Month: November 2012

Supermodel Kate Moss says she was forced to do topless shoots as a teenager and she would secretly cry before doing them.

“They were like ‘If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again’. So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it,” Vanity Fair magazine quoted her as saying.

Moss,38, started her career with a British magazine when she was 16-year-old but feels she cannot ask a young girl to pose topless.

“I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird,” she said.

Four armed robbers fled with Rs.13 lakh from a District Cooperative Bank branch in a market here Wednesday afternoon, police said. The bank did not have any armed security guard.

The robbers carrying pistols barged into the bank’s Malwara branch around 12.30 p.m. One robber stayed at the bank’s entrance while the others entered the branch manager’s room and put a gun on his head asking him to take them to the cash counter, police said.

At the counter, the robbers showed guns to the cashier and two clerks, collected the cash and and walked away, said a police officer.

A woman in a Chinese village died after a wild elephant attacked her, police said.

Fifty six-year-old Li Lianfen’s body was found Wednesday in a watermelon field in Xishuangbanna prefecture of Yunnan province, Xinhua reported. The body had multiple fractures.

According to the police, the woman was harvesting pig feed Tuesday evening when she came across a group of wild elephants searching for food.

It is common for wild elephants to damage crops or attack humans near the rainforests of Xishuangbanna, which is home to the 250 or so Asian elephants living in China.

India Against Corruption Wednesday turned its fire on Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani by alleging that S. Jaipal Reddy was axed as petroleum minister for refusing a RIL’s proposal to hike gas charges and accused the government of promoting “crony capitalism.”

IAC’s Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan demanded that the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin allotted to Reliance Industries be scrapped and accused the UPA government of favouring the RIL by giving contract on gas exploration in KG Basin and concessions at a huge cost to the exchequer.