Misc

London, July 27: With her movie career going nowhere, Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan is now planning to try her hands on in creating her own range of sweets.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star, who is more in news for her public spats with lesbian lover Samantha Ronson than her work, is reportedly desperate to team up with Sugar Factory, a firm which manufactures “couture lollipops”, for a range of confectionery, Femalefirst reported.

“Lindsay wants to either be the face for a new line of advertisements or design her own range,” a source close to the actress said.

Tokyo, July 27: Japanese scientists have made a robot in an elaborate wedding dress walk down the runway at an Osaka fashion show, a development seen as a major advance in humanoid technology.

Developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the “pretty woman” in an elaborate wedding dress took part in the fashion show earlier this week.

Though encumbered by the dress, HRP-4C female robot easily navigated the ten metre runway at the fashion show.

Bhubaneswar, July 25: The snake that had sneaked into the Orissa assembly Thursday was Saturday recovered from near the seat of the leader of opposition in the house.

“The snake was found coiled under a chair. An employee raised an alarm when the assembly session was over,” said Suvendu Mallick, a snake catcher, who recovered the reptile.

The assembly was forced to suspend its proceedings Thursday after the snake was spotted by the staff inside the house.

Snake catchers, security personnel and forest officials went into frantic search throughout the day to recover the reptile.

London, July 24: Scientists are looking for women willing to eat chocolate every day for an year — all in the name of medical science.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia and a hospital in Norwich, eastern England are trying to find out whether chocolate can cut the risk of heart disease and need 40 women to step forward and help.

Most of the women will have to eat two bars of “super-strength chocolate specially formulated by Belgian chocolatiers” daily for one year and undergo several tests to measure how healthy their hearts are.

Buckhannon, July 24: A high school principal who admitted jumping atop a pile of students during a cafeteria food fight has been fired.

The Upshur County Board of Education voted Tuesday to oust Brenda Wells from Buckhannon-Upshur High School. She’d been suspended since late May.

Wells said earlier this month that she jumped onto what she called “a dog pile” of four or five students while attempting to stop a food fight.

Wells said she jumped on the pile to relieve the tension. She said she was back on her feet before you could count to one.

She said it was all in fun.

Melbourne, July 20: Single women would rather prefer the company of a dog than men, according to experts.

Sydney Petcare owner Richard Durant said that more and more single women in Australia were in favour of the four-legged loyal and reliable companion.

“In the past year 60 per cent of our new business has come from young single women. It’s a growing trend I’ve noticed over the last few years. These are women who live busy lives,” The Courier Mail quoted him as saying.

Agra, July 21: A woman has put on display at a college here what she claims is the “world’s longest” greeting card. It is meant for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.

“The size of the card is 127 metres by 1.5 metres. I have used sketch pens, water colours, stencils and oil paint — all mixed up. I admire Chief Minister Mayawati a lot and I am going to present this to her on her birthday,” Chaya Gupta told IANS.

“It is a passion that kept me busy for nine months. I worked for about six hours a day till late in the night, without any formal training in art,” she said.

Mumbai, July 20: ‘A for Aishwarya’ is what your kindergarten kid may be learning in school these days. According to latest news, the names of Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan are being used to teach alphabet in several schools using private publishers’ books.

The revelation done by a BJP member in the Rajya Sabha has created quite a curiosity and has put a question mark on the education system of India.

Florida, July 20: A Florida dentist is being sued for allegedly dropping tools down the throat of an elderly patient twice.

Relatives of 90-year-old Charles Gaal Jr recently filed the suit in circuit court accusing Dr Wesley Meyers of negligence. An answering message at Meyers’ office in Winter Park said Saturday that he was on vacation. He did not reply to a message from press seeking comment.

The lawsuit says the doctor dropped an “implant screwdriver tool” in 2006 and a “mini-wrench” in 2007.

Los Angeles, July 19: After six years together, the relationship between a pair of gay male penguins at San Francisco zoo apparently is over, with Harry leaving Pepper for another penguin – Linda.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that the relationship between Harry and Pepper, who lived side-by-side, protecting eggs abandoned by other penguins, came to a shocking end when Harry moved into a neighbouring nest with recently-widowed Linda.

London, July 18: Henry Allingham, who just last month became the world’s oldest living person at 113 years, has died, his nursing home near Brighton City said Saturday.

Allingham had gained the status as the planet’s oldest living person in June after Tomoji Tanabe of Japan died, also at the age of 113.

-IANS

Thirisuur, July 17: Elephants are surely being pampered in Kerala. While nearly 65 of them will go for a month long rejuvenation programme at the Guruvayoor temple, Thrissur town Friday had a special prayer for the elephants attended by thousands of devotees.

The Vadukunathan temple here had a special prayer Friday for 46 elephants. This prayer, attended by nearly 10,000 devotees, is done once in four years. Thrissur is over 300 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Tokyo, July 17: Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy said Thursday that it would launch a talking version of its Bowlingual gadget that can “translate” dog barks into the human language.

The new model analyses six emotions, including joy, sadness and frustration, and speaks phrases such as “Play with me.” The original only showed them on a screen.

” Dog owners can enjoy the toy at a dog run and a park ”
Tomy spokeswoman Chie Yamada

“Dog owners can enjoy the toy at a dog run and a park,” said Tomy spokeswoman Chie Yamada.

Mumbai, July 17: Drama queen Rakhi Sawant will shock the audience with another of her crazy stunts in Rakhi Ka Swyamvar.

If marrying through a television reality show wasn’t crazy enough Rakhi will observe Karvachauth for not one but five potential husbands. Although Karvachauth a festival that celebrates women’s love for husband is months away but Rakhi has decided to prepone it this year.

Bangalore, July 17: About 40 per cent of harassed husbands in the city are techies, study finds. Techies earning fat salaries are the most harassed among Indian husbands.

A study carried out by Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), a city based NGO, reveals that software professionals make up about 40 per cent of the total number of harassed husbands.

Huge pay packets make techies soft targets, say members of the foundation who carried out the study over 15 months.

London, July 17: Cutting across party lines, MPs in the House of Commons have voted for ‘Tamasha’, a popular Indian restaurant in south London, as the winner of the annual Veetee Tiffin Cup competition.

The contest, instituted by Indian-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz, has become a popular event in parliament as lawmakers prepare to leave the corridors of power for their summer holidays.

Moscow, July 17: An American man was charged more than $23 quadrillion for a pack of cigarettes that he bought at a filling station using his Visa card, a TV report said.

When he checked his online bank account, Josh Muszynski discovered that he was $23,148,855,308,184,500 in the red, the WMUR-TV said on Wednesday.

“I thought my card had been compromised. I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card,” he said.

Muszynski turned to the sales assistant at the store, but “she said she couldn’t help me at all. She didn’t know anything about it,” he explained.