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U. S. crude oil futures ended higher on Wednesday, climbing back above $71 a barrel in late trading, as government data showed a higher-than-expected drawdown in crude stocks last week and weak dollar also supported the crude prices.

New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures tracked Crude oil and rose proportionately higher than crude oil. It rose by 3.57 and 3.05 percent respectively on MCX and NYMEX.

Base metals remained choppy on Wednesday. Copper, Zinc and lead settled lower than their previous close on LME while Nickel and Aluminium ended higher taking support from the weakening of dollar against the Euro. The CPI data released was found to be less than expected, raising the demand concerns and acted as a deterrent to the metals prices.

Nickel gained almost 2.20 percent while Aluminium rose by 1.55 percent on LME. However, Nickel and Aluminium rose by 0.21 percent and 2.31 percent respectively on MCX.

London, June 18 : Usher reportedly filed for divorce from his stylist wife Tameka Foster after he fell for a record executive 12 years his senior.

The ''Yeah!'' hitmaker, filed divorce papers in his native Atlanta, Georgia, on June 12, revealing that he had been living apart from his wife of almost two years since last July.

Court papers reveal that there was "no reasonable hope of reconciliation".

And now, the National Enquirer has claimed that the RnB superstar, finally decided to pull the plug on his marriage after finding love with 42-year-old Def Jam executive Grace Miguel.

Precious metals ended higher on Wednesday after reversing initial losses as investors followed a drop in dollar against the Euro and higher crude oil prices, and as new precious metals investment funds spurred fresh buying.

Gold futures rose by nearly $3.8 or 0.41 percent and settled at $936 an ounce on COMEX while Silver futures gained over a percent on COMEX. However, Gold and Silver gained 0.41 percent and 0.72 percent respectively on MCX.

Washington, June 18 : Fascinated by the working of the human eye, computer scientists at Boston College (BC) have developed a new technique that allows computers to see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with almost double the accuracy and 10 times the speed of earlier methods.

The novel linear solution has direct applications in the fields of action and object recognition, surveillance, wide-base stereomicroscopy and three-dimensional shape reconstruction.

London, June 18 : Irish cops are investigating a chilling case of suspected incest in which seven children were raped by their parents and forced to have sex with each other.

Officers are probing the "Irish Fritzl" couple amid claims that the mother gave birth to a child fathered by one of her sons.

The terrified kids - aged between one and 13 - told investigators they were raped and brutally assaulted by their father and mother in their west of Ireland home, reports The Sun.