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Angelina Jolie confesses censoring intimate photoshoot with Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt and Angelina JolieLondon, Nov 11 : American actress Angelina Jolie has confessed that she had to censor an intimate photo shoot with actor Brad Pitt.

Pitt, 44, had taken pictures of Jolie, 33, after she gave birth to their twins, for a US magazine, and the snaps had included a picture of his wife breastfeeding.

“We’d look at the pictures as art and say: ‘This is a really interesting photograph’, but then we’d know better and think about how it was going to be received,” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.

Thinking that others would not perceive the pictures as art, the couple decided to tone them down.

Continued uncertainty over Mark van Bommel's Bayern Munich future

Bayern MunichHamburg - Bayern Munich's Bundesliga title chances are growing in the same way as the uncertainty about the future of captain Mark van Bommel at the club.

The Bild daily reiterated on Tuesday that van Bommel could be leaving when his contract expires after the season.

Talks between the Dutch midfielder and the club are set for December, but Kicker sports magazine also suggested this week that "the tendency at the club is towards departure."

Efron, Hudgens face screaming fans at High School Musical 3 premiere

Vanessa HudgensMelbourne, Nov 11 : American actors Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale faced a huge turn out of screaming fans as they made their way down the red carpet at the premiere of ‘High School Musical 3’.

There were more than 1500 screaming fans present at Sydney''s George St cinema precinct.

Some people had arrived at the venue at about 8am to get a front row view, hoping to get an autograph, a photo or just to catch a glimpse of the Disney stars.

“It’s fantastic ... amazing,” the Daily Telegraph quoted Efron as having said of the crowd reaction.

Akon wants to play Bond with Lewis Hamilton’s gal as his Bond babe!

Lewis Hamilton, Nicole ScherzingerLondon, Nov 11  Hip hop and R&B singer Akon has revealed that he would borrow F1 champ Lewis Hamilton’s girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger if he ever gets a chance to play James Bond.

Akon is determined to play the secret agent even if he is never offered the role, and he also knows that he would not hesitate to pick ‘Pussycat Dolls’ stunner Scherzinger as his love interest.

“My ideal Bond girl would be Nicole. I think she’d be perfect,” the Sun quoted him a saying.

Delay hits trial of former Turkish minister accused of mafia links

Turkey FlagAnkara - More than 12 years after a traffic accident in western Turkey exposed links between the Turkish mafia, police and politicians, the trial of the then interior minister was set to get underway in Ankara on Tuesday, but the court decided that another court should try the case, the Anadolu news agency reported.

Former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar was implicated in ties with Turkish mafia boss Abdullah Catli with prosecutors claiming that Agar had protected Catli, a figure wanted by the police for a number of murders, and had even signed Catli's gun licence.

Nasheed sworn in as Maldives' new President

Mohamed NasheedMale, Nov 11 : Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner who defeated Asia's longest-serving ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, in the first multiparty election in the Maldives, today assumed the office of President of the Maldives

Nasheed, 41, took his oath of office in the presence of host of dignitaries, including Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari at a ceremony here.

Nasheed defeated Gayoom, who had led the nation for 30 years in a Presidential run-off on October 28.

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