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Soha Ali Khan may be belonging to the Royal Pataudi family but when it comes to style statements she is a simple girl at heart.

“I am very habitual kind of person so for me I love my brown bag and brown chappals. I just can’t do without them. As for colours I am allergic to Orange colour so I hate the colour. I can’t eat foods that are orange in colour right from carrots, mangoes, papaya and oranges.

Since last few days Mumbai tabloids have been carrying reports about how a miffed Katrina Kaif has walked out of Sanjay Gadhvi’s 7 Days in Paris because of her to be co-star Imran Khan’s constant interference in the scripting. We caught up with Katrina at the New York press meet where she cleared air about this so called controversy.

Johannesburg - The ruling body FIFA will look at addressing the deafening noise caused by South African fans blowing vuvuzelas at the Confederations Cup before the country hosts the 2010 World Cup finals.

"There will be discussions between FIFA and the Local Organizing Committee about the vuvuzelas but this won't happen until after the Confederations Cup," FIFA spokesman Nicholas Maingot said Thursday in Johannesburg.

Brussels - European Union fears that a new gas row between Russia and Ukraine could come as early as July reached the highest levels Thursday, as EU leaders planned to discuss them at a summit in Brussels.

"In July this will become a real problem: Ukraine will have no money to pay for gas for storage. (The summit) is the last opportunity to give guidance to the European Commission on what to do," a top politician from an EU member state said ahead of the summit.

London - Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher will have to undergo an operation to insert a pin into her broken upper arm following a fall, her spokesman said Thursday.

The 83-year-old former "Iron Lady" was admitted to London's Chelsea & Westminster hospital last Friday, where doctors have now found that the injury she sustained is not healing as quickly as they would like.

New Delhi - A dreaded Indian bandit was shot dead in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh Thursday after a 50-hour gunbattle with over 400 armed police that saw four policemen killed, a news report said.

Ghanshyam Kewat, armed with rifles and hand-grenades, was hiding in a house in a village in the Chitrakoot region, some 280 kilometres south of state capital Lucknow when police teams surrounded him on Tuesday night, the PTI news agency reported.