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Everything you need to know about Melur South: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
London, May 21 (ANI): James Bond's geiger-counter wristwatch from hit 1965 film 'Thunderball' was found at a car boot sale.
Johannesburg, May 20 (ANI): South Africa's Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has claimed that the well-connected and wealthy Gupta family misused their diplomatic contacts to land their plane illegally at the country's strategic and sensitive Waterkloof Air Force Base last month.
Johannesburg, May 17 (ANI): A Parliamentary debate on the unauthorised landing of a chartered plane at the Waterkloof Air Force Base by Indian High Commissioner in South Africa Virendra Gupta has been moved forward.
Beijing, May 10 (IANS) China saw fast increase in foreign trade with emerging economies and developing countries last year, the country's ministry of commerce (MOC) said.
Panaji, May 9 (IANS) Children will be at the forefront of a campaign in South Goa district, which is aimed to make the area smoke-free, an official said Thursday.
Rio de Janeiro, May 9 (IANS/EFE) A group of scientists aboard a submarine capable of diving to depths of 6,500 meters discovered an "oasis" of biodiversity around the South Atlantic's largest undersea mountain, located off the coast of Brazil.
Seoul, May 8 (IANS) South Korea's money supply has continued to grow amid the central bank's accommodative monetary policy, data showed Wednesday.
New York, May 5 (ANI): South Korean phonemaker LG has been selected by Google to build the next Android reference device - Nexus 5.
Los Angeles, May 1 (IANS) Actor Colin Firth is in talks to join Emma Stone in Woody Allen's new film.
Los Angeles, April 30 (IANS) Actress Keira Knightley is reportedly going to wed musician fiance James Righton in South of France this weekend.
Johannesburg, Apr 30 (ANI): The ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have been criticised on the social media after new footage of former president Nelson Mandela was released clearly showing that he is ailing, despite the party's earlier assurances to the contrary.
Mumbai, April 15 (ANI-Business Wire India): South Asia's low broadband penetration and high mobile subscriber base creates an ideal setting for mobile network and infrastructure development.
Seoul, April 11 (IANS) Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea's central bank, Thursday cut its 2013 growth outlook to 2.6 percent from an earlier forecast of 2.8 percent.
Lima, April 10 (IANS/EFE) The Camisea consortium, which is producing natural gas from Peru's largest fields, said it paid $168.3 million in royalties to the government in the first quarter of this year.
London, Mar. 26 (ANI): Ryan Gosling and Charlize Theron are being considered by the movie bosses to star as Oscar Pistorius and his late model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a forthcoming biopic, according to reports.
Washington, Mar 21 (ANI): Ice from fast food restaurants is dirtier than toilet water, a school science project by a 12-year-old found.
Juba (South Sudan), March 21 (IANS) Two months ago, megastar George Clooney uncorked a signature tequila whose money will fund his pet project for South Sudan. "Casamigos" is the name he and co-investor Rande Gerber gave it, before launching a risque advert where Clooney was caught sleeping with Gerber's wife, the former supermodel Cindy Crawford.
Rio de Janeiro, March 14 (IANS) Brazil and Bolivia will play a friendly football match to honour a 14-year-old fan killed by a flare in a Copa Libertadores match last month.
Seoul, March 14 (IANS) South Korea's central bank Thursday kept its policy rate on hold at 2.75 percent, maintaining the wait-and-see stance for five straight months, media reports said.
Washington, Mar. 9 (ANI): The governor of South Dakota, Dennis Daugaard has signed a measure into law allowing the state's school districts to arm teachers and other personnel with guns, the first of its kind since the Connecticut school shooting.
London, Mar 1 (ANI): Championship club Sheffield Wednesday manager Dave Jones had a secret affair with a stunning net ball player, Sara-Louise Hale.
Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): The founders of Snapchat have been sued by their former classmate, who claims that he came up with the idea for an app that would 'automatically delete' messages.
Seoul, Feb 14 (IANS) Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea's central bank, froze its benchmark interest rate at 2.75 percent Thursday, maintaining a wait-and-see stance for four straight months.
Gaborone, Feb 12 (IANS) Australian miner Hodges Resources has announced it has approved feasibility phase studies for its Morupule South coal project in central east Botswana, with a start up of between two to three million tonnes per annum.
London, Feb 10 (IANS) A 24-year-old Briton has been charged with making threats to kill 200 schoolchildren in the US, a media report said Sunday.
Sydney, Jan 25 (IANS/EFE) A shale formation containing up to 233 billion barrels of petroleum was found in central Australia by Linc Energy, media reports said Thursday.
Sydney, Jan 23(ANI): Fit-again Australian fast bowler James Pattinson has been named in Victoria Bushrangers' Sheffield Shield clash with South Australia on Thursday in Adelaide.
Sydney, Jan 15(ANI): Legendary leg spinner Shane Warne has joined the likes of former Australian players Brett Lee, Ian Chappell and Michael Slater in slamming selectors' rotation policy, branding it as mind-boggling and ridiculous.
Johannesburg, Jan 11(ANI): AB de Villiers has claimed he is relishing the dream opportunity to keep wickets for South Africa alongside playing a central role as a batsman in the team.
Johannesburg, Jan 10(ANI): Kevin Pietersen has completed his comeback in the England team on Wednesday after he signed a full central contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
Maputo (Mozambique), Jan 8 (IANS) Eleven Pakistani sailors detained at a port in Mozambique for illegally docking their ship have been released after 21 days, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
London, Jan 8 (ANI): South Korean electronics maker Samsung has posted a record profit in the October to December quarter.
London, Jan 7 (ANI): Electronics giant LG has announced its plans to increase investment, in a bid to boost its market share in the wake of strong competition.
Dubai, Jan 5 (IANS/WAM) As many as 228 houses will be immediately delivered to citizens of Dubai as part of the 1,240-house project.
London, Jan 3 (IANS) A 100-foot letter E has been created by cutting hundreds of trees in a forest in Britain as a permanent tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her diamond jubilee year of 2012.
Melbourne, Dec. 29 (ANI): Madonna has built 10 primary schools in Malawi during 2012, her charity has announced.
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 25 (IANS) Italian giants Juventus are close to signing defender Doria from Brazilian football club Botafogo in a $10 million deal.
Miami, Dec 19 (IANS/EFE) Singer-songwriter Henry Santos is in the middle of preparing what will be his second post-Aventura album.
Johannesburg, Dec 18(ANI): The South Africa Football Association (SAFA) has suspended its president, Kirsten Nematandani, and four senior administrators after the release of a FIFA report on match fixing and also launched an inquiry in the matter.
Madurai, Dec 14 (ANI): Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court three days after being granted anticipatory bail in connection with the multi-crore granite scam by the Madras High Court.
Madurai, Dec 10 (ANI): The Madras High Court on Monday quashed a non-bailable arrest warrant against Union Minister M.K. Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi and granted him anticipatory bail in connection with the multi-crore granite scam.
Madurai, Dec 10 (ANI): The Madras High Court on Monday quashed a non-bailable arrest warrant against Union Minister M.K. Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi and granted him anticipatory bail in connection with the multi-crore granite scam.
London, Dec. 9 (ANI): Nearly 50 years after Nelson Mandela was first accused of being a Communist, a new book has claimed that he was a Communist party member after all.
Melbourne, Dec 7 (IANS) Melbourne Stars' Daniel Worrall will replace James Pattinson in the Melbourne Stars squad of Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket series, the Big Bash League.
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 6 (IANS) Dutch footballer Clarence Seedorf said he has no regrets about joining Brazilian club Botafogo, despite the team's failure to secure a place in next year's Copa Libertadores.
London, Nov 30 (ANI): A shocking video of a disfigured mystery girl shows her botched behind after her silicone implants apparently flipped inside out.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 30 (IANS) India can create adequate employment opportunities for its people and there is no need to invite foreign companies, social activist Anna Hazare said in Odisha Friday.
Perth, Nov 29 (IANS) Cricket Australia Thursday congratulated Ricky Ponting on his cricketing career, describing him as one of the best ever to pad up for his country.
Berlin, Nov 27 (IANS) SV Hamburg's Dutch international footballer Rafael van der Vaart will be sidelined for up to three weeks with a hamstring muscle injury, the German club said.
Sydney, Nov 26(ANI): Former Australian fast bowler Brett Lee believes too much emphasis on gaining weight during gym sessions is the major reason behind brawny fast bowlers like James Pattinson getting injured again and again.
Rio de Janeiro, Nov 24 (IANS) Sacked Brazil coach Mano Menezes has paid tribute to his former players after being told his services with the national team were no longer required.
Washington, November 21 (ANI): New work by a team of astronomers that has yielded exquisitely precise distances of a large sample of clusters may lead to breakthroughs in understanding the expansion history of our Universe and Dark Energy, one of the major puzzles in astronomy.
London, Nov 20 (ANI): Showcasing her seemingly natural brunette roots, Charlize Theron showed off her dramatic buzz cut as she enjoyed a lunch date with her mother, Gerda.
Sydney, Nov 20(ANI): Australia fast bowler James Pattinson has said world number one Test team South Africa paid the price for underestimating them during the Brisbane Test.
Sydney, Nov 17(ANI): Young Australia quick Mitchell Starc has said he is fit and ready to play in the second Test match against South Africa at Adelaide despite less exposure to the red ball of late.
Sydney, Nov 14(ANI): Australia vice-captain Shane Watson is in line to get selected for the second Test match against South Africa in Adelaide subject to fitness when the team is announced on Friday morning.
Rio De Janeiro, Nov 11 (IANS) Ricardo Gomes is reportedly set to return as coach of Brazilian top-flight football club Vasco da Gama, just over a year after undergoing emergency surgery following a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
Brisbane, Nov 8 (ANI): Australian captain Michael Clarke has said he won't finalise his playing XI for the first Test against South Africa at the Gabba before reassessing the pitch and weather on Friday morning.
Sydney, Nov. 6 (ANI): Australia's greatest paceman Dennis Lillee has urged cricket selectors to axe spinner Nathan Lyon from the squad and deploy four quicks, in a bid to rattle the Proteas in the first Test at the Gabba, starting on Friday.
Sydney, Nov 1 (ANI): Tasmanian pacer Ben Hilfenhaus will have to battle for a spot in the Australian squad with Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon for next week's Gabba Test against South Africa.
Sydney, Oct 31(ANI): Australian and Victorian quick Peter Siddle has said winning against the world's number Test team South Africa at The Gabba in Brisbane, which is also referred to as the home for fast bowlers, won't be an easy task.
London, Oct 30(ANI): England Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad has been named Test captain Alastair Cook's deputy for the India tour, which starts in Mumbai on October 30 with the opening three-day warm-up match.
Islamabad, Oct. 26 (ANI): After becoming the first Pakistani to go to both North and South Pole, and becoming the first South Asian to skydive over Mount Everest, 37-year-old Namira Salim is all set to become the first Pakistani to go into space, and hopes to make peace there.
Washington, October 24 (ANI): A team led by geochemists at the University of California, Riverside has challenged the simple notion of an up-only trend for early oxygen and provided the first compelling direct evidence for a major drop in oxygen after the first rise.
Colombo, Oct 23 (IANS) Empowering women to be confident farmers should be a priority of South Asian countries, an agricultural policy document released here Tuesday said.
Sydney, Oct 23 (ANI): Left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has said he is in better shape mentally and physically nowadays, and added that he is prepared to help the team beat South Africa in the first Test match at Gabba, Brisbane, starting from November 9, but also admitted he may not be picked by the selectors.
Sydney, Oct. 21 (ANI): Cricket NSW Chairman Dr Harry Harinath believes Cricket Australia needs to set guidelines regarding any restraint on Test players who would be competing for places in the Big Bash League franchises.
Sydney, Oct 17 (ANI): England pacer Stuart Broad has said his international teammates are ready to end their rift with Kevin Pietersen after agreeing to peace talks with the controversial batsman.
Seoul, Oct 11 (IANS) Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea's central bank, cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 2.75 percent Thursday, altering the policy rate once again in three months, to boost the Asia's No.4 economy amid worsening economic outlook.
Seoul, Oct 11 (IANS) Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea's central bank, cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 2.75 percent Thursday.
Moscow, Sep 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Anzhi Makhachkala striker Samuel Eto'o looks set to return to the Cameroon national side after a year of ugly disputes with the country's football authorities.
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 27 (IANS) Toonz Animation India Thursday signed an agreement with Los Angeles-based Lawless Entertainment as worldwide representative for licensing and merchandising "Paddy's Pages", a pre-school series, a company official informed.
Johannesburg, Sep 13(ANI): England won the third and final Twenty20 international against South Africa by 28 runs on Wednesday at Edgbaston to level the three match series 1-1 with one game getting washed away due to rains.
Seoul, Sept. 10 (Xinhua-ANI): The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) accepted South Korea's offer to provide emergency relief aid, local media reported Monday.
Johannesburg, Sep 10(ANI): England Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad has claimed his batsmen are well equipped to tackle quality spin bowling attacks during the upcoming T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka, starting from September 18.
Jakarta, Sep 5 (IANS) The Indonesian badminton association (PBSI) Wednesday slapped a four-month ban on the women's doubles pair involved in the Olympic match-throwing scandal.
London, Sep 1(ANI): The entire Cameroonian boxing team, which had gone AWOL since losing their matches at the Games, has been spotted taking part in a sparring session at a gym in South London.
Washington, September 1 (ANI): The Sun is capable of disrupting electrical systems on Earth in a variety of ways, from solar flares and coronal mass ejections to proton storms, a new study has claimed.
Sao Paulo, Aug 27 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's gasoline imports will rise a minimum of 354 percent by 2020 due to falling sugar-cane ethanol production, the media reported, citing a government study.
Quito, Aug. 19 (ANI): Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has said that he wanted a guarantee from Britain and Sweden that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to a third country.
Sydney, Aug 14(ANI): The Australian state of New South Wales is set to enact new laws on cheating in sports, which would see sportspersons receiving punishment of up to 10 years for various forms of corruption in sports like match fixing and race fixing.SW will be the first Australian jurisdiction to enact the laws, amid calls for state and federal governments to toughen their oversight of sport following allegations in the Herald last week of race fixing
New York, August 13 (ANI): Baseball star Alex Rodriguez has put his waterfront Miami mansion on the market with an asking price of a whopping 38 million dollars.
London, Aug 10 (IANS) Actress Kate Bosworth has revealed that she is engaged to filmmaker Michael Polish.
Washington, August 9 (ANI): Kat Bosworth subtly revealed that she got engaged to director Michael Polish in her blogpost about the couple's recent trip to South Korea.
Seoul, Aug 8 (IANS) South Korea's money supply grew 0.4 percent in June from a month earlier due to an increase in money market trust (MMT) and time deposits caused by risk-off sentiment, the central bank said Wednesday.
Seoul, Aug 7 (IANS) South Korea's foreign currency retail deposits grew $3.31 billion last month as more export proceeds were deposited in the foreign currency accounts amid a continued trade surplus, the central bank said Tuesday.
London, Aug 01 (ANI): A major controversy erupted at the London Olympics when the women's badminton competition turned into a sham at the Wembley Arena, as two pairs appeared to deliberately play poorly to lose their games.
London, Aug 1 (IANS) A mother of six children in Britain left a 53-year-old woman in a pool of blood after a brutal attack at a school's playground. She suspected that the lady's daughter was having an affair with her husband.
Washington, July 30 (ANI): Vincent van Gogh, whose paintings are among the most adored in the world and the story of his life and death is legendary, not have killed himself after all, new revelations have suggested.
London, July 28 (IANS) A woman, long believed to be dead, has stunned her family by tracing it out after 34 years with the help of Facebook!
Cape Town, July 25 (ANI): The South Africans are dominating the ICC Test rankings after beating England in the first Test as four of the top six batsmen, and three of the top six bowler feature in it.
Cape Town, July 18 (ANI): Former South Africa skipper Shaun Pollock has given Proteas pacers a slight edge over their English counterparts ahead of the first Test starting at The Oval on Thursday.
A new way to charge your phones and other devices through your T-shirts has been found out by the Scientists at the University of South Carolina.
Seoul, July 4 (Xinhua-ANI): The South Korean government is looking into the mismanagement of what would have been the first military pact with Japan since the end of the 1910-45 Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, local media reported Wednesday.
London, July 4 (ANI): Sir Alex Ferguson has handed Dimitar Berbatov a Manchester United lifeline by asking the striker to join the club's tour of South Africa and the Far East.
London, June 25 (ANI): A review of over 100 recent research articles has concluded that with continuing rise in CO2 and global warming, South Asia can expect generally more rainfall, due to the expected increase in atmospheric moisture, as well as more variability in rainfall.
Seoul (S. Korea), June 21 (Xinhua-ANI): Naval forces of South Korea, the United States and Japan on Thursday kicked off a trilateral joint drill in waters off South Korea's southern island of Jeju, the defense ministry said.
Seoul, June 8 (IANS) South Korea's central bank Friday froze its benchmark interest rate at 3.25 percent for June, leaving the 7-day repo rate unchanged for 12 straight months.
Sydney, June 3 (IANS) Scientists have developed a new generation of biosensors that can spot microscopic traces of contaminants in less than an hour.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has emphasised the importance of having a strong American naval presence in Asia.
