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ABBA girl swindled out of £4.5m

ABBA’s Anni-Frid Lyngstad has claimed that she was cheated of £4.5 million by a mystical Chinese medicine man.

Love as powerful as morphine, cocaine

Intense romantic love is like a drug which can be as effective as morphine in relieving pain, a new study has claimed.

'Missile sent to Britain from Afghanistan by ordinary post'

Believe it or not, a missile was sent to Britain by military engineers in Afghanistan through an ordinary parcel.

Howard Jacobson wins Booker, bookies celebrate

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London author and newspaper columnist Howard Jacobson defeated the bookie predictions and won the £50,000-Booker Prize for Fiction for his latest novel The Finkler Question on Tuesday night.

‘Women make better politicians than men’

Many male politicians may find it hard to digest, but France’s finance minister has claimed that women actually make better politicians than men as they’re not prisoners to their libido and testosterone.

New carnivore species found

Biologists have discovered what they claim is a new species of carnivore, which looks like a “scruffy little ferret”, in the island nation of Madagascar. The cat-sized, speckled brown mammal belongs to a family of mongoose-like animals found only in Madagascar and is probably one of the most threatened carnivores in the world, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Friends star Schwimmer is married

Friends star David Schwimmer is a married man. The actor has revealed that he tied the knot with girlfriend Zoe Buckman in a secret ceremony four months back. After getting engaged in early March, the couple secretly wed in a private ceremony in June, said the actor’s representative.

Pune-born Hrishikesh Desai named UK’s chef of the year

INDIAN-BORN chef Hrishikesh Desai, head chef at the Brasserie restaurant at Lucknam Park Hotel in Wiltshire, has been named the winner of the UK’s National Chef of the Year competition. Thirty-year-old Desai, who was born and brought up in Pune, was named the winner after a live cook-off at the Restaurant Show at Earls Court in

British author Howard Jacobson wins Booker Prize

British author Howard Jacobson has won the prestigious Booker Prize for his comic novel The Finkler Question, beating five others including two-time winner Peter Carey and the bookies’ favour

Britain faces cyber attack threat: Spy chief

An online war has begun between Britain and terror groups and enemy states, with the country facing a serious threat to its national security from cyber attacks, a top official of a spy agency has cla

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.