LOS ANGELES: Saw 3D has topped the Halloween box office on both sides of the Atlantic - and also carved out a world record in the process.The final instalment in the series - about psychokiller Jigsaw's legacy of bloody terror - took 24.2 million dollars in its opening weekend in US cinemas and £3.3million in ticket sales in Britain, according to studio Lionsgate.
And Saw has become the Guinness World Records' most successful horror franchise, receiving over seven million cinema admissions and





SAO PAULO: A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil's long dictatorship was elected Sunday as president of Latin America's biggest nation, a country on an economic and political rise.
WESLEY CHAPEL: Authorities in Tampa, Florida said a plane piloted by a student has crashed into two cars at a local airpark.
LONDON: Eating brussels sprouts and cabbage could help kill cancer cells when combined with traditional chemotherapy, according to new research by British scientists.
LOS ANGELES: Danny Boyle, who shot to world fame on the back of the ‘rag to riches’ film, the Slumdog Millionaire could find himself on the wrong end of that fame.












