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Charlize Theron struggles to shake rape tag  (Go To Top)

     London: Hollywood actress Charlize Theron has slammed rumours that she was raped as a child in her native South Africa. The star said that she has been an active anti-rape activist, but that didn't mean that she herself was a rape victim. "Nine years ago I started an anti-rape campaign in South Africa and people say that I must have raped in my life to be able to do that. No, I'm a women and I understand that that's the reality for a lot of women and I have a great compassion for the pain that those women go through," femalefirst quoted her as saying.

Anna Nicole Smith likens her breasts to tyres (Go To Top)

     London: Model Anna Nicole Smith has admitted that she is now satisfied with the size of her breasts, after undergoing five operations to get them back in their original state, and has also explained that just like tyres they need changing from time to time "You get scar tissue. You have to go in every five years and change them out," the Sun quoted the 37-year-old as saying. Anna's boobs almost disappeared due to her weight loss when she gave birth to her son in 1986, but she finally got them back in their original state and then oversized them, after putting in years of efforts. However in the process, she went from too small to too big. "I went up to 211 pounds so I stretched to double-Fs, and when I lost all the weight I went way back down, except my skin didn't. It was not pretty," the paper quoted her as saying. The star, who has refused to disclose the current cup-size of her bra, has refuted claims that she underwent two implantations to increase her boob-size. "I've heard a rumour that I have two implants in each boob. Now, if anyone could show me how that would work I'd really like to see it myself," she said.

Leafy green veggies keep old brains sharp (Go To Top)

     Washington: Leafy green vegetables may help keep brains sharp through ageing, according to a recent report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Folate, a B vitamin found in foods like leafy green vegetables and citrus fruit, may protect against cognitive decline in older adults. The research was conducted by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. A team led by Katherine L. Tucker, PhD, director and professor of the Nutritional Epidemiology Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, studied a group of Boston- area men who were members of the ongoing Normative Aging Study (NAS). Tucker and her colleagues found that men who obtained more folate in their diets showed significantly less of a decline in verbal fluency skills over the course of three years than did men with lower dietary folate intake. High folate levels, both in the diet and in the blood, also appeared to be protective against declines in another category of cognitive skills known as spatial copying. "The men took a series of cognitive tests at the beginning of the study period and then repeated those tests three years later," explained Tucker. "We compared their first and second scores, reviewed their responses to dietary questionnaires, and took blood samples in order to see if nutrient levels in the diet and the blood were related to changes in cognitive performance," he added.

Jolie's adoption comes under a cloud (Go To Top)

     Washington: Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie would have to undergo certain formalities, regarding the adoption of the Ethiopian baby Zahara, after authorities found that the child's mum was allegedly alive and well. Jolie had reportedly stated in adoption papers that Zahara's mother was dead. The National Enquirer in the US spoke with Ethiopian adoption law expert Belay Ketema, who said the adoption could be illegal because the law in Ethiopia says that if the mother is still alive she must give her consent and in this case that may not have happened. "The adoptive mother must appear in court to nullify the old papers and re-apply for adoption. The baby's mother must also appear to give her consent, " Keterma told the paper. The Sun reported that seamstress Mentaweb Dawit, who claims to be the mother of the child, became pregnant after she was raped and always planned to give up the baby for adoption. However, Dawit's mum, Almaz Blfnhe told authorities that her daughter had died in childbirth.