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Los Angeles: A controversial artist has decided against using the leaked nude images of stars including actress Jennifer Lawrence and model Kate Upton as part of a new exhibit due to a public uproar.

Xvala courted controversy last week by announcing plans to display the explicit images as part of his upcoming No Delete show at the Cory Allen Contemporary Art (Caca) gallery in St Petersburg, Florida.

But both Xvala and arthouse bosses have since had a change of heart after becoming aware of online petitions urging them not to include the hacked snaps in the show, reported Ace Showbiz.

Granada, Spain: Gagan Narang missed out on an Olympic quota by just one place as he finished sixth in the finals of 50-metre rifle prone while Prakash Nanjappa and Jitu Rai narrowly missed out on finals of men's 10-metre air pistol in the 51st Shooting World Championships here on Thursday.

After coming through the tough qualifying, Narang could total only 124.2 by the time the top 5, including the three medallists, were decided in the finals. Five Olympic quotas were on offer in the event.

Another Indian, Hariom Singh, could not make it to the finals after finishing 45th in the qualifying.

Beijing: The number of billionaires in China has touched 300 by the end of 2013 mainly due to real estate boom, according to a new annual ranking of the wealthiest individuals in the communist nation, world's second largest economy.

The personal fortunes of 300 Chinese topped 10 billion yuan (USD 1.6 billion) in 2013, a new annual ranking of the wealthiest individuals by the Hurun Report of "China Rich List," said.

The wealth of 160 of the multi-billionaires is in the form of invisible assets, the report said.

It also counted 8,300 Chinese with wealth reaching one billion yuan, 200 more than a year earlier.

Washington, Sep 11 : Astrophysicists are trying to shed light on how thousand variants of chemical elements were produced in the early universe.

In the beginning, all was hydrogen and helium, plus a bit of lithium, three elements in all. Today's universe, however, has nearly a hundred naturally occurring elements, with thousands of variants (isotopes), and more likely to come.

ASU astrophysicists will study how massive stars, such as Eta Carinae, evolve and eventually seed the universe with heavy elements created by nuclear reactions inside them.

Johannesburg, Sept 11 : Serena Williams' made her New York Fashion Week runway debut recently, which was attended by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

The 32-year-old Tennis ace, who recently claimed her 3rd US Open title, beamingly said that Wintour's presence meant a lot since she was the "fashion's queen," and she hoped the fashion expert enjoyed the show, News24. com reported.

New Delhi, Sept 11 : Priyanka Chopra, who attended an event organized by Usha