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Jordan ‘plans £2m marriage sham with Alex Reid’

London, Jan 31 : Katie Price a.k.a Jordan is planning to marry her cage fighter lover Alex Reid in a plot to cash in on his Celebrity Big Brother win, it has emerged. The glamour model has reportedly mapped out a lucrative business plan that will earn them 1 million pounds each in the next few months. In a stunningly calculating move, it will begin with her popping the question as part of a magazine deal.

Lady GaGa wants to perform duet with Jedward for Queen

London, Jan 31 : Lady GaGa wants to collaborate with the X Factor’s John and Edward Grimes for a performance for the Queen. The Bad Romance singer, who met the Queen backstage at last year’s Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, wants to sing for her diamond jubilee in 2012. And 23-year-old GaGa, real name Stefani Germanotta, says she has been bowled over by the twins Jedward.

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Mum’s care sometimes knows no bounds – literally

London, Jan 31 : A new study on crickets and spiders has shown that a mother’s care sometimes knows no boundaries. Jonathan Storm, a behavioural ecologist now at the University of South Carolina Upstate, in Spartanburg, has shown that crickets manage to forewarn their offspring of lurking spiders, despite the small matter of never actually meeting them, reports New Scientist. He briefly exposed lab-grown female crickets to wolf spiders whose fangs had been immobilised with wax, then studied the behaviour of their subsequent offspring.

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Over-training could be counterproductive, says expert

Washington, Jan 31 : Over-training, also called over-exercising, is counterproductive to realizing your fitness goals, says an expert. Butler University’s Adrian Shepard, assistant director of fitness overseeing recreation, said that over-training happens when you’re “not allowing your body the opportunity to adjust, adapt and recuperate in response to the training regimen you’re taking part in.” Shepard said, besides sore muscles, there are other clear signs that a person is over-training. They include decrease in performance, increase in a person’s resting heart rate and blood pressure, increased muscle fatigue, disturbed sleep patterns and gastro-intestinal disturbances, depression, irritability, apathy, and low self-esteem.

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Cognitive behavioural therapy may help insomniacs with depression

Washington, Jan 31 : Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) could be a remedy for insomniacs with depression, according to a Ryerson University professor. Insomnia can lead to intense personal suffering. But combine insomnia with anxiety, depression and chronic pain, sleeplessness can become even more troubling.

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John Terry’s wife Toni begs his ‘mistress’ to bare all

London, Jan 31 : England footballer John Terry’s devastated wife Toni had a screaming phone conversation with his alleged mistress Vanessa Perroncel after news of their affair broke, it has emerged. In an astonishing confrontation, Toni demanded that model Perroncel tell her every detail about their secret relationship. However, the French beauty managed to persuade Toni there had been no affair.

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Hauritz to receive huge pay rise following successful summer

Sydney, Jan 31: Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz will become the next one million dollar man in the national squad after the most successful summer of his career. Just four years after he contemplated quitting top-level cricket, Hauritz is set for a bumper pay day when Cricket Australia (CA) finalizes its 25-man contract list for the 2010-11 summer. Now regarded as Australia’s leading spinner in Test, one-day and Twenty20 cricket, he is tipped to surge into CA’s top 10 players – a rise that will see him secure an estimated base deal of 600,000 dollars.

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Underworld godfather used Facebook to run organized crime network

London, Jan. 31 : An underworld don, who is languishing in a maximum-security British jail, has been using Facebook to run his drugs and organised crime empire and intimidate his enemies. Colin Gunn, one of the Britain’s most dangerous gangsters, has been able to correspond freely with up to 565 “friends” on the social networking site for the past two months, The Times reports.

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And the Obama, Carter comparison saga continues

Washington, Jan. 31 : Even before President Barack Obama entered the White House, presidential historians had begun drawing comparisons between him and former President Jimmy Carter. And the similarities were uncanny.

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