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Liz Hurley and Arun Nayyar 'dognapped' (Go To Top)

     Washington: British model turned actress, Elizabeth Hurley, is reportedly very upset after her beloved pet dog, an eight month old Labrador, Emily, went missing from her home in Kensington, London, earlier this week. Hurley and her fiance Arun Nayyar have asked the help of family and friends to search the area around Hurley's home. "She and Arun are distraught. There are dozens of people looking for Emily and everyone is very worried. The police have been called", Contactmusic.com quoted Liz Hurley's spokesperson as saying. Crime experts in Britain have recently declared that at an average 2,000 dogs are being kidnapped every month.

Deepa Mehta's 'Water' to open Toronto festival (Go To Top)

     London: Deepa Mehta's new directorial venture, Water, which triggered violent protests while being filmed in India, will open the Toronto International Film Festival which runs from 8 to 17 September. According to the BBC, the movie follows the lives of Hindu widows and its filming in India was abandoned five years ago after hardline Hindu protesters burned the sets, claiming the movie distorted Indian culture. The filming was later completed in Sri Lanka. "It had started becoming more about doing the film at any cost, which is not healthy for the film, so I said 'stop. The film is absolutely not anti-Hindu. The script was read and passed by the very government that protested, so you wonder about that," she was quoted as saying.

Financial giants battle to train Prince William (Go To Top)

     London: Britain's Prince William is all set to start a week long work training at either one of the financial giants JP Morgan Cazenove or Merrill Lynch, when he comes to London's City district later this week. Both the companies are reportedly keen to take on the young Prince. Speculations are rife that the Prince may be bagged by Merrill Lynch, as the company supports Prince Charles's Prince's Trust charity, or JP Morgan Casenoev, which too has good odds as it is the Queen's personal broker. Prince William, who had graduated last week with a 2:1 grade in his Geography degree, has become the most academically successful royal, beating his father's 2:2 degree in history, archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University, reports Femalefirst. The Royal Family had decided that the Prince should get work experience at one of London's financial institutions as then he would "gain an insight into international finance and commerce."

Wills in tears over Harry's paternity slur (Go To Top)

     London: Prince William and Harry are reportedly 'sickened and disgusted' over allegations that their mother was forced to put Harry through a paternity test, to prove that Charles was his father. In her controversial book, Diana's psychic pal Simone Simmons claims the Princess was ordered to arrange a blood test for her youngest son to prove James Hewitt was not his father. Her allegation has provoked outrage from the young princes. According to friends, 23-year-old William was reduced to tears by the claims. "That he was so upset is so out of character and really shows the extent of his distress," a friend told the Dailymail. William reportedly told friends: "I just can't believe this is happening again - when is it going to stop? It's totally intolerable that someone who was so trusted by my mother and taken into her confidence could betray her in this way."

Hugh Grant's sex scandal turns to art (Go To Top)

     London: Charles Saatchi has bought a painting depicting the scene where Hollywood star Hugh Grant was caught in a "lewd act" with prostitute Divine Brown. Saatchi plans to display the painting in his County Hall gallery, along with another of the spot where actress Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting in 2001. The gallery-owner is thought to have paid 6,000 pounds for the landscape depiction of Sunset Boulevard, where Grant, then dating Liz Hurley, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department. The paintings come from the Untitled Backdrop series by Dwayne Moser, in which the artist uses celebrity scandals as his inspiration. He then commissioned the scenic arts department at Warner Brothers to magnify the images into backdrops which look as though they are designed for a film. Love Actually star Grant was fined 800 pounds by a US court after pleading no contest to a charge of lewd conduct. While Ryder was arrested for shoplifting around 3,500 pounds worth of clothing and accessories from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. "I am interested in turning the site of an off-screen event in a film star's life into a backdrop - thus suggesting the very public nature of their 'private' lives." Moser said.

Warne's sexcapades cost him Crowe's patronage (Go To Top)

     London: Hollywood actor Russell Crowe has reportedly stepped down as the patron of the Shane Warne Foundation, an Australian children's charity run by the cricketer after his infidelity allegations were highlighted. Crowe decided to "distance himself" from Warne, in a bid to clean up his tarnished image following his assault charges for allegedly throwing a phone at a New York hotel employee earlier this month, reports The Sun. Earlier, this week, Warne had announced that he was separating from his wife Simone after a decade-long marriage after newspapers reported he had had several flings with different women.

'Diana slept with Pakistani lover on day of divorce' (Go To Top)

     London: Princes Diana, reportedly, had sex with her Pakistani lover,Dr. Hasnat Khan on the very first day her divorce came through, as Khan did not want to sleep with her till she was married, reports The Sun quoting Diana's good friend and confidante Simone Simmons. Princess Diana was so mentally tortured by the break down of her marriage with Prince Charles, that she had a passioanate fling with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan and also wanted to marry him. According to the mother of the Pakistani surgeon,Nahid Khan, at one point of time, the Princess was even ready to convert to Islam. Diana's relationship with Khan became an issue of gossip following the trial of her butler, Paul Burrell, who had once revealed that she went out to see Khan wearing only a fur coat and sapphire and diamond earrings.

Beach volleyball give women saggy breasts (Go To Top)

     London: Playing beach volleyball can leave women with sagging breasts, according to a top German surgeon. The summer sport is a popular pastime in Germany where women are not afraid to jump about in the sand in their bikinis. But plastic surgeon Dr George Khoury, 39, from Hamburg, says the increasingly popular sport has created a growing number of female clients who have come to him complaining about sagging breasts. He warns that while the physical exertion might be good for the rest of the body, all the jumping and diving involved in beach volleyball puts a strain on women's breasts. "Vigorous movements and vibrations stretch the tissue around the breasts, which can lead to permanent sagginess," Fox news quoted Dr Khoury, as saying. "The female breasts, even small ones, were not made for swinging up and down 300 times within a short period of time, as happens in beach volleyball," he added. Dr Khoury added that if those addicted to the sport really did not want to give it up they could limit the harm to their breasts by playing less and wearing a sports bra.

Shakira says women spell trouble (Go To Top)

     London: Columbian singer Shakira believes that women spell "trouble". "Women are all the same. We're trouble," the "Wherever, Whatever!" singer revealed in an interview with America's Blender magazine: "Women are full of buttons, little buttons, millions of buttons. And men just have the on and off switch. Men need only food and you-know-what. We're like, what do you call them? Barrels without bottoms "There's no way to satisfy women Ever," she added.

'Holy Ghost' too scary for kids, claim educationists (Go To Top)

     London: Ghosts, a quintessential part of British religious lessons, may soon dissolve into oblivion, if the education board has its way. According to The Mirror, the words "Holy Ghost" will be dropped from religious lessons because they scare children, and the body and blood of Jesus Christ will not be described as Eucharist because it seems too cannibalistic. The new guidelines for Norfolk schools also include axing of the phrase 'Old Testament' because it is too old-fashioned and 'Wailing Wall' because they sound negative. Educationists are however divided over the issue, with some supporting it and others opposing it. "This syllabus has strong support from teachers," the paper quoted Fred Corbett, assistant director of children's services for Norfolk, as saying. "They are trying to alter how children are taught traditional faiths," said Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education.

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