While our short attention spans may disagree, Jennifer Lawrence is actually a big part of two different franchises. While everyone is looking at her now thanks to the ridiculous success of The Hunger Games, she also starred as Mystique in Matthew Vaughn’s excellent X-Men: First Class. Naturally, both movies are going to have to work [...]
Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling has saved yet another pedestrian from harm’s way by preventing a woman from walking into oncoming traffic in New York. According to the lucky woman, who happens to be a British journalist, the actor saved her from having an accident on Wednesday, reported Us magazine. “I literally, literally just got saved from [...]
The chance to play Grace Kelly in Grace Of Monaco has attracted every actress who fits the basic visual profile (plus a few who probably don’t, but might have been hoping to find a great makeup artist or borrow Andy Serkis’ performance capture suit), but they’ve all been beaten by one Nicole Kidman, who is [...]
The storyline of Shahid Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer upcoming film Teri Meri Kahani seemed to be very much on the lines of Taiwanese film Three Times. But director Kunal Kohli insists there are no similarities between the two and that it’s just a coincidence. Both Shahid and Priyanka are seen in three different avatars over three [...]
Papiss Demba Cisse kept Newcastle in the hunt for a top four finish as his brilliant brace sunk Swansea 2-0 SWANSEA: Cisse has proved an inspired signing by Newcastle boss Alan Pardew, who paid £10 million to sign the unheralded forward from German club Freiburg in the January transfer window, and he underlined his growing [...]
Australia’s Samantha Stosur’s winning the match ruined the prospect of an all-Williams clash. Stosur, who turned 28 last Friday, ousted world number 87 Venus Williams with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win in the quarter-finals to set up a semi-final showdown against Serena Williams. Stosur, of the Golf Coast, was leading Galina Voskoboeva 4-2 in the [...]
Fred Couples, who won his only major title 20 years ago at the Masters, stood atop the leaderboard alongside fellow American Jason Dufner Jim Slater AUGUSTA, Georgia: Fred Couples, trying to become the oldest champion in major golf history at age 52, fired a five-under par 67 on Friday to share the lead after the second [...]
Ring the Bell, an NGO working against domestic abuse has reached an estimated 130 million people in the first two years of the campaign Emily Frost “My husband beats me — even now,” laughs 50-year-old Sunena, dressed in a yellow polka-dotted sari with her hands folded across her lap. In a dank, windowless room in [...]
The English media and a bunch of former players have sharpened their claws and are digging gleefully into captain Andrew Strauss. The reasons: Strauss isn’t scoring and the world’s number one team is losing everything in the eastern part of the globe. Though Strauss hasn’t reacted, he surely must be hurting inside. The architect of [...]
A US Navy F-18 fighter jet crashed just after take-off on Friday, plunging into a low-rise Virginia apartment complex and triggering a massive inferno but injuring only nine people, officials said. The two crew members ejected safely from the jet which hit a populated area in the eastern coastal tourist resort of Virginia Beach, officials [...]
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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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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