Los Angeles, Feb 25 (DPA) Freida Pinto, the Indian actress who made a splash in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, will play the female lead in the new movie ‘War of Gods’, Variety magazine reported Wednesday. Pinto will portray the oracle priestess Phaedra in the film about Theseus, a warrior from Greek mythology who takes on the...
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Los Angeles, Feb 20 – Oscar winning actor Sean Penn has been charged with battery and vandalism for indulging in a scuffle with a paparazzo four months ago. Penn is being charged on two counts, one for battery, and one for vandalism, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office. If...
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Los Angeles, Feb 20 – Space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station after successfully installing an additional observation deck at the research centre. The six-member mission left the station Friday and will reach the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida Monday, NASA said in a press release. As the vehicle parted with...
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Los Angeles, Feb 19 – Facebook and PayPal Thursday announced a tie-up to use PayPal as the way to pay for Facebook’s advertising and developer systems. Facebook has currently over 400 million users worldwide, including 120 million in the US alone. Owned by eBay, PayPal is the online mode to pay for e-commerce transactions...
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Los Angeles, Feb 16 – An overweight passenger who required two air tickets to fly because of his heavy weight was thrown off a Southwest Airlines’ flight Saturday for refusing to buy the extra ticket. Kevin Smith had the choice to either buy two tickets for himself or be kicked off the flight as...
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Los Angeles, Feb 9 – Michael Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray has been charged with ‘unlawfully, and without malice’, killing the pop star last summer. Murray turned himself in shortly before 4 p.m. Monday at a branch courthouse near Los Angeles International Airport. He pleaded not guilty during a brief hearing before Judge Keith...
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Los Angeles, Feb 9 (DPA) Eight months after Michael Jackson died from a drug overdose, his personal doctor Conrad Murray was charged with his death. Prosecutors allege that the cardiologist gave Jackson the surgical anaesthetic Propofol, along with assorted other drugs, that led to his June 25 death. Murray Monday pleaded not guilty to...
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Los Angeles, Feb 9 (DPA) Three of the largest US book publishers are to hike the prices of their electronic books after the introduction of Apple’s iPad tablet computer forced Amazon to abandon its one-price-fits-all policy, Information Week reported Monday. Amazon was able to dictate the 9.99-dollar price because its Kindle electronic reader dominated...
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Los Angeles, Feb 8 – Who will replace the sarcastic Brit Simon Cowell as a judge on ‘American Idol’ from next year? There are rumours that the high-profile slot may go to Howard Stern – America’s highest paid radio jockey. Fifty-six-year-old Stern, called America’s ‘shock jock’, currently hosts the ‘uncensored’ Sirius XM Radio show....
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Los Angeles, Feb 7 – Three people were killed when two small planes collided in the sky over Colorado, authorities said. The victims were from both of the planes that crashed, Boulder County sheriff’s office spokesman Rick Brough said. One of the aircraft clipped the towline of the other plane that was pulling a...
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Los Angeles, Feb 6 (DPA) The doctor who acknowledged giving Michael Jackson the anesthetic that is blamed for his death is to be charged Monday, the Los Angeles District Attorney said Friday. Widespread reports have indicated that Conrad Murray, 57, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with Jackson’s June 25 death from...
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Los Angeles, Feb 6 (DPA) A lawyer for Michael Jackson’s personal physician accused police Friday of attempting to orchestrate a ‘show and parade’ over his client’s expected arraignment on involuntary manslaughter charges. Lawyer Ed Chernoff told the Los Angeles Times that negotiations with authorities over his client’s surrender had broken down after police insisted...
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