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Matthew McCanaughey still pals with his 1st lover

Matthew McCanaughey still pals with his 1st loverWashington, Apr 20 : Hollywood actor  is incredible, when it comes to staying tough with his exes, as he still is in touch with the girl he fell in love with when he was just 4 years old.

The Ed TV actor revealed that he is still in talking terms with his 1st lover Julliane and she is happily married.

"Julianne was a little faster than me; she was five. Julianne is good; I know her. My mother still talks with her mother and she''s back there in south Texas, happily married," Contactmusic quoted Matthew, as saying.

Three injured in bus bombing in southern Philippines

Broadcast journalist killed in southern PhilippinesCotabato City, Philippines - Three people were injured Monday when a bomb exploded inside a passenger bus in the southern Philippines, a regional military spokesman said.

Major Randolph Cabangbang said the explosion occurred while the Rural Transit Inc passenger bus was traveling on a highway in Kabacan town in North Cotabato province, 960 kilometres south of Manila.

Cabangbang said three bus passengers were injured in the blast and were treated in a nearby hospital.

Global Fund faces 4-billion-dollar budget shortfall next year

HIV/AIDS, Bangkok - Global Fund - the main multilateral donor for health programs combatting HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - is facing a 4-billion-dollar budget shortfall next year, the fund's executive director said Monday.

"We are facing a financial crisis," Global Fund executive director Michel Kazatchkine said. "We estimate our funding gap in 2010 to be somewhere around 4 billion."

Recession-hit Hollywood movie bosses to remake 80s classics

Recession-hit Hollywood movie bosses to remake 80s classicsLondon, Apr 20 : With recession taking its toll on many industries, Hollywood movie bosses have decided that the best way to make money is by remaking a number of the 80s classics.

Movies like `Robocop', `Romancing The Stone', `Footloose' and `The Karate Kid' are slated to go into production in the next few months, to be followed by Dudley Moore's 1981 comedy `Arthur', `Ghostbusters', `Nightmare on Elm Street' and `Clash of the Titans'.

60 companies in polluted Hong Kong sign up for carbon reduction

low-carbon lifestylesHong Kong - Sixty companies in energy-hungry Hong Kong have signed up for a programme to promote low-carbon lifestyles, a environmental conference heard Monday.

The government-backed campaign run by environment activists the Climate Group aims to find ways to lower high-rise Hong Kong's carbon footprint, which is reckoned to be one of the world's biggest.

Speaking at the launch of the one-year campaign Monday, environment secretary Edward Yau appealed to businesses and individuals to help make it a success.

New method opens door for highly sensitive biosensors and fast photodetectors

Washington, April 20 : An international team of scientists has reported an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology, which opens the door for antenna-based applications, including highly sensitive biosensors and extremely fast photodetectors.

These applications could play an important role in future biomedical diagnostics and information processing.

An antenna is a device designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic waves.

Radio frequency antennas find wide use in systems such as radio and television broadcasting, point-to-point radio communication, wireless LAN, radar, and space exploration.

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