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New UK Cabinet meets,economy to be top priority
LONDON: Britains new coalition government held its inaugural meeting Thursday. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron presided over the gathering,sitting across from his deputy,Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. Among the first acts of the new Cabinet,which has said deficit-cutting is its top priority,was agreeing to take a 5 per cent pay cut and subsequent five-year salary freeze that the government says will save taxpayers 300,000 pounds a year.
Three behind Moscow metro blasts killed
MOSCOW: Security services killed three people involved in the suicide attacks on the Moscow metro in March after they refused to surrender,Russias security chief said Thursday. Alexander Bortnikov,head of the FSB,said secret agents had tracked down three gang members,including one who escorted two female suicide bombers to Moscow and another one who led the women to the scene.
Bhutto kids defend father,ridicule Fatima
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhuttos children are using Twitter to defend their father President Asif Ali Zardari and settle scores with their cousin Fatima Bhutto. The man lampooned by the countrys establishment as Mr 10 per cent has in fact given 110 per cent back to the country, read a tweet by Benazirs elder daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari. In a reference to Fatima,Bakhtawar tweeted to her Bilawal: your sister doesnt know how to spell my name. She keeps tweeting fake love to randomers. Sad now.
Kuwaiti blogger held,on hunger strike
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti blogger has gone on a hunger strike to protest his detention by authorities,who accuse him of insulting the ruler and inciting the overthrow of government,his lawyer. Mohammad Abdul-Kader al-Jassem,a journalist and blogger who is a staunch critic of the government,was detained on Tuesday.
Indian man on Interpol list held in US
CHICAGO: An Indian man,who is on an Interpol list after he was sentenced in absentia to serve four imprisonment sentences in the UK for smuggling cigarettes,has been arrested at the citys OHare Airport. Anis Gulamras Vohora,39,was held while he about to board a flight to India over the weekend.
Penn ordered anger management classes
LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has been sentenced to three years of probation,36 hours of anger management classes and 300 hours of community service for his run-in with a photographer. The 49-year-old actor pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour charge of vanadalism for the October incident when he confronted a photographer and broke his camera at a shopping centre.
A second charge of battery was dismissed.
Will judge films with openness: Tim Burton
Cannes: Filmmaker Tim Burton,who is the head of jury at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival,said he and the nine other members will look at the competing films with openness and compassion. The panel of judges,including Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur,Kate Beckinsale and Benicio Del Toro,will sit to through 19 movies before announcing
the winner.
Pattinson and Stewart brawl on movie set
NEW YORK: Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson and his co-star girlfriend Kristen Stewart had a huge fight on the set of the third movie in the franchise as she accused him of hanging out late at a burlesque bar. The pair had a blow-up as they re-shot a scene for Eclipse,the third installment in the series,near Vancouver along with co-star Taylor Lautner,reported New York Post online.
