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Sienna Miller gets £35,000 breach of privacy compensation from tabloids

sienna millerLondon, Nov 11 : Sienna Miller has received 35,000 pounds in damages from two tabloid newspapers after they agreed over claims they had breached her privacy.

The actress had sued the Sun and News of the World over a series of what her lawyer said were intrusive articles and photos published in June and July, reports the Independent.

A series of features and pictures appeared in both titles and included coverage of the actor''s alleged relationship with multimillionaire American actor Balthazar Getty soon after breaking off a relationship with Welsh actor Rhys Ifans.

Study: Grape Seeds Can Prevent Alzheimer’s

Indian-origin researcher’s ‘nanobombs’ can explode cancer

Indian-origin researcher’s ‘nanobombs’ can explode cancerLondon, November 11 : An Indian-origin researcher in America says that tube-like carbon nano-particles can be used to explode cancer.

Balaji Panchapakesan at the University of Delaware, Newark, proposes the idea of filling carbon nanotubes with water before injecting them into a tumour.

He says that zapping the cancerous area with laser light at a later stage will cause the water to boil, and the tremendous pressure by the heating will trigger the "nanobombs" to burst apart, thereby killing nearby cells.

Cutting off terrorist financing a success, but getting lax: Report

Washington, Nov. 11: Two former U. S. Treasury Department officials have come out with a report that suggests that the international system for tracking and cutting off terrorist financing has achieved major successes, but warn that in recent times, a laxity in this endeavour is creeping in.

According to Matthew Levitt and Michael Jacobson, authors of "The Money Trail," U. N. countries have frozen the assets of some 300 al-Qaida and Taliban members after
9/11, and added that by early 2004, 112 countries had ratified an international effort to suppress terrorist financing.

Six Pakistanis in Guantanamo prison

Six Pakistanis in Guantanamo prisonIslamabad, Nov 11: There are six Pakistani nationals lodged in the Guantanamo bay detention camp, the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi informed the National Assembly last evening.

Earlier, on October 31, the Foreign Office had stated that there were five Pakistanis in the US prison.

Nearly half of Britons can’t use the apostrophe properly

London, Nov 11: The apostrophe has emerged as the punctuation mark, which causes most problems for Britons, according to a new survey.

The survey of nearly 2,000 UK adults revealed that almost half were unable to use the apostrophe properly.

The most common mistake was not knowing how to punctuate a possessive plural.

The test, set by the SpinVox speech technology company, revealed that 46 percent of those who sat it thought that, in the context set, "people''s choice" was wrong - whereas it is correct.

The adults were also asked which mistake most annoyed good punctuators.

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