakira, 33, and Nadal, 23, appear almost naked in a desert on the promo for new single ‘Gypsy’, reports the Daily Star. A spokesman for Nadal recently denied the two were [...]
MUMBAI: Looks like the entire hullabaloo created about the sizzling hot chemistry between Hrithik and Barbara Mori has gone in vain. The stunning twosome, whose smashing intimacy on the sets of ‘Kites’ stirred quite a hornet’s nest, will have to do away with their lovemaking scene in the flick’s Hindi version. And it’s all courtesy [...]
NEW YORK: One of Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses, who is an ex-porn star, wants him to apologise to her by name when he (Tiger Woods) holds a press conference on Friday. Tiger Woods management agency has revealed that the golfer will publicly apologise for the extra-marital affairs that have brought him shame. However, former hard-core [...]
MUMBAI: For Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai, her relationships seem to score over everything – so much so that even though she was unwell, she travelled to Bhopal to celebrate the 80th birthday of her husband Abhishek Bachchan`s maternal grandmother. According to a source close to Aishwarya, this was a commitment the couple had made [...]
MUMBAI: Diamonds are a girl’s best friends, goes a famous adage. And our dainty lass, Katrina Kaif vouches for the popular saying. While most of the B-town beauties are running miles to get that prim and proper shape in an attempt to secure their future in filmdom, Katrina is busy hoarding dazzling stones of various [...]
MUMBAI: Strange are the ways of parting couples. Kareena and Shahid still make the paparazzi go alive by their small little antics, causing a pain in the neck of the filmmakers who plan to release the much-awaited ‘Milenge Milenge’. News has it that
NEW YORK: Grossing $761,000 Sunday, the highest one-day gross ever for any Hindi-language film in North America, Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘My Name Is Khan’ is on a record-breaking spree at the box office. Karan Johar directed film was
MUMBAI: Armed police and burning effigies marked the release of the latest Bollywood blockbuster yesterday after Hindu radicals threatened to attack cinemas in Mumbai because of its star’s pro-Pakistan stance. Many cinemas cancelled screenings of My Name Is Khan after the Shiv Sena, an ultra-nationalist political party with a history of violence, called for the [...]
BERLIN: Shah Rukh Khan, in freezing Berlin for the red carpet premiere of ‘My Name Is Khan’, may be physically far from the turmoil back home, but is mentally in Mumbai. The superstar says he has ‘no ego’ and will clear any “misunderstanding”
BEIJING: He is 25, Muslim and comes from a part of China recently known for deadly ethnic rioting. This weekend, he is competing for the title of Worldwide Mr. Gay. As with all such endeavors in China, the journey has been long and winding. The Chinese delegate at Worldwide Mr. Gay was supposed to have [...]
AMSTERDAM: An image of women shouting from the rooftops in protest at Iran’s presidential election last June won the top World Press Photo prize for news photography on Friday. Described by judges as “the beginning of something, the beginning of a huge story”, the photo is part of a series that Italian Pietro Masturzo shot [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
