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- Have a go at my ex-girlfriend, says man in email
- 12-year-old on school trip delivers baby
- Indian-origin author shortlisted for Booker prize
- Kate enjoys discreet hen party
- Elizabeth Taylor's love letters for sale
- Waking from the dead
- Germany 'Nukes' Simpsons off air
| Have a go at my ex-girlfriend, says man in email Posted: A Briton sent an email to his football buddy about his ex-girlfriend: "Feel free to pursue, yes, she is HOT!" But, he accidentally copied her into the email exchange that has now gone viral. Harry Fildes sent the email to his football mate Sebastian Marsh that it was fine to pursue his hot ex-girlfriend Jenni Palmer, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday. He then accidentally copied it to Palmer, who is still his housemate. Thousands of people have seen the emails after they went viral. Fildes said in one of the emails: "I am in so much ---- it's unreal." The email exchange started last week after Marsh met Palmer during a night out. Sebastian Marsh called her "a looker to say the least!!", and then inquired whether he could "have a go". Fildes responded by describing Palmer in derogatory terms and claimed that she had 'messed' him around. He then added: "Feel free to pursue, yes, she is HOT!" Marsh said: "She sounds brilliant � just the sort of thing I am looking for in the summer months. My defences are up and I am up for the challenge �" It was at this stage that Fildes copied Palmer into the email exchange while passing on her email address. As soon as he realised his mistake, a frantic Fildes asked: "Can you recall emails?!" "I still live with her and that's why I am in so so so much trouble, we didn't get on before so this will be the final nail in the coffin," wrote Fildes. "I sent her a follow up email saying I don't really think she is a ---- just trying to put you off her! Not very convincing."
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| 12-year-old on school trip delivers baby Posted: A 12 year-old Dutch girl, who did not realise she was pregnant, delivered a baby girl when she was on a school trip. "Neither the girl nor her family had realised she was pregnant, and there were no external signs to show it," the Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for health services as saying. The girl was from Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. She felt violent stomach pain when she was on a day out with her classmates last week. A supervisor alerted the emergency services and when ambulance staff came they saw the girl was about to give birth, the media report said. She was taken to a nearby building where she delivered her baby. Both the child-mother and her new-born "are doing well" in the maternity ward of a hospital.
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| Indian-origin author shortlisted for Booker prize Posted: Indian-origin novelist Rohinton Mistry is among 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious USD 96,070 Man Booker International Prize, where strangely British thriller writer John Le Carre withdrew his name. 59-year-old Canada-based Mistry, who was born in Mumbai and graduated from Bombay University, is the author of three novels -- 'Such a Long Journey (1991)', 'A Fine Balance (1996)' and Family Matters (2002)' -- each of which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Mistry's works have been widely praised and his novel 'Such a Long Journey' has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governor General's Award. 'A Fine Balance' won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Giller Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was nominated for Oprah's Book Club Best Novel in 2001. His another novel 'Family Matters' was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and won the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Fiction and the Timothy Findley Award (Writers' Trust of Canada). Of the 13 authors in consideration for the literary award, John Le Carre has asked the judging panel to withdraw his name, but the jury said his name would remain in competition. Le Carre is believed to be the first writer to ask to be withdrawn from consideration since the Prize was inaugurated in 2005. The authors were picked from eight countries and there are four women in the list. The nominations were announced by the chair of judges, Rick Gekoski, today at a media conference held at the University of Sydney. The other contenders are Juan Goytisolo (Spain), James Kelman (UK), Amin Maalouf (Lebanon), David Malouf (Australia), Dacia Maraini (Italy), Philip Pullman (UK), Marilynne Robinson (US), Philip Roth (US) and Anne Tyler(US). The Prize winner will be announced at the Sydney Writers' Festival on May 18 and the presentation ceremony will take place in London on June 28.
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| Kate enjoys discreet hen party Posted: Kate Middleton held her hen party celebrating her last weeks as a single woman before marrying Britain's Prince William, St James's Palace said yesterday.
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| Elizabeth Taylor's love letters for sale Posted: Before becoming a bride eight times over, Elizabeth Taylor was a 17-year-old starlet scribbling letters to her first fiance, charting on pale pink stationery his progression from her one-and-only to the one who got away. "I've never known this kind of love before it's so perfect and complete and mature," Taylor wrote to William Pawley on May 6, 1949. "I've never loved anyone in my life before one third as much as I love you and I never will."  Elizabeth Taylor wrote Pawley 60 letters in which she fretted about her weight and movies Taylor, who died last week at age 79, was engaged to Pawley in 1949, just before her first marriage. More than 60 of the letters she wrote him will be auctioned in May by RR Auctions of Amherst, New Hampshire. It bought the letters two years ago from Pawley, who lives in Florida. The unpublished letters - some written in purple ink on pink paper provide a glimpse of a teenager's transition to adult screen star. "My heart aches and makes me want to cry when I think of you, and how much I want to be with and to look into your beautiful blue eyes, and kiss your sweet lips and have your strong arms hold me, oh so tight, and close to you... I want us to be 'lovers' always... even after we've been married 75 years and have at least a dozen great-great-grandchildren," she wrote on March 28. The online auction, set for May 19-26, will also feature letters Taylor's mother wrote to Pawley after the engagement ended Bobby Livingston, spokesman for the auction house, said the letters were estimated to be worth $25,000 (Rs 11.18 lakh) before Taylor's death, and he expects they could fetch two or three times that amount now.
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| Posted: Moammar Gaddafi's allegedly dead son Khamis spotted on state television Libyan television broadcast what they claim was live footage of leader Moammar Gaddafi's son Khamis, who was reported to have died earlier in March.  Rebels celebrate on a destroyed tank in Ajdabiya yesterday. A video grab of Khasmis Gaddafi.  A man bearing a striking resemblance to Khamis was shown greeting supporters at his father's compound in Tripoli. The pictures showed Khamis, dressed in military uniform, meeting a crowd of supporters. According to the TV anchor, the images refuted the reports in the Arab media and on the Internet that Gaddafi's son was killed by an air force pilot who purposefully crashed his jet into the family's Bab al-Aziziyah compound in the Libyan capital. According to government officials, the reports were part of a deliberate campaign of misinformation by the country's enemies. Khamis (27), is the sixth son of the Libyan leader. Last week US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she had heard reports that one of Gaddafi's sons may have been killed in an air strike, but there was not enough evidence to confirm it. Internship Khamis, who was in the US as reported was present there on an internship programme. The month-long internship was sponsored by AECOM, a global engineering and design company based in Los Angeles, and with the assistance of the State Department. AECOM has business dealings with Libya. The younger Gaddafi travelled from coast to coast meeting with high-tech companies, universities and defense contractors. His itinerary included stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Colorado, Chicago, Houston, Washington and New York City. New attacks Rebels in Misrata were trying to fight off fresh attacks by forces loyal to Gaddafi yesterday, and eight civilians were killed overnight, a rebel spokesman said. Libyan government tanks and rockets blunted a rebel assault on Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte yesterday and drove back the ragtag army of irregulars, even as world leaders prepared to debate the country's future in London. Gaddafi's exile BRITAIN, the United States and Italy have signalled that they may be prepared to allow Gaddafi to flee Libya, possibly into swift exile in Africa. The possibility has been raised as more than 40 foreign ministers, and the leadership of the United Nations, NATO, arrived in London. Khamis Gaddafi founded the Khamis Brigade and consists of the most well-trained and well-equipped force in the Libyan military
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| Germany 'Nukes' Simpsons off air Posted: Broadcasters in Germany have decided to ban or censor episodes that poke fun at nuclear disasters in light of Japan's atomic emergency The German broadcaster of The Simpsons said it has decided not to show any episodes of the satirical US cartoon series showing nuclear disasters in light of Japan's atomic emergency.  An anti-nuclear demonstrator holds a placard chanting slogans against nuclear power and The Simpsons for poking fun at the situation in Japan "We are checking all the episodes and we won't show any suspect ones, but we won't cut any scenes," Stella Rodger, said a spokeswoman for private broadcaster Pro7. "We haven't postponed any yet." The nuclear plant in the Simpsons' hometown of Springfield is however a key element in the long-running show, with the hapless Homer in charge of safety despite a slapdash approach evident from the opening credits onwards. Previous episodes have shown nuclear waste dumped in a children's playground, plutonium used as a paperweight, cracked cooling towers, luminous rats and three-eyed mutant fish, as well as near-meltdowns. "Of course we can't completely change the entire content," the spokeswoman acknowledged. Surveys show that people in Germany are particularly uneasy about the dangers of nuclear power, with shipments of radioactive waste regularly attracting angry protests. On Saturday, tens of thousands of people 2,50,000, according to organisers took part in demonstrations around Germany protesting against nuclear power in light of events in Japan. However, critics of the European killjoys insist the show is harmless and cannot be compared to the situation in Japan. The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean said he could "completely understand" the station's move. "We would never make light of what's happening in Japan," he said. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced earlier this month a three-month moratorium on plans to extend the operating times of Germany's nuclear plants and ordered that the seven oldest reactors be shut down. 'Maximum alert' As fears of more serious contamination grew following detection of plutonium in soil of its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan yesterday announced it was on "maximum alert" over the situation, with its workers scrambling hard to stop highly radioactive water from reaching the sea. "This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan" in decades, Prime Minister Naoto Kan told Parliament, more than two weeks after the natural calamity struck the country's northeast leaving over 28,000 people dead or unaccounted for. The situation at the troubled nuclear plant "continues to be unpredictable," he said, adding the government "will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert." The Prime Minister said that he was seeking advice on whether to extend the 20-km evacuation zone around the plant. He also said that it is "highly likely" that the six-reactor Fukushima plant will eventually be decommissioned. Meanwhile, the catastrophic earthquake and ensuing tsunami have left 11,082 people dead and 16,717 others unaccounted for in Japan. Where's the tissue? An acute shortage of toilet paper has hit Tokyo, as Japan's people reacted by stocking up on essentials. In a supermarket, a lone sign stands where prior to the disaster there were mountains of toilet paper, tissues and paper towels. "Due to the vast earthquake, we are currently out of stock. We apologise for the inconvenience," the sign reads. Industry data show residents also bought five times more instant noodles than normal consumption. Sarkozy to visit Japan French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to meet Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan during a solidarity visit to the crisis-hit nation on tomorrow following a scheduled trip to China, his office said. Sarkozy, who earlier this month mooted a trip to Japan as a show of solidarity in the name of the G8 and G20 blocs he heads, is due in China today and tomorrow, after which he will travel to Japan. He said that "if the opportunity presented itself and if the Japanese authorities agreed, it goes without saying that during my Asia tour, I would go there to show our solidarity."
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