London, April 30 : Christie Brinkley has denied that she underwent a cosmetic facelift surgery, while her daughter was admitted for an elective rhinoplasty procedure. The model was rumoured to have entered the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, a day before her daughter with musician Billy Joel checked-in. However, the beauty has dismissed the reports.
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London, Apr.30 : Months after the Pakistan Army declared the Swat Valley safe claiming that the Taliban has been flushed out of the region, the extremists have resumed their activities killing at least three local leaders in ten days. Pakistani officials also confirmed the target killings, but added that the recent murders does not mean the Taliban is re-entering the valley. “There have been three incidents of targeted killings.
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London, Apr 30 : Now a tractor beam could prevent the accumulation of space debris-including all the dead satellites, discarded rocket boosters and other junk-in the Earth’s orbit, suggests an expert. Space-flight engineer John Sinko of Nagoya University, Japan, has put forward his idea based on an experimental type of spacecraft engine called a laser thruster. Inside these motors, laser pulses fired into a mass of solid propellant cause a jet of material to be released, pushing the craft in the opposite direction.
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Washington, Apr 30 : For the first time, amateur astronomers used the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to look at a massive blizzard in Saturn’s atmosphere. The instrument collected the most detailed data to date of temperatures and gas distribution in that planet’s storms. The data showed a large, turbulent storm, dredging up loads of material from the deep atmosphere and covering an area at least five times larger than the biggest blizzard in this year’s Washington, D.C.-area storm front nicknamed “Snowmageddon.” “We were so excited to get a heads-up from the amateurs.
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Washington, Apr 30 : In what could be called as the first among animals, insects, known as aphids, can make their own essential nutrients called carotenoids, say University of Arizona researchers. To date, no other animals are known to make the potent antioxidants. And scientists had been thinking that the only way animals could obtain the orangey-red compounds was from their diet.
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New York, Apr 30 : In a soon-to-be-released sex tape, Mindy McCready has revealed that baseball ace Roger Clemens struggled with erectile dysfunction “a lot of the time” and the two first had sex when she was 21. McCready’s attorney Adam Dread had told the Daily News last month that he was seeking to get an injunction to prevent the tape’s release, but said Thursday night he and his client were “moving on.” Vivid Entertainment will release the tape Monday, although portions are already on the Internet. In the snippets, a male interviewer asks McCready about the former Yankee’s bedroom performance and when the two first had sex.
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London, Apr 30: Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has claimed his second major award of a remarkable season when the Football Writers Association (FWA) named him Footballer of the Year. Rooney, who has scored 34 goals for United in all competitions this season, took 80 percent of the votes cast by the FWA members. “Wayne is a worthy winner of our prestigious award and the margin of his victory is testimony to the marvellous season he has had for club and country,” The Mirror quoted Steve Bates, FWA Chairman, as saying.
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London, Apr 30 : Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard has become a fan of the TV show “This side of Pineapple Dance Studios Glee”. And his first exposure to the song and dance spectacular came courtesy his wife The American series, which is broadcast on Channel 4, follows the ups and down of a High School Glee club, a choir that specialises in singing popular songs rather than classical works. Alex Curran insisted her husband watch it with her when it was first aired and now he can’t get enough of it.
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London, Apr 30 : British tennis ace Andy Murray’s hopes of an extended run at the Rome Masters where dashed by David Ferrer who defeated him in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 in the third-round. Murray was satisfied with his performance in the second round but was unable to break down the stout defences of the world No 17, who has now won more matches than anyone else on the circuit in 2010. Ferrer has also recorded more victories on clay than anyone else and he notched up another here to prevent Murray regaining the world No.4 ranking from Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro, The Telegraph reports.
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