Celebrity News 10th March 2008

Brad Pitt's Celebrity Dinner Club With Bono Opened Hollywood To ...
Ecorazzi, NY - 4 hours ago
The NY Times is running a wonderful in-depth article on celebrity activism — with everything from Natalie Portman's involvement with Finca to George ...

 

Hollywood Celebrity Buzz
Gay Wired, CA - 8 Mar 2008
By Ross von Metzke Presenting Buffy—oh, you didn't see that coming? That's because a good few years after the show left television, Joss Whedon decides to ...

 

Posh and Becks considering 'abandoning' US for London
InTheNews.co.uk, UK - 16 hours ago
The celebrity couple moved across the Atlantic to conquer the Hollywood celebrity scene and allow David to play for LA Galaxy. He has struggled to make a ...

 

Hollywood Goes to Baltimore
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 4 hours ago
But when an ambitious, young assistant is beaten to death, Tess' job becomes much more complicated than simply baby-sitting a spoiled celebrity. ...

 

Los Cabos Celebrates Its Celebrity
Earthtimes, UK - 8 hours ago
A favorite retreat for celebrities, Los Cabos has welcomed Hollywood's Who's Who of television, music and film from award-winning legends to up-and-coming ...

 

Vanity Fair's iconic images, from soulful to glossy
International Herald Tribune, France - 8 hours ago
When did character morph into celebrity, making the fame game the focus of magazine photography? Maybe it was latent from the very start, since the 1913 ...

 

Posh and Becks planning to leave US
entertainment.oneindia.in, India - 10 hours ago
The couple had moved to the States in a bid to conquer the Hollywood celebrity scene and allow David to play for LA Galaxy, however he has had to struggle ...

 

Paris Hilton Unveils Latest Hollywood Celebrity Accessory
Daily Squib (satire), UK - 2 Mar 2008
Paris and her "guru" sat down to read a book called "The Path to True Enlightenment" and the Hollwood celebrity appeared to be listening intently to what he ...

 

The Celebrity Solution
New York Times, United States - 7 Mar 2008
Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. ...

Really Hot News 10th March 2008

Church of England sex guide no Christian Kama Sutra

Reuters UK, UK - 7 hours ago
Faced with rising divorce rates and poor communication between couples, the Church of England says it is time to talk about sex. The Anglican Church is ...
Church tells couples to celebrate sex Croydon Guardian
Be each other's teacher for sex, England's Church tells couples Hindu
Church publishes good sex guide Metro

 

Talking sex could motivate the obese
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 10 hours ago
Warning overweight men about the consequences of fat on their sex lives may help them shed their kilos where other strategies have failed, obesity experts ...

 

'Sexpert' slams Quebec's decision to ban sex-ed
CTV.ca, Canada - 9 hours ago
The province has virtually cut specific sex-ed courses from the classroom, instead asking teachers to incorporate the topic in all subjects they teach. ...

 

27 arrested in Internet sex sting
MLive.com, MI - 7 hours ago
AP DETROIT (AP) — Twenty-seven people have been nabbed in an Internet sex sting in Wayne County. All but one of those arrested is from Michigan. ...

 

Police hunt missing sex offender
BBC News, UK - 7 hours ago
Police are trying to trace a registered sex offender who went missing from his home more than two years ago. Former police officer Martin Cusick, 52, ...

 

Vacaville team mom arrested for allegedly having sex with player
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 1 hour ago
(03-10) 15:08 PDT VACAVILLE -- A team mother of a private basketball organization has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy on the ...

 

NY Governor embroiled in sex scandal
ABC Online, Australia - 1 hour ago
A sex scandal in the United States has put the future of one of the Democratic Party's rising stars under a cloud. The New York Times reports that a federal ...

 

Ex-Senior Naval Officer Convicted in Sex Sting Gets Discharge ...
FOXNews - 5 hours ago
By Melissa Underwood FOXNews.com has learned that a senior enlisted officer caught in a sex sting and discharged from the US Navy continues to receive a ...

 

Harford teacher, coach charged with child sex abuse
Baltimore Sun, United States - 8 hours ago
He was arrested Saturday and charged with sexual child abuse, a fourth-degree sex offense, and unnatural and perverted practices, according to prosecutors. ...

 

Amani Swaisi – don't call me sexy
Al-Bawaba, Jordan - 8 hours ago
She wants people who hear her music to say that she has a beautiful voice, but she does not want to be called sexy. "I feel very cheap when those who watch ...

 

Search: George + Clooney + Ridiculously Sexy
E! Online - 6 hours ago
George Clooney is gorgeous, hysterical and not vain enough to have Googled his own name. At least, not until now. Clooney sidled up to the laptop of one ...

 

MacBook Air: Sexy, Skinny as a Supermodel
ABC News - 7 hours ago
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air after giving the keynote address at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. ...

 

Bionic Michelle's sexy six pack
The Sun, UK - 5 hours ago
BUFF babe Michelle Ryan shows off the results of intensive training for upcoming show Bionic Woman on ITV2. And displaying her six pack in a tight black ...

 

News Flash: Men Like Football and Sexy Women on TV
Earthtimes, UK - 10 hours ago
Beyond their attraction to the sexy actresses in female-skewing TV shows like Dancing with the Stars and Grey's, men are also tuning in to these shows to ...

 

Dirty Sexy Money preview
Times Online, UK - 8 Mar 2008
Now, with the new series Dirty Sexy Money, the family is back, taking the fiction of New York's wealthiest clan and gorging on its dysfunction. ...

 

Sexy Passengers Least of Southwest Airlines Worries: $10M Fine
National Ledger, AZ - 15 hours ago
By Lynda Johnson Southwest Airlines has been in the news of late from several female passengers that have said that the airline discriminates against ...

 

World News 10th March 2008

Musharraf studying pact

Hindu - 1 hour ago
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf held a brainstorming session with his top legal aides on Monday to examine the threat to his political future from the agreement between the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) to reinstate ...

 

Obama Ridicules Notion of VP Slot
The Associated Press - 31 minutes ago
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed the idea of being Hillary Rodham Clinton's running mate Monday, saying voters must choose between the two for the top spot on the fall ticket.

 

Spanish Premier's party wins polls
Hindu - 2 hours ago
MOMENT OF VICTORY: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero with his wife Sonsoles Espinosa at the party headquarters in Madrid on Monday, after winning the general elections.

 

India stops Tibet protest march
BBC News - 7 hours ago
More than 100 Tibetan exiles in India have been barred by from marching to Tibet to protest against China holding the Olympics, Indian police say.

 

Abdullah sworn in for another term
Hindu - 2 hours ago
SINGAPORE: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was sworn in on Monday for another term, after he brushed aside calls that he resign for having failed to lead the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition to a two-thirds parliamentary majority ...

 

Former Tigers win Sri Lanka poll
Aljazeera.net - 1 hour ago
A group of former Tamil Tiger rebels has won the election for a key district in eastern Sri Lanka. Residents in Batticaloa have voted for the first time in 14 years, after the government recaptured the area from the Tigers last year.

 

Serbian government dissolved, election to come
National Post - 46 minutes ago
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's coalition government, torn by division over the loss of Kosovo, was formally dissolved on Monday, opening the way for an early parliamentary election.

 

China Diverts Plane Because of Liquids
The Associated Press - 4 hours ago
BEIJING (AP) - China disclosed Monday that suspicious liquids were found on a flight headed to Beijing from a far western Muslim region, and Olympic organizers tried to dismiss fears that the summer games were under threat.

 

Chile and Ecuador to join efforts in oil search, exploitation
International Herald Tribune - 3 hours ago
AP SANTIAGO, Chile: Chile and Ecuador will join in exploring for oil in the Gulf of Guayaquil, visiting Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Monday.

 

Israel plans 'scandalous' new settlement
Melbourne Herald Sun - 43 minutes ago
By Marius Schattner in Jerusalem ISRAEL unveiled plans for a new settlement in annexed east Jerusalem, triggering a chorus of world criticism and warnings it could hamper efforts to restart faltering peace talks.

 

Heavy storms cause travel chaos
BBC News - 5 hours ago
Heavy seas and winds of up to 80mph (128km/h) have battered parts of England, causing chaos on roads, railways and at airports and ports.

 

'Missing' couple not dead after all
The Australian - 8 hours ago
A MARRIED couple yesterday returned from a weekend away at the coast, only to stumble into the middle of a police investigation into their suspected murders.

 

Canada says 275000 seals can be killed this year
Reuters - 36 minutes ago
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, March 10 (Reuters) - Hunters will be allowed to kill 275000 young harp seals on the ice floes off eastern Canada this year, the government said on Monday, a number that animal rights activists said was totally unsustainable.

 

Japan denies whaling allegation
BBC News - 5 hours ago
By Steve Jackson The statement follows a claim from the Solomon Islands that Tokyo had usually funded its attendance at meetings of the International Whaling Commission.

Sci/Technology News 10th March 2008

Locate Laptop Sniffs Out Stolen Laptops
Techtree.com - 8 hours ago
Data care solutions provider, Unistal Systems, has announced the launch and availability of its new software product called "Locate Laptop".

 

Microsoft wants to freeze the Vista incapable lawsuit
Inquirer - 5 hours ago
By Egan Orion: Monday, 10 March 2008, 4:23 PM EVER SLIPPERY, Microsoft asked that the "Vista Capable" lawsuit against it be stayed while it appeals the judge's approval of class action standing for the case.

 

Microsoft launches document sharing initiative
Sify - 20 hours ago
Hyderabad: Microsoft Corporation on Friday announced the launch of its Document Interoperability Initiative with developers, partners and competitors aimed at providing user choice among document formats.

 

$360 Million Growth of Mobile TV Service in India in Year 2008 ...
TechShout! - 4 hours ago
Springboard Research, an IT market research and advisory firm, has announced a study report, which says that mobile TV services in India are growing and are expected to reach $360 million in 2008.

 

Xbox 360 Head Mohit Anand bids adieu to Microsoft India
TechShout! - 8 Mar 2008
Mohit Anand, the Country Manager, Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft India has bid adieu to the company. And this isn't any rumor, but is cent percent true news.

 

Painted solar cells can generate more renewable power
Sify - 7 hours ago
London: A new, eco-friendly technology generating as much power as 50 wind farms could go a long way in popularising solar energy, a new study has said.

 

Homer is correct: doughnuts are very important
Scotsman - 22 hours ago
By John von Radowitz A study found that two areas of the brain leapt into action when hungry volunteers were shown photos of doughnuts.

 

3 Mumbai colleges pursuing autonomy
Times of India - 9 Mar 2008
MUMBAI: Never would have former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Kasturirangan imagined that he could dabble in a little bit of economics along with physics.

 

Touch screens to go transparent
Times of India - 8 Mar 2008
NEW DELHI: While touch screen devices are increasing in popularity, the small screen sizes are proving to be a problem because users' fingers block the graphical elements he wishes to work with.

 

John Rambo Joins Apple's Digital Copy Program
Wired News - 1 hour ago
By Bryan Gardiner March 10, 2008 | 4:32:23 PMCategories: Apple, Deals Apple still hasn't delivered on those 1000 rental titles it promised back in January.

 

Shuttle Appears Ready for Launch Early Tuesday
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By JOHN SCHWARTZ Neither technical nor weather issues appear to be blocking the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts early Tuesday morning on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.

 

Cisco, BT join NGO to set up helpline for teachers
Business Standard - 3 hours ago
Aiming at improving the quality of rural education, OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with British Telecom and Cisco, has launched a pilot project in West Bengal last week for assisting rural teachers in addressing the needs of the children more ...

 

New optical clock promises increased accuracy
physicsworld.com - 5 hours ago
Researchers from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US have built an optical clock that promises to be the world's most accurate.

 

Habitable planets 'could be orbiting the Sun'
Telegraph.co.uk - 3 hours ago
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent Rocky planets with the right surface conditions for extraterrestrial life could be orbiting one of the Sun's closest stellar neighbours, scientists say.

 

Rare pygmy hippos caught on film
BBC News - 18 hours ago
By Mary Harper Two civil wars, illegal logging and poaching - it was thought this was more than enough to wipe out Liberia's population of pygmy hippos.

 

Structure of brain receptor implicated in epilepsy
Hindu - 17 hours ago
London (PTI): A ray of hope for sufferers of epilepsy or pre-menstrual tension! Scientists claim to have identified the structure of a receptor in the brain implicated in these conditions.

 

Internet game which feeds poor attracting lakhs of people
Economic Times - 7 Mar 2008
8 Mar, 2008, 1130 hrs IST, PTI NEW YORK: An Internet game launched by UN World Food Programme (WFP) six months ago has proved so popular that it has generated enough rice to feed 1.1 million people for a day.

 

Beatles, iTunes Reportedly Come Together
InformationWeek - 6 hours ago
No official word from either Apple camp as press reports about the Beatles releasing their music through iTunes circulate periodically over the past couple of years.