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Two film-old actress Sonam Kapoor has beaten the likes of Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif to emerge as the best dressed celebrity in India, according to People magazine. "My style isn't about trends. I don't let the clothes wear me, I wear them, " said the 24-year-old about her style statement. On the list, Kareena holds second position, Priyanka is third, Twinkle Khanna on fourth and Katrina on fifth slot. Sonam, daughter of Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, made her acting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Saawariya" opposite Ranbir Kapoor and later featured in "Delhi 6". She’s presently shooting for papa Anil Kapoor’s home production Ayesha which is a desi adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel ‘Emma’.

LAHORE: Teenagers in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat are smiling in relief, after the successful army operation against the Taliban in the valley has ended their days of forcibly working as boy soldiers. A report in the Washington Post said the Pakistan Army had found hundreds of traumatised teenagers when its troops regained control of Swat in a violent campaign this summer. About a month ago, the army opened a rehabilitation clinic for the war-torn teenagers. It has been named “Sabaoon”, which is means “the first ray of light of the morning” in Pushto. The report’s author said the military’s commander in Swat, Major Gen Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad had warned him before he visited the facility that many of the boys were still shaken by their experiences. But one of the youths had merrily stepped forward and shook hands with him. The commander said the boy had been trained as a suicide bomber when he was rescued. The report said it was the perfect way to defeat an insurgency. It said the...

KABUL: Eight U.S. service members were killed in coordinated attacks on two outposts in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Sunday.The attacks in Nuristan province, which took place Saturday, also killed two Afghan soldiers, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.A spokeswoman for U.S. forces, Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, confirmed that all the Western fatalities were Americans. The deaths marked the largest single losses of American lives in months in a single engagement.Many remote outposts like the ones that were hit in this assault by what NATO described as "tribal militia" are due to be shut down under a new strategy put forth by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of all Western troops in Afghanistan.

Sunday, October 04, 2009 WASHINGTON: A confidential analysis by staff of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has concluded that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to be able to design and produce" an atom bomb, The New York Times reported on Saturday.The Times report was posted on its website hours after Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Tehran for talks on a timetable for inspectors to visit a newly disclosed unfinished nuclear enrichment plant.Iran, which rejects Western charges that it is seeking to build nuclear weapons, held talks with six world powers in Geneva on Thursday. Western officials said that in the talks, Iran had agreed "in principle" to ship out most of its enriched uranium for reprocessing in Russia and France.The analysis, according to the Times, says the IAEA "assesses that Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device" based on highly enri...

Sunday, October 04, 2009 ATHENS: Greeks voted in a snap election Sunday with the opposition socialists expected to top Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' party, which has been hit by corruption scandals and a badly slumping economy. Led by former foreign minister George Papandreou, son of late prime minister Andreas Papandreou, the socialist PASOK party held a lead of 5-7 points over the ruling conservatives in the final opinion polls published two weeks ago. Karamanlis called the election halfway through his four-year term with his New Democracy party, distracted by corruption scandals, finding it difficult to govern as the country faces a dire economic crisis. Buoyed for years by growth rates of around four percent partly attributed to EU funds, Greece is now on the brink of recession with output growth at near zero. Greece's public debt, one of the highest in the eurozone, is set to exceed 100 percent of GDP this year, and the European Union placed the country under supervis...

Sunday, October 04, 2009 LONDON: India has expressed its worries over the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) appointment of a special envoy for the resolution of Kashmir issue.British Radio reported Indian foreign minister saying that OIC in its decision has not made efforts to understand the Indian stand and added that Kashmir was the indispensable part of India and OIC has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of India.Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mir Waiz Umar Faruque said that the OIC appointing special envoy for Kashmir would pave the way for the resolution of Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of the people of Kashmir.OIC Secretary General Akmaluddin said that OIC earlier also had appointed its representative for Kashmir and OIC envoy could play the role of a bridge between Pakistan and India.

Sunday, October 04, 2009 TEHRAN: Mohammed El-Baradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Tehran last night for discussions on Sunday with Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation and other officials. His visit comes as pressure mounts on Iran again following a warning from President Barack Obama that his patience is limited. The US president has demanded swift action from the Iranian regime. An Iranian official told journalists that Mr El-Baradei will discuss a timetable for inspectors to visit a newly disclosed nuclear enrichment plant. Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended the nuclear programme, including the building of the second plant which was revealed to the outside world for the first time last week. "Iran's actions are based on honesty," he said. "We did not have any secret (nuclear) work because we gave information (about the new plant) ahead of time," to the IAEA, he said at a...

Sunday, October 04, 2009 PADANG: Whole villages in Indonesia's quake zone were found obliterated by landslides Saturday, as rescuers searched desperately for up to 4,000 people believed to be still trapped in rubble. The full extent of the damage from Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake emerged as attention turned to the hundreds of villages in the hills outside Padang, a devastated city of one million at the centre of rescue efforts. Journalists travelling from the coastal city on Sumatra island to the surrounding mountains encountered dozens of crumbled houses on the steep roads, and then four villages buried entirely by landslides. Search and rescue officers from the local government said that up to 400 people could have perished in the four hillside villages alone, including a wedding party of 30. "The difficulty in this rescue operation is that the houses are buried under the soil as much as four metres (13 feet) deep," the officer named Topan told media. "...

Saturday, October 03, 2009 NEW YORK: Researchers have discovered a way of boosting the muscle regeneration process in old age back to the levels of the young. They found that an enzyme that acts as a catalyst to repair and maintenance of muscles is much lower in older people than the young. By increasing its concentration in the elderly, they believe they can restore “youthful vigour” to old muscles. Scientists hope the breakthrough could lead to new treatments that rejuvenate and strengthen ageing bodies or combat degenerative diseases. It is well known that as people get older, their ability to restore and rebuild lost muscle is weakened. Researchers at the University of California, working with colleagues from the Institute of Sports Medicine and Centre of Healthy Ageing at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, compared muscle tissue samples from around 30 healthy men. Half the volunteers were young 21 to 24-year-olds and half aged between 68 and 74. At the start of the study, s...

Saturday, October 03, 2009 LONDON: A new world atlas which concentrates on population rather than land mass has been published.Researchers from the University of Sheffield created the online atlas of 200 maps that have been redrawn to show, at a glance, which cities are the largest, how all urban areas compare, and whether many or few people live in the countryside.The images, which were created as part of a Leverhulme Trust project to remap the world and extend the Worldmapper project, have been created using population distribution data so viewers can understand how many people make up each nation.The new world guides break with the 500-year tradition of conventional cartography which shows compass directions as straight lines.Benjamin Hennig, a postgraduate researcher at the University's Department of Geography, was part of the team that created the maps by using the gridded population of the world database of the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project.Mr Hennig said the new projec...

Saturday, October 03, 2009 PADANG: About 600 people are missing in landslides that hit villages northwest of the quake-hit Indonesian city of Padang, a disaster official said Saturday. "More or less, there are 600 missing. We've only found three dead," local health ministry crisis centre chief Jasmarizal said of the landslides, which occurred after Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude quake on Sumatra island.

Saturday, October 03, 2009 LONDON: Nearly 4000 women drivers were interviewed and at least a fifth of them confirmed that they have touched their mascara while driving.For the UK, this means at least 2.7 million women have touched up make up while driving. Of these interviewed females at least three percent admitted that they caused collision or were near collision due to their touch up distractions. In other words, at least 27 percent women drivers in the UK have confessed putting on makeup while driving and nine percent of those have crashed at least once.Britain’s Diamond Motor Insurer company surveyed women drivers about their driving habits. Careless driving in Britain includes applying makeup, eating and map reading as well. These are also punishable offences apart from the regular reckless driving practices that can lead to prison sentence up to two years.The company says that the figures are indeed ‘worrying’ as these women drivers not only put themselves but others also at ri...

Saturday, October 03, 2009 MOSCOW: India wants to buy another 50 Sukhoi-30MKI multi-role fighters, an Indian daily reported.According to the daily, the 50 air-superiority fighters will come on top of the 230 already contracted from Russia in three deals worth a total of $8.5 billion.The paper quoted Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Marshal P V Naik as saying his force was indeed "interested" in acquiring more Sukhois, which will be "the mainstay of India's fighter fleet for the foreseeable future, to further enhance its combat potential."He stressed, however, that the acquisition was not "country or adversary-specific."India previously said it was satisfied with the performance of Russian Su-30MKI fighters.The IAF originally ordered 50 Su-30MKI aircraft from Russia in 1996-98 and an additional 40 planes in 2007. Hindustani Aeronautics (HAL) was also contracted to build 140 aircraft in India between 2003 and 2017 under a licensed production agreement.

Saturday, October 03, 2009 NEW DELHI: Oscar winner Julia Roberts recently visited the world famous symbol of love Taj Mahal in Agra, according to reports.Oscar-winning actress was speechless, spell bound at sight of Taj. She visited Taj city on morning in private tour in Agra. The guide explained the intricacies of inscription and history back ground of the monument of eternal Love.

Saturday, October 03, 2009 CENTURION: Captain Ricky Ponting became the third batsman to reach 12,000 one-day international (ODI) runs as he guided Australia to a nine-wicket win over England in Friday's Champions Trophy semi-final.Ponting hit 111 not out and Shane Watson thumped an unbeaten 136, the pair sharing an unbroken second-wicket partnership of 252 to set Australia up for a final meeting with New Zealand or Pakistan on Monday."(Passing 12,000) is a nice little achievement I guess but I'll look at it when I have finished playing," Ponting said at the post-match presentation."(Squad member) Dave Hussey came out (to the middle) tonight and said, 'I wanted to tell you that you were getting close to 12,000 runs'. I had no idea, it's never been anything that motivates me, personal stats."It is about doing a job when it matters for the team so I'm happy I have been able to do that today," added Ponting.The 34-year-old, who joins India...

Saturday, October 03, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro was ready to party, and it had the best of reasons _ winning the 2016 Olympics. Rio citizens celebrated by jamming bars along Copacabana beach,sipping the famed caipirinhas to savor one of the city's proudest moments. A huge roar from the crowd of nearly 50,000 people was heard at the famed beach the moment International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said the words ``Rio de Janeiro'' to announce the winner in Copenhagen. As popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and football great Pele celebrated in Denmark, the Cariocas, as Rio citizens are known, raised their arms to celebrate on Copacabana, frantically wavingflags and hugging each other.The government has promised significant improvements to get Rio ready, and the Cariocas are hoping they will benefit from the preparations in a city known for its natural beauty and fun-loving people but also for its violent crime and many slums. Winning the 2016 ...

Sunday, October 04, 2009 LAHORE: The New Zealand cricket team has qualified for the final of ICC Champions Trophy defeating Pakistan in second semi-final on Saturday which has left people of Lahore highly disappointed.People made arrangements to watch live action of Pak-New Zealand semi-final on big screens at many places all across Lahore, which testified people getting sentimental amid progress of match.People were supporting green shirts on every single ball but by the time, Pakistan were nearing to defeat, people were becoming dismayed. Though fans appreciated Pakistani teams’ fight in the match but they were also critic of Pakistan’s poor fielding which cause their side’s ousting from race of Champions Trophy title.