Articles Archive for March 2011
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The ending of the European tour of Taylor Swift was picture perfect, she performed in front of thousands of her fans screaming her name and at the same time, she received an honor as her worldwide album sales figure crossed the 20 million mark. Swift was given a plaque marking her achievement and the singer was visibly elated after receiving it. She also thanked her fans for doing so much for her in such a short span of time.
Taylor Swift began 2011 with her Asia-Europe tour that ended with her …
Headline, World »
Pakistanis are now getting used to suicide bombings! No matter how terrifying such a situation can be in your life, but that is indeed the hard reality of the life of a Pakistani citizen. The recent suicide bombing in the northern-western part of the country took lives of 12 people. The main target of the militants, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads the local Jamiat Ulema Islam party, however remained unharmed in the incident. His vehicle was a bit damaged though.
Only a day before, a suicide bomber blew himself among the …
Featured, Sports »
It seems that Novak Djokovic, the world number 2 from Serbia is all set to finish the Federer – Nadal dynasty in world of Men’s tennis. The Serbian has played 22 matches in this season so far and is yet to loss a single. The players who went down against him include the likes of Federer and Nadal. Now, Djokovic has cruised to the semifinals of ATP Masters 1000 hard-court tournament defeating South Africa’s Kevin Anderson in straight sets: 6-4, 6-2.
Incidentally, two years ago, Djokovic lost to Kevin Anderson in …
Sports »
Chelsea ace Didier Drogba rose to the occasion to beat Benin in 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. The veteran striker scored a brace to beat Benin 2-1 and maintained their perfect winning record. Drogba didn’t play in the last two matches against Rwanda and Burundi but his absence couldn’t create any obstacle in Ivory Coast’s victory race heading towards Ghana capital Accra.
Drogba was recalled in the national team for this match and his two goals in the 45th and 74th minute proved his worth. Benin, however, stunned the “Elephants” …
Entertainment, Headline »
The first eliminated contestant of new season of the popular television show “Dancing with the Stars” is Mike Catherwood, the radio host. This 12th season launched only last week and Catherwood scored the lowest when audience votes were combined with that of judges’ scores. His elimination leaves 10 more contestants in the show including top scorer Ralph Macchio who shot to fame with “Karate Kid.”
After the elimination was announced, Tom Bergeron, the host of the show teased Catherwood for following the route to get eliminated right at the very beginning. …
Business, Featured »
Financial experts believe that it was nothing but a display of confidence by Asian stocks on Wall Street as the former got a boost on early Wednesday. Nikkei, the Japanese benchmark got a lift of 1.2% in its index. The recently released data states that Japan, despite all the troubles that it had recently, has got a climb in its industrial production; now for 4 months in a row.
The fate of industrial production in Japan for the coming months may not bring any prospect though. The productions have been hit …
Games »
“Duke Nukem” is not going to come back pretty soon! The videogame titled as “Duke Nukem Forever” has been bumped till June by 2K games, the developer of the game. Incidentally, “Duke Nukem Forever” is a planned sequel to “Duke Nukem 3D” which released in 1996 and sold 3 million of its copies till date.
The sequel is being planned since 1997; however, nothing materialized in all these years. In 2010, 2K games roped Gearbox Software developers in to the project for a faster completion; however, even since then, it has …
Entertainment, Featured »
Former Rhode Island Congressman and the son of renowned Senator late Edward Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy is finally engaged. The lucky lady is Amy Petitgout, a teacher in a public school. 43-year-old Patrick announced last month that he was living with his girlfriend. The news of the engagement was confirmed by Sean Richardson, Patrick’s former aide.
No wedding date however has been finalized yet! Incidentally, from her previous marriage, Petitgout has a 3 year old daughter named Harper. According to Patrick, it was Petitgout who helped him understand the meaning of personal …
Headline, World »
Japanese nuclear crisis has taken a worse turn altogether as the toxic radioactive element plutonium is being found in the soil of the Fukushima nuclear complex. This is indeed the worst atomic crisis that the world has faced in the last 25 years and the pressure is already mounting up on the Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to widen the evacuation zone around the Fukushima plant.
Incidentally, the Fukushima plant was crippled on March 11 by the Tsunami and Earthquake. At five places of the plant, low-risk level plutonium has been …
