London, April 4 Seven players from Football League clubs in north-west England have been arrested in connection with alleged match-fixing in football matches. The seven footballers are aged between 18 and 30, BBC reported citing the National Crime Agency (NCA) as saying. It added that six other men originally arrested in December on suspicion of […]
Washington, April 4 The government acknowledged Thursday that the US Agency for International Development launched a project in Cuba to create a Twitter-like social network to increase Cubans’ access to information but rejected describing the programme as covert. “Suggestions this was a covert programme are wrong,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said during his […]
Abuja, April 4 More than 30 insurgents were killed in an early morning raid by military operatives in Nigeria’s north central Nasarawa state, witnesses said Thursday. Ten bodies of suspected insurgents littered Mararaban Giza, a community in Keana local government area of the northern state, after an invasion by security operatives deployed to restore normalcy […]
Washington, April 4 New gravity data from the Cassini spacecraft showed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, harbours a large, possibly regional subsurface ocean with a rocky seafloor. The study, published Thursday in the US journal Science, indicated that a roughly 10-km-thick layer of liquid water lies beneath 30 to 40 km of crustal […]
Los Angeles, April 4 Actress Courteney Cox has moved in with her new boyfriend, Snow Patrol guitarist Johnny Mcdaid, into her Malibu mansion, says a close friend. The “Friends” actress was first linked to the Northern Irish musician in December, last year when they were spotted together at a party. The relationship is still going […]
Los Angeles, April 4 Supermodel Kate Moss doles out fashion tip for men and says the should not wear sandals. The British supermodel, who is married to rocker Jamie Hince, says open-toed footwear is “difficult” for guys to look cool in, while women should be careful about what trousers they team their shoes with, reports […]
San Juan, April 4 A Dominican citizen was arrested Thursday after 1,400 kg of cocaine he was transporting in a 40-foot boat was seized from him, police said. Leonardo Perez Meson was arrested after his boat ran aground on the seashore in the southern town of Patillas, the police said in a statement. An anonymous […]
Los Angeles, April 4 American actress Mindy Kaling, whose parents are from India, is planning to embrace her Indian heritage and wear sari at her next red carpet event. She feels the the outfit is “alluring without being too revealing”. “The Mindy Project” star, who hit the headlines last week for wearing a jacquard Topshop […]
Freetown, April 4 (IANS) Six unidentified people were killed in Sierra Leone when a fuel tanker collided with a truck, a leading local daily reported Thursday. The six people were reported to have met their death in an inferno caused by an explosion when a fuel tanker loaded with 23,000 litres of petrol collided with a […]
Los Angeles, April 4 Italian fashion icons Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana aren’t convinced by singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham’s designs and think she’s in the same league as high street brands such as H&M and Zara. Dolce and Gabbana are close friends of the former Spice Girl, but admit they don’t rank her in the same […]