
London: Actress Katherine Heigl says working as a child model when she was nine was "brutal" and she hated the experience. The 33-year-old, who raises three-year-old daughter Naleigh with husband Josh Kelley, began her career in showbusiness with a stint as a model for clients including US department stores Macy's and Sears but Katherine has admitted she hated the experience. "Oh my god, it was brutal. You even understand it,...

12:29 PM, Feb 02, 2012

London: Phone-hacking and spot-fixing in Pakistan cricket are two different rows, but many now remember that News of the World, the UK tabloid of media baron Rupert Murdoch that broke the story through a sting operation, is no more. Tuesday's conviction in court of three Pakistan cricketers - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer - brought to a conclusion the story broken by the tabloid's former investigations editor, Mazher...

12:36 AM, Mar 15, 2008

...any player that throws a game, no player that entertains propositions or promises to throw a game, no player who sits in on a conference with a bunch of gamblers in which ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will never play professional baseball. These words, spoken by baseball's first commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge appointed by...

05:31 PM, Mar 14, 2008