Music lovers paid a small fortune to a rock singer Ted Nugent NOT to sing at their local festival the other day. Officials booked the screaming rocker but Texas residents paid $16,200 for him to shut up and stay away. Perhaps if everyone in the world chips in, we can get Mr. Nugent to spend […]
Sao Paulo, April 4 Brazil’s labour ministry has denied ignoring problems at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao stadium to ensure the venue is ready in time for this year’s FIFA World Cup. The labour ministry said in a statement Thursday that it had made regular checks of the stadium to ensure health and safety guidelines were met, […]
Sao Paulo, April 4 Record-breaking goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni has confirmed he will retire this year after 23 seasons. The 41-year-old former Brazil international had announced his retirement last year before agreeing to a one-year contract extension in December, reports Xinhua. “At the end of the year, I’m going to really stop,” he told a press […]
Los Angeles, April 4 Model Kate Upton wants to be a role model for women and insists she’d never “starve” herself to be thin. Although there is “pressure” on women to look a certain way, but 21-year-old wants to enjoy indulge in food without being concerned about her figure. “For girls, there’s always pressure. Even […]
Damascus, April 4 (IANS) The Syrian government troops killed 20 rebels Thursday in a wide-scale offensive against rebel-held areas in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus, the media reported. The troops killed 20 rebels and injured tens of others near the Big Mosque of Damascus’ eastern suburb of Jobar, a hotbed of insurgency against the […]
Vilnius, April 4 Lithuania’s ministers of foreign affairs and national defence Thursday expressed the country’s support to NATO’s open door policy. “We will try to strengthen the opportunities for the current candidate countries to join the alliance until the NATO Summit which will be taking place in September in the UK,” Xinhua quoted Foreign Minister […]
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 […]