Nicole Kidman is to star as Colin Firth’s wife in The Railway Man. The Australian actress will take over the role from Rachel Weisz, who was forced to drop out to film additional scenes for The Bourne Legacy and Oz: The Great and Powerful. Kidman will play a woman who helps her husband try to [...]
Olivia Wilde has claimed that she turned down the chance to star in Lovelace because she felt too sexy for the film. The In Time actress gave her backing to Amanda Seyfried’s casting as Linda Lovelace, describing her as “innocent” enough to portray the porn icon turned activist. “I pulled out of the Linda Lovelace [...]
Jake Gyllenhaal’s new movie End of Watch is to be released on September 28 in the US. Open Road films has announced the opening date for the police drama starring the actor and Michael Pena as two officers guarding the South Central Los Angeles area. David Ayer has written and directed the film, told through [...]
Neil Johnston LIVERPOOL: Arsene Wenger promised to do “everything possible” to keep Robin van Persie at Arsenal after the Netherlands Arsenal striker struck a double blow to Liverpool’s Champions League hopes. Van Persie scored twice — including a brilliant stoppage time winner — as Arsenal came from behind for the third successive league game to defeat [...]
PALM BEACH GARDENS: Rory McIlroy moved within one round of seizing golf’s number one world ranking on Saturday as he claimed a two-shot lead at the US PGA Tour’s Honda Classic. The 22-year-old from Northern Ireland, who can supplant England’s Luke Donald atop the rankings with a victory, capped a four-under 66 on the par-70 [...]
BERLIN: Undisputed world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko claimed the 50th knock-out and 57th victory of his career when he ended hapless Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck’s hopes in the fourth round on Saturday. Klitschko, 35, defended his IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA titles against Mormeck, who stepped up from cruiserweight just over two years ago, in Dusseldorf [...]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic marked his return from a three-match ban with a first-half hat-trick as champions AC Milan routed Palermo 4-0 on Saturday, while Juventus suffered a setback when they were held 1-1 by Chievo. The win allowed Milan to open a three-point lead over undefeated Juventus, who still have a game in hand but are [...]
Graham Chase MANCHESTER: Roberto Mancini has set his Manchester City side a target of 10 more victories to secure a first league title in 44 years. City moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a 2-0 win over Bolton, hours before Manchester United travel to Tottenham on Sunday. City [...]
The constant cross-talk and the stupid rotation policy clearly demonstrated that India were not interested in winning in the first place Fate dealt a swift blow in the backside for the Indian cricket team in the Commonwealth Bank Series despite a magnificent performance in the final qualifying match against Sri Lanka. As usual, India left [...]
Brendan McLoughlin BIRMINGHAM: Andre Villas-Boas admits he is under increasing pressure following Chelsea’s 1-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion, but the beleaguered boss remains determined to save his job. Gareth McAuley’s late goal condemned Chelsea to a shock loss at The Hawthorns on Saturday to leave Villas-Boas’ Blues future hanging by a slender thread. The [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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