Farrah Abraham has signed on with a new show ‘Days of our Lives’, in which she will be portraying the character of a hooker.
A show insider confirmed to RadarOnline that the 22-year-old single mother landed the role after sending in audition tapes.
The source said that Abraham initially wanted one of the lead roles, but because she’s not a seasoned actress, she auditioned for the role of a hooker named Destiny.
Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe co-founder, are reportedly heading for a split after six years of marriage owing to an office-love quadrangle.
The couple has two children and spokesman for the Silicon Valley”s high profile couple confirmed that the two have been living apart for several months but haven’t been legally separated yet, though they remain good friends and partners.
The North Korean dictator’s former girlfriend has been reportedly shot by firing squad over alleged involvement in a porn scandal.
Kim Jong-un’s singer ex-girlfriend Hyon Song-wol was gunned down in front of her family just three days after being arrested for breaching North Korean pornography laws.
According to News.com.au, Hyon, was among a dozen well-known performers executed with machineguns as they were accused of filming themselves having sex and selling tapes.
A ‘walking shark’ has been discovered by scientists off the coast of Indonesia.
Rather than swim, these slender-bodied sharks can ‘walk’ along the ocean floor by wriggling their bodies and pushing with their pectoral and pelvic fins, the Mirror reported.
The brown spotted fish, called Hemiscyllium halmahera, is a species of bamboo shark that can grow to 27 inches in length and lives on the seabed where it hunts marine invertebrates and small fish.
Five persons, including four women, were arrested for girl trafficking from Chanattari village in Barpeta district of Assam, the police said today.
The five people – Mamtaz Begum, Khenta Begum, Sukurjan Begum, Saniyara Begum and Shafiqul Islam – were arrested last night from Chanattari village in Tarabari police station in Barpeta district.
According to police, the five people have recently kidnapped and sold off a 12-year-girl in Punjab.
She is yet to be rescued, the police said.
A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle in Prajapati area here.
The FIR lodged by the victim’s father said the minor was raped by his younger brother last night while the rest of the family was asleep after Janmashtami celebrations.
The medical examination of the girl has confirmed rape, Kotdwar police station in-charge Anil Joshi said.
A search is on to nab the 27-year-old who is at large, Joshi said.
–PTI
Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Osama Bin Laden, is set to face a fresh trial after an official today overturned the 33-year jail term given to him.
Frontier Crimes Regulation Commissioner Sahibzada Mohammad Anees ruled that a judge in the tribal belt had exceeded his authority when he handed down the sentence last year and ordered a new trial.
Anees handed over Afridi’s case to the political agent of the semi-autonomous Khyber Agency. He said Afridi could be released only on the orders of the political agent.
A Pakistani judicial official Thursday overturned the 33-year imprisonment sentence awarded to Shakeel Afridi, the man who helped the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track down Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Xinhua reported citing local media.
According to reports, Sahibzada Mohammad Anees, the commissioner of Frontier Crime (FCR) of the country’s semi-autonomous northwestern tribal area of Khyber Agency, declared the previous decision null and void and ordered for a retrial.
An earthquake of mild intensity today rocked several parts of Himachal Pradesh.
The tremors, which were felt at 3.43 PM, lasted few seconds, the Indian Meteorological Department officials said.
The epicentre of the quake, which measured 4.7 on the Richter scale, was on the border of Hoshiarpur district of Punjab and Una district of Himachal Pradesh.
There was no report of any damage to property or injuries to any person, they added.
Facing attack over the economy amid sliding rupee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today conceded in Parliament that the country was going through a “difficult” situation and had to reckon with the uncertainties created by global factors like “new tensions” in Syria.
Singh made brief remarks in both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha as concerns were expressed over the rapid depreciation of rupee with the Opposition saying there was panic in the country.
He promised to make a detailed statement tomorrow.
With all 12 Gram Sabhas of tribals having rejected the proposal for bauxite mining in Odisha’s Niyamgiri hills, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi planned to meet them next month to celebrate their victory.
Gandhi will attend public rallies in the two districts of Rayagada and Kalahandi which the Niyamgiri hills span, during his visit to the state between September 20 and 30, OPCC President Jaydev Jena who met the AICC leader in New Delhi today, said.
Karnataka has more than 47,000 severely malnourished children, according to government figures.
As per the information made available by Women and Child Development Minister Umashree today, Belgaum district tops the list with 4896, followed by Raichur 4596 and Bellary 3613 in June of the total 47,101.
Hassan has the least at 301 among the 0-6 age category.
The number of moderately malnourished children is much higher at more than 10.86 lakh or 27.42 per cent of the more than 39.63 lakh kids weighed in 30 districts of the State which has a total population of more than six crore.
DMK President M Karunanidhi, whose party is a former UPA ally, today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resolve the current economic impasse through new strategies, if warranted.
“Manmohan Singh steered the economic reforms 20 years ago. If old economic tactics could not bear fruit, new strategies should be employed and the situation should be resolved very soon,” Karunanidhi said hailing Singh as one endowed with ‘complete knowledge of economy.’
YSR Congress party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s indefinite hunger strike in Chanchalguda Jail demanding status quo on Andhra Pradesh has entered fifght day on Thursday.
According to jail authorities, Jagan is stable although he developed weakness. His BP, Sugar and pulse levels are reportedly dropping. Meanwhile, Jagan rejected the request by the jail authorities to call off the fast and refused to take food for the fifth consecutive day.
A team of doctors has been deployed by the jail authorities to keep a watch on Jagan’s health. (INN)
Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested near Nepal border on Wednesday night, will be interrogated by Hyderabad City Police in connection with the twin blasts in Dilsukhnagar on February 21.
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for his failure to run the country effective.
The Telangana Advocates JAC on Thursday gave a call for boycott of courts on Friday in the entire Telangana region in protest against the arrest of TAJAC leaders at Vidhyut Soudha.
Former Telecom Minister A Raja today moved a special court seeking a direction to CBI to produce documents, including a direct inquiry report of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) now with the agency, in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Raja filed an application before Special CBI Judge O P Saini saying that in 2009, an inquiry was conducted by CVC into the allegations of allotment of 2G spectrum by Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and on October 12, 2009, CVC had forwarded its direct inquiry report to CBI.
The Congress Party on Thursday hit back at Asaram Bapu after he accused Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi of conspiring against him, and said that the self-styled godman should apologise to the UPA chairperson and the nation for his irrational remark. “It is a very unfortunate accusation, he must apologise to Soniaji and the nation,” said Congress leader Rashid Alvi. “Who are you?
Former Pakistan foreign secretary Shahryar Khan and former Indian diplomat Satinder K. Lambah are reported to be meeting in Dubai today to ease tensions between the two countries and firm up a planned meeting between Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh leaders in New York next month. According to The Nation, the decision to initiate back-channel diplomacy was taken at the last meeting of Defence Committee of the Cabinet on August 24.
Four people were killed Thursday when a speeding car headed from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh headed towards New Delhi toppled after one of its tyres burst, police said.
Police and the Expressway Authority shifted the three who were seriously injured to a hospital in Noida.
The tragedy took place at the Tappal inter-change on the Expressway in Aligarh district. A relative of a Bhartiya Janata Party MP in Uttar Pradesh was said to be among the dead.
–IANS
Former Pakistan foreign secretary Shahryar Khan and former Indian diplomat Satinder K. Lambah are reported to be meeting in Dubai today to ease tensions between the two countries and firm up a planned meeting between Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh leaders in New York next month.
According to The Nation, the decision to initiate back-channel diplomacy was taken at the last meeting of Defence Committee of the Cabinet on August 24.
The rupee on Thursday recovered from its all-time low of 68.75 to the dollar, rising 170 paise to Rs. 67. 10 against the dollar in early trade.
The rise was attributed to fresh selling of the US currency by exporters and banks.
The Nifty rose 0.6 per cent while benchmark 10-year bond yields fell 15 basis points to 8.81 per cent.
The rupee plunged to a new record low of 68.75 per dollar yesterday trade on persistent dollar demand from banks and importers due to further fall in equity market amid rise in crude oil prices.
Taking potshots at the Centre for its ‘inept handling’ of the Indian economy, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said the people have lost trust in the Congress-led UPA Government due to corruption and instability.
BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that his party would raise this issue in the Parliament and seek an explanation from the Centre.
Alleging that the Congress party treated Telangana as an internal party matter, TDP senior leader Gali Muddukrishnamma Naidu said that the ruling party had not right to divide Andhra Pradesh.
Talking to reporters here, Naidu said that the Telangana issue was blown out of proportion by the Congress party and by having a tie-up with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in 2004 elections, the Congress strengthened the sentiments of separatism to gain political mileage in future. He said that the Congress Working Committee took a decision in favour of Telangana only to gain political mileage.