New Delhi, May 1 – Hollywood’s teen sensation Miley Cyrus says she accepted the movie ‘The Last Song’ because she wanted to break away from the ‘Hannah Montana’ image. ‘This (‘The Last Song’) is my breakout moment, away from ‘Hannah Montana’. It was harder than anything else I’ve done.
New Delhi, May 1 – Husna loves to colour her canvases blue and darken the lighted spaces in her nature-scapes with thick dabs of acrylic pigments. The 14-year-old lost her father and lives in a home for the destitute in the capital. Art is known to have healing qualities and street children like Husna, Firoz, Pranav and Ajay – who have had a tough childhood, with some even having spent time in juvenile homes – will vouch for it.
Mumbai, May 1 – He’s given us hits like ‘Garam Masala’, ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Dostana’, but they’ve all been multi-starrers. Now John Abraham says he is in pursuit of solo hero movies after taking a sabbatical to groom himself and restructure his life to step into the best phase of his career. John’s last film ‘New York’ (2009) received much critical acclaimed, but that too was a multi-starrer.
New York, May 1 – Indonesia said Friday it will soon ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a step hailed by disarmament advocates as helping the treaty to enter into force. ‘I warmly welcome the statement made today by Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa to the Indonesian Parliament that Indonesia will soon ratify the CTBT,’ said Tibor Toth, the executive secretary of the treaty’s secretariat in Vienna. ‘This announcement is of crucial importance in moving the treaty closer to entry into force, and underscores the leadership role of Indonesia in regional and global non-proliferation and disarmament efforts,’ Toth said.
London, May 1 – Hollywood actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor gave an emotional tribute to ex-husband Richard Burton at a gala cermony held in the memory of the late actor at Buckingham Palace. She presented a bronze bust of Burton to Prince Of Wales to be kept in a theatre named after him. Prince Charles announced that a new theatre based in Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Wales will be named after Burton, and that the bust will stand in the theatre’s foyer.
Los Angeles, May 1 – A die-hard Robert De Niro fan paid $8,500 to go for a coffee with the actor. The ‘Raging Bull’ star offered up an outing to a coffee shop as a lot for a star-studded charity auction in New York Thursday night – and an unnamed bidder pounced on the prize and paid thousands of dollars for a meeting with the movie star, reports imdb.com. The sale, which raised money for the Robert F.
Guyana, May 1 – Scoreboard of the Group B World Twenty20 match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene c N McCullum b Southee 81 Tillakaratne Dilshan b Oram 3 Kumar Sangakkara b Styris 4 Dinesh Chandimal c Taylor b N McCullum 29 Chamara Kapugedera c NL McCullum b Bond 11 Angelo Mathews c NL McCullum b Bond 3 Sanath Jayasuriya not out 0 Extras (lb 3, w 1) 4 Total (for six wickets in 20 overs) 135 Fall of wickets 1-35 (Dilshan, 5.4 ov), 2-44 (Sangakkara, 8.2 ov), 3-103 (Chandimal, 15.4 ov), 4-124 (Jayawardene, 18.1 ov), 5-135 (Kapugedera, 19.4 ov), 6-135 (Mathews, 19.6 ov) Bowling: Nathan McCullum 3 0 17 1 Shane Bond 4 0 35 2 Tim Southee 4 0 21 1 Jacob Oram 3 0 23 1 Daniel Vettori 4 0 23 0 Scott Styris 2 0 13 1 New Zealand: Brendon McCullum c Malinga b Mathews 0 Jesse Ryder b Muralitharan 42 Martin Guptill b Jayasuriya 19 Ross Taylor c Mathews b Muralitharan 9 Scott Styris b Mendis 17 Daniel Vettori run out (sub S Randiv/Malinga) 17 Jacob Oram b Welegedara 15 G Hopkins run out (Dilshan/Sangakkara) 1 Nathan McCullum not out 16 6 Tim Southee not out 0 Extras (b 2, w 1) 3 Total (for eight wickets in 19.5 overs) 139 Fall of wickets 1-0 (BB McCullum, 0.4 overs), 2-62 (Ryder, 8.3), 3-66 (Guptill, 9.5), 4-86 (Taylor, 14.2), 5-96 (Styris, 16.2), 6-116 (Oram, 18.1), 7-117 (Hopkins, 18.2), 8-133 (Vettori, 19.4) Bowling: Angelo Mathews 2 1 7 1 Chanaka Welegedara 2 0 21 1 Ajantha Mendis 4 0 34 1 Lasith Malinga 3.5 0 33 0 Muttiah Muralitharan 4 0 25 2 Sanath Jayasuriya 4 0 17 1 IANS
Guyana, May 1 – Nathan McCullum pulled off a thrilling two wicket victory for New Zealand against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the World Twenty20 at the Providence Stadium here Friday. Chasing a victroy target of 136 runs, New Zealand needed 10 runs off the last over from express fast Lasith Malinga. Nathan (16 off 6 balls), younger brother of Brendon, struck a four moving across the off stump and piercing the gap in the fine leg to bring the equation down to four off three balls.
London, May 1 – Children of women who smoked during pregnancy are more likely to be obese in their teenage years, a new study has found. Researchers found that those who were exposed to cigarette smoke while in the womb had significantly higher quantities of fat than their non-exposed peers later in life. These teenagers had a third more fat around their internal organs and 26 percent more fat directly under the skin.
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