Islamabad, Nov 25 : International relief organization Oxfam and its allies of the “We Can Campaign” have reportedly planned 1000 events across Pakistan at district level to mark the ‘International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women’.

Spread over 127 days from November 25, 2008, the 1000 events will include seminars, rallies, fun fairs, interactive dialogues and meetings with community members, theatrical performances, debates in educational institutions and much more, reported the Daily Times.

The events would take place in districts where the incidence of gender-based violence is high, added the paper.

London, Nov 25 : Aussie actor Hugh Jackman’s wife Deborra-Lee caught him in the middle of getting oral sex from actress Halle Berry while on the set of the movie ‘Swordfish’.

Deborra-Lee had just walked in while he was filming the explicit sex act with Berry.

Though it was an awkward occasion, Jackman revealed that the way his wife handled the situation enabled him to do other saucy scenes in front of her.

London, Nov 25 : Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte''s romantic novel, is about to get a Bollywood makeover.

The acclaimed writer Deepak Verma has put the finishing touches to a musical version of the novel, which is set in the wilds of the Yorkshire moors, transposing the quintessentially Yorkshire love tale to the deserts of Rajasthan and swapping Victorian snobbery for India''s strict caste system.

Wuthering Heights talks of the tempestuous love affair between Heathcliff and Catherine.

Verma and the Tamasha theatre company are collaborating on the project, which will debut at the Oldham Coliseum next March before touring Britain.

New Delhi, Nov. 25 : Terrorism, counterfeit currency, drug -trafficking, exchange of prisoners and visa regime will be high on the agenda at the fifth round of Home Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan to be held in Islamabad today.

The talks are part of the on-going composite dialogue process between both nations. These talks will be held in the backdrop of the recently initiated cross-LoC trade which is being seen as a big step towards bringing both countries closer.

London, Nov 25 : A new report by a high-level panel of experts has praised the idea of sending NASA astronauts to visit a nearby asteroid.

According to New Scientist, the US National Research Council (NRC) report, titled “Launching Science: Science Opportunities Provided by NASA’s Constellation System,” was written by a committee chaired by George Paulikas, a retired executive for the Aerospace Corporation, a think tank based in El Segundo, California.

The report has high praise for a proposal to send astronauts to a nearby asteroid, or near-Earth object (NEO).

Here’s some relief for controversial Aussie cricketer Andrew Symonds. A hotel manager has backed the all-rounder denial that he motivated a physical dispute while drinking on Sunday night.

Commenting over Symmo involvement in this case, manager of the Normanby Hotel, Mark Lassman said, “This is one situation that neither got out of hand, nor was Andrew's or the hotel's fault. Andrew did nothing wrong and it's disappointing it's been reported in an ambiguous manner."