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Washington: John Lennon's murder left the world mourning, but his assassin still doesn't regret his act, and insists his inner voice urged him to kill the former Beatle. Mark David Chapman, who gunned down Lennon outside the Dakota Building in New York City in 1980, said that he decided to eliminate the singer after seeing The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover in his Hawaiian home. Chapman said that Lennon's success further triggered off his anger, and after that nothing could have stopped him from assassinating him. "There was a successful man who kind of had the world on a chain, so to speak, and there I was, not even a link of that chain, just a person who had no personality. Something in me just broke. I was under total compulsion. It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it," Contactmusic quoted him as saying. "I heard a voice in my head saying, 'Do it, do it.' And as he passed me I pulled out the gun, aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times in succession," added the 50-year-old, who has been refused parole three times at the request of Lennon's widow Yoko Ono. He, however, is eligible for release again next year. Some Harry Potter facts even his fans didn't know (Go To Top) London: British author JK Rowling has cast a spell over people all over the world with her best-selling series about the young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione and Ron. But, even die-hard fans of Harry and the gang may not have known some amazing facts uncovered by The Mirror that are sure to make viewing their favourite film even more enjoyable. According to the report, author JK Rowling, boy wizard Harry Potter and actor Daniel Radcliffe, who portrays the character of Harry, were all born on July 31. It says that when Harry's best friend Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, takes Harry and his friends to the Ministry of Magic, he enters the serect code 62442 into a telephone keypad. The letters, when typed on a standard mobile phone spell out the word "magic". The character of Natalie McDonald, who appears on page 159 in the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real nine-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, dying of leukaemia, who wrote to JK Rowling and wanted to know the plot of the next book because she would not live long enough to read it, it says. However, by the time the author replied, she had already died. So Rowling paid a tribute to her by making her a first-year student at Hogwarts named by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor - the house for the brave at heart - in the fourth book, it adds. Other interesting facts include that Ron's brothers, the twin jokers, Fred and George who own of Diagon Alley's new Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, were born on the 1st of April, more commonly kown around the world as April Fool's Day, and that Harry's god- father, Sirius Black, is named after the brightest star in the night's sky, also known as the Dog Star. In the series, Sirius uses his skills as an animagus to turn into a big black dog. Jude and Sienna are back again (Go To Top) London: Hollywood actor Jude Law and actress Sienna Miller are back togther once again just months after calling it quits. And the happy couple gladly posed for the photographers after they arrived toghether for the Los Angeles premiere of Sienna's new movie "Casanova". The actress said that though times had been rough for the couple, Jude still remained her closest friend and they were working things out. "We're working things out. Hes my closest friend in the world. We've had a rough ride," Hello magazine! quoted Sienna, as saying. Miller had earlier ended her relationship with the "Cold Mountain" star after he was caught having an affair with his children's nanny. Harry Potter is hopeless with women (Go To Top) Washinngton: Potter star Daniel Radcliff has discovered that men can relate to Harry Potter because he's hopeless with girls. Fans of the books and movie series have witnessed the wizard's pathetic attempts to win over Hermione, something Radcliffe believes strikes a chord with men who have had similar embarrassing encounters with women. "He's completely pathetic with girls and through that I think I'm standing up for any guy who has ever had an awkward moment with a girl," Radcliff was quoted by Conactmusic, as saying. "I am slightly better than Harry but not much," he added.
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