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150-year-old church set on fire in India

Friday, September 19, 2008....JABALPUR: An angry mob set a 150-year-old church on fire during a series of violence continue in India here on Thursday.This incident, occurred in a city of Madhya Pradesh, was a result of conflicts between the Hindus and the Christians in various areas of India.A number of churches in Orissa and Karnataka were attacked over the weekend,Indian Christians held protest rallies against setting the churches on fire and demanded from the government to take stern action against the culprits.In the Hindu-Christian violence, continued for the last one month, 16 people have been died and several wounded. Most of them w ere the Christians.

Mexican jail riots leave 23 dead

Friday, September 19, 2008.....MEXICO CITY: At least 23 people have been killed in ongoing riots at a prison in Mexico. According to a Human Right Inspector, riots set off by the death of a prisoner, allegedly at the hands of prison guards. The death toll has risen to 23 in ongoing riots in Tijuana jail while another 12 people were injured when violence broke out at the La Mesa prison in Tijuana, near the US border. Family members were quoted as saying inmates were protesting at their treatment since a riot on Sunday that led to at least three inmates' deaths. The jail authorities said they had regained control of the prison after shifting about 200 inmates to other jails following Wednesday's riot.

I am scared of fashion shows: Priyanka Chopra

Bollywood actress and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra says she gets goosebumps whenever she sashays down fashion runways. "I am not a ramp-friendly person, as professionally I have walked the runway just for a couple of months. You can say I am out of practice," Chopra said after she turned out for designer Ritu Kumar at the inaugural show of the HDIL Indian Couture Week here late Tuesday. "In movie making, we have so many cuts and takes that we can cover up our goof ups but on the ramp, everything is live. Hats off to the professional models who do it so gracefully," Chopra told. Chopra had first walked the ramp for Kumar when she was just 16, and doesn't remember the last time she did so professionally! "I have been doing it for friends only, like I did today but apart from that, I do not remember when was the last time I did it professionally," Chopra said. "After winning Miss World title, I shifted to movies so there was no scope of doing it...

Heidi Klum exposes her booty

German model Heidi Klum has shown off her booty at New York's Bloomingdale's and does not find it hard to do so. Klum had launched the fall line of her Heidi Klum by Jordache collection, and it was followed by an autograph signing and a soiree at hotspot Marquee to launch the virtual collection on Stardoll.com. "I've been showing my booty to everyone, so you have to see it, too!" Fox News quoted Klum as exclaiming at the in-store event. The Victoria's Secret 'Angel' was the centre of attention at every party, and even when she'd left, everyone was lining up to pose for pictures next to the life-sized cardboard cutouts. Klum was asked how she coped with being one of the highest paid supermodels, the host of 'Project Runway,' a fashion designer, a wife and a mother of three. "I love what I do so for me it is very easy, it's not a hard thing to do," she said. "I just design for what I would like to have, and then, things go ...

AMAZING FACTS

1-The tongue of the crocodile cannot stick 2-Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the four words which end with dous. 3-The only fish that can blink with both eyes is a shark 4-The Niagara falls froze solid as it was so cold in winter of 1932. 5-Tigers don't have striped fur but striped skin. 6-For each gallon of diesel it burns the cruise liner QE2 moves only six inches. 7-Kneecaps of a body are formed only when they reach the age between 2 to 6 years. 8-Compared to men, women blink nearly twice. 9-The English word that ends in mt is Dreamt 10-Its not possible to keep your eyes open and sneeze. 11-An average American spends 6 months in his whole life at red lights 12-The scissors was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci 13-When we are born our nose and ears keeps growing but the size of our eyes remains the same. 14-The longest word typed with the left hand is stewardesses and with the right is lollipop. 15-If rubber bands are refrigerated they last longer 16-56% of the a...