Terrorist Ajmal Kasab confesses, admits guilt in court!

Title: Terrorist Ajmal Kasab confesses, admits guilt in court!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

The lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 attack Ajmal Kasab, confessed to his guilt of massacring people in a terrorist attack on Mumbai in September 2008.

After denying his role for 65 days during his trial, suddenly he admitted today that he was guilty of his crimes. Everyone in the court was surprised and not a few thought that there was some further twist to the story which would emerge later.

Hillary praises Aamir on education!

Title: Hillary praises Aamir on education!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Hillary Clinton at a special interactive session with students of Xavier college in Mumbai praised Aamir Khan, who was also present, for his excellent work in the area of education. Hillary said that it was a great delight to be present there with Bollywood icon and education crusader Aamir Khan.

Aamir Khan said that students should be taught to be more caring, and that is what will finally make a real difference.

A lovely situation indeed, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan joining hands for a great cause.

Bet claims 3 lives of teenagers in Ludhiana

Title: Bet claims 3 lives of teenagers in Ludhiana
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Three teenagers in Ludhiana, a town in Punjab, India, decided that they would run across the railway track as a train approached, and the first one across would be paid money by the two losers.

This unfortunate bet resulted in the death of all three teenagers who were also drug addicts. A very unfortunate accident made by rash youngsters certainly under the influence of drugs.

Priyanka Chopra birthday today, she turns 27

Title: Priyanka Chopra birthday today, she turns 27
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Priyanka Chopra turns 27 today, Saturday, July 18. One of the biggest stars of Bollywood she has had a great year with two big hits, 'Fashion' and 'Dostana'.

She says that she is not a party girl, so will have a quiet time with close family and friends on her birthday. She has several new movies in tow, about to release is 'Kaminey' with Shahid Kapoor.

Priyanka Chopra is the darling of Bollywood right now, and is aiming for several more hits as she turns 27.

Obama to host Apollo 11 crew

Title: Obama to host Apollo 11 crew
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Date of creation: 2009 July

On Monday, the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, President Barack Obama will host the entire Apollo 11 crew. This is one of only two such events where the entire Apollo 11 crew will be there.

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, and Michael Collins, the command module pilot, rarely appear in public, though Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon is frequently in the media.

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, and since December 1972, man has not been to the moon.

Tata Nano on road, first Nanos handed over to customers

Title: Tata Nano on road, first
Nanos handed over to customers!Size: 12" X 8"
Date of creation: 2009 July

Ashok Vichare was handed over his shining lunar silver Tata Nano by Mr. Ratan Tata himself at the factory gates. Ashish Balakrishnan was also handed over his Nano by Ratan Tata, as was a third car to Kores India.

This marks the beginning of the Tata Nano on the roads of India. The 'people's car' or the 'one lakh' car has finally arrived.

Harley Davidson cuts 1000 jobs plans to cut another 1000

Title: Harley Davidson cuts 1000 jobs plans to cut another 1000
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Date of creation: 2009 July

As the earnings for the quarter ended June 28 came in, Harley Davidson announced cutting 1000 employees. It's a shame that such an iconic brand is facing such a titanic financial crisis.

Their profits have tumbled 91 percent amongst a whole host of other miseries. Let's hope that the motorcycle that resurrected itself from a non-entity to a world renowned and respected brand is able to come out of this crisis.

Amy Winehouse Blake Fielder-Civil divorce in London

Title: Amy Winehouse Blake Fielder-Civil divorce in London
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil have been granted a divorce by a judge in London. Neither the 25 year old Winehouse nor the 27 year old Civil were present. They had married in 2007 and ran into trouble very soon when Blake was arrested for assault. Later Blake filed for divorce on adultery grounds. Amy did not contest it and today they have been granted their divorce.

Amy's hit album 'Back to Black' got her Grammies but her life has been a mess ever since. Let's hope she let's go of the nonsense and concentrates on just the music.

Jackson fire accident in 1994 Pepsi video - start of addiction

Title: Michael Jackson hair on fire accident video
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Date of creation: 2009 July

In 1984 while shooting for a Pepsi commercial, a stage pyrotechnics show involved two bombs going off near Michael Jackson's head. The sparks caused Jackson's hair to catch fire.

The mishap was seen live by fans and it resulted in Michael Jackson having several surgeries and skin grafts to heal his burnt scalp. The pain killer addiction this got him into, lasted till his death a few days ago at age 50. The never-before seen video of this incident emerged with US Weekly magazine a few days back.

Michael Jackson's Pepsi burn accident resulted in Pepsi paying him 1.5 million dollars which he donated to a burns clinic that was named after him.

May his soul rest in peace.

Bed and Breakfast in jail at Hillsboro Missourie

Title: Bed and Breakfast in jail at Hillsboro Missourie
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Date of creation: 2009 July

A Hillsboro Missouri County jail is offering the public bed and breakfast in jail on July 31 at US$50 per night per person and US$90 per night per couple.

The jail authorities are trying to generate funds for mattresses for a new jail addition. People who want to spend the night in jail, will get bed and breakfast, a tour, a t-shirt, a souvenir and a 'Get out of jail free' card.

Interestingly if anyone wants to get out early, they will have to pay US$10 extra. A truly novel way for a jail to accumulate funds!

Giant shark in New York Long Island beach

Title: Giant shark washes ashore in New York
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Date of creation: 2009 July

A 26 1/2 feet long shark washed ashore the Long Island beach in New York. It was a basking shark, which is the second largest fish in the oceans after the whale shark. The shark that washed ashore died soon after authorities reached the spot, and did not seem to have been hit by a boat or shown any visible signs of unnatural death.

Big B helps women stranded in Mumbai rain

Title: Big B helps women stranded in Mumbai rain
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Amitabh Bachchan decided to brave the waist deep rain water in front of his residence 'Prateeksha' in his SUV to go to his Juhu home 'Jalsa'. However as he drove out, he saw a few distraught women wading through the flooded road. On seeing the stranded women, he stopped his SUV and actually gave them a lift.

Getting a lift in the flooded road from none other than the mega star Amitabh Bachchan must have been an experience in itself.

Google Hyderabad office shuts due to Swine Flu

Title: Google India Hyderabad office shuts due to Swine Flu
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Date of creation: 2009 July

The Google Office in Hyderabad India had to be shut down for two days following the discovery that one of the employees had tested positive for Swine Flu. This employee had been in touch with a Techie who had tested positive to Swine Flu after returning from the US.

Since the employee had come into office, all other people working in the office who the employee had come in contact with had to be screened for swine flu too.

The situation made Google shut down its Hyderabad office for two days to de-contaminate it.

French Pair in Somalia posed as journalists

Title: French Pair in Somalia posed as journalists
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Two French nationals were kidnapped in Somalia by gunmen. Witnesses said that the gunmen wore uniforms similar to those worn by Somali Government forces.
The two French nationals who were security advisors were posing as journalists for their own safety. Somalia is supposed to be one of the most dangerous nations in the world for journalists.

Sarah Palin corruption scandal resignation

Title: Sarah Palin corruption scandal resignation
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Date of creation: 2009 July

A construction company SBS supposedly was given a contract for building a hockey arena, and in exchange SBS constructed Sarah Palin's luxurious home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002.

It is rumoured that this yet to explode corruption scandal has caused Sarah Palin to resign more than a year before her term ends.

OR Tambo heroin bust of $1.4 million

Title: OR Tambo heroin bust of $1.4 million
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Date of creation: 2009 July

In the OR Tambo airport in South Africa, airport authorities discovered a metal case made to look like a part of machinery, that contained heroin worth 1.4 million dollars ( approx. 12 million South African rand) in street value.


The metal case had come from Teheran in Iran, and was headed for a non-existant Johannesburg address.

Scrushy hiding money outside US

Title: Richard Scrushy of HealthSouth Corp. accused of hiding money outside US
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Richard Scrushy, the fired chief executive and founder of HealthSouth Corp., who had been involved in a massive fraud at his company, has been accused of hiding more than $600 million in accounts outside the US.

He has been ordered by a judge to pay $2.8 billion for his role in the fraud, though he has denied any wrongdoing.

25,000 dollar coffin for Michael Jackson

Title: 25,000 dollar coffin for Michael Jackson
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Michael Jackson will be buried in a solid bronze 14 carat gold plated casket, which has a blue velvet interior and a hand polished mirror finish, and costs 25,000 dollars.

Called the Promethean, it is the same kind of casket in which James Brown was buried in. Fitting for a musical legend who lived a grandiose life filled with incredible excesses of lifestyle, incidents and emotions.

Sarah sitting duck Palin!!

Title: Sarah Palin sitting duck!!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Sarah Palin was given the Sitting Duck Award by The National Society of Newspaper Columnists. An award that they give to the newsmaker who has been most ridiculed. This tongue-in-cheek award was given to Sarah Palin for hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons again and again and again.

Runner up was Rod Blagojevich, the ousted former governor of Illinois who was caught trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat.

artist tyeb mehta gone but his artistic genius will live on

Title: artist tyeb mehta gone but his artistic genius will live on
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Date of creation: 2009 July

His paintings are stark and clutch at your throat, and they depict emotions that are laid completely bare. Few colours, uncomplicated but incredibly powerful shapes and an overall impact that can stagger you. From his 'Kali' that was the first Indian painting to break the Rs. 1 crore barrier to 'Mahisasura', his paintings have a primal power that cannot be matched by any other painter.

Just 'image search' Tyeb Mehta on Google, and you will understand what I mean, by the unimaginably powerful yet simple yet complex work that he created. India has lost one her greatest painters.

Man beaten for sex screams of lover

Title: Man beaten for sex screams of lover
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Date of creation: 2009 July

In Torrington Conn., the sex screams of a woman were misinterpreted as screams of a woman being assaulted, and her lover was beaten up by a group of teenagers.

The 34 year old woman who was screaming while having sex, was heard by a 16 year old girl living in the same building, who then got together several other teens and beat up the 25 year old man who was with the woman.

A truly bizzare story, where no one was seriously hurt, but screams were seriously misinterpreted... funny and absurd!

Shrinking sheep due to global warming

Title: Shrinking sheep due to global warming
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Date of creation: 2009 July

The rise in temperatures is making sheep smaller. The reason was uncovered by a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London. They found that on average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985.

The reason - since it was getting warmer, the larger body size to be able to survive harsh winters was no longer necessary. As a result the smaller sheep were also surviving, which made the overall size of the sheep population smaller. This slowly led to reduction of the size of sheep over the last 25-30 years.

I don't want to even begin to imagine what else could happen due to global warming... lets hope that mankind shows enough wisdom to survive climate change!

What killed Michael Jackson - stress says Uri Geller

Title: What killed Michael Jackson - stress says Uri Geller
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Date of creation: 2009 July

His closest former confidantes, medium Uri Geller and bodyguard Matt Fiddes speak about Jackson's abuse of painkillers and prescription drugs that lead to his death.

Uri Geller said that Jackson used to have too much medication, too strong medication too often. Uri Geller also felt that a part was played by the stress and strain of actually having to go to London to perform.

Both used to literally scream and shout at Michael Jackson to not abuse prescription medicines, but got pushed out by others.

Jackson was under so much of unrelenting pressure, bullying and stress because of the media and people across the world, that Uri felt that it was a feat in itself that Michael Jackson held out for so long.

Roshni Nadar succeeds Shiv Nadar in HCL

Title: Roshni Nadar succeeds Shiv Nadar in HCL
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Shiv Nadar has elevated his daughter Roshni Nadar to the post of executive director and CEO of HCL Corporation, the holding company of HCL Tech and HCL Info. Roshni will have control over the holding company and the treasury and will take all new investment decisions.

She is an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and has worked in the media industry, closely covering the Iraq war, and was one of the very few who covered Saddam Hussain's capture.

HCL is India's 5th largest IT company. Let's see where Roshni Nadar takes HCL.

Gabby Reece nude in PureVia ads

Title: Gabby Reece nude in PureVia ads
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Date of creation: 2009 July

Beach volleyball champion Gabrielle (Gabby) Reece will appear Au naturel in ads for PureVia, the all natural, zero calorie sweetener from Whole Earth Sweetener Company.

A health icon and a beach volleyball star, Gabby Reece will appear with stevia leaves painted on her body by famous body and make-up artist Joanne Gair. The ads will appear in leading women's magazines and are sure to be eye-catching, to say the least.

Diana Ross in Jacko's will!

Title: Diana Ross in Jacko's will!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

In his will, Michael Jackson names his mother as the guardian of his children, and if that can not be fulfilled than he has named Diana Ross as the guardian of his children.

The exact words were:
"If any of my children are minors at the time of my death, I nominate my mother, Katherine Jackson as guardian ...,"

"If Katherine Jackson fails to survive me, or is unable or unwilling to act as guardian, I nominate Diana Ross as guardian..."

Michael Jackson was in awe of Diana Ross right from the beginning. He tried to sing like her, and even to look like her. It is touching that he named her in his will as the caretaker of his children... may his soul RIP!

The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein

Title: The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein
Size: 12" X 8"
Date of creation: 2009 July

A 234 page guide to twitter that is selling for 20$, it covers everything that anyone needs to know about twitter.

From the basic RT (retweeting) to trending to twitter aps like twitpic and tweetdeck, this guide will take you through everything that will make you a knowledgeable tweeter. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the full potential and the slightly difficult to grasp world of twitter.

Maybe I'll pick up one copy myself... tweet tweet!

Walkman is 30!

Title: Walkman turns 30!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

30 years back it created a sensation, and made Sony the global giant it is today. Today from the iPod to digital music files, the Walkman is almost dead. Just to give you an idea of the numbers, Sony sold 385 million Walkman machines worldwide in 30 years while Apple has sold more than 210 million iPod machines worldwide in just eight years.

Today Sony is running in losses, and it needs another awesome music product to come back on line. The Walkman was their biggest break-through, they need another one now. Long live the Walkman, something I grew up with...

Mt Redoubt cools down, Alaskan volcano threat lowered

Title: Mt Redoubt volcano cools down, Alaskan volcano threat level lowered by scientists!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

The volcano near Anchorage in Alsaka erupted in March, and then again in April, and has since been in a near eruption state. However latest studies show that its eruptions for now have ceased, and the danger levels are significantly reduced. In the March eruption, it sent dust clouds nine miles into the atmosphere and sent volcanic ash and dust into Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula and Governor Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla. The volcanic ash can injure skin, eyes and breathing passages and can scratch windshield glass if the wipers
are turned on.

Yemeni plane crash survivor is in hospital and doing well!

Title: Yemeni plane crash survivor is in hospital and doing well!
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Date of creation: 2009 July

A Yemeni jetliner carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian ocean while trying to land amid severe turbulence and howling winds. The only survivor was a teenaged girl, who was found bobbing in the water by rescuer Sgt. Said Abdilai.

Another air tragedy caused by severe weather conditions... are our aircrafts really equipped to handle tough weather conditions, are we risking too much to travel quickly?