London, Oct 25: North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country has said.
Thai law professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, in a report to the UN General Assembly, said that its government is using public executions as a means of intimidating the population, and using spies to infiltrate and expose religious communities, The Times reported.
His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the country’s worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago.
Washington, Oct 25 : State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber”.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon on October 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with his rival Democrat Barack Obama.
Washington, Oct 25 : A research into excavated pagan Viking burials has provided new revelations into the way the early Norse led their lives and their attitude towards mortality.
According to a report by Media Newswire, the research was led by Professor Neil Price, Chair of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, who explored thousands of excavated graves known from the Viking world, which revealed that no two of these burial monuments were the same.
The research also showed that Viking funerals involved complex elements of mortuary theatre – ritual plays which were literally performed at the graveside.
Melbourne, October 25: Guy Ritchie has apparently claimed that his marriage to Madonna took the tumble when the singer began scheduling their sex life in her diary, adjusting it after her workout sessions.
The 40-year-old reportedly revealed that Madonna regulated her life with such a strict routine that she had even started planning their private moments well in advance.
London, Oct 25 : Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has been tipped to play the role of Egyptian queen Cleopatra in a 30million-dollar, three-dimensional Hollywood musical.
A Variety magazine report describes the film, Cleo, as a “3-D live action rock ‘n’ roll musical”, the Independent reported.
It will be directed by Steven Soderbergh, and Aussie actor Hugh Jackman, who starred in X-Men, is in negotiations to play her Roman lover, Mark Antony.
The musical score for the film is being composed by rock band ‘Guided by Voices’, and its former bass player, James Greer, is said to have written the script.
Washington, Oct 25 : State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber”.
Melbourne, October 25: Guy Ritchie has apparently claimed that his marriage to Madonna took the tumble when the singer began scheduling their sex life in her diary, adjusting it after her workout sessions.
Washington, October 25: Michael Jackson
