Tokyo - Asia-Pacific stocks ended the week mixed as Wall Street's overnight plunge prompted investors to sell but interest-rate cuts in some markets led to afternoon recoveries.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 3.55 per cent on Toyota Motor Corp's sharp cut in its earnings forecast for this fiscal year, but South Korean and Hong stocks took big jumps on the rate cuts.
The Nikkei was the region's big loser as it shed 316.14 points to close at 8,583 but still managed to end the week up 0.07 per cent.
Washington, Nov 7: Hannah Montana actress Miley Cyrus used to clean toilets before becoming famous.
Cyrus, who made 18.2 million dollars last year, revealed on the Tyra Banks Show that she was eleven when she worked as a cleaner at a place called ‘Sparkles’ and cleaned houses.
"I had one normal job and I actually liked it," US magazine quoted Miley, as saying.
"I worked at this place called Sparkles Cleaning Service and I cleaned houses. I was, like, 11 ... I can scrub a toilet,” she added.
Washington, Nov 7: A new study has suggested that the distribution of sunlight, rather than the size of North American ice sheets, is the key variable in changes in the North Atlantic deep-water formation during the last four glacial cycles.
The study, by Lorraine Lisiecki, assistant professor in the Department of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her team, goes back 425,000 years.
London, Nov 7 : After Daniel Craig backed the idea of a black James Bond following Barack Obama’s win, BBC bosses are in talks with Hollywood actor Colin Salmon to cast actor Colin Salmon to be the first black Doctor Who.
Colin, who has appeared in Bond flicks earlier as M’s assistant in three 007 flicks, will replace David Tenant in ‘Dr Who’.
“He made a good impression when he appeared and bosses think the time is right to have the first black Doctor,” The Sun quoted BBC spokesman, as saying.
Colin was earlier tipped as the next Bond before it went to Daniel Craig.
Tokyo - Asia-Pacific stocks ended the week mixed as Wall Street's overnight plunge prompted investors to sell but interest-rate cuts in some markets led to afternoon recoveries.
Washington, Nov 7: Hannah Montana actress Miley Cyrus used to clean toilets before becoming famous.
Washington, Nov 7: A new study has suggested that the distribution of sunlight, rather than the size of North American ice sheets, is the key variable in changes in the North Atlantic deep-water formation during the last four glacial cycles.
London, Nov 7 : Anjem Choudary, a hate preacher, has created a furore in the UK after he urged British Muslims not to wear poppies.
A pall of gloom descended on the Hindi film industry on the demise of veteran filmmaker BR Chopra.
