Sunday, September 13, 2009 LONDON: Anyone who thought Paris Hilton wouldn't be remembered 10 years from now shouldn't put a bet on it.Today, the celebrity socialite, heiress and reality TV star joined the ranks of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Hawking in the Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations.The Sun online reports the 28-year-old won a shock place with her advice: "Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in." The quotes are among 20,000 new entries in the updated edition of the dictionary out today.They include words from President Obama, scientist Stephen Hawking and late jazzman Humphrey Lyttelton.The compilers even managed to find a new quote from Chinese philosopher Confucius, who lived 2000 years ago.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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