Cricket, SportsMay 23rd, 2012
After four seasons of at times embarrassing underachievement, Kolkata Knight Riders will play for the IPL trophy on Sunday. For almost two-thirds of the qualifier against Delhi Daredevils, they nearly blew it, though the odds were stacked in their favour right from the start. On a pitch where the first ball of spin turned sharply, Knight Riders had three spinners waiting; Delhi Daredevils stuck to playing three specialist fast bowlers.
Daredevils’ strategy did not seem to have backfired when Knight Riders lumbered to 106 for 4 in 16 overs. In the chase, despite losing Virender Sehwag and Continue Reading…
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Britney Spears is quite the multitasker these days. Not only has she just inked a $15 million deal to be a judge on X Factor, but now she’s also come out with a brand new fragrance, Britney Spears Fantasy Twist, which will be available this fall. The two-in-one perfume brings together two of the singer’s most popular scents, Fantasy and Midnight Fantasy.
And while celebrity fragrances happen almost as often as Law & Order marathons on TNT, it’s always interesting to see what kind of name each Hollywood star Continue Reading…
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This time last year, Paul Brannigan was an ex-young offender with no money, no job and no hope of a bright future.
Yesterday he found himself at the Cannes Film Festival, feted by critics and sharing details of his new friendship with Scarlett Johansson.
The transformation in Brannigan’s fortunes is thanks to Ken Loach, the veteran British director who cast the 24-year-old in his latest film, The Angels’ Share Continue Reading…
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Warning that weak growth was putting the country at risk of permanently high unemployment, the Bretton Woods institution called for swift and co-ordinated action between the Bank and the Treasury.
If the joint efforts had failed to have much effect by November, the Government should then consider cutting taxes and boosting infrastructure spending by as much as £30bn, said the IMF.
In an unusually alarmist annual assessment of the UK, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said that “growth is too slow and unemployment too high, and policies Continue Reading…
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An illegal immigrant with as many as six aliases, whom authorities are tentatively identifying as Jarol Antonio Santiago, has been arrested for the April 28th murder of his 33-year-old girlfriend Diana Mercado.
Mercado reportedly left for work early that morning and never came home. Worried, her family began looking for her and found her locked car containing her belongings in a parking lot near her workplace. They then contacted police who confirmed with her Continue Reading…
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The startup’s technology puts sub-millimeter accuracy at user fingertips, offers control gestures like pinch-to-zoom, and promises new applications that make the Kinect and its kin look like yesterday’s news.
Hands-free motion control, a technology pioneered by Nintendo’s Wii and later improved upon by Microsoft’s Kinect, just took a very big leap forward. Industries from gaming to surgery to architecture, engineering, and design may never be the Continue Reading…
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