RIHANNA was so upset when LEONA LEWIS was punched by a fan in October (09), she felt as though she had been personally attacked. The Bleeding Love hitmaker was photographed leaving a London shop clutching her head and sobbing after a 29-year-old man allegedly hit her in the face during a book-signing.
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Classical and jazz music composer HALE SMITH has died due to complications of a stroke. He was 84. Smith, who performed with jazz greats including drummer Chico Hamilton and late bandleader Dizzy Gillespie, died on Tuesday (24Nov09) at his home in Freeport, Long Island.
Hamilton was drafted into the U.S. Army in [...]
Johannesburg, Nov 30 – Staff at a Johannesburg hospital unnecessarily amputated the legs of a 2-year-old girl who had been admitted for treatment of burns on her hands, local authorities admitted.
‘The toddler … was admitted at Far East Rand Hospital and later transferred to Charlotte Maxeke Academic hospital to be treated for burns on her [...]
Washington, Nov 30 – Four US police officers were shot dead near an air force base in Washington State, US media reported.
The officers were gunned down Sunday while sitting at a coffee shop in Tacoma, near the McChord Air Force Base, broadcaster KING-TV reported.
Reports said local police as describing the incident as an ‘ambush’ by [...]
New Delhi, Nov 29 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned to the capital Monday morning after his state visit to the US and Trinidad and Tobago, where he participated in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
Manmohan Singh’s four-day State visit to the US was the first by a foreign leader since the Obama administration [...]
Kolkata, Nov 29 – Conceding that there were ideological and political shortcomings among many of its new workers in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday threatened stern action against those members who have strayed in principles and morals.
Smarting under the humiliation of a series of electoral setbacks over the last 18 months [...]
London, Nov 29 – Hollywood actress Katie Holmes reportedly spends $25,000 every month buying clothes for daughter Suri.
The actress is reportedly determined that her three-year-old daughter Suri with superstar husband Tom Cruise should be the ‘most fashionable kid in Hollywood’ and her recent purchases for the youngster have included a $5,000 ruby pendant and two [...]
London, Nov 29 – Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has compared British reality TV show ‘The X Factor’ to a ‘road accident’.
Macca, as he is fondly called insists one cannot escape watching the show even if one doesn’t want to, reports mirror.co.uk.
‘I watch ‘The X Factor’ because my kids watch it. They have it on [...]
London, Nov 29 – Supermodel Naomi Campbell has revealed she is taking the whole of 2010 off to start a family.
The 39-year-old has decided to take a year off to be with boyfriend of 18 months, Russian Billionaire Vladislav Doronin and start a family with him, reports mirror.co.uk.
‘Naomi knows her biological clock is [...]
New Delhi, Nov 29 – A Hyderabad-bound IndiGo flight was grounded here late Sunday night following a call at the airlines call centre claiming that there was ammunition on the plane, airport sources said.
The IndiGo flight with at least 165 passengers, waiting its turn to take-off, was taken to an isolation bay, the passengers de-boarded [...]
