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Actress Queen Latifah and Martin Henderson have joined Jennifer Garner in an upcoming Sony film “Miracles from Heaven”, which will be directed by Patricia Riggen.

The movie is adapted from Christy Beam’s novel of the same name, which recounts how her daughter miraculously overcame an incurable disease, reported Aceshowbiz.

Randy Brown (‘Trouble with the Curve’) is writing the script.

Garner, 43, will play Beam whose daughter miraculously overcame an incurable, life-threatening digestive disorder.

Singing sensation Rita Ora thinks “no one cares” about Chris Brown’s criminal record as long as he makes good music.

The 24-year-old pop star has collaborated with the controversial singer on a new song and has launched a staunch defence of Chris, who was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Rihanna after a pre-Grammy party in 2009, reported Contactmusic.

“Chris Brown is strong, powerful and someone that is important to me personally and professionally. The discrimination and all what people think? If you have a great song then no one cares,” said the , “R.I.P” hitmaker.

Jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour has arrived back in Qatar, blaming his controversial two-day detention in Germany on pressure from the Egyptian government.

Mansour’s plane touched down in Qatar at 11:45 pm (local time) yesterday, and he was greeted by a number of Al Jazeera executives and members of his family in the VIP lounge of Doha’s Hamad International Airport.

Speaking to reporters in Arabic, Mansour said: “There are lobbies that promote Sisi in the world and play the role of public relations.

New York authorities have agreed to pay USD 6.25 million compensation to an innocent man who spent nearly 25 years languishing in prison for a murder he did not commit.

Jonathan Fleming, 53, walked free in April 2014 when his conviction was overturned by the Brooklyn district attorney after spending nearly half his life behind bars.

He had been found guilty of the August 1989 shooting of a friend despite being with his family in Orlando, Florida at the time of the murder.

A Swedish man who created a malware program that infected half a million computers around the world has been jailed for 57 months in New York for computer hacking.

Alex Yucel, 25, owned the organization “Blackshades” that sold a sophisticated and pernicious form of malicious software, known as RAT, to several thousand people in more than 100 countries, prosecutors said yesterday.

The 25-year-old was arrested in Moldova in November 2013 and extradited to the United States. He initially pleaded not guilty to five counts but later confessed to computer hacking in February.

Ten people were killed at a market in northeast Nigeria when a girl thought to be aged just 12 detonated explosives she was carrying, a relative of one of the injured victims and a health worker said.

The blast happened at about 11:00 am (local time) yesterday at the weekly market in Wagir, in the Gujba district south of the Yobe state capital Damaturu.

“It was a suicide attack by a girl of around 12 years,” Hussaini Aisami, whose relative was among at least 30 people injured by the blast, told AFP.

The US expects Pakistan will be a responsible stakeholder on security issues and believes that India and Pakistan should resolve all their differences peacefully without any involvement of a third party, a senior American official has said.

“Our expectation continues to be that Pakistan will be a responsible stakeholder on security issues, in particular the nuclear issue,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters at his daily news conference yesterday.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has restated his country’s red lines for a nuclear deal in a dramatic intervention during a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and top officials.

Banking and other economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the United States must be lifted “immediately” if a nuclear deal is signed, he said yesterday, according to a transcript posted on his official website.

Mission controllers trying to fly a solar plane around the world canceled take off from Japan early tomorrow because of weather problems over the Pacific Ocean.

Solar Impulse 2 had been due to leave Nagoya, central Japan, at 2.30 am (1730 GMT) bound for Hawaii, on the latest and most ambitious leg of a bid to circumnavigate the globe using only the power of the sun.

But after a few agonising hours poring over meteorological charts and forecasts covering the next five days and five nights during which the flight was scheduled, mission chiefs pulled the plug.

About 20 people opposed to building what would be one of the world’s largest telescopes on a Hawaii mountain are camped out near the construction site, vowing to stop work from resuming.

They are sleeping in vehicles or on cots under a tent and braving weather that’s chilly for Hawaii standards at Mauna Kea’s 9,200-foot elevation.

They are also making sure they have bail money ready. Some say they’re bracing to be arrested when the nonprofit company building the Thirty Meter Telescope intends to resume construction tomorrow.

British police will arrive in Pakistan this week to interrogate two suspects in the London murder of a prominent Pakistani politician, a minister said today.

Imran Farooq, 50, a founding member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware in northwest London as he returned home from work in September 2010.

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Pakistan would help the British police in a transparent investigation.

“We will ensure proper investigation without any prejudice, without any favour,” he told reporters.

Al-Qaeda’s north African branch has released footage of a jihadist with an English accent parading two Western hostages he says are being held in “new territory” under its control.

South African Stephen Malcolm McGowan and Swede Johan Gustafson were abducted in Timbuktu, northern Mali, in November 2011 and have been held since by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

The film appears to have been shot in early April, according to McGowan’s family, around the time that a Dutch hostage kidnapped with the pair was rescued in a raid by French special forces.

Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner has for the first time a photo of herself with her family, including stepdaughters Kim and Khloe Kardashian following her much-talked about sex change to female.

The picture, taken on Father’s Day, shows the whole family posing against a car. Caitlyn, 65, wore a white summery dress.

Also seen in the picture are Kim’s husband Kanye West, daughter North, Kendall Jenner, Brandon Jenner, Khloe’s son Burt Jenner.

“Great day yesterday for Father’s Day. We had so much fun off-roading. So much love and support! Love my family!” Caitlyn captioned the photo.

Actress Aisha Tyler has joined the upcoming 11th season of “Criminal Minds” in a recurring role.

Tyler, 44, has signed on with the hit procedural following the departure of one star (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and the forthcoming temporary absence of another (AJ Cook), reported Entertainment Weekly.

Both Hewitt and Cook are pregnant, and Hewitt has opted to leave the show after one season while Cook is going on maternity leave.

Actress Frankie Bridge, who is expecting her second child with husband Wayne Bridge, says she will not pressurise herself to lose post-baby extra weight.

The 26-year-old Saturdays singer says unlike after she gave birth to first son Parker, now 20 months old, she plans to take a “chilled” approach to getting her figure back.

Frankie, who is 31 weeks pregnant, said. “I put quite a lot of pressure on myself to lose my baby weight after Parker but this time I’m definitely going to be chilled about it.

Pop sensation Taylor Swift hopes that she will have her own family when she is asked where she sees herself in 10 years.

The “Bad Blood” hitmaker said that she admired the way Angelina Jolie managed her life, reported Aceshowbiz.

Swift, 25, hopes to have a family in her 30s, she admitted that she was anxious about protecting her children because of her fame.

Doctors in the national capital called off their two-day long strike tonight, hours after Delhi government invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against them to normalise the functioning of the hospitals run by it.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said that the agitating doctors called off the their strike and conveyed it to the government.

“Resident doctors’ strike called off,” Jain tweeted.

Earlier in the day, Delhi government invoked ESMA to force an end to the strike which had crippled healthcare services in government-run hospitals across the city.

Vice President Joe Biden today said that there is an urgent need for US and China to agree on a “rules based system” for rapidly evolving new areas ranging from cyber space to outer space.

“There’s an urgent need to agree on a rule-based system for rapidly evolving areas ranging from cyberspace to outer space – a new set of rules. Together, collaboratively, we have an obligation – China and the US – to shape these rules,” he said in his opening remarks to the two-day annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue here.

A fire has killed at least 15 elderly residents of a nursing home on the outskirts of the northern border city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, California, the Mexican city’s mayor said today.

Mexicali Mayor Jaime Diaz Ochoa said another five people were being treated at a local hospital for burns, and were in serious condition.

He said the cause of the blaze was being investigated by the state prosecutors’ office.

The fire broke out early today at the nonprofit facility located in a rural area about a half-hour’s drive outside Mexicali.

As Nepal enter recovery and reconstruction phase after the two devastating earthquakes, America’s goal is to help the Himalayan democracy “build back better”, the US ambassadorial nominee to the country has said.

“Our government is preparing for a large recovery and reconstruction effort in Nepal,” Alaina B Teplitz , the US ambassadorial nominee for Nepal, told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during her confirmation hearing.

South Africa threatened today to withdraw from the International Criminal Court after an outcry over the government’s refusal to detain Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges.

Bashir flew out of Pretoria last week after attending a meeting of the African Union despite a court order that barred his departure, sparking international criticism of President Jacob Zuma’s government.

A constable with the Railway Protection Force (RPF) was critically injured after unidentified persons allegedly shot him in head a few hundred metres from the railway station here today, a senior police official said.

“The constable, identified as Hakim Singh, was riding a motorcycle when he was shot at by unidentified persons in Khuldabad locality. He has been rushed to a hospital,” Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime), Allahabad, Arun Kumar Pandey said.

Delhi government today routed a file to enforce Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against agitating doctors, through Home Secretary Dharam Pal to the Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.

The tussle over appointment of bureaucrats in the Delhi administration had worsened after the ruling AAP government recently repatriated Jung-appointed Pal for notifying the appointment of M K Meena as the chief of Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch, which was done on the orders of Jung.

The Union Home Ministry then told Delhi Chief Secretary K K Sharma to ensure that Pal continues as state Home Secretary.

Pop star Taylor Swift loves sticking close to her many music friends at award ceremonies as it eases out the “competitive” energy of such events.

The 25-year-old “Bad Blood” hitmaker said that making friends with other musicians at the ceremonies has helped her to enjoy the ceremonies, repoted Female First.

Actress Lindsay Lohan says she can see herself settling permanently in London.

The 28-year-old actress, who moved to United Kingdom last year to star in West End play “Speed-the-Plow”, said she is keen to make London her permanent residence, reported Hello! Magazine.

“I can definitely see myself settling in London permanently,” Lohan said.

The “Mean Girls” star, when asked if she would apply for British citizenship, said, “If you’ll have me, I will.”