London, Nov 1: The biggest dog in Britain has been put on a crash diet, after vets decided that the 20st giant was too heavy to undergo a life-saving operation to repair a ruptured cruciate ligament in his left hind leg.

Standing tall at 6ft 6in on his hind legs, Samson has ruptured a cruciate ligament in his left hind leg.

And now, his owners Ray and Julie Woods, from Wyberton, Lincolnshire, have forcefully postponed his 1,400 dollars surgery till the time the canine loses some weight.

According to vets, if Samson fails to reduce waist, he will not recover properly, and may never be able to walk again.

Whenever a film dealing with a social message releases, it becomes a ‘style icon’ to have special screening for political stalwarts.

In the past, films including ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and ‘A Wednesday’ were screened for politicians like Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh.

Now the latest film to have such a screening is Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’. The film will be screened for Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit on Sunday November 2nd in Delhi.

Washington, Nov 1: After seeing sister Solange go through ‘sweet’ troubles while looking after her children, singer Beyonce Knowles says she has no plans of becoming a mum in the next three years.

The ‘Baby Boy’ singer had earlier claimed that the three things she''d like to cross off her wish list by the time she was 30 were – winning an Oscar, getting married and becoming a mum.

However, now 27-year-old singer, who wed rapper Jay-Z in April this year, doesn’t want to have kids at least for the next three years.

Washington, Nov 1: The press is struggling with flagging public opinion this election season, according to a survey released on Friday by Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership.

Almost two-thirds of the respondents don’t trust press coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign; 89 percent said journalists focus too much on “trivial issues”; and 77 percent think that the press is politically biased.

Washington, Nov 1: Parents who smoke are likely to have impulsive kids, says a new study.

The new study led by researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has found that children of parents who smoke are likely to share a tendency to act impulsively, a trait that could be linked to a decision to become a smoker.

Lead researcher Brady Reynolds focused his study on the connection between smoking and impulsivity, or more specifically, delay discounting.

Kabul - Two army soldiers were killed in a roadside attack in southern Afghanistan, while 25 Taliban fighters including a female militant were killed in fight with Afghan and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Saturday.

The two Afghan soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb blast in the Yakhchal area of Gerishk district in southern Helmand province on Friday, the Afghan defence ministry said in a statement.