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According to The Hoff’s representatives, David became ill after the medication for his ear problems clashed with the drug he takes to prevent himself from drinking. David, a recovering alcoholic, takes Antabuse as a treatment for his addiction because it has an extremely negative reaction to booze. Combining this with the ear drugs reportedly messed up the 57-year-old’s ‘equilibrium’. The America’s Got Talent judge said he couldn’t get hold of his family doctor when he fell sick, so an ambulance was called. The Baywatch star spent just an hour in the hospital on Sunday and was even snapped taking a stroll through Beverly Hills yesterday afternoon.

US President Barack Obama said US is fully extending Pakistan support in war on terrorism.Addressing leaders of countries featuring allied forces in UN peace mission, Obama said al-Qaeda has claimed so far thousands of innocent people belonging to different religions and countries and also conspired an unsuccessful plot to shatter UN building.He said US and other countries have cooperated governments in Pakistan and Afghanistan for safeguard of lives of their citizens.Earlier, addressing the UN’s general Assembly, Obama said he will not allow al-Qaeda to launch attack on US through Pakistan and Afghanistan while the proliferation of nuclear arms will be brought to halt at all costs.US will remain engaged in efforts of peace maintenance in Middle East, he concluded.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 PARIS: France's foreign minister said in an interview Wednesday he was not in favour of plans mooted by some US lawmakers to impose fuel sanctions on Iran to make it come clean on its nuclear programme."I think this is a bit dangerous," Bernard Kouchner told a news publication.Kouchner, speaking in New York, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly, warned that a fuel blockade would harm the Iranian people, "and mainly poor people."French officials however said their government had not yet decided its position on such a measure, the paper said, adding that analysts believed that if France came out against fuel sanctions the idea would probably be dropped.The UN Security Council has already imposed three sets of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to freeze its uranium enrichment activities which could be used to build an atomic bomb. Iran denies it wants to make an atomic bomb.US lawmakers have been pushing Pre...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 MUMBAI: Giant chandeliers slowly rising to the ceiling, walls swathed in luxurious fabric resembling an opulent Mughal Darbar, and beautiful and elegant models walking the ramp, heralded the beginning of the last and final show of the Lakme Fashion Week.The five-day fashion extravaganza came to a befitting end in Mumbai with India's top designer Tarun Tahiliani dazzling everyone with a fabulous mix of fashion and beauty.Tahiliani's collection was based on the Glamour By Lakme 2009 collection, and comprised of Red Carpet Glam, Uptown Glam, Resort or Goa Glam and Gypsy Glam.Tahiliani had divided his show, "The Painterly Vision" into drapes that featured saris, gowns, togas, tunics, Grecian, jersey NavVaaris, fringed kurtas and the Pegged Drape."The collection was very simple... drapes...The evening wear wasn't particularly bright because it was placed against Indian tableaux and also, we had the luxury for the first time of showin...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 BANGALORE: India successfully launched seven satellites including six from foreign countries on Wednesday, officials said, underlining the country's ambitions in the space business. About a month after its first moon mission was aborted, the country's space agency announced that the seven satellites had been put into orbit about 720 kilometres (447 miles) above the earth. India will use one of the satellites, Oceansat-2, for monitoring ocean patterns, backing up the first Oceansat, which was launched in 1999. Of the six foreign satellites, there are four from Germany and one each from Switzerland and Turkey. "It was a perfect launch," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said from the spaceport Sriharikota, about 80 kilometres north-east of Chennai. The cost of the launch was two billion rupees (40 million dollars), including 1.3 billion rupees for the satellite and 700 million rupees for the rocket, Satish...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 NEW YORK: One Pakistani amid six persons was kept into custody for 10 hours for investigations during FBI raids against the suspects in Qeens area here.Geo News correspondent, Sami Ibrahim in his report said that FBI raiding Queens area here arrested six persons, of them, included one Pakistani also. The report said that this string of raids had started, when a few days ago some Afghans were arrested in U.S. from whom such a laptop was recovered in which bomb making devices were found saved and on the basis of the information obtained from laptop, FBI raided a flat located in Queens area here and arrested the six persons present over there.The correspondent said that FBI released the five Afghans after initial interrogation, but one Pakistani, Abdul Mannan, hailing from Quetta and living in U.S. for the last 15 years, was still in their custody.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 WASHINGTON: U. S. General Stanley A. McChrystal has warned that the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan could exacerbate regional tensions in the region and harm the U.S. interest.In the clearest statement to date of Washington’s reservations about the rising Indian economic and political profile in Afghanistan, the top American general in charge of the war against the Taliban and other insurgents there has said India’s increasing influence in the insurgency-wracked country “is likely to exacerbate regional tensions”.“Indian political and economic influence is increasing in Afghanistan, including significant development efforts and financial investment. In addition, the current Afghan government is perceived by Islamabad to be pro-Indian”, the McChrystal report notes. General Stanley said that the Indian ongoing activities would exacerbate the tensions in the region and this could heighten the anxieties of Pakistan. U.S. General said that the tense sit...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 SEOUL: South Korea Wednesday launched two new high-speed patrol boats armed with missiles to guard the border with North Korea, as the incoming defence minister warned of ongoing military tensions. The defence ministry said the 400-ton boats -- the Han Sang Guk and the Jo Cheon Hyeong -- made their debut in the southern port city of Jinhae. They were named after soldiers killed in a 2002 naval clash with North Korea and equipped with guided missiles with a range of up to 140 kilometres (84 miles). The first boat of the new class was deployed in early June amid high tensions along the western sea border -- the scene of deadly naval clashes in 1999 as well as in 2002. In 2002 six South Korean soldiers died and 18 others were wounded while more than 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded. North Korea refuses to recognise the current western sea border and wants it moved further to the south. The latest boats, to be deployed in the Yellow Sea as early...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 SYDNEY: A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tons of valuable farmland topsoil.The dust blacked out the outback town of Broken Hill on Tuesday, forcing a zinc mine to shut down, and swept 1,167 km (725 miles) east to shroud Sydney in a red glow on Wednesday. By noon on Wednesday the dust storm had spread to the southern part of Australia's tropical state of Queensland.Australia is battling one of its worst droughts and weather officials say an El Nino is slowly developing in the Pacific, which will mean drier conditions for eastern states.International flights were diverted from Sydney, ferries on Sydney Harbour were suspended and commuter motorists warned to take care on roads as visibility was dramatically reduced. The dust set off smoke alarms in some buildings in Sydney's central business district and brought construction to ...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 NEW YORK: EU foreign policy Chief Javier Solana said on Tuesday he did not expect Russia and China to break ranks with Western powers on whether to impose new sanctions on Iran if it continues to refuse to halt its nuclear enrichment program."I don't think that the Russians and Chinese will say ... never again," Solana told reporters when asked about the possibility of a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran for failing to freeze its uranium enrichment program."There's not going to be a breaking of the group," he said.Solana added he did not expect a meeting of six powers on Iran on Wednesday to produce any substantive decision.He said he and foreign ministers from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany would discuss the group's forthcoming meeting with Iran in Geneva on Oct. 1.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 TEHRAN: Iran says it has built a new generation of centrifuges for enriching uranium, and is testing them. The head of Iran's nuclear agency made the announcement but did not say when they would be ready to go into production at the Natanz atomic plant. Centrifuges can be used to produce fuel for nuclear power and also to make nuclear weapons. The announcement comes a few days before Iran enters fresh talks on its controversial nuclear programme. "Our scientists have built a new generation of centrifuges, and cascades with 10 centrifuges each are now being tested," said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 FRANKFURT: The euro traded close to one-year highs against the dollar Wednesday before the Group of 20 summit and a U.S. Federal Reserve decision on interest rates.The 16-nation euro bought $1.4794 in European morning trading, marginally higher than the $1.4792 it bought late Tuesday in New York. The euro had risen as high as $1.4840, a high for the past year, in spot trading over the past 24 hours.The British pound rose to $1.6366 from $1.6352. The dollar also sank against the Japanese currency, declining to 90.90 yen from 91.24 yen.Traders have been ditching the dollar for other currencies, with signals pointing to an economic recovery and the Group of 20 finance officials recently pledging to maintain government spending, low interest rates and increased money supply to shore up the global economy.Those moves should help boost economic activity and liquidity in financial markets, increasing investors' appetite for assets around the world at the exp...

Thursday, September 24, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: Pakistan defeated the West Indies by five wickets in their first Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy here at the New Wanderers Stadium on Wednesday night.Chasing a rather easy target of 134, Pakistan completed the task in just 30.3 overs for the loss of five wickets.Young batsman Umar Akmal top scored with an unbeaten 41 while stand-in captain Shahid Afridi was 17 not out.Both added 58 runs for the unbroken sixth wicket stand after Pakistan lost their five top order batsmen for 76 runs.Gavin Tonge bagged four wickets for 25 runs.Earlier, Pakistan bowlers skittled out West Indies for 133 runs in 34.3 overs after the West Indies captain Floyd Reifer won the toss and elected to bat first but their batsmen could not resist the Pakistani seamers and the West Indies lost their seven wickets for 47.Later, their late-order batsmen took out the team from disaster and succeeded in taking the score to 133.Number nine batsman Nikita Miller emerged a...