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Sophia Loren is most beautiful woman': SurveyLONDON: Forget super models. Sixty-five-year-old Sophia Loren is going down in history as t...

Sophia Loren is most beautiful woman8217;: Survey
LONDON: Forget super models. Sixty-five-year-old Sophia Loren is going down in history as the most beautiful woman in the world. The Italian actress beat rivals half her age in a poll of 3,000 Britons, released on Friday. Her snap will be placed in a millennium time capsule for future generations to marvel at. The 8220;mature woman8221; was well-represented in the poll8217;s top 10. U.S. movie star Raquel Welch, 59, was seventh. Loren pipped Liz Hurley, 34, to the top spot with 33-year old model Cindy Crawford at third place. Julia Roberts, 32, came fourth.

Clinton tops maths quiz8217;
WASHINGTON: For George W. Bush, the subject was foreign affairs. For US President Bill Clinton, it was maths: how many pickle slices can you get out of 3.2 million cucumbers? The answer? 192 million, according to Clinton8217;s calculations on Friday night on a shard of notebook paper he received from a curious reporter, who alsoasked Clinton to name the leader of Chechnya, in the spirit of the pop quiz Bush received on Wednesday.

Answering the reporter8217;s maths question, Clinton wrote on the back of a note, 8220;I checked the calculation with the Chechnyan leader Aslan Maskhadov and he agrees.8221; The maths challenge grew out of Clinton8217;s announcement that the supplier of the fast-food chain Burger King had committed to buy 200 acres8217; worth of cucumbers from growers in the Mississippi delta. 8220;I don8217;t know how many pickle slices that is, but it8217;s 3.2 million pounds of cucumbers,8221; Clinton said. 8220;That8217;s a lot of pickles.8221; That prompted a reporter to scribble down a word problem and forward it to Clinton through an aide: 8220;If there are three cucumbers in a pound, and Burger King buys 3.2 million pounds of pickles. And you can cut 20 slices of pi ckle from each cucumber, how many pickle slices will you get?8221; Clinton supplied the answer aboard Air Force One, enroute to Washington from Chicago. He told reporters he solved Knoller8217;sproblem in about 30 seconds. Without a calculator. 8220;I don8217;t use a calculator,8221; Clinton said. 8220;I8217;m technologically challenged.8221;

Geri, boyfriend speak to Media
LONDON: Britain8217;s hottest showbiz couple 8212; ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and top disc jockey Chris Evans 8212; came clean on Saturday giving separate interviews to 8220;speak of their love8221; for each other.

Halliwell, 27, the former Ginger Spice, chose Britain8217;s biggest-selling daily, The Sun, to confirm something that had been the subject of intense media speculation for days: 8220;she and Chris are lovers8221;. Evans, 33, confided in The Sun8217;s biggest rival, The Mirror, to declare what the paper called 8220;my love for Geri8221;. Newspapers have been agog since it was disclosed earlier this week that Britain8217;s two most famous redheads were an item and might even get married.