Thursday, September 17, 2009 CALIFORNIA: Jennifer Aniston has revealed she used to clean toilets to make extra cash.The former Friends star - who now rakes in big bucks for her movies - told Parade magazine she wasn't well off as a child so scrubbed people's loose to boost her pocket money."I made my allowance as a kid cleaning toilets - I'm actually pretty good at it," said the actress.But Jen, who also worked as a waitress and sold time-shares before hitting the big time, said she was perfectly happy in whatever job she did."I struggled for a while, but I was happy with my life whether I was making this amount of money, or that amount of money," she said.When acting jobs started to boost her bank balance Jennifer splashed out on a Mercedes - which she's still never driven.She laughed: "I bought an antique Mercedes for 20,000 dollars that never has been ridden in or driven by me, however long that's been. I got a lemon. I bought it off Melrose Ave. I should have known better. It was sitting on like the side of the road and I was like, 'Oh my God! It's a 1969, you know, 280SL!' So I bought it and it just wouldn't move."
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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