US jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies aged 70NEW YORK - US jazz great Freddie Hubbard died from heart failure Monday in Los Angeles, CBS news reported. Clintons to drop ball on New Year’s Eve at Times SquareNEW YORK - Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, have been given the honour to push the button to drop the crystal ball ushering in the New Year at Times Square, news reports said Tuesday. No peace with terrorists who burnt my Mumbai: RushdieLONDON - Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie says he is ‘desperately upset’ by the terrorist attacks on Mumbai - his place of birth - and strongly disagrees with the view that peace ought to be made with Taliban militants in Afghanistan. UN Security Council calls for end to violence in GazaNEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council Sunday called for an immediate end to all military actions in the Gaza Strip, at the end of a four-hour emergency meeting to discuss the situation in the salient which was being pounded by Israeli airstrikes. US stocks lift as auto, oil shares riseNEW YORK - US stocks lifted across the board Friday, pulled up by automobile and oil shares and defying gloomy retail reports. Aniston’s nude shot for GQ was photoshoppedNEW YORK - Former ‘Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston has revealed that her next-to-perfect looks in just a white and red necktie on the cover of GQ magazine was courtesy the Photoshop software. US stocks edge higher on quiet, abbreviated trading dayNEW YORK - US stocks made modest gains Wednesday on a shortened trading day ahead of the Christmas holiday, after consumer spending fell less than expected in November. Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar sold for $100,000NEW YORK - A smashed guitar of former Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain has been sold for $100,000 to an unnamed collector, the Seattle Times newspaper reported Thursday. US stocks fall amid economic worriesNEW YORK - The US stocks closed lower with Dow losing for a fifth consecutive session Tuesday as a gloomy economic outlook and worrying home sales added to investors’ concern about recession. Madoff investor commits suicideNEW YORK - A French investment manager and the co-founder of a firm that raised money in Europe to be put into Bernard Madoff’s fraud-hit scheme has committed suicide in his office here, media reports said. Paris Hilton buys rose-coloured carNEW YORK - Socialite Paris Hilton has treated herself to a $200,000 rose-coloured Bentley. She splashed out on her dream car as a special Christmas gift to herself. Emma Watson worried about moneyNEW YORK - Teen actress Emma Watson is keen to go for higher studies but at the same time she is worried that her future classmates will take advantage of the millions she has earned from starring as Hermione Granger in the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise. US military ‘planning to arm local militias to fight Taliban’WASHINGTON - US military commanders are planning to arm local militias to combat Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Wednesday. US court agrees to partial sale of Lehman BrothersNEW YORK - A US bankruptcy court approved the sale of investment bank Lehman Brothers’ investment-management division Neuberger Berman, media reports said. UN panel keeps oil funds flowing for Iraq reconstructionNEW YORK - The UN Security Council Monday extended for another year arrangements whereby revenues from Iraq’s petroleum and other sources are deposited in a UN-monitored fund for the reconstruction of Iraq. US stocks slide amid concerns of bleak corporate outlookNEW YORK - US stocks fell Monday amid concerns of a gloomy outlook for fourth-quarter corporate earnings, the future of the car industry and whether government efforts to revive the economy would succeed. UN to keep peacekeeping force in Congo for another yearNEW YORK - The UN Security Council decided Monday to keep its large peacekeeping operation another year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the main task of protecting civilians and improving security in the eastern part of the country. |
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