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- Demi, Ashton call it quits
- Saina crashes out of Hong Kong Super Series
- What's common to devil, breasts, period and gay?
| Posted: Fed up with reports of her young husband's cheating ways, Demi Moore is preparing for a court battle over their $290 million (Rs 150 crore) fortune.  Headed for splitsville: Demi Moore (49) announced that with a 'great sadness and a heavy heart' she had decided to end her marriage with 33-year-old Ashton Kutcher. File pic The 49-year-old actress announced her divorce plans yesterday, saying she's doing it with "great sadness and a heavy heart". "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton," she said in a statement. "As a woman, a mother and a wife, there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life." Moore adds that it's a trying time for her and her family, so she asked for people to respect her privacy. Prolific tweeter Kutcher took to Twitter to comment on the split. "I will forever cherish the time I spent with Demi," he wrote. "Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail. Love and Light, AK." Moore and Kutcher were wed in September 2005. The couple's relationship became tabloid fodder in recent months as rumours swirled about Kutcher's alleged infidelity.
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| Saina crashes out of Hong Kong Super Series Posted: Indian ace loses to Denmark's Tine Baun in quarters Saina Nehwal bowed out of the Hong Kong Open badminton after losing to Denmark's Tine Baun 16-21, 15-21 in the women's singles quarterfinals here yesterday.  Saina Nehwal Baun, seeded seventh, took just 29 minutes to beat fourth seeded Saina. Saina, who was defending her title here, has been going through a form slump this year. It was also end of the road for Ajay Jayaram and Gurusaidutt in the men's singles. Jayaram gave a tough fight to top seeded Lee Chong Wei, before losing 16-21, 13-21. Gurusaidutt went down to second seeded Long Chen 13-21, 21-23.
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| What's common to devil, breasts, period and gay? Posted: These are some of the 'obscene' words the Pak Telecom Authority has asked mobile companies to ban from SMSes Pakistan's telecommunications agency has issued a list of words that it considers obscene or offensive, telling mobile phone companies to block text messages that contain them. The Pakistan Tele-communication Authority (PTA) deemed 586 Urdu words and 1,109 English words offensive or pornographic, according to reports in local media.  Some are expletives or sexual words while others are medical terms, but some entries have left many scratching their heads. Included in the list are words such as intercourse, condom and breast, as well as seemingly ordinary words like period, hostage and flatulence. Among the more bizarre are monkey crotch, wuutang and Jesus Christ. The PTA instructed mobile phone companies to begin screening text messages by November 21. According to the letter, the PTA says blocking the texts is meant to control spamming, which it defines as "the transmission of harmful, fraudulent, misleading, illegal or unsolicited messages in bulk to any person without express permission of the recipient." Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed that they had received the memo and the 'dictionary.' A spokesman for the PTA, meanwhile said that the move was in response to complaints from customers who said they were receiving offensive text messages. "Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl," Mohammad Younis said. Pakistanis have been reacting to the news on Twitter, sometimes wondering what the words and expressions mean. Offensive? Medical terms banned: * Athletes foot * Breast * Condom * Flatulence * Intercourse * Period * Premature * Tongue * Herpes Daily words banned: * Deeper * Fairy * Fingerfood * Hole * Hostage * Harder Religious terms banned: * Devil * Jesus Christ LGBT terms banned: * Gay * Homosexual * Queer 586 The number of Urdu words that the PTA has banned 1,109 The number of English words the PTA has deemed offensive
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