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WASHINGTON: French finance minister Christine Lagarde on Tuesday clinched the top job at the IMF, keeping the international lender in the hands of a European at a time of growing concern over a possible Greek debt default. Lagarde will become the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund when her five-year term as managing [...]

New York: “Trouble,” the pampered pooch, who inherited $12 million from a real estate mogul and received about 30 death and kidnapping threats, died at the age of 12. Leona Helmsley, who owned the Helmsley hotel chain, left the fortune in her will to care for her beloved Maltese, when she died in 2007. A [...]

New York, Sept 28 (ANI): Women in the United States have made have made little progress in the field of management, even in the boom years before the financial crisis, according to a G.A.O. report to be released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office. According to The New York Times, women accounted for about [...]

New York, Sep 28 (ANI): To starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan, the high level leadership of Taliban has reached out to senior Afghan Government officials, according to top US commander operating in Afghanistan. For months, efforts at reconciliation have been stalled at every level, and this [...]

New York, Sep 27 (ANI): Gisele Bundchen”s Calvin Klein custom gown sold for a whopping 50,000 dollars in an auction for charity. The dress went under the hammer at the Brazil Foundation gala Thursday night at Metropolitan Museum of Art, reports the New York Post. Later, husband Tom Brady, Francisco Costa, Lorenzo Martone and ”Gossip [...]

New York, Sept 27 (ANI): The sexy banker, who sued Citigroup for firing her after she complained that male co-workers couldn’t control themselves around her, has said that she does not want fame or to appear in Playboy but only to set an example. Debrahlee Lorenzana, who revealed that she has been inundated with offers [...]

London, Sep 27 (ANI): Rihanna baffled bosses during her latest video shoot by insisting that everything in her trailer should be black. Furnishings, towels, robes and even the candles were specified to be in the gothic hue for filming that took place in New York over the weekend. “Rihanna made very strict demands about her [...]

New York, Sept 27 (ANI): A new book on Arnold Schwarzenegger has claimed that he once spent two hours at a party at the Playboy mansion locked in a room with a pin-up. Investigative journalist Ian Halperin claims in his book ‘The Governator’ that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner may have a tape of what happened [...]

New York, Sept.27 (ANI): A new book about the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin has opined that both were targets of overt sexism-related attacks and got a raw deal, which led to their respective losses to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The book is titled “Big Girls Don”t Cry”, which has been [...]

New York, Sep 27 (ANI): Debbie Reynolds has revealed that her story is alike Brangelina as Eddie Fisher dumped her for man-eater Elizabeth Taylor. The public was scandalized, as details came out that Reynolds, lonely with Fisher on tour, called her best friend Liz in her hotel room on location – and Fisher answered. Reynolds [...]

New York, Sept 27 (ANI): Being flat-chested may once have been an embarrassment, but recent trends indicate otherwise. Ellen Shing, the owner of Lula Lu, a California-based website that caters to AAA- to A-cup sizes, said that while some women do look for padded bras, the majority “don”t want to super-size themselves”. “It”s a misconception [...]

London, Sep 27 (IANS) Madonna’s daughter Lourdes says that she has been clashing with her mother over their new clothing line. The mother-daughter team had launched their clothing line Material Girl in New York last week. ‘I look up to what my mum’s done, but there are some points where we really clash in our [...]

Dhaka, Sep 27 (IANS) The US wants Bangladesh to deploy its troops in Afghanistan ‘to establish security and stability’, authorities said. Bangladesh said it would do ‘whatever it can to help restore peace in South Asia, especially in Afghanistan’. A Foreign Office news release said the subject was discussed when US special representative for Afghanistan [...]

New York, Sep 27 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Aleutian Islands of the US state of Alaska Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The tremor occurred about 9:27 a.m. local time (1827 GMT) at a depth of 226 km, with its epicentre some 2,070 km west-southwest of Anchorage, Xinhua [...]

Doha, Sept 21 (ANI): Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) chief and chairman of the Kashmir Committee- Maulana Fazlur Rehman- has been barred from entering the United States. An official in the US State Department confirmed to media on condition of anonymity that Rehman was stopped at Doha international airport, when he was ready to fly to America [...]

New York, Sept 21 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan”s talent should not be discounted and could help her triumph like formerly addicted star Robert Downey Jr, according to ”Inferno” producer Chris Hanley. The producer behind “Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story,” LiLo’s next project, told People.com that his star”s talent “weighs very heavily” in his decision to support [...]

London, Sep 21 (ANI): Paris Hilton has been given a one-year, suspended sentence after she pleaded guilty to drug possession and obstructing a police officer. A US judge also fined the 29-year-old 2,000 dollars and ordered her to do 200 hours of community service. Las Vegas police arrested Hilton last mont, after they stopped a [...]

New York, Sept 21 (ANI): “Heroes” actress Hayden Panettiere is set to play Amanda Knox, the American exchange student convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy, in a Lifetime movie. The film will air in 2011 on the women’s cable network, according to Deadline. Knox, 23, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty [...]

New York, Sep 21 (ANI): A teacher in a school where US President Barack Obama”s two daughters are enrolled has apparently been placed on five-year probation for fondling with a 15-year-old male student. According to the Washington Post, Robert A. “Pete” Peterson was fired from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. and has been [...]

United Nations, Sep 21 (IANS) The India, Brazil and South Africa Facility for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation (IBSA Fund) has received the 2010 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Award for South-South Cooperation. The award recognises the work of the three countries in using innovative approaches to share, replicate and scale up successful development experiences for [...]