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  • Dipika Ghosal seek breakthrough at British Open

    Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal will lead India's challenge at the British Open Squash Championships beginning here Monday. The prestigious tournament is the world's oldest. World No.15 Pallikal plays her opening match against 22nd ranked Line Hansen of Denmark at the KC Stadium Tuesday. Provided the Indian overcomes the first hurdle, she is expected to meet local favourite and World No.2 ...

  • Woman flees to Britain refusing to join Swaziland kings harem

    A 22-year-old woman fled to Britain from the southern African nation of Swaziland and is seeking asylum after refusing to join the harem of 13 wives of Swazi king Mswati III. Tintswalo Ngobeni fled to Britain after she caught the attention of the millionaire monarch, known for his lavish lifestyle, the Daily Mail reported. As part of Swazi custom, 45-year-old King Mswati III is permitted to ...

  • Britains first astronaut to go on space mission in 2015

    Britain's first "official" astronaut, 41-year-old Major Tim Peake, has been selected to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station in 2015, a media report said Sunday. Peake, a former army helicopter pilot, graduated as a European Space Agency astronaut more than two years ago and has been waiting for a space mission since then, the Guardian daily said. However, Peake has ...

  • England to tour West Indies in February

    England and the West Indies will play three Twenty20 matches and three One-Day Internationals in the Caribbean early next year, the West Indies Cricket Board announced. The three One-Day Internationals will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds in Antigua while Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the T20 games, the WICB said Saturday, reports CMC. The Twenty20 matches will be ...

  • Mel C daughters second choice Jessie J comes first

    Former Spice girl Singer Melanie Chisholm aka Mel C says her daughter Scarlet really adores singer Jessie J, who is a judge on the Britain's singing reality show "The Voice". Mel C feels she is the second favourite of her four-year-old daughter. "Saturday night telly with 'The Voice' is an absolute must as Jessie J is her favourite singer. Mummy's only her second favourite now," new! magazine ...

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Little Children

Little Children

Todd Fields Little Children tackles the suburban malaise of privileged New Englanders with a bold, if sometimes uneasy, mix of melodrama, black comedy, tragedy, and didacticism. The tired, yet infinitely mineable nature of the topic has already produced scores of Oscar-darl ... ...

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  • Britain funding surveys in Pakistan on US drone attacks

    Britain has been funding surveys in Pakistan's Tribal Areas which reveal that US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population. Foreign Minister, Alistair Burt, confirmed that the Foreign Office had "supported" surveys which showed the proportion of respondents in the tribal areas who believed drone strikes were "never justified" had risen from 59 percent in ...

  • British Soap Awards in pictures Coronation Street dominates

    Wallis Day, Stephanie Waring, Jennifer Metcalfe and Gemma Merna arriving for the 2013 British Soap Awards at MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester. Photos by Ian West/PA ...

  • Broad leads England rout of New Zealand

    England Stuart Broad bowled England to victory in the first Test as New Zealand suffered a dramatic fourth-day collapse at Lord's on Monday morning.New Zealand, chasing 239 for victory, was dismissed for just 68 in under two hours, with Broad taking 7 for 44 runs in a mere 11 overs.South Africa born duo BJ Watling (13) and Neil Wagner (17), who got to 10 with a six off Broad, were the ...

  • Imran Khan blames Britain for not doing enough to stop colleagues killing

    Pakistan Former international cricketer Imran Khan has blamed the British government for not doing enough to prevent the murder of one of his political colleagues.Zahra Shahid Hussain, the vice-president of Mr Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party, was shot dead outside her home in an upmarket part of Karachi on Saturday (local time).Police say Ms Hussain was targeted by three men on a ...

  • Former Google exec says he has 100000 emails showing how immoral company avoids paying UK tax

    A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has "cheated" British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of ...

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