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Johannesburg, June 18 : A research undertaken by South Africa's Medical Research Council (MRC) has exposed the country''s widespread culture of sexual violence.

The study has revealed that one in four men in the country have admitted to rape and many have attacked more than one victim.

It found that three out of four rapists first attacked while still in their teens, while one in 20 men said they had raped a woman or girl in the last year.

Realism has never been more in demand. And Sanjay Dutt who until recently was doing mainly fantasy is now on the realistic route. He’ll soon start Raj Kumar Santoshi’s film set during the Partition. Dutt also plays a real-life cop in Rahul Dholakia’s Lamhaa set at the heart of Kashmiri militancy.

And now Sanjay Dutt will take time off to play a real-realife cop who waged a fierce battle against terrorism in Punjab at the peak of Khalistan movement.

London, June 18 : Tennis star Andy Roddick is best mates with a taxi driver he met by chance, and therefore, when he says he loves Wimbledon, it comes as no surprise.

Taxi driver, Stephen Little, was even invited to Texas in April for Roddick''s high-profile wedding with model Brooklyn Decker.

The music album ‘Naav Maaza Shaami’’ is introducing a new voice Radha Mangeshkar. Her Last name precisely hints her belonging to the biggest musical family in the film industry. She is the niece of melody queen Lata Mangeshkar and daughter of Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar. Radha is the 3rd generation of Mangeshkar gharana into singing. Her debut album comprises of marathi folk songs. Legendary marathi poet ND Manohar, Sudhir Moghe and Late BB Borkar have written the lyrics of the songs. Her father who is also her guru have composed the music.

London - Fred Goodwin, the British banker whose massive pension entitlement made him the "ugly face" of the banking crisis, has agreed to cut his annual pension payments by 200,000 pounds (324,000 dollars), the BBC reported Thursday.

Goodwin, 50, the former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland, will still be able to draw on 350,000 pounds a year from his pension.

His offer to cut his pension claim came under a threat of legal action from RBS, said the report.

United States, June 18: The Obama administration is faced with a twin dilemma vis-a-vis the unrest in Iran - To keep quiet to pursue a nuclear deal with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country''s supreme leader, or heed calls to respond more supportively to the protesters there -- and risk alienating the Shiite cleric.