London, June 03: Socialite heiress Paris Hilton showed audience some sexy moves after she was called on stage by R&B star Ne-Yo during his performance.
The singer was performing in Las Vegas and when he spotted Hilton, he called her up on stage. While Ne-Yo sang “Miss Independent”, Hilton performed some sexy dance steps, which involved pulling her dress up and almost showing her backside to the audience, reports dailymail.co.uk.
London, June 03: Singer Lady Gaga thinks she may look like pop diva Madonna when she grows old because her mother looks like the pop superstar.
The “Poker Face” singer finds her comparison to the Queen of Pop funny and more of appearance based rather than performance, reports contactmusic.com.
New Delhi, June 03: Israel on Wednesday tried to avert a diplomatic row by terming as a “ regrettable error” the bracketing of India with Pakistan and other violence- hit countries by its foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman at the UN. Under fire for attacking an aid flotilla, Lieberman had told UN secretary- general Ban Ki- moon that while its action was being condemned, there was no such word on “ 500 people being killed in various incidents in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Afghanistan and Iraq”.
Tel Aviv, June 03: Israel early Thursday completed the deportation of hundreds of foreign nationals from its Ben-Gurion International Airport, the country’s foreign ministry announced.
The bodies of the nine people who were killed in early Monday’s forceful interception in mid-sea of six ships bound for Gaza were also on board the planes that took off from Tel Aviv, a spokesman told DPA.
Dubai, June 03: The United Arab Emirates will host the Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai from November 29 to December 1 in 2010 and Abu Dhabi will do so next year.
Representatives of the World Economic Forum and the UAE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to flag off the preparations for the 2010 meet.
New York, June 03: Credit rating agencies came under fire for their role in the global financial crisis Wednesday, as senior industry figures — including mega-investor Warren Buffett — were grilled by US investigators.
Answering allegations that rating firms helped propel the sale of risky investments that poisoned the global financial system, senior officials from Moody’s admitted mistakes were made, but denied any wrongdoing.
Mumbai, June 03: Actress Sonali Bendre is looking trimmer than ever and says she works out regularly — not to look glamorous but to keep herself fit.
“I have been working out regularly for the last two months and that is why you see a change in me. But it is purely for health reasons that I started exercising and taking care of my body,” Sonali told IANS.
Geneva, June 03: A UN human rights expert on Wednesday condemned the United States’ targeted killings using drones, warning that the practice amounted to a “licence to kill without accountability”.
In a report to the UN Human Rights Council, Philip Alston, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said the “prolific” US use of targeted killings, mainly by unmanned aircraft, was setting a damaging example that other countries would follow.
Washington, June 03: “The United States supports the Security Council’s condemnation of the acts leading to this tragedy,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, striking a note of support for the victims of an attack by Israel on an aid-laden flotilla of ships bound for Gaza.
After nearly two days of relative caution in its response, the United States came out strongly against the commando-led attack on the flotilla on Monday, which resulted in the deaths of nine activists on board.
London, June 03: An auction of memorabilia of British wartime leader Winston Churchill, including a cigar and a letter in which he rejects making terms with Adolf Hitler, fetched 577,063 pounds ($844,700) on Wednesday.
The collection was assembled over 30 years by Malcolm S. Forbes Jr., a descendant of the Forbes magazine founder, and is due to be sold in three parts, the first at Christie’s in London on Wednesday.
“It’s great to see that Churchill’s legendary status still remains and continues to grow,” said Christies’ spokesman Matthew Paton.
Washington, June 03: India and the US will hold their first strategic dialogue here Thursday with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna expecting a very positive outcome from the talks he leads with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“There are very positive vibrations,” he told IANS after Wednesday’s foreign policy dialogue between Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and US Undersecretary of State William Burns to set the tone for Thursday’s ministerial level talks.
United Nations, June 03: The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote on a draft sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program soon, possibly within the next 10 days, Mexico’s U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday.
Mexican envoy Claude Heller, who is president of the council this month, said experts from the 15 member nations have been discussing the U.S.-drafted text and the panel’s 10 non-permanent members are awaiting annexes that list the names of individuals and firms to be placed on a U.N. blacklist.
London, June 03: Friends and neighbours of Derrick Bird, who killed 12 people on a shooting spree in northern England, have expressed shock that a “normal bloke” could wreak such devastation.
But there were reportedly some prior warnings of the killings, which media reports suggest could have been caused by a family feud or a row at work — and which caused the normally conposed Bird to explode.
The 52-year-old taxi driver drove through the picturesque Lake District on Wednesday morning on a terrifying rampage that only ended when he turned the gun on himself.
Guatemala City, June 03: The death toll from tropical storm Agatha’s passage over Central America has reached 184, with all but 28 of the deaths registered in Guatemala.
In its latest bulletin, issued Wednesday, Guatemala’s Conred emergency management office said casualties stood at 156 dead, 87 injured and 90 missing.
The official report also notes that 135,394 people were evacuated, including 36,149 who are being housed in more than 300 shelters. Besides, 24,472 homes were damaged and another 5,872 were declared “high-risk” structures in danger of collapse.
New York, June 03: The court case for Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born American accused of planting a car bomb in Times Square, will be postponed by three weeks to allow him time to speak with authorities, a judge said Wednesday.
At the prosecutors’ request, endorsed by the Shahzad, Judge Theodore Katz put off the first hearing until June 21.
“The granting of such a continuance best serves the ends of justice and outweighs the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial,” he said in a statement.
New Delhi, June 03: Retired Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan will be the new chairman of the national human rights commission (NHRC).
But the appointment came with a rider for the government.
BJP’s Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, who are members of the selection panel being opposition leaders in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, are reported to have expressed concern that they did not have much choice since the government proposed only Balakrishnan’s name.
They consented only when the government agreed to consider amending the NHRC Act to include persons other former CJIs.
Washington, June 03: India and the United States were seeking to reassure each other on Thursday about their warming relationship as they lay the groundwork for a visit by President Barack Obama later this year.
US policymakers across the political spectrum spectrum support developing a broad alliance with India, which had uneasy relations with Washington throughout the Cold War.
Singapore, June 03: Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are expected to dominate an Asia-Pacific security forum in Singapore this weekend to be addressed by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young and other top officials will attend the Shangri-La Dialogue organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
Kolkata, June 03: All those days that railway minister Mamata Banerjee spent away from her office in New Delhi to concentrate on the statewide civic elections in West Bengal have paid off.
The Trinamool Congress has swept the municipal elections, thus delivering a sucker punch to the CPM and also laying the foundation for a fiercely- contested assembly polls next year.
Seoul, June 03: South Korea’s ruling party won the key Seoul mayoral poll but suffered upsets in several other crucial races in local elections held amid tensions over North Korea’s alleged torpedoing of a navy ship, officials said on Thursday.
Before Wednesday’s vote, opinion polls and analysts said outrage over the ship’s sinking, which killed 46 South Korean sailors in March, would give a boost to the conservative ruling Grand National Party, which favors a tough North Korea policy.
Pre-election public surveys had suggested Lee’s party would win nine of the 16 key races.
Mumbai, June 03: The top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to revert to its favourite theme, chanting the mantra ‘suraj’ (good governance) that was coined almost a decade ago.
Ankara, June 03: Hundreds of activists from the Gaza-bound aid flotilla seized by Israeli commandos arrived in Turkey Thursday, as Israel’s prime minister denounced some of them as “violent supporters of terrorism.”
A crowd of about a thousand people, some chanting anti-Israeli slogans, welcomed the three planes carrying 488 activists at Istanbul airport as they arrived in the small hours of the morning.
Mumbai, June 03: Two passenger deaths were reported at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday. An ailing foreign national died before a flight could land in Mumbai, and a Dubai-bound passenger collapsed at the check-in counter of an overseas airline.
A Yemeni national died on board the Yemen Airways Sana-Mumbai flight IY 854.
Jameah Ahmed, 24, suffering from blood cancer, was travelling from Sana for treatment at the Tata Memorial Hospital.
The flight was to land at Mumbai at 5.15am on Wednesday, when a co-passenger found Ahmed breathless and informed the crew.
One fifth of humankind shares a single aspiration: to complete, at least once in a lifetime, the spiritual journey called the Hajj.
The hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah, a central duty of Islam whose origins date back to the Prophet Abraham, brings together Muslims of all races and tongues for one of life’s most moving spiritual experiences.
Mumbai, June 03: It seems like the Chote Nawab Saif Ali Khan is trying to break free from girlfriend Kareena Kapoor’s strong grip.
If sources are to be believed then very soon the actor will team up with Bebo’s strong rival Katrina Kaif in director Kunal Kohli’s next romantic film starting this October.
Kunal is sure that Saif-Katrina’s chemistry will work as the duo has already lit the silver screen in the sensuous song ‘Zara Zara Touch Me’ from the film ‘Race’.