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London, June 22 : After lifting this year's Twenty20 World Cup at Lord''s, Pakistan's triumphant captain Younus Khan made an emotional appeal to all teams to tour his turbulent nation in a bid to revive cricket in the sports mad country.

"I think it (the win) was a gift for all our nation. Everybody must come to Pakistan, we need a home test series. How can we attract the youngsters? Players must come to Pakistan," Sky News quoted Khan, as saying.

Mumbai, 20th June, 2009 — Bridgestone, the world’s no. 1 Tyre & Rubber manufacturers, launches the India chapter of safety campaign titled ‘Think Before You Drive’, as part of its continued efforts towards road safety. ‘Think Before You Drive Campaign’ is a worldwide initiative by Bridgestone which pursues road safety initiatives for the future, emphasizing the company’s commitment to safety and contributing to the global goal of reducing the number of road deaths and casualties.

London, June 22 : In a new research, scientists have found that the way Great white sharks hunt their preys is quite similar to the methods used by serial killers to stalk their victims.

According to a report in The Times, using methods pioneered by criminologists, researchers have discovered that the world's largest predatory fish targets prey in a highly focused way linked to the areas it knows best.

The scientists adapted geographic profiling, a mathematical technique used to track down serial killers and rapists, to investigate the hunting habits of great whites.

London, June 22 : Madonna is reportedly looking to cocoon her newly adopted daughter from the world after the tot joined her new mum in London.

Little Mercy James was apparently flown 6,000 miles from Malawi to meet her new family after the singer won the child's custody two weeks ago.

The four-year-old was whisked to Madonna's luxury home where she joined her new siblings Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight and adopted David, three.

Recently there was a news piece making the rounds that for her upcoming film 'Morning Walk', Sharmila Tagore insisted on designing her own wardrobe. She did so in order to go with her character in the film and hence went out of her way to source Baluchari and Daccai sarees from West Bengal.

However, the official costume designer of 'Morning Walk', Gurpreet Virk (for whom this is her maiden venture) has a different story to tell. "It's untrue that Sharmilaji sourced sarees from outside. In fact not even one saree used in the film was designed by her", says the young woman in a hurt tone.

London, June 22 : Silvio Berlusconi has been dragged into further controversy after another woman claimed that she was paid to attend the Italian Prime Minister's parties.

Model Barbara Montereale said that Berlusconi gave her 10,000 euros "as a present" after attending one of his parties at Villa Certosa.

She was also paid an attendance fee of 1,000 euros from a hostess service, allegedly operated by a local businessman named Giampaolo Tarantini.

Patrizia D'Addario, an escort girl and a former actress, had revealed last week that 72-year-old Berlusconi bedded her in November 2008.