Matt Damon wants to direct after turning 40
London, Feb 1 (IANS) Hollywood star Matt Damon isn't worried about turning 40 this year and says he wants to turn to direction in the new decade of his life.
Drug traffickers facing execution
A court in northern Vietnam has sentenced four men to death for trafficking heroin. Presiding Judge Luong Van Hien said four other defendants received life prison sentences at the People's Court of Th…
Haitian child quake victims flown to US for care
Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of three critically ill child victims of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday, flying them to U.S. hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspens…
Hilton apes Monroe for tenth perfume
London, Jan 31 (IANS) Socialite-heiress Paris Hilton has aped movie icon Marilyn Monroe back to life in adverts for her tenth eponymously-named fragrance.
Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
Video courtesy of our very own BlueGal.There’s a dangerously short memory span in our country. People can barely remember past two or three news cycles. Last year? Not so much. Five years ago? Fuhgeddaboudit. Generational reference? Listen to …
The Leading Man: A candid chat with Paul Gross
Canadian actor, writer and director Paul Gross has never really cracked the unforgiving world of Hollywood. But he’s hardly complaining. He talks candidly about his life in the biz, and his sex symbol status, in a sit-down with Sandie Rinaldo.
Rocket attacks fact of Afghan life
The possibility of a rocket attack at Kandahar Air Field is never far from one’s mind, and serves as a jarring reminder that the threat to NATO forces here is real.
Inuit must adapt to climate change: study
Inuit people must adapt to environmental changes coming to the Arctic, which will put their way at life at risk, concludes a new study from a group of Canadian reseachers.
Hit-run victim "left to die like a dog"
But they say it's only a matter of time before they catch the "low-life" driver and his passenger.They say the pair callously drove off after the 30-year-old victim was knocked down at the i…
Giving Life in a Land Overflowing With Pain
At a tent outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, now one of the better medical facilities in Haiti, the joy found in most maternity wards has been lost to the cracked earth.