Caracas, May 6 (IANS) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Panamanian president-elect Juan Carlos Varela have pledged to waste no time in normalising relations and relaunching diplomatic, economic and trade ties cut off two months ago, Venezuela’s foreign ministry said Monday. Maduro spoke with Varela late Sunday, just hours after the Panamanian presidential challenger was declared […]
Bratislava, May 6 (IANS) The European Commission in its spring prognosis predicts that Slovakia’s economic growth will accelerate both this year and the next after the slowdown seen last year, the media reported Monday. According to the commission, Slovakia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) should grow by 2.2 percent this year and by 3.1 percent in […]
Los Angeles, May 6 (IANS) Supermodel Tyra Banks, who was insecure as a teenager, wants to encourage women to love themselves for who they are. Banks started her own charity, the TZONE Foundation, to empower young women to discover their own strength and realise their ambitions, as she hated being teased for being too thin […]
Berlin, May 6 (IANS) German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has presented a five-point plan to solve the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, a German daily reported Monday. In an article for the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Steinmeier called on Ukraine, Russia, the US and the European Union (EU) to meet again in Geneva and send on […]
Cairo, May 6 (IANS) Egypt’s former military chief and presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Monday that the military will not rule Egypt if he wins the upcoming presidential elections. “The army will not play a role in ruling Egypt if I become the president,” Sisi said in an interview aired by two Egyptian private TV […]
Los Angeles, May 6 (IANS) Singer-actress Queen Latifah insists she lives a normal life and spends most of her time caring for her mother, who has an incurable autoimmune disease. The chat show host’s mother Rita Owen was diagnosed with scleroderma, an incurable autoimmune disease that may cause scar tissue to build up on the […]
Los Angeles, May 6 (IANS) Actress Kaley Cuoco, who bought former couple Khloe Kardashian and basketball player Lamar Odom’s house in January, reportedly wants to cleanse the property of negative energy. Cuoco and her husband Ryan Sweeting bought the house for $5.5 million here shortly after they split in December last year, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “They […]
Los Angeles, May 6 (IANS) Country star Blake Shelton’s ex-wife has put her wedding dress for sale on auction site eBay.com. The “God Gave Me You” hitmaker Shelton wed Kaynette Williams in 2003, but the couple split after three years of marriage. Now she’s ready to sell off the outfit, reports contactmusic.com. The strapless, size […]
Washington, May 6 (IANS) The US is assisting the Nigerian government to find and free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by militants, the White House said Monday. US assistance to Nigeria focuses on information-sharing and improving Nigeria’s forensics and investigative capacity, Xinhua quoted White House spokesperson Jay Carney as saying at a press briefing. He […]
Rome, May 6 (IANS) Italy head coach Cesare Prandelli confirmed Monday that his side will play a pre-World Cup friendly with Luxembourg at the Stadio Curi in Perugia June 4. The game had been planned ahead of the Azzurri’s flight to Brazil for the tournament but the venue remained to be set, Xinhua reported. The […]