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Posh wants to shed ‘miserable’ tag for fashion success

Posh wants to shed ‘miserable’ tag for fashion successLondon, Apr 6 : Victoria Beckham has had too much of her image as pouting Posh, and she now wants to get rid of her "miserable" tag, so that her fashion label doesn't get affected.

The former `Spice Girls' star has claimed that her snobbish image could foil her bid for fashion stardom.

"Everyone thinks that I'm a miserable bitch who goes shopping every day," the Daily Star quoted her as telling a New York fashion magazine.

Macca, Ringo Starr reunite for meditation charity concert

Macca, Ringo Starr reunite for meditation charity concertLondon, Apr 6 : Former `The Beatles' members Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited for a concert on April 4, to raise money for a meditation charity.

McCartney headlined the show at New York City''s Radio City Music Hall as part of The David Lynch Foundation's `Change Begins Within' concert in aid of Transcendental Meditation.

Both stars became avid meditators in 1967 after The Beatles'' trip to India, where they sought spiritual guidance from guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Guard at Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady’s wedding shoots at photogs

Guard at Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady’s wedding shoots at photogsLondon, Apr 6 : Two paparazzi photographers have accused a security guard placed at supermodel Gisele Bundchen and footballer Tom Brady's wedding of shooting at them, while the couple exchanged wedding vows in Costa Rica.

According to the Boston Herald, photographer Yuri Cortez has filed a complaint with the police over the alleged incident.

The incident took place after the security guards spotted two paparazzi taking photographs of the nuptials from a bush.

Bin Laden can easily pass off as Winona Ryder in UK airport scanners!

Bin Laden can easily pass off as Winona Ryder in UK airport scanners!London, Apr. 6: A leaked British Government memo has revealed that airport scanners in the country have been recalibrated to such an "unacceptable" level, that they can’t differentiate between Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Hollywood actress Winona Ryder.

The faces shown on the scanner have only a 30 per cent likeness to photographs appearing on a passenger’s passport, reports The Telegraph.

How scratching curbs itching

How scratching curbs itchingLondon, Apr 6: Itching brings with it that ever-increasing urge to scratch, which always works wonders, but not much is known about the physiological mechanisms behind this phenomenon.

University of Minnesota scientists have found that nerve cells play a key role in soothing that tingling sensation.

The researchers have shown that scratching helps relieve an itch by blocking activity in some spinal cord nerve cells that transmit the sensation to the brain.

However, the above-mentioned phenomenon only works during itchiness because scratching at other times doesn’t make much of a difference.

Buy Charles Dickens' ‘Bleak House’ for £2M

Buy Charles Dickens' ‘Bleak House’ for £2MLondon, April 6: Victorian novelist Charles Dickens’s former home Bleak House in Broadstairs, Kent, is up for sale.

The cliff top building, which has six bedrooms, is being sold for two million pounds.

It went on the market with estate agent Terence Painter Properties.

The fort-like building is the same house where Dickens wrote one of his most famous novels David Copperfield.

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