Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account, blessing his online fans and urging them to listen to Christ. In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter launch ever, the 85-year-old Benedict tapped the screen of a tablet brought to him at the end of his general audience after the equivalent of a papal drum...
12:11 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict the sixteenth, who has more than half a million Twitter followers in eight languages, will finally begin tweeting on Wednesday. The followers include people ranging from the simple Roman Catholic faithful to a Jewish head of state. The pope actually has eight linked Twitter accounts. @Pontifex, the main account, is in English. The other seven have a suffix at the end for the different language versions....
07:59 AM, Dec 12, 2012
London: Queen of Pop Madonna's concert tickets have reportedly outsold pop star Lady Gaga in Latin America. The statistic is even more surprising when taking into account the fact that tickets for Madonna's 'MDNA' shows are three times as expensive as those for Gaga's concerts. The 26-year-old 'Judas' hitmaker Gaga's South American dates have had lacklustre sales considering the size of the venues she was booked into. Gaga claimed her...
10:59 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI will start tweeting in six languages from his own personal handle @Pontifex on December 12. The Vatican said on Monday the pope will be using a question and answer format in his first Tweet, focusing on answering questions about faith - in 140 characters. The pope sent his first tweet last year from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal. The...
05:23 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Though this has been spreading as a rumour in the film industry for some time, the love affair of front line artist Ann Augustine has suddenly become the talk of the town. Ann Augustine, the daughter of artiste Augustine is said to be in love with the popular cinematographer Jomon T John, who cranked camera for super hits like 'Thattathin marayathu'. Though both of them had worked together only for...
03:35 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Rev Moran Mar Baselios Cleemis Catholicos, head of the Syro Malankara Catholic Church who was elevated as cardinal at a ceremony at the Vatican six days ago, returned here on Friday to an impressive welcome. At 53 years old, he is the youngest of all the 211 cardinals of the Catholic Church. He is also one of 89 cardinals who have voting rights to elect the next pope, and...
02:36 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict made six non-European prelates Roman Catholic cardinals on Saturday, chipping away at the old continent's domination of the elite group that will one day elect his successor. The new cardinals, ranging in age from 53 to 72, are from the United States, India, Nigeria, the Philippines, Lebanon and Colombia, and the decision to choose no Italians or Europeans looked like an attempt to counter criticism that...
01:58 AM, Nov 25, 2012
The year was a very phenomenal one for Mollywood, being one of the rare years, when the Malayalam film releases crossed hundred mark in just 10 month. The year also featured more than 15 commercial success stories, of which seven are big hits. But the recent one week strike of the theater owners has put everything in a mess, as the number of films queued up for a release this...
06:48 PM, Nov 20, 2012
London: Pop diva Madonna put on a raunchy show at the Madison Square Gardens in New York by performing a stripper-style routine. The 54-year-old star was performing in the Big Apple on Monday as part of her controversial MDNA tour when she urged the audience to throw dollar bills at her. Madonna was seen indulging in all kinds of erotic manoeuvres throughout the performance, as she worked her way through...
12:42 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Vatican City: He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi made the announcement Thursday, saying details about Benedict's handle and other information will come when the Vatican officially launches the account, perhaps before the end of the year. The 85-year-old Benedict sent his first...
07:49 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Vatican City: He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi made the announcement on Thursday, saying details about Benedict's handle and other information will come when the Vatican officially launches the account, perhaps before the end of the year. The 85-year-old Benedict sent his...
02:41 AM, Nov 09, 2012
London: Emma Thompson is all set to give Tom Hanks a tough time in Walt Disney's biopic 'Saving Mr Banks'. Thompson, 53, is playing the role of 'Mary Poppins' author P L Travers in the film, which is currently being shot while Hanks plays Walt Disney. The actress wore her hair in tight curls and carried a white beaded clutch bag during the shoot, the Daily Mail reported. Disney, the...
10:34 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Washington: The percentage of Indians with good jobs is up from where it was two years ago but it provides little strong evidence that India's sluggish economy is firmly on the mend, according to a new survey. About one in four Indian adults (26 per cent) were employed full time for an employer in the first half of 2012, according to Gallup's new Payroll to Population metric released on Wednesday....
10:27 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Los Angeles: Pop star Britney Spears' former confidante encouraged her to kick her drug habit five years ago, and brought drug-sniffing dogs to her Malibu home and flushed a bag of white powder down the toilet, he testified Tuesday. "She had wanted to get clean, but she was struggling with it," the former friend, Sam Lutfi, told jurors in his civil trial in Los Angeles against Spears and her parents....
03:06 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Gurgaon: Spanish pop sensation Enrique Iglesias tonight took his fans on a roller coaster ride with his hour-long performance, as he belted out his hits like 'Hero', 'Baby you like it' and 'Bailamos'. Though the singer kept his fans waiting for more than two hours, the audience did not seem to mind the delay as seen in the roaring response he got after entering the stage and greeting everyone with...
10:21 AM, Oct 20, 2012
PSY, whose stage name stems from the first three letters of the word psycho, has always styled himself as a quirky outsider. But he is from a wealthy family and was actually raised and educated south of the Han River, near Gangnam. He's an excellent dancer, a confident rapper and he's funny, but another reason for his breakthrough could be that less-than-polished image, said Jae-Ha Kim, a Chicago Tribune pop ...
10:30 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Grammy Award-winning global pop phenomenon Enrique Iglesias landed in Pune on Tuesday evening. The chart-topping singer, who is in India for a three-city tour, began his tour with Pune on Wednesday. ...
10:32 PM, Oct 17, 2012
London: R&B star Rihanna says she is waiting for a man who is brave enough to deal with her. The 24-year-old, who recently said she hasn't been on a date in two years, says no guy asks her out anymore, reported Sun Online. "No one asks. Trust me on that. I'm waiting for the man who's (brave) enough to deal with me," she said. The 'Diamonds' singer also said that...
12:03 PM, Oct 17, 2012
