Tony Blair wants
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London:
Britian's electorate can now text their Prime Minister
Tony Blair questions on anything under the sun ranging from
the war in Iraq to what the smoking ban means for them and
they are promised a personal reply. According to The Sun,
mobile phone firm O2 for the first time has made it posssible
for a UK politician has used text messaging to communicate
with the public. Senders can text the letters to the PM
and their question to 80202 irrespective of the network
they are with. Since questions can be sent from a mobile
phone, voters can do it while they queue for a bus or wait
for a mate in a bar. Independent interviewer Margherita
Taylor will pick 30 of the best questions and put them to
Mr Blair at Downing Street that will be broadcast live from
a webcam to a chatroom on O2 Active - the company's homepage
on its internet-ready handsets."Everyone who texts a question
will get a reply. Obviously Mr. Blair won't be able to answer
every question - so we will send out answers to similar
questions or other hot
Hugh
Jackman wants to be 007 (Go
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Sydney:
Hugh Jackman may have long been touted as the one to
replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and if he is to be
believed he would be more than happy to fill into the shoes
of the secret agent. According to Daily Telegraph, Jackman
admitted that he hadn't been approached about the possibility
of taking up the Bond mantle. "I've never had an official
call asking, 'Are you interested or not? There's no guy
I know that wouldn't want that role - and that includes
me. (But) there is something very secretive about the way
they cast the role," he was quoted as saying.
Naomi
Campbell's abused aide strikes back (Go
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London:
She might be famous supermodel, but Naomi Campbell desperately
needs to attend anger management classes, as her former
personal assistant is now seeking legal action after claiming
that Naomi violently attacked her when she tried to quit
her job. According to Femalefirst, Amie Castaldo has alleged
that Naomi hit her in the face, bit her on the lip and yanked
her to the floor screaming: "You f***ing worthless bitch".
The incident took place at Campbell's New York penthouse
apartment. "There is no end to the humiliation I suffered.
She 100 per cent needs to get help," she was quoted as saying.
"It became clear after a few days that Amie was not going
to work out. Naomi ended the brief working relationship
in a professional manner and wishes Amie the best," Campbell's
spokesperson was quoted as saying.
Becks
latest tattoo to be a Japanese dragon (Go
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London:
Soccer star David Beckham is reportedly planning to
get another tattoo, this time in the form of a giant Japanese
dragon. According to The Sun, Becks intends to get the tattoo
wrapped around his rib cage and also plans to etch the name
of his yet to be born third child on his back. This will
take the total number of tattoos on his body to eleven.
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Hussain's heart still beats for Madhuri (Go
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Lahore:
Famed artist Maqbool Fida Hussain has said that Bollywood
actress Madhuri Dixit was an excellent actress with an amazing
screen presence. The Daily Times quoted Hussain, currently
on a visit to inaugurate an exhibition at the city's National
College of Arts as saying, that not only did Madhuri posses
a fascinating and charismatic personality, but she was also
immensely inspiring and had a very high level of intelligence
which reflected through her dynamic and vivacious character.
He further added that these qualities of her not only enabled
her to lend a depth and unique dimension to the roles she
portrayed in the movies, but were also the precise reason
why he had zeroed in on her to play the lead role in his
maiden celluloid venture Gajagamini.
Jamelia
steals George Michael's loo paper (Go
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London:
Jamelia has admitted stealing toilet paper from George
Michael's loo, as his birthday party momento. The R'n'B
singer was reportedly so star-struck at being invited to
the singer's Hertfordshire mansion for his birthday bash
that she picked the toilet paper as a souvenir of the grand
bash. "It was out of this world. We were running around
going, 'No way! It's George Michael's house! It's George
Michael's toilet!' We took a piece of loo paper as a souvenir,"
she was quoted by the Elle Magazine,as saying.
Bruce
Willis sues studio for head injury (Go
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New
York: Bruce Willis has reportedly sued the studio behind
his movie 'Tears of the Sun' alleging a forehead injury
due to negligence on part of the studio while filming a
combat sequence for the 2003 action-war movie. According
to E-Online, in the law suit against Revolution studios
, published online in The Smoking Gun, Willis has said that
the wound caused "extreme mental, physical and emotional
pain and suffering." Willis has reportedly accused Revolution
and the special effects foreman Joe Pancake of negligence
and of exposing him and others to "ultrahazardous activity."
His lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Oliver's
absence leaves Kylie in tears (Go
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London:
A love sick Kylie Minogue broke down in tears and fled
the MTV Europe Awards because she was terribly missing her
beau Oliver Martinez. The singer almost forced herself to
pose for pictures before presenting an award, but once through
with it, she could control herself no more and left the
function at the Tor Di Valle venue in Rome,in a jiffy. "Kylie
loves Olivier a lot, but because of their careers it is
difficult for them to find time to be together. They spend
a lot of time on opposite sides of the world and that's
hard for her to deal with," Femalefirst quoted a source
as saying.
Obesity
can give you 41 ailments (Go
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Washington:
A new study has revealed a plethora of health hazards
that obesity is linked with. Researchers for the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center in Seattle have found that obesity
can result in as many as 41 ailments with highly obese women
being 12 times more likely to have diabetes or knee replacement
surgery, and five times more likely to have high blood pressure
than women who have a normal weight. Men in the highest
weight categories are eight times more likely to have diabetes,
and six times more likely to have a knee replaced or have
high blood pressure than are their normal- weight peers.
The conclusions have been drawn on the basis of a survey
carried out amongst 73,003 adults, aged between 50 to 76
years. The researchers have correlated obesity with 41 health
conditions, including life-threatening conditions like heart
failure, some, like high blood pressure, that increase the
risk of more serious diseases and health complaints that
reduce the quality of life, like insomnia or chronic fatigue.
"No other study has provided data on the association of
obesity with such a compendium of health conditions," lead
author Ruth E. Patterson, said Carrying extra weight was
tied to 37 of the 41 health conditions studied in women
and 29 of 41 conditions in men. "Effective and practical
public health approaches to preventing weight gain and treating
obesity are urgently needed," Patterson added.
