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SHELBYVILLE, Ind. – Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115. UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker's great-nephew notified him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records. Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana's Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior. Coles maintains a list of the world's oldest people and said Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history. Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who was born Sept. 10, 1893, is now the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Parker had been a widow since her husband, Earl Parker, died in 1939 of a heart attack. She lived alone in their...

3 terrorists killed at Taj, operations officially on: NEW DELHI: The 59-hour siege of old Taj hotel ends with the NSG killing three terrorist who were holed up inside. NSG said they would not declare the operation over before sanitising each and every floor."Three terrorists have been killed but we are still continuing our operations," Director General of NSG, J K Dutt, told reporters outside the hotel.On whether all the terrorists have been killed and hotel is now free, he said that it could be ascertained after the combing operation is over.During the night, terrorists holed out in the hotel engaged in a fierce gun battle with security forces as some places in the first and the ground floors of the 565-room building set afire by terrorists amid explosions in the over 100-year-old heritage complex in the Colaba area. Two more militants killed, Taj hotel operation over: police: MUMBAI: Indian commandos on Saturday shot dead two more Islamic militants inside Mumbai's Taj M...

KARACHI: Kalia Group’s chief, Hanif S. Kalia allegedly involved in the currency scandal has been physically remanded to FIA until December 6.Hanif S. Kalia was presented today in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Muhammad Asif, where FIA requested for his 14 days remand, but the court allowed giving the accused under the custody of FIA until December 6.Hanif S Kalia was arrested last night from his residence at Clifton by registering an FIR #78/2008 here. Hanif Kalia physically remanded until Dec. 6: KARACHI: Khanani & Kalia Company chairman, Hanif Kalia under arrest in the currency scandal has been given to FIA on physical remand until December 6 by the local court here.

Okay boys, don’t let you imagination run wild. Firstly, there is no spelling error in this headline (uh, huh!). And there’s no ‘strip’-show coming up here. Yeah sure, Ms Amrita Rao is turning into one sexy thing (with her short dresses, skimpy skirts, and just the right bit of skin-show) — aren’t we glad to see those long tees and kurtis; that covered everything they shouldn’t have; thrown out of her wardrobe? But the gal ain’t ready for smooches and swimsuits just yet. So let’s focus on other parts, uh-oh, we mean serious stuff, like scripts, alright? (Geez! Talk about one-track minds). Amrita was telling us about her fascination for scripts. Not just her movie scripts, but any movie script. “I have a very good ear for scripts. I love reading scripts of all kinds of movies and I must say that I’ve a good sense of judgment too. I tell my friends to bounce scripts off me before signing on projects. I have become like a script doc.” Well, she’s looking so hot nowadays that she’s nothing...

He may have acted as an outlaw umpteen times on the screen but the terror attacks in Mumbaiwere enough to shake Amitabh Bachchan up who kept his revolver under his pillow while going to sleep. "Last night, as the events of the terror attack unfolded in front of me I did something for the first time andone that I had hoped never ever to be in a situation to do.Before retiring for the night, I pulled out my licensed .32revolver, loaded it and put it under my pillow. For a verydisturbed sleep," the megastar wrote on his blog. Bachchan was glued to TV screen as security personnel battled the militants yesterday, also the birth anniversary of his father. Bachchan, known for his on-screen 'Angry Young Man'image depicting the rebellious youth, fumed with anger at the "ineptitude of the authorities" who were supposed to take careof the country. "My pain has been the sight and plight of my innocentand vulnerable and completely insecure countrymen, facing thewr...