• Julia Roberts flees fearful LA for sunny California
• Just jab your appetite away
• Nicole Kidman desperate to have her own baby
• Bruce Lee's back with his nunchaku
• Researchers show inhaling salt can cause hypertension
• 40 goats and 20 cows for Chelsea's hand
• Prince Harry prefers polo to the army
• Women with make-up turn off men
• Woman claims Polanski raped her when she was 13
• Shakira loves living in the nude
• Life begins at 60 for Harrison Ford
• Lindsay Lohan says no to nudity

Julia Roberts flees fearful LA for sunny California (Go To Top)

     London: Hollywood actress Julia Roberts is reportedly fleeing her Los Angles home after a wave of killings and crime in her neighbourhood. According to sources, the star has been living in fear following four gang-related killings, robberies and drug busts, and therefore, is planning to sell the 1.3 million dollar seaside apartment, where she lives with her husband Danny Moder and eight-month old twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel. "I don't blame her. This place has become a battleground. It's no place to bring up kids," femalefirst quoted a neighbour as saying to the Daily Star. Roberts is reportedly moving into a mansion in Malibu, California.

Just jab your appetite away (Go To Top)

      Washington: A team of researchers at the Imperial College of London has claimed to have identified a natural hormone, that may offer the obese a way of reducing their appetites. The hormone called oxyntomodulin is produced by the small intestine after a meal. In a trial, a group of 14 obese and overweight subjects self- administered doses of the hormone 30 minutes before breakfast, lunch and dinner, and after four weeks they had lost an average 2.3 kilograms of weight. "By giving the overweight subject oxyntomodulin we are fooling the brain, in a very natural way, into thinking it has just eaten a meal and is no longer hungry," the New Scientist quoted Steve Bloom, who led the trials, as saying. The researchers found that the hormone reduces daily energy intake on an individual by an average of 170 kilocalories after the first injection, to 250 kcal per day at the end of four weeks. It also reduced the levels of adipose hormones and leptin - a hormone responsible for regulating the body's energy expenditure - of the participants. The researchers also found a reduction in the levels of adipose hormones. Adipose hormones encourage the build up of adipose tissues where fat cells are stored. The researchers said that there were no significant side effects to the hormone injection during the trial and that patients did not develop tolerance to the effects of the hormone. "The big thing is that you have had an oxyntomodulin administration from your own gut switching off your hunger after a meal every day of life. This is the way you normally lose your appetite after a meal," Bloom said.

Nicole Kidman desperate to have her own baby (Go To Top)

     London: Nicole Kidman is desperate to have kids of her own, but wants to find Mr Right first. "I'd love to give birth to a baby but not without a man, though. I'd love to have more children - one more. I'd like to give birth to a baby. I'd feel blessed if that was given to me, The Sun quoted her as saying.

Bruce Lee's back with his nunchaku (Go To Top)

     London: A two-metre high bronze statue is to be erected in Hong Kong to mark Bruce Lee 's 65th birthday. According to The BBC, it will be unveiled in November and will honour Lee as "Chinese film's bright star of the century". Lee fans are being invited to choose their favourite design out of a shortlist of three on the internet. The statue is funded by the city's Bruce Lee club, who originally wanted to set up a museum. The three shortlisted designs all feature Lee in his classic poses - all with a bare torso and his signature weapon the nunchaku. The organisers are hoping the statue will become the first statue of Lee on public display in the world.

Researchers show inhaling salt can cause hypertension (Go To Top)

     Jodhpur: A new study by Indian researchers from the Desert Medicine Research Centre in Jodhpur has shown that inhaling large amounts of salt can cause hypertension. The study, published in the Open Access journal Environmental Health, is the first to show that breathing in large quantities of salt particles has the same effect on blood pressure as eating a salty diet. According to lead researcher, Kripa Haldiya, and colleagues, workers in salt factories, who inhale large amounts of salt particles, are at risk of high blood pressure due to the increased salt intake. Previous researches have already proved that a high consumption of salt is directly linked to high blood pressure and the development of cardiovascular and kidney diseases, which are major causes of mortality worldwide. The present study provides new data suggesting that inhaling large amounts of salt particles has the same effect as consuming a salty diet and increases blood pressure considerably, thus putting workers in salt factories around the world at risk of high blood pressure. The researchers measured the blood pressure of workers in two salt milling factories in Rajasthan.

40 goats and 20 cows for Chelsea's hand (Go To Top)

     London: A lovestruck Kenyan official has offered 40 goats and 20 cows to Bill Clinton for Chelsea's hand in marriage. According to The Independent, Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Mr Clinton through Kenya's Foreign Minister, and promised him he would look after his daughter in style. "Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding. I would have invited South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu to preside at the ceremony," Chepkurgor was quoted as saying. The councillor gave the names of the former Kenyan president Daniel Arap-Moi and two of his college mates as character references.

Prince Harry prefers polo to the army  (Go To Top)

      London: Prince Harry might have been sick at Sandhurst military academy, but he played polo to the fullest to help his Prince of Wales team lift the Golden Jubilee Cup at Cartier International day in Windsor Great Park. According to The Sun, he spent a gruelling hour and a half playing polo 48 hours after a night in sick bay with a chest infection and sore throat. "How can he duck out of all physical exercise one moment then play polo the next? The feeling is that it is one rule for him and another for the rest of us," an insider was quoted as saying. "Harry had a bug on Thursday but was released from the medical centre on Friday and given one day of light duties. Like all the other cadets he had a day off on Sunday. He checked with doctors before playing polo and they said he was fine," a Clarence House spokesman said.

Women with make-up turn off men (Go To Top)

     London: A new survey conducted by The Ocean Village suggests that women caked in heavy make-up are a turn-off for men. According to The Sun, it was found that 65 per cent of men prefer girls with less make up. It revealed that nearly one in four women always wear make-up. One in ten even wear cosmetics on the beach. Nineteen per cent spend over an hour getting ready to go out on holiday.

Woman claims Polanski raped her when she was 13 (Go To Top)

     London: Roman Polanski might have won the High Court libel action against Vanity Fair which claimed that he made sexual advances to a woman, but now a woman has again accused him of victimising her when she was 13. According to The Mirror, Samantha Geimer was photographed topless before Polanski drugged, raped and sodomised her. Polanski, who was 43 at the time, violated the youngster eight years after losing pregnant Sharon in the brutal 1969 slaying by the Charles Manson "family". "He took sex from me and my innocence. I don't think it occurred to him that someone wouldn't want sex with him. It was just him and me. He took some standard pictures but when I changed clothes he continued to take photos. He took top-less pictures of me but it all seemed very professional and I did as I was told," she was quoted as saying.

Shakira loves living in the nude (Go To Top)

     Washington: Living in the nude, seems to be Columbian singer Shakira's secret desire. The 28 year old, 'Underneath Your Clothes', hitmaker says that she only chose to expand her wardrobe, after being spotted wearing the same dress over three Christmases, by her family. "Picking outfits bored me. I only got a stylist when my family were astonished to see me in the same evening dress three Christmases in a row. If I could, I'd live in nude, like Eve in paradise," ratethemusic quoted her as saying.

Life begins at 60 for Harrison Ford (Go To Top)

     London: Harrison Ford might be pushing 60, but still he is going as strong as ever, although observers have accused him of having a mid-life crisis. "I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying. "I was interested in changing my life. I have always had the ability to change and to become other people through my acting. I took a good look at myself and decided that I wanted something different from the way I was living," he added.

Lindsay Lohan says no to nudity (Go To Top)

     London: Teenager actress Lindsay Lohan has said that she will never do nude scenes in films, just like screen beauties Julia Roberts and Jodie Foster. Lohan admitted that even though she wants to do more adult roles, she wouldn't succumb to unwarranted demands of baring her body for raunchy love scenes. "You don't see Julia Roberts going naked or going against her natural beauty. She never has. And look at what a great body of work she has. The people I've always admired, like Jodie Foster and Julia Roberts, have not had to compromise themselves. Some day I'd like someone to say that about me," femalefirst quoted her as saying.

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