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Sydney, Jan 11: South Africa captain Graeme Smith believes New Zealand's chances of making a strong comeback in the remaining matches of their ongoing Test series depends on them completely ignoring the criticism from back home.

Approaching his 10th anniversary of being appointed Proteas Test captain and with a sense of fulfilment at seeing them develop into the world''s top-ranked team, Smith has faced his own challenges in his long leadership career, News. com. au reports.

One of India' leading software services provider, Infosys Ltd has recorded a stronger than expected net profits for the third quarter of the current financial year.

The Bangalore-based company said that its profit during the third quarter till December 31 was at 23.69 billion rupees compared to 23.7 billion rupees recorded in the same quarter of the previous year. A Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S survey had predicted a net profit of 21 billion rupees. During the quarter, its revenue rose 12 percent to 104.24 billion rupees from 93 billion a year earlier.

Washington, Jan. 11 : Justin Bieber's bodyguard has sued the teen idol for 421,261 dollars in unpaid overtime, vacation and other wage benefits.

Moshe Benabou's lawsuit claims that the 18-year-old singer also berated him and repeatedly punched him in his chest in October, after a disagreement between the two about how to handle a member of his entourage, Fox New reported.

The lawsuit also claimed that after Benabou walked away, Bieber fired him.

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Los Angeles, Jan 11 : Actress Megan Fox has quit micro-blogging site Twitter just a week after joining it.

She was a victim of an online death hoax that started Jan 3, when "RIP Megan Fox" became a trending topic on the site, reports contactmusic. com.

The actress came online a few hours later and posted: "I am incredibly late to the party but I am here nonetheless, so what now?".

She continued to post on the site and picked up more than 250,000 followers, but suspended her account Thursday.

Washington, Jan 11 : The upcoming second inauguration of US President Barack Obama, scheduled for Jan 21, has created a frenzied grab-fest of luxury hotel rooms and exclusive tickets that is driving prices far beyond their face value.

"Everyone wants the tickets but they all want to haggle, and at this point I can haggle for more than I was asking to start with," said one man who posted an ad on the Craigslist classified website offering two seats to the swearing-in ceremony at the US Capitol for $4,000.