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Boy, did Dell show just off the craziest device on stage at Intel's IDF 2010 day two keynote. What started as a tablet device converted to a netbook just by opening to the keyboard and literally swiveling the screen from within the frame. This hybrid's got a 10-inch screen, houses a dual-core Atom N550 and runs Windows 7 Premium. And if it looks at all familiar, that's because we saw something eerily similar in a leak from April (hello, Sparta). No price given and Dell isn't providing us any more

Fast bowler Wahab Riaz has become the latest Pakistan cricketer to be questioned by police as a result of the ‘spot-fixing’ row engulfing the team’s tour of England.
A brief statement issued by Scotland Yard here on Tuesday said: “We can confirm that today, Tuesday, September 14, one further Pakistani cricketer was interviewed by appointment under caution.”
Although the statement did not name Riaz, his interview with detectives was trailed last week by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt, who said: “We have arranged for his interview as we will continue to cooperate and we want to get to the bottom of the matter.”
Pakistan’s tour has been overshadowed by newspaper allegations of a betting scam that saw no-balls deliberately bowled in the fourth Test against England at Lord’s last month.
The claims, published in the News of the World, led to the suspension of Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif by the

The price of gold, a safe-haven investment in times of economic uncertainty, struck an all-time high above 1,269 dollars an ounce on Tuesday.
Gold hit 1,269.45 dollars on the London Bullion Market at 1410 GMT, beating the previous record of 1,265.30 dollars an ounce struck on June 21.
“Renewed sovereign debt concerns” have driven up gold, said Robin Bhar, senior metals analyst at Credit Agricole bank.
Fears of a resurgent eurozone debt crisis are likely to stunt European economic growth prospects this year, the EU warned on Monday.
“The global recovery is still expected to be uneven and is surrounded by major uncertainties,” the European Commission said in its autumn forecast, citing “the resurfacing of

The French parliament passed a law Tuesday prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges.
The Senate passed the bill by 246 votes to one and, having already cleared the lower house in July, the bill will now be reviewed by the Constitutional Council, which has a month to confirm its legality.
Once in force, the law provides for a six-month period of “education” to explain to women already wearing a face veil that they face arrest and a fine if they continue to do so in any public space.
A woman who chooses to defy the ban will receive a fine of

I don’t want to be a chocolate hero: Atif Aslam

If you could play a character in any film ever made, you would play…

I would like to play a negative and shady character. I don’t want to be a chocolate hero, dancing around trees and boring people.

If you could collaborate with any musicians (past or present), you’d work with…

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and

Police found George Michael slumped over the wheel after crashed his Range Rover into a shop in north London.

- Pop singer George Michael was jailed immediately Tuesday to serve an eight week sentence after pleading guilty to a charge that he drove while under the influence of drugs. The charge would normally carry a 12 week sentence, but District Judge John Perkins said he gave Michael's credit for his guilty plea and his remorse.
The case relates to an incident in the early hours of July 4, when police said Michael crashed his car into the front of a north London shop, damaging the facade. No one was hurt in the accident.
Michael, whose real name is

The family of murdered brothers, Mughees and Muneeb, said that it did not trust the medical board formed to perform the second post mortem.

LAHORE: The Civil Court on Tuesday postponed the re-postmortem of the two brothers killed in Sialkot.

The family of murdered brothers, Mughees and Muneeb, said that it did not trust the medical board formed to perform the second post mortem.

The re-postmortem of the victims of a mob lynching incident, was to be conducted today in Imam Sahab cemetery on the orders of the Supreme Court.

A request-petition had been put forward by the family in Civil Judge Sialkot Abu Bakar Siddique’s court. The family proposed induction of a senior surgeon from

Students at Pennsylvania's Harrisburg University will do without Facebook, other social media for a week.

- Pennsylvania's Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will enact a week-long social media blackout for all students in residence. The students will be forbidden from using Twitter,Facebook, instant messaging and any other online communication except for e-mail.
NPR reports that university Provost Eric Darr chose to enact the temporary ban because he wants students to think about how much they're using technology in their daily lives and

YouTube will spend two days testing live-streaming video on its site.

- Live-streaming video on YouTube, until now a rare novelty, may be getting a lot more common. The video sharing site on Monday began working with a handful of partners to test a new platform that will let users post live chats and other events on their YouTube channels.
The limited-time trial will run two days and will only feature live video from four partners.
"Based on the results of this initial test, we'll evaluate rolling out the platform more broadly to our partners worldwide," YouTube said in a blog post.
If successful, the new platform would let YouTube -- already the hands-down leader in video sharing -- move in on live-streaming sites like UStream and Livestream. Until now, YouTube has

Whether it's the $14 beers or the way the bartender has to duck whenever a dancer spins around the pole, there's just something about strip clubs.

Of course, some people enjoy them more than others. Take, for instance, James Clooney, who ended up with a nearly $47,000 tab after a fun night out at the Penthouse Executive Club in Manhattan.

Clooney charged steaks, liquor and lap dances to rack up a bill big enough to buy a 3-bedroom house in Kansas. According to the club, he's since made some small payments, but nothing big enough to put a dent in his debt. So, they've filed a lawsuit against him, seeking $46,698.18.

This got us thinking: surely James Clooney isn't the first guy who's gotten a little heavy-handed with the free champagne and ended up slinking away from a massive strip club tab. Turns out, we were right. A lot of people want to party like rock stars, then wake up the

Let’s face it—fictional gangsters are more fun than real ones. Fictional gangsters get into prolonged shootouts that destroy half of city hall. Fictional gangsters have dinner with the chief of police and then sleep with his wife. Fictional gangsters never run out of bullets, whores, exotic tiger-pets or favors to grant on the day of their daughter’s wedding.
These factors mean made-up gangland is not only way more fun than

BERLIN: A German dairy farmer has opened a 24-hour milk dispensing station on his farm and is doing booming business, according to a UK-based news agency.

The station, called “Milchtankstelle,” is located near Cologne, one of the largest cities in Germany. Customers obtain their milk from a steel vending machine, using either bottles brought from home or purchased on the spot.

"I only had a few customers before I opened the station because they had to come at set milking times, which was a problem. Now they can buy my milk whenever they want," the farmer, Bruno Stauf, said, according to the news agency.

The milk costs 70 cents per liter, putting the price higher than at supermarkets. Stauf, however, is confident about the quality of his milk, "There's a lot more protein and fat in it because it is not treated like the milk you get in normal supermarkets,” he said in a report.

Stauf’s milk station cost him 12,000 euros in total, but

How Rich are Pakistani MNAs?: PPPP MNA tops list with Rs3.288bn

ISLAMABAD: A comparative analysis of the assets declared by MNAs belonging to the 12th and the 13th National Assembly of Pakistan revealed that the average value of an MNA's assets has increased three folds in six years from 2002-2003 to 2008-2009.

The average value of an MNA's Assets in the 12th National Assembly was just below Rs. 27 million in 2002-2003 which has increased to almost Rs. 81 million in 2008-2009, a 3-fold increase in six years, according to a Pildat Analysis of the Declarations of Assets submitted by MNAs, said a news release issued on Tuesday.

The analysis also indicates that an average MNA of the current (13th) National Assembly is twice as rich compared to his/her counterpart in the previous (12th) National Assembly.

The Pildat report series titled How Rich are Pakistani MNAs? has analyzed assets declared by MNAs for the years 2002-2003 to 2005-2006; 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 through 3 separate reports.

The latest of this series of Pildat reports, comparing assets declared by MNAs belonging to the 13th (current) National Assembly of Pakistan, has used data contained in the Gazettes published by the Election Commission of Pakistan on October 15 2008 and October 27 2009.

The report depicts that the current average value of assets held by an MNA stands at Rs. 80.89 million, based on the 2008-2009 declarations.

This figure demonstrates a modest increase of 9.5% from the 2007-2008 figure of Rs 73.92 million. The average value of assets owned by non-Muslim MNAs, Rs 20.35 million, is

Celebrities and their little ones ...

A rare collection of ancient weapons, used for over a century, hidden in various objects such as pipes, pens, locks and more.

Pocket watch gun (England)
mini weapons

The Smart Finger is made from silicon to offer a comfortable fit to any finger size. It can help measure length, breadth, and volume in a very intuitive way through simple button operations. The distance (measurement) is calculated on the basis of the time taken by the signal to beam from

Nakheel Tower, Dubai will be world tallest building on the face of earth

Upcoming Dubai's Landmark The Nakheel Tower is set to be the world’s tallest building record after completion in 2020. The tower conceived by Woods Bagot was inspired on visions by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Paolo Soleri as the first true vertical city where more than 15,000 inhabitants will live and work & its height will be more than one kilometer. The

Well, it's about time! Excuse our impatience / excitement, but we've been hearing about MSI's 3D all-in-one since March, and the company's finally done putting the finishing touches on it. While MSI's claiming it's the "world's first 3D all-in-one," the Wind Top AE2420 3D isn't just another 3D display that comes with active shutter glasses -- though it does have those features and in unison they do a mighty good job of displaying high def, three-dee video and images. But beyond all that, the

We would've never figured on Verizon carrying over the "Curve 3G" name from this phone's GSM counterpart, considering all of its older Curve models have already had EV-DO -- but branding consistency trumps logic in this case, we suppose. Given what we know about the GSM model, you can probably guess the specs: 2 megapixel cam and BlackBerry OS 5 with upgradeability to 6 are both in the cards, though interestingly, Verizon's official specs just list 802.11b/g for WiFi -- there's no mention of 802.11n, which the current Curve 3G has under the hood. Regardless, perhaps the

Popular cricket presenter and Bollywood actress Mandira Bedi wants to grow her hair and wants to look like a girl.
“I have experimented a lot with my looks. Now I want to grow my hair and want to look like a girl. Growing hair will surely take some time,” said Mandira while talking to reporters after walking the ramp as a showstopper in a fashion show.
Mandira hogged the limelight after her stint as a cricket presenter with noted cricket analyst Charu Sharma.
She has experimented a lot with her looks which has metamorphosed her image from that of a girl next door in the title role of mega serial Shanti to a sexy cricket presenter on television.
Mandira said whenever her husband introduces her

It may come as news to new parents but a U.S. study has found that mothers do get enough sleep in their babies’ first few months — it’s just not good quality.
Researchers from West Virginia University in Morgantown followed a group of new mothers and found, on average, the women got just over 7 hours of sleep a night during their babies’ first four months.
That amount is generally what is recommended for adults, and, based on past studies, more than the average American gets.
But the study found that sleep is also frequently disrupted with the women typically being awake for a total of two hours a night which was worrying as sleep problems and exhaustion may contribute to postpartum depression and impact work performance.
Researcher Dr. Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs, an assistant professor of psychology, said the study challenges a central assumption about new mothers’ typical sleep patterns.
She said that the general assumption had been that most new mothers are not getting enough hours of sleep so the advice on how to combat daytime fatigue has focused on countering sleep deprivation, such as nap when your baby naps.
The current results, reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology , suggest that new mothers’ highly fragmented sleep is the cause of daytime fatigue.
That sleep pattern, Montgomery-Downs said, is similar to

The former president of International Cricket Council Ehsan Mani has urged the organisation to take concrete and pragmatic steps to curb corruption in the game.
In an exclusive interview on the spot-fixing crisis in the October issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine, Mani said: When players first come into the international game, they are given a one-to-one induction by the ICC on how they might be compromised.
But the Pakistan board is clearly not getting the message through to its players. The onus is on the PCB to explain how players under its control could behave like this.
Mani, who led the world governing body as President from 2003-06 and was also Pakistan’s representative to the ICC for 7 years, said he was very sad, disappointed and hurt as the

The rates of fruits, especially banana and apple fell down as their demand has been considerably decreased in the local markets after their sky rocketing rates in the Holy month of Ramadan.
Apple and Banana were sold in the open market at very exorbitant prices are now available at two times less rates in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Moreover, the two fruits can be seen in abundance in the markets which were almost rare during Ramadan.
Similarly, the rates of dates and pickle have also decreased in the market.
Shopkeepers said that there are some edibles which are

All the educational institutes working under Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) reopened on Tuesday with maximum potential after about three months summer vacations.
The students have resumed their study activities after the vacation with renewed commitments.
They were very enthusiastic to wish Eid to their fellow students and share their fun filled activities of summer vacations.
Earlier, the FDE announced vacations from June 18 till August 23 which were extended, due to the month of Holy Ramadan and Eid till September 13, on the persistent demand of the teachers who rushed to their home towns for spending vacations.
Majority of the students were present on the first day after long summer break and shared with their class mates that how they spent their vacations and Eid, said Shagufta, a teacher of the local model college.
“Like every year, we visited our grandparents in the summer vacations and enjoyed a lot. Due to the extension in the summer vacation, we spent Ramadan with our family and relatives in our native town and celebrate Eid with them,” said Hassan and Ali, sharing with their class mates.
Summer vacation is a period which provide relief to the

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has resigned from a coaching position with the country’s national body after being asked to explain comments he made about the current spot-fixing and betting scandal.
The former wicketkeeper recently appeared on a television show where he criticised the Pakistan Cricket Board for their handling of allegations against three players on their tour of England.
Test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir are under investigation by British police for their role in the scandal, which has

Nokia's just unveiled its aluminum-clad E7 QWERTY slider handset. One of the new family of Symbian^3 devices, it has a 4-inch tilting touchscreen display on the front and an 8 megapixel imager capable of 720p video on the back. Yummy. It's said to be the best business device Nokia, or anyone else, has ever produced and comes with the touted ability to create PowerPoint slides on the

Nokia announces new C6 and C7 Symbian^3 handsets with 8 megapixel cameras, 720p video

Nokia's just rolled a couple of candybar handsets out of its bakery, aiming to seduce new users to its next big platform, Symbian^3. The Nokia C6-01 features an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with all-new ClearBlack Display (CBD) technology from the Finnish company -- touted to deliver better outdoor visibility. The 3.5-inch (also AMOLED) C7 gets more memory than its family mate and a stainless steel body, which Anssi Vanjoki thinks makes it the sleekest device in the

Drew Barrymore

No doubt you can find thousands of pictures of these celebrities online. In this post we have selected few most famous celebrities with

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza today rubbished media reports that she and her husband will appear in TV reality show Bigg Boss season 4 and said even if such an offers comes, they are not interested.

There was a speculation that Sania and Shoaib Malik, a Pakistani cricketer, would be one of the star couples who will feature in the new edition to be hosted by Bollywood star Salman Khan.

Sania, who is preparing for Commonwealth Games, said she and Shoaib have never been approached by the show producers.

"This is a figment of the media's imagination. The

Mr Musharraf said only 5 per cent of the money collected by his foundation for the flood-hit would be spent on overheads.

KARACHI: In what may be described as a noteworthy turn of events, former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who resigned just over two years ago after facing threat of impeachment, joined hands with a private television channel on Sunday night to seek and then garner pledges of hundreds of millions of rupees for the relief and rehabilitation of flood-affected people.

Taking part from London in a three-hour live “telethon” on Dunya TV, Gen (retd) Musharraf appealed for funds and people from all over the

Wahab Riaz, the left-arm fast bowler, will be interviewed by Scotland Yard officials on September 14 (today), PCB chairman Ijaz Butt has said.
Riaz will be the fourth Pakistan player to face police questioning in relation to the spot-fixing scandal currently dogging the national side.
Salman Butt, the captain, and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir are at the centre of allegations that they conspired with Mazhar Majeed, a players agent, to bowl deliberate no-balls during the Lord’s Test between England and Pakistan.
The trio were grilled by police for over nine hours last Friday but eventually released without charge.
In a press conference at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Butt also also expressed the hope that the three players – provisionally suspended by the ICC – will return to

Lady Gaga was crowned queen of the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, winning eight prizes including video of the year.
The flamboyant pop singer tied Norwegian rock group a-ha, the big winners of 1986, as the second most honored act on a single night. British rocker Peter Gabriel set the record of nine competitive wins in 1987 for his innovative video “Sledgehammer.”
Most of Lady Gaga’s Moonman statuettes were for her video “BadRomance,” a futuristic clip featuring plenty of skin-baring scenes and bizarre costumes.
“I was so nervous for tonight that I would let my fans down,” she tearfully said as she accepted the final award for video of the year.
The 24-year-old New Yorker, as famous for her outré fashion sense as for her musical sensibilities, led the field with 13 nominations. In each of her three trips to the

Rafael Nadal won his first U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 Monday in a thrilling final filled with fantastic shotmaking by both men and interrupted by a thunderstorm a day after it was postponed by rain.
It’s Nadal’s third consecutive major championship and ninth overall.
He is the seventh man in tennis history with at least one title from each Grand Slam tournament.
Rain pushed the men’s final from Sunday to Monday for the

In a fresh cycle of violence in the Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) valley, 17 people have been martyred, and at least 45 others have been injured.
Five persons were martyred and more than 20 injured in firing by security forces at Tangmarg, 45km from Srinagar, in Baramulla district
While two youths Muddasir Ahmad Parray and Abdul Majid were declared dead at the nearby Magam Sub District Hospital, another youth succumbed to injuries at a city hospital here.
He has been identified as Abdul Qayoom, officials at the

Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan 25 years ago today on the Famicom, the Japanese version of what Americans call the Nintendo Entertainment System. Since then, Mario has become one of the most iconic characters and entertainment brands in the world.

Mario had previously appeared in the arcade games Donkey Kong and Mario Bros., but it was Super Mario Bros. that propelled the Italian plumber to icon status and contributed significantly to making video games commonplace in homes around the world and reversing the

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