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Seoul  - The health of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il is getting worse, a news report said on Friday.

Representatives of the Ponghwa hospital in Pyongyang are attempting to obtain expensive medical equipment via China, the South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo said citing North Korean informants in Beijing.

The Ponghwa hospital treats the 67-year-old dictator.

"Kim seems to be in a serious condition," the source said.

Washington, Jun 19 : Brit actor Orlando Bloom has managed to do his bit for charity after he auctioned himself off for a dinner date for 9000 pounds.

Bloom, 32, who is rumoured to be engaged to Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr, auctioned off a dinner date at a star-studded charity bash for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital on June 17, reports Contactmusic.

London, June 19 : British number one tennis player Andy Murray has reportedly bought a new 5.45 million pound house having a triple garage, a cinema and a Jacuzzi, but no tennis court.

Murray, 22, is to move from his riverside apartment in Wandsworth, south London, for the Regency home in Surrey.

He is expected to share the home with his girlfriend, Kim Sears, 21, an English student at Sussex University, The Telegraph reports.

New York, June 19 : Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt-the reel life-turned-real life couple on `The Hills'-have said that they want Heidi's sister Holly to get into a relationship with fellow `I'm a Celebrity. Get Me Out Of Here' contestant Sanjaya Malakar.

Spencer and Heidi, who like to call themselves "Speidi", have said that they want the duo to take their flirting to the next level.

New Delhi  - The Indian government Friday asked Maoist guerrillas who seized control of a region in the eastern state of West Bengal to lay down their arms and come for talks as troops closed in on the area.

Over 1,500 state police and paramilitary soldiers were only kilometres from Lalgarh town and its adjoining cluster of villages which Maoists and tribal villagers claimed to have "liberated" earlier this week.

Islamabad, June 19 : Top cleric and rector of the Darul Uloom Waqf (Deoband), Maulana Salim Qasimi, has denounced the Taliban for its unIslamic viewpoints and actions, saying that the banned outfit does not qualify for any affiliation with Jama’at Deoband.

“It is totally against Islam to blow up the barber shops, education organizations and tombs,” said Qasimi.

He added that the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan was ‘unIslamic’.