Los Angeles, Oct 22 – Hollywood actor Mel Gibson’s cameo in ‘The Hangover’ sequel has been axed amid reports that the movie’s cast angrily objected to it. Director Todd Phillips has confirmed he was forced to scrap Gibson’s cameo following tensions on-set, reports imdb.com. ‘I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and [...]
Port-au-Prince, Oct 22 – A suspected cholera outbreak north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has killed up to 135 people, health officials and news reports said Thursday. Haiti’s Radio Metropole reported that more than 50 people had died of acute diarrhoea, but Gabriel Timothe, the director general of Haiti’s Health Ministry, was quoted by the [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The United States has warned Pakistani leaders that continued inaction against Taliban and Al Qaeda havens bordering Afghanistan could jeopardise some large US cash payouts to Islamabad, the Wall Street Journal said in a report. The warnings from Obama administration officials have raised the stakes in their ongoing strategic dialogue here [...]
Santiago, Oct 22 – Many of the miners rescued last week after more than two months trapped underground in northern Chile have decided to take legal action against the firm that owns the mine and against the Chilean government, lawyer Edgardo Reinoso said Thursday. In a parliamentary investigation of security violation at the San Jose [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has approved a $917 million export finance guarantee to support US exports to the Sasan Power Ltd coal-fired power plant in Madhya Pradesh. US vendors including Bucyrus International, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will sell and export mining and associated equipment to Sasan Power [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The World Bank has approved a credit worth $13 million in additional financing for the Mizoram State Roads Project to continue revitalizing and modernising the state’s highway system. The project will help improve the management and carrying capacity of the core state road network in order to lower transportation bottlenecks and [...]
San Francisco, Oct 22 – A record 5.2 million iPhones were activated in the last quarter by AT&T, which holds exclusive rights to the hit device in the US, the telecom giant has said. The record-setting sales mark beat the previous record of 3.2 million iPhones that AT&T sold in the prior quarter, when Apple’s [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – With the White House stressing that President Barack Obama’s India visit schedule is not ‘finalised’, Sikh American groups are using new age tools like e-mail, twitter and facebook to persuade him to visit the Golden temple. Disappointed over reports that Obama will not visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar during his [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – Hari Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher, is one of the four winners of the 2010 Pioneer Awards of San Francisco headquartered Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading civil liberties group. The three other winners are transparency activist Steven Aftergood; public domain scholar James Boyle; and legal blogger Pamela Jones [...]
New York, Oct 22 – American Express reported a profit boost of 70 percent in its third quarter over the same period last year, saying well-heeled card holders were spending more and paying their bills more often on time. Net income was $1.09 billion, up from $642 million. Revenues were up 17 percent as tight [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – A former top military officer says in a new book that former president Bill Clinton’s White House lost the codes needed to launch nuclear missiles. Retired general Hugh Shelton writes in his just published memoir, ‘Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior’, that the card containing the codes were missing [...]
Los Angeles, Oct 22 – Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is eager to work with director Rob Marshall again in new film ‘The Thin Man’. Marshall is currently filming ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’, which also stars Depp. However, the actor ‘has been aggressively courting’ to star in the remake of the 1934 film, [...]
Mexico City, Oct 22 – An undersea earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale rocked northwest Mexico Thursday, Xinhua reported. It occurred at 12.53 p.m. in the Gulf of California with its epicentre 105 km from Los Mochis in Sinaloa state, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. Officials said there won’t be a tsunami but [...]
New York, Oct 22 – Former porn star Jenna Jameson is in talks to be part of a hit Broadway rock musical ‘Rock of Ages’. The actress is negotiating to take the role of Venus strip club owner Justice. ‘I am in talks with the ‘Rock of Ages’ producers, and I’m praying I get the [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The surface of the moon contains not just water, but a rich mix of elements, including silver and carbon dioxide, astronomers said Thursday. The findings to be published in the journal Science come from an analysis of data from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) experiment that crashed into [...]
Los Angeles, Oct 21 – Actress Eva Longoria Parker escaped unhurt in a car crash in Los Angeles. The ‘Desperate Housewives’ star was driving in Hollywood at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when a car suddenly turned in front of her. Unable to swerve out of the away, Longoria smashed into the other car, reports gossipcop.com. [...]
Quito, Oct 21 – Four miners who had been trapped in an Ecuadorian gold mine for close to a week were found dead, Ecuadorian media reported Thursday quoting the authorities. ‘Rescue efforts have ended with a tragic balance. The four miners have died,’ the daily El Comercio quoted Carlos Pareja Yanuzzelli, vice minister for Non-Renewable [...]
Washington, Oct 21 – NASA engineers are working to fix a small fuel leak on the shuttle Discovery before its scheduled launch next month, the US space agency said Thursday. Space shuttle programme manager John Shannon said NASA was still working to learn about the leak, which was discovered earlier this week but appeared to [...]
Washington, Oct 21 – When US President Barack Obama travels to India next month, he will visit a country in which both he and the nation he leads are broadly popular, according to a new poll. More than seven-in-ten (73 percent) Indians have confidence in the American president, and about two-thirds (66 percent) express a [...]
Washington, Oct 21 – With India and China leading the way with projected 2010 growth rates of 9.7 percent and 10.5 percent, respectively, Asia remains firmly in the lead of the global economic recovery, according to the International Monetary Fund. Strong growth in the region is set to continue, the IMF said Thursday in its [...]
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